Production. Tin smelting. This young technician is using a laboratory balance to determine the amount of tin remaining in slag from the furnaces of a large Southern smelter which extracts the pure metal from South American ore. Accurate laboratory control is one of the important reasons why the percentage of metal recovery at the plant is remarkably high

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.
Negative has a tape mask.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 1843.