Show BIG ic LEACHING PLANT GOING UP AT MAGNA Million l Dollar Vi Works Being Constructed With Daily Capacity of Tons WILL tWILL COST Utah Copper Has Tons of Carbonate Ore Awaiting Treatment A construction of or a copper A A leaching plant to cost aPP V. V a and ami vm will of carbonate car car- of or ton have a capacity tOTS jar jar- bonate copper pro oro a da day has hag be ln at will vill bO be of two units and an Magna lagna It wil officials of or I tho the Utah Copper company who arc are directing the bu ll operations operations opera opera- be that the tho fIrst unit A will wt say MS completed Sl next si spring r This unit then tr rc nt at once and will start work wil or of the s second cond wIl continue During operations on the Utah Utah copper copper copper cop- cop per mine In Bingham more moro than 12 i.- tons of carbonate copper ore have been extracted and carefully stored Unlike other ere re taken from I the copper mountain It could not bo bu In Inthe Inthe treated In Plants plant of or the company the thc Garfield district So extensive C ex experiments experiments ex- ex were directed to be ho mado maio C C. C Tackling managing di director dl- dl b by Col Col D D. D rector of the Utah Copper companY compan company Those These aro ari n responsible for or the buildIng of the bl big leaching plant plant Whew When plans for or the tho plant were ap approved approved approved ap- ap proved the thc Utah company compan com corn pany pan was given the contract to perform perform perform per per- form excavation Ilven on the site at at Mag- Mag na Bi Big steam m shovels Iho and other othet appliances appliances ap ap- ap- ap na have havo nearly completed the tho excavation o ha and the concrete work has begun More than tons o of steel Is u is on hand for the overhead construction tion H. H C C. Goodrich chief engineer of tho the ton Utah Copper Coppet company compan Is 15 In charge I of or the work and the construction Is being directed b by R. R B. B Tempest t the company's engineer The plant win will cover an area area of twenty acres and will have a total of or twenty four great wi leaching tanks Twelve e of these will vill wil be ho In the first unit A or similar plant Is In operation for fot tho the treatment of or carbonato carbonate copper another Is be being be- be cr ere In Butte Dute Mont lont and hi jug ing built In Chill Chili South America b by bythe bythe the Chill buit Copper company compala which wil will have bavo a P. capacity of oC tons of or ore orea oren a n da day dat which means that It will wi be bc the tho largest In tho world Leaching Is an anold anold anold old process of oC extracting ore but the experiment Is la report reported d to be somewhat neV In the handling of great quantities quan quan- ore titles tiie of or oxidized or carbonato carbonate copper I of Or Ore Or Mr 11 Goodrich s said ald last night that while the bl biff hir c carbonate copper ore pile 0 of or thc tho Utah Copper company has hasa a n I treasure store of tons It Itis is ls 11 growing every even da day with more than 10 tens teus In sight Running at full run capacity the plant when completed will vIll be tiC able abl to handle nearly wU tons of ot oxidized copper ore oro a year which moans moan that It will vIll wi have havo a long job on its Us hands In taking care of ot the supply which the copper mountain In Bingham will wil bo be able to furnish h. h Sulphuric acid Is used In tho leachIng leach- leach lug Ing of ot carbonate carbonate copper ore ore but tho big plant will wi have this In an abundant supply a a. sulphuric acid plant having been built buit at the Garfield smelter of tho the American merican Smelting Refining company The Tho leaching plant will vill wil result In the tho employment of a large force of oC workmen work work- Then men but Just how large tho tim force toree wll vIl wl be may not be ascertained until the tho first next unit spring o of the plant starts start operations |