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Symbols on a piece of cast metal hoping someone can translate these and if possible what would this be from...?

Dear Dave,
I'm just a humble African-Brazilian who studies Japanese, but I would definitely like to understand Chinese one day. Since no one has helped you yet, here are my thoughts."

Though the right edge of the ingot is broken, the left metallic radical (金) and the upper-right components are visible enough to identify it as 鉛 (Lead). So, 鉛合金 (qiān-héjīn) means "Lead Alloy". The bottom row is quite a puzzle to me, but it likely indicates the manufacturer that produced the ingot. It looks something like [?]華區聯[?] – "Hua District Union". My guesses for the missing characters could be:
a) 中 (Zhōng), making it 中華區聯 (Zhōnghuá Qūlián, meaning "China District Union"),
or maybe 南華區聯 (South China District Union) or 東華區聯 (East China District Union).
I really have no idea. 中華區聯 sounds a bit unnatural in Chinese (usually it would be 中華聯區 or just a company name). Does 區聯 make sense as a district federation, or is it more likely a company abbreviation? what do you guys think?

Best Regards,
Renato Araújo from Brazil

to me, the upper line reads right to left as X摩合金, but I don't know what that might refer to.

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