Monsanto Slag Pour Soda Springs Idaho..

            This is the other principal attraction in Soda Springs Idaho. Monsanto runs a phosphorus factory, and they melt phosphate rock to extract the phosphorus. Every twelve minutes or so a truck would drive up to the edge of the slag heap and dump a cascade of brilliant yellow orange slag from a big crucible. It was an incredible sight. This is a very wide angle disposable camera shot, it doesn't look like we were that close, but standing there at the fence, the initial wave of heat was unbelievable. Just as your brain told you to run for it, the heat subsided gradually and the slag turned a dayglo orange , then red, and as it skinned over and turned gray, it made sounds like shattering glass...I could've stayed all day and watched this, and at the time it was the closest I'd come to seeing a lava flow in action.
   

Taken on: February 6, 2009

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