EditorialOverlooking Kroo Bay, where many homes are built from zinc sheets, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Nov. 17, 2022. (Yagazie Emezi/The New York Times)
Editorial Immanuel Wilkins, center, performs with bandmates Rashaan Carter, left, and Nasheet Waits at Zinc Bar in Manhattan on Jan. 10, 2020. His album “The 7th Hand” is a showcase for classic ideas about jazz that still speak to audiences today. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialRace participant Yen Nguyen wears zinc oxide on her face for sun protection during the first annual Global Organization of Multi-Day Ultramarathoners (GOMU) 48-Hour World Championships, an ultramarathon in Hainesport, N.J. on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. (Michelle Gustafson/The New York Times)
EditorialMen mine for zinc, lead and silver high on Cerro Rico, ominously known as “the mountain that eats men,” in Potosi, Bolivia, on Sept. 6, 2021. Rich in raw materials, Bolivia is now drawing interest from the green energy sector. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
EditorialMen labor to mine zinc, lead and silver, from the Cerro Rico de Potos? mine in central Bolivia, Sept. 6, 2021. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
EditorialSheets of steel are coated in zinc in the hot dip line at a Cleveland-Cliffs steel mill in Burns Harbor, Ind., May 13, 2021. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times)
EditorialSteel is dipped into zinc to protect it against corrosion at ArcelorMittal’s steel plant in Zelzate, Belgium, on March 5, 2021. (Kevin Faingnaert/The New York Times)
EditorialLiquid zinc alloy is filled into a tank before being cast with an industrial metal press, at M?rklin's facility in G?ppingen, Germany, on Feb. 11, 2021. (Felix Schmitt/The New York Times)
EditorialLiquid zinc alloy is filled into a tank before being cast with an industrial metal press, at M?rklin's facility in G?ppingen, Germany, on Feb. 11, 2021. (Felix Schmitt/The New York Times)
EditorialSteel is dipped into zinc to protect it against corrosion at ArcelorMittal’s steel plant in Zelzate, Belgium, on March 5, 2021. (Kevin Faingnaert/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Vladimir Zelenko, who claims to have cured hundreds of coronavirus patients using a treatment that includes the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, outside his office in Monsey, N.Y., March 30, 2020. (Bryan Derballa/The New York Times)
EditorialThe drummer Nasheet Waits performs with his quartet at Zinc Bar for Winter Jazzfest's Manhattan Marathon in New York, Jan. 10, 2020. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)