Show PRODUCE COPPER WIH NO Latest E Pro Process Process Process cess Responds to Tests at Los Angeles Los Angeles capitalists plan to revolutionize copper reduction methods Tests Testa for the building of electrochemical leech leechIng leeching Ing process plants on a larga large scale scalo have hae completed and within a few weeks tie the t e first large arge operating plant of the kind is to be Installed probably In Arl An AI AnZona zona Drawings Drawing are complete and the money for the first firt unit i has been provided says the Los Angeles Times I The ElectroChemical Metal Extraction company of which H P Bayse is dent ent and which numbers Julius Julus Koebig among its directors has hs purchased pro process process process cess and patents from E B L Anderson who has ha been elected vice president of the company The company Is operating a testing plant at No 6 North Main street and is handling a ton of ore a day obtaining an extraction of ot 95 93 per cent electrolytic copper direct from the ore without heat The rhe ore Is crushed to a mesh of about twenty This crushed ore is placed in tanks and ad covered with a solution wih of acid of 10 per cent strength This acid throws copper and I lead ead into solution This solution is passed Into nto settling tanks and then drawn off into a a precipitating tank where by the action of electric current the copper is deposited on the cathodes In the shape of electrolytic copper ready for the If I there is any lead In the ore which has das ha been ben taken up by the th solution the lead Is deposited on the tho th anodes in the form of of lead which is stripped from the graphite and melted into pigs meled The testing plant was erected at a cost of o but a plant will wi cost coat including crushing machinery an power about Makes Copper Cheaply This ton plant will It I Is I said turn out one tOn of 98 per cent cop per In one day at a cost not to exceed 6 I cents cRts per pound for tor mining milling and handling Under any condition local engineers state the new method is fully 30 3 per cent cheaper for the reduction of ot copper than tan the way now in use Is dally daily In operation and has sixty days day test daly runs ahead of It It for mining properties now using the smelting methods President Boyce said last night nigh The Theus use us of this process will wi make possible the treatment of large deposits of car bonate bonato ores ors of which there are many In th the southwest and which cannot canot be b prof handled by smelting because of the tha lack of water facilities from railroads This Is ts not not noLa a secret process We are fully protected by b our patents and will wl run rn any form of copper capper caper ore ore If I there ther is no lead In the ores brought In we add lead to the ore are for the purpose of ot ob taming It in our solution to secure a lead coating on the graphite anodes anode In or der to prevent their deterioration |