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Show UTAH'S OllEAT OOLD CAMP. What Othera Ilave to Say of Mercur, i i Utah's Johannesburg. CON. MEIlCUll'S BIO IMPROVEMENT. IMPROVE-MENT. From the Deseret News. (Continued From Our Last.) A MILLION TONH IN HIOHT I The ph)slcal conflltlon at the Con- I solldatcel Mercur are considered let he fl very satisfactory and It Is estimated I that In the old Mercur mine nlnne, I there are no les than 1.000.000 ton of B ore In sight while the (loldeu elate ntliie M ha nn Immense available torumge. M The tnnnngeinent or the Consolidated I Mercur flguied that by the Installation of the Moore machlner) a elorisavlng to or nt least SO cent u ton coulB 'nde. V . JM Mr Mesne now mfllm. prenti. K. B m-JT 4fpPaBTL Ills method, he Insists that rHfiiKTMK '" r Jlii In the ecint or labor will eeiual that le sWia tnlned rrom tailing over what vva cu- tomary during the llrst hair or the jenr. From Mr. Moore the "New" ha re- m celve-d the following concerning th m met hnniHin. oertitlon, etc or the plant nt Mercur' JB Mlt JllirtRK'S HTATKMUNT AV "The process vvn designed by the In- SSl ventor to meet n dllllculty almost mil- vsqfll vernal, or at lenst International, In the "sjk-e., onnldlug or ore-, that Is. the slimes 1 dllllculty. by which probubl) 90 ier cent I or all the ore .ire seriously affected. The method nt present In vogu for the J treatment ut i-llmen are crude In the ex- f Heme, the dtcnntatlon and the filter- I-presn I-presn method being the nnl) onr here-lorore here-lorore nttempted In u Inrge vvny Hath or the-se have very serlott objection and both are useless tor low -grade ore. The IUter-preH method hn largely displaced dis-placed decantatfoti and I. especially In foulh Afrkit and Australia, very ex- J . ten. I vc ly used I The writer had full exierlenre In the I .. opi ration of (liter presses at the Sun- 1 . shine mine, wpere the ore uveruge le J if than J1 to the ton. nnd there encoun- 75' teied dllllcultle with which every litter- VX pte-sn oiierator I ramlliar, that l. the I i ost er manipulation ami the Imtierrect il wnnlilng of the gold solution frnm thu (J ' take There were rour thiee-ton A presses and the lalxir anil cost was CO H cent to the ton or slimes, while nn av- fli etitge of 40 ents of soluble gold waa V loft in the cuke The latter dllllculty 'I Ih due to Ihp fact that In filling It 1 j Impossible tit prevent a lairtlal sepurit- H Hon of the coarse slime particle from ll. the tlmr Thu the resistance to the IP (low or wash wnter varies in different tf p.irts of thi tnke and the wnter nntur- B ally takes the course nf lenst resistance H and u large part of the cake Is not H I I wanheil To overcome this dllllculty H lopenitorn In Houth Africa resort to I I 'double filter pressing,' that Is, the) stir ' the cake from the II rK press Into an H emulsion with witter or rotation and re- I pent the tllteilng operutlon This, of tit inurse doubles the operating cost, ul- I ready too high (Continued Next Week). |