Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-04-11 | Page 8 | Yampa Smelter Attains Results

YAMPA SMELTER m m mm mm mr m m I ATTAINS R Gives Company Net Profit From Treating Copper Ore With not more than half Its furnaces In commission the Yampa smelter at Bingham owned by the Mining and Development company Is handling from to tons of crude ore dally daily From a monthly production of tona to of matte the extraction of copper Is pounds As the Yampa is operating only two and one bast furnace It will be seen that the plant is maintaining a high degree of efficiency says Copper Curb and Mining Outlook All of the crude ore comes from the own mine where the average content Is 17 to 2 per cent copper This is but slightly better than the porphyry ores of the Utah Copper and Boston Con Consolidated Consolidated which are profitable only when concentrated on a large scale The Yampa however by means of va various rious economies is able to get a net return from its tons The high efficiency of the furnaces has been spoken of a tramway connecting the mine and the gravity bins of the smelter smelter ter reduces the production cost and a favorable contract with the American Smelting and Refining company mini minimizes minimizes the cost of converting the matte into bullion Idle Converter Serves Purpose This contract with the trust was not entered into until the Yampa had erected at a cost of or moro more a converter of Its own The new plant was used for a year successfully It ItIs Itis Is Idle now flow Officers of the company explain that the output of matte Is too small to pay for the maintenance of an independent converter A fur further thee ther Inducement to deal with the Amer American Amerlean lean ican Is the market afforded The big smelting company takes the metals from the Yampa matte at the market price Under existing conditions the cap capital capital ital Invested in the Yampa converter is unproductive except as a check checkon on the charges of the American Smelt Smelting Smelting ing and Refining company and the idle furnaces of the Yampa smelter represent sent another an ther outlay Custom ores are received upon ap application application but are not being actively so solicited solicited It is doubtful if the company will ever be able to utilize the smelter to Its full capacity In the treatment of ore from its present holdings at Bingham Bing Bingham ham Later on Its numerous proper properties ties tics at TintIc may be turned to ac account account count as feeders for or the smelter but at this time they are not being devel developed developed