Show SOME GOOD ADVICE in an address recently delivered before the members of the northern california and southern oregon mining congress william A burr gave some timely advice to mill operators as follows keep the mill running keep the stamps dropping dont hang up for every little thing teach your men to change screens in three minutes to dress plates if you insist on amalgamation in ten minutes teach them to adjust a tappet on one stamp with the other four dropping teach them to t feed so that the stamps will rebound without pounding cold iron teach them to keep beep grease on the cam shaft and bearings and not in the mortars and on the plates teach them to make repairs without shut ting ng down the mill teach them to make he concentrators do their work and not to to try to secure results from them with an all inch h of pulp running over them teach thern em to keep track of the time lost by var ious machines and of the reason for such lost time this gives them a 2 due appreciation of how much the capacity of the mill is being curtailed by the hanging up habit affords a basis for the accurate approximation of the tonnage passing through the mill gives a line on the competency of the mill man in manipulating the plant and serves as an indicator for the management and the metallurgists as to defects in the machinery or in its installation above all else teach them to keep the mill clean the mill man who turns his shift over with shafting and machinery lubricated brica ted and floors swept and dry is entitled to protest if the man on the opposite shift does not turn the mill over to him in ill the same way if you are cyaniding cyan iding teach him not to try to filter through a one eighth inch carbonate of lime teach him to run the tanks samples and solutions by the clock to plug leaks in tanks and launder and avoid losses in solution as that means losses in money in conclusion I 1 will say dont decry the scientific part of millin milling gand and other branches of metallurgy but absorb as much of it as you can subscribe for the leading mining magazines and journals they will get you abreast of the times hydro metallurgy is making great strides it has brought about a new era in many gold and silver camps which were formerly hopelessly unprofitable ab e it is doing the same think thing for copper camps today |