Hecla's Lucky Friday mine set a record with 5.3 million ounces of silver, while Keno Hill delivered its first profitable year with record production exceeding 3 million ounces. The company holds ...

While aluminum may have a reputation for being trickier to weld than its steel or stainless steel counterparts, that just makes it all the more fun to master. Aluminum’s unique properties, such as ...

We’ve been aware of the shortage of skilled welders due to retirements for some time. In recent years the shortage has been exacerbated by furloughing or the early retirement of workers during the ...

Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW, or TIG) and tungsten are two peas in a pod—you can’t have one without the other. In the DC welding landscape of the past, thoriated tungsten was arguably even more ...

working on a big chunk of aluminum today bottom piece is half inch thick top piece4 inch thick I'm using 1/8 5356 rod on a positioner and a 1/8 2% lated electrode sharpened to kind of a blunt point ...

NEWARK — Mason Jorgensen knew, from the time he was in elementary school, that he wanted to be a welder. On his eighth birthday, he was welding a hog feeder with his dad. That was the defining moment.