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<blockquote data-quote="Jasbo" data-source="post: 2838354" data-attributes="member: 126454"><p>VinceMule, This reply is focused principally on your statement, "We are now buying our lead from Mexico and China." You are in error. </p><p>I pulled this from Wikipedia just now, "The Lead Belt produces about 70% of the US primary supply of lead, and significant amounts of the nation's zinc.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Missouri_Lead_District#cite_note-doerunsumm-1" target="_blank">[1]</a> In the year 2000, Missouri produced 313,105 tons, with an estimated value of $128,838,880, according to Missouri DNR Data. About 84% of the lead is used for <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93acid_batteries" target="_blank">lead–acid batteries</a>, and a secondary smelter in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss,_Missouri" target="_blank">Boss, Missouri</a> recycles lead–acid batteries. Another major consumer of Missouri lead is Winchester Ammunition, located in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Alton,_Illinois" target="_blank">East Alton, Illinois</a>."</p><p>The following copied from the document referenced below:</p><p><strong>"Domestic Production and Use: </strong>Lead was produced domestically by five lead mines in Missouri plus as a byproduct at two zinc mines in Alaska and two silver mines in Idaho. The value of the lead in concentrates of ore mined in 2021 was an estimated $750 million, 21% more than that in 2020. Nearly all lead concentrate production has been exported since the last primary lead refinery closed in 2013. The value of the secondary lead produced in 2021 was $2.4 billion, 17% more than that in 2020. The lead-acid battery industry accounted for an estimated 92% of reported U.S. lead consumption during 2021. Lead-acid batteries were primarily used as starting-lighting-ignition (SLI) batteries for automobiles, as industrial-type batteries for standby power for computer and telecommunications networks, and for motive power. During the first 9 months of 2021, 107 million lead-acid automotive batteries were shipped by North American producers, 8% more than those shipped in the same period of 2020.</p><p><strong>Recycling: </strong>In 2021, about 990,000 tons of secondary lead was produced, an amount equivalent to 62% of apparent domestic consumption. Nearly all secondary lead was recovered from old scrap, mostly lead-acid batteries.</p><p><strong>Import Sources (2017–20): </strong>Refined metal: Canada, 43%; Mexico, 19%; the Republic of Korea, 17%; India, 4%; and other, 17%.</p><p><strong>U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries, January 2022"</strong></p><p>Notice lead consumption in our economy is principally in batteries. Our virgin lead ore is shipped to China for refining as our last large scale smelter was closed approximately two decades ago (Doe Run).</p><p>The negative impact of lead ammunition used in hunting is well understood and documented. As several have pointed out in this discussion, we can be part of a solution by choosing monolithics over cup and core or hard cast when hunting. In contrast lead has much economic value when used on our ranges of which a fair amount is recycled.</p><p>Protecting wildlife by minimizing lead exposure is neither a geopolitical nor a liberal US national political matter. Conflating protection of all God's creatures with Gun Control is unhelpful.</p><p>This post is not intended as a personal attack; rather, to state that the best way forward on any hotly debated subject is a mastery of peer reviewed facts. Shooting Hammers and Accubonds in SW Illinois…..Hammers on game and Accubonds on paper, Jasbo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jasbo, post: 2838354, member: 126454"] VinceMule, This reply is focused principally on your statement, “We are now buying our lead from Mexico and China.” You are in error. I pulled this from Wikipedia just now, “The Lead Belt produces about 70% of the US primary supply of lead, and significant amounts of the nation's zinc.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Missouri_Lead_District#cite_note-doerunsumm-1'][1][/URL] In the year 2000, Missouri produced 313,105 tons, with an estimated value of $128,838,880, according to Missouri DNR Data. About 84% of the lead is used for [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93acid_batteries']lead–acid batteries[/URL], and a secondary smelter in [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss,_Missouri']Boss, Missouri[/URL] recycles lead–acid batteries. Another major consumer of Missouri lead is Winchester Ammunition, located in [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Alton,_Illinois']East Alton, Illinois[/URL].” The following copied from the document referenced below: [B]“Domestic Production and Use: [/B]Lead was produced domestically by five lead mines in Missouri plus as a byproduct at two zinc mines in Alaska and two silver mines in Idaho. The value of the lead in concentrates of ore mined in 2021 was an estimated $750 million, 21% more than that in 2020. Nearly all lead concentrate production has been exported since the last primary lead refinery closed in 2013. The value of the secondary lead produced in 2021 was $2.4 billion, 17% more than that in 2020. The lead-acid battery industry accounted for an estimated 92% of reported U.S. lead consumption during 2021. Lead-acid batteries were primarily used as starting-lighting-ignition (SLI) batteries for automobiles, as industrial-type batteries for standby power for computer and telecommunications networks, and for motive power. During the first 9 months of 2021, 107 million lead-acid automotive batteries were shipped by North American producers, 8% more than those shipped in the same period of 2020. [B]Recycling: [/B]In 2021, about 990,000 tons of secondary lead was produced, an amount equivalent to 62% of apparent domestic consumption. Nearly all secondary lead was recovered from old scrap, mostly lead-acid batteries. [B]Import Sources (2017–20): [/B]Refined metal: Canada, 43%; Mexico, 19%; the Republic of Korea, 17%; India, 4%; and other, 17%. [B]U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries, January 2022”[/B] Notice lead consumption in our economy is principally in batteries. Our virgin lead ore is shipped to China for refining as our last large scale smelter was closed approximately two decades ago (Doe Run). The negative impact of lead ammunition used in hunting is well understood and documented. As several have pointed out in this discussion, we can be part of a solution by choosing monolithics over cup and core or hard cast when hunting. In contrast lead has much economic value when used on our ranges of which a fair amount is recycled. Protecting wildlife by minimizing lead exposure is neither a geopolitical nor a liberal US national political matter. Conflating protection of all God’s creatures with Gun Control is unhelpful. This post is not intended as a personal attack; rather, to state that the best way forward on any hotly debated subject is a mastery of peer reviewed facts. Shooting Hammers and Accubonds in SW Illinois…..Hammers on game and Accubonds on paper, Jasbo [/QUOTE]
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