Show FLOTATION AT SILVERTON standard silverton colo while he the conversion of the great silver lake mill into a successful flotation plant by the american ore flotation company was the means of attracting more than ordinary attention to the successful ampil cation of the notation flotation process for the treatment of san juan sulphide ores in this county and mr thomas its chief engineer and his corp of able assistants are fully deserving cfall of all the commendatory words that have been spoken and written in recognition tion of their good work and achievements still to louis 0 bastion the veteran san juan mill man truly belongs the honor of being the pioneer of flotation in this county the marvellous marcellous marv ellous success scored by the flotation process in all the camps in which it has been introduced and particularly by the butte montana copper co with whom mr thomas was connected prior to coming to the silver lake mill attracted the attention of mr bastian and he at once began to study of its operation and its adaptability to the treatment of san juan ores experimentation soon convinced him that it was a great improvement over the present methods of concentration employed in nearly all of the mills in the county he imparted the knowledge thus obtained to J H slattery and otto mears who are operating the gold king mine and mill under lease and with their usual courage they instructed him to proceed with the installation of a plant at the mill this was quickly accomplished and the raising of the percentage of the savings from the slimes from 60 to 95 per cent is the mar bellous record it has made the plant has been in continuous operation since last october treating about thirty tons of slimes per day and turning out from three to four tons of rich concentrates cen every day judging from the excellent results thus far obtained from the flotation unit recently added to the wilfley mears mill which was given its initial run last tuesday it may well be claimed that the county can now boast of three successful flotation plants the gold king silver lake and wilney wilfley mears mills the marked success of these mills has proven beyond question the adaptability of the flotation process for the treatment treatment of our sulphide ores now give us cyanide mills for our siliceous gold ores and just watch our annual production grow and general prosperity advance in like production |