The molds were set and the metal had been melted down as members of the Foundry Club began to work on casting projects in the basement of Watts Hall on Tuesday. After spending the past several weeks ...

Inside an unassuming cement block building off Hempfield Hill Road in Silver Spring, a worker guides a crucible of sun-yellow molten metal to one of a dozen flat molds formed of hardened sand laying ...

Chemically treated molding sand is broken up after the pouring and cooling process. The sand will be crushed and reused. A safety station at the foundry is covered in a layer of dust from the furnace.