Show 7 arsenic worth more mord than gold goldo poisonous mineral yields a much more handsome profit per ton than tb an the th e pre precious cio us me metal tal W as once on c c thought th 0 ugh t to be valueless and a nuisance to miners gold miners in hast county canada tor for years sought for some means to jo rid the ore of the arsenic deposit which jn in that region is found in combination with the gold they offered rewards tried numberless ex peri ments and did everything they chuld to get rid ot of the poisonous trou brou stuff that lay between them and their prec ous gold B it it now a wonderful I 1 transformation has taken place instead of separating the gold from the arsenic the miners are work ing to get ge the arsenic away from tile gold it Is much the same thing but different the difference 1 Is is that the thu arsenic and not the gold is what the miners are after they do not throw away the gold but the arsenic Is the prize the miners were still swearing vainly at the arsenical deposits that burled buried their gold from them when a party of scientists came over from england they asked the miners how much gold a ton they took out of their rough ore the miners replied that the ore ran all the way from 4 to 60 worth of gold they said the trouble was that it had so much arsenical pyrites in it the scientists invest gated and informed the miners that the arsenic in one ton of their ore was worth something like 90 then the miners quit swearing at the ar this strange turn of the wheel of fortune has been cause I 1 by the virtual exhaustion of the former chief source of supply of arsenic in germany and england together with the superior quality and purity of the canadian product the companies in the hastings county gold field have successfully introduced the bromo process in treating the previously refractory as the ore in which arsenic Is contained is called and are now turning out eighty tons of arsenic a month the arsenic can be placed on the cars at Af marmora armora in hastings county at a cost of 20 a ton it se sells ils at 70 and frequently as high as 90 a ton this arsent arsenical cal ore also also car ries froia 4 to 60 worth of gold in each ton which is a handsome profit in itself 0 arsenic is a metallic substance ex brittle of steel gray shade and Is one of the most poisonous of substances it is used for mixing with lead in the manufacture of shot and is also added to iron and steel in the manufacture of chains and ornaments it Is indispensable in the manufacture of glass being used for reducing the iron oxide contained in sand |