Salt Lake Herald | 1903-09-01 | Page 6 | Studying Cyanide Reduction

II I I I I I I I STUDYING CYANIDE i I j I r Alabama AlabAm Operator Comes Coma Out to Take TakeI I Notes at Con ercul Truman Herbert Her rt Aldrich ldrich jr a heavy heave coal cual and metal mining Operator of Bir Birmingham mingham Ala c came mv m in from the easI Sunday night ht and tod iy lY will leave ave for the Consolidated Mercur for the he purpose of or orI studying tu ying the th methods of gold Kold extraction an as exemplified b by the processes proc there em employed Mr Aldrich owns a big low grade gold Rolli property east eust of in Tallapoosa county lOunt Ala Mu he de do declares claret clares to ho tw h a veritable bone hone yard vard of stamp mm mills Notwithstanding that fact h iw he has haa taken tak n hold bold of th the proposition and IH ts I confident t of making It pay handsomely ly after litter its proper equipment with a H large larae cyanide l plant Th TIle rock which averages about IS 5 per ton in gold is PO so located h ted that it tt is 18 isa Isa a simple proposition JUon With a little ton plant he e claims claa to have bave mined and milled the rock at et a total cost t 11 per ton effecting a saving of 90 20 per cent of the values in a very weak solution of cyanide In fact he bt says that of a pound of cyanide t In to gallons allons ot of I water recovers the values from a ton of ores whereas It takes about I of a pound of ot c cyanide to treat a ton tonof tonof of if Consolidated Mercur Meteor ore Mr Aldrich believes that by erecting a plant to hand handl If tons or more per day I he be can mine and mill at a total cost of ot oth h 1 per pel ton as labor abor i bor is 1 very cheap down In his section As s the Che Consolidated Mercur M K has undoubtedly the finest cyaniding plant in the world be came hue here to te get pt pointers on how bow best t to build b a large mill millon on his own property He will likely re remain remain remain main several v ral days da