Show ORE TREATMENT BY ACID PROCESS during the past week says the courier of prescott arigona mr air P A wright has been interesting prescott citizens in what is known as the acid process which is a new method of ore treatment it is the purpose of mr wright to form a small company which will purchase the state right for the handling of the process in arizona that is the local company when organized will control the patent rights for the state the installation of plants when undertaken will be done by an eastern company already organized for that purpose the patentee or originator of the process will derive his profit through royalties paid upon tonnage worked it is claimed for the process that it is the commercialization of the ordinary chemical analysis of ores that processes heretofore used only in the laboratory have been m made available for the treatment of ores this it is claimed is made practicable through the discovery of a method of recovering practically all of the nitric acid used it is claimed that by means of the acid process the base metal products byproducts by are recovered at small costs and that the owner of the ore will receive payment for all the valuable metals it contains instead of being penalized for zinc etc except that the ore is first ground to forty mesh or coarser and that the solution is mechanically chani cally agitated the process may be said to be entirely chemical mr wright has been making inquiry into this field as to the probable tonnage that can be obtained and is convinced that a medium sized plant to tons per day can now be supplied with ore additional units can readily be supplied should they be warranted by increased ore production in future |