I smelted 125 pounds of indoor range lead today. lots of copper jackets came out.I noted 2 things at the pouring of the last ingots... a brass glittery coating floating on the melt. so I let it sit and looked as the melt stopped swirling and it looks like copper or yellow brass glitter is floating to the surface.
And secondly as the last inch of lead was freezing in the bottom of the pot, I bumped the pot and the half solid lead took on the texture of what you see in this picture. the lead has geometric shape protrusions sticking up out of the lead. Any ideas what this all is?