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Ferrous scrap
Steel is an alloy made up principally of iron and carbon. The oldest archaeological remains date back to 3000 B.C. It is believed that the first steel alloys were produced around 1400 B.C.
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Stainless steels
Stainless Steel is an alloy of steel combined with nickel and chrome as the main components. The quality of the stainless steel depends mostly on the nickel content. Due to the rise in the cost of nickel in recent years other replacements have appeared which contain copper as a substitute for nickel.
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Copper
Copper is the oldest metal used by man with archaeological remains dating back to 7000 B.C. It is one of the few metals “natural” metals, meaning it occurs in nature and is not combined with other elements.
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Aluminium
Aluminium is the third most common element in the Earth’s Crust and is also the most used non-ferrous metal on the planet. It is extracted from bauxite and through electrolysis it is converted into aluminium metal.
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Brass
Bronze
Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin and depending on its application it can also be alloyed with aluminium, nickel, lead and zinc…
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Lead
Shall consist of clean lead solids, free of other materials, such as drosses, battery plates, lead covered cable, collapsible tubes, type metals, aluminum, zinc, iron and brass fittings, dirty chemical lead and radioactive materials.
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Zinc
Zinc is extracted from a mineral known as hemimorphite or calamine. It was first used to create alloys such as brass. Due to its volatility during the process of melting, it was difficult to separate it from the mineral.
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