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Gold/Mining/Energy : ZINC The base metal. News and Views. Symbol Zn
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To: Mr. Aloha who wrote (982)1/29/2006 10:16:49 AM
From: Condor  Read Replies (1) of 3270
 
Thanks Aloha for that good info.

In 1994, galvanized steel was over 15% of U.S. production:

My impression (and thats all it is..an impression) is that galvanized steel is steel that has been plated with zinc. It is not my understanding that galvanizing is ever conducted in an alloy type operation in the production of steel where zinc would be homogenized into the manufacturing of bulk steel.

When I reflect on my anecdotal observation of steel in the world ( pipelines, heavy equipment, structural steel etc etc ) it seems to me that galvanized steel is plated steel mostly in small diameter pipe and such, so:

I'm thinking "15% of US production" refers to steel components that are galvanized and not by weight since I believe plating is the common use. This of course would mean that galvanized is still very minimal by weight in total steel output.

I guess a statitic that might tell the story is global steel out put by weight and total zinc production output by weight. That is where I was going in my observation rightly or wrongly.

I therefore suspect that for every 1,000,000 tons of steel production in the world that only 100 tons of zinc would be used. (a wild guess)

Anyone have those numbers?

Thx

C
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