2 resultados para Agriculture--British Columbia--Okanagan Valley (Region)
em Digital Commons - Montana Tech
Resumo:
The province of British Columbia, with an area of 359,279 square miles, includes a large part of the Canadian Cordillera that is the western mountains of Canada. It is the leading province of Canada in the production of lead, zinc, and silver, and third among the provinces in the output of gold, copper, and coal.
Resumo:
Zinc is produced from ores by two general methods, distillation and electrolysis. The general principles involved in the electrolytic zinc process of today were known as far back as 1880. Difficulties encountered in purifying the solution for electrolysis and lack of suitable mechanical apparatus were the main reasons that such a long time elapsed before the process was used to produce zinc in commercial quantities.