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• Judge bars Teck ‘divisibility’ bid

  April 9, 2012 in Idaho on Page A6 The Colville Tribes and the state of Washington won a victory in a pretrial phase of a lawsuit against Teck Resources for dumping millions of tons of smelter slag into …

• Smelter funding beach cleanup

  July 18, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 A Canadian smelter has agreed to clean up a beach near Northport, Wash., that’s become a symbol for a century’s worth of pollution dumped into the Columbia River. Black Sand … 7

• Questions, answers about slag

  June 21, 2009 in Idaho on Page A6 What is slag? A byproduct of the smelting process, which extracts metals from ore. Molten slag is mixed with water, producing a black, glassy, sand-like material.