Show MERCUR famous gold producer the consolidated s soli dated mercur gold mines company is the leading gold producer in the state during the past fifteen years there have b lieen een many millions in gold produced by the properties of this company the total dividends to date paid by the present company and by the old de la mar afar and mercur companies runs up to the handsome sum of this amount shows the success that has attended the persistent efforts of mr john dern and his associates the ore was e early arly shown to contain gold although the prospector was unable to even get col colors ors by the use of the gold pan and the prospector often had difficulty in interesting the investor in the properties of the camp because no gold showed up in the pan mr dern and his associates from nebraska took hold of much of this ground but found great difficulty in extracting tr the gold values the ore refused to give up its wealth by any metallurgical methods although the owners systematically and persistently experimented with all the commercial m methods of extraction then W 7 pa A i 4 X Q the columbus consolidated mill alta aita utah known at that time the cyanide process was just being developed and the mercur operators quickly took up with this new process tand land had their ore carefully tested the results showed but meager success at first the oxidized ore gave fair extraction but much of their higher grade sul bhide ores gave little promise of ever responding spon sp ding by careful work woric with the roasting furnace under the efficient direction of mr D C jackling now general manager of the utah copper company the sulphide fi and a ores were brought into a con for effective cyaniding cyan iding still another difficulty remained to be solved the slimes sl imes were large in amount and no method for successfully treating them had been perfected this th is problem the present owners have solved and the tailings of sands and slimes now carry over the dump but slightly over fifty cents in gold per ton the consolidated mercur mill has a capacity of tons per day and the holderman filter tank company is now operating by sliming and vacuum filtering at a daily tonnage of tons on the manning dump of early mercur tailings the boston sunshine gold mining company has reconstructed the mill of the old sunshine mine of mercur and is adding much new equipment preparatory to cyan iding the very clayey refractory ores of the once famous sunshine mine the mill will have a capacity of tons per day and will be put into commission during the coming months of january |