LEAD MINING VIDEO

Lead has bluish white shade when newly cut, but discolors to tedious grayish color when it is out in the open to air and is shiny chrome silver when melted into a liquid form. Lead is used in building construction, lead-acid batteries, bullets and gunshot, weights, and is element of solder, pewter, and fusible alloys. Lead has the uppermost atomic number of all unwavering elements, even though the subsequent element, bismuth, has a half-life so long it can be calculated steady. Like mercury, an additional heavy metal, lead is an intoxicating neurotoxin that accumulates in squashy tissues and fillet over time.

Mining Lead Process

It shows how lead bricks are made.

Lead Purification

It shows how lead is purified and molded .

Lead "mining" from digging to ingots

The entire process from digging up bullets to smelting them into ingots for later use in casting bullets, dive weights, fishing weights, etc.

Getting the Lead Out

This shows how lead is extracted from the host rock.

MINING LEAD-ZINC SULPHIDE ORE VEIN

Artisanal mining of galena within Akwana area of Benue/Taraba state, Nigeria .