Show TUNGSTEN IN NEVADA luning nev april 6 with the kinks taken out of the gasoline engines and adjustments just ments of the concentrators in the old del monte mill which it leased at borus siding five miles east of here atkins kroll company are treating thirty five tons a day of tungsten ore from the noble mines near sodaville daville So while the men in charge of the mill are reluctant to discuss the value of their product it is no trick to figure it out the ore is concentrated to a 50 to 55 per cent product which is worth 3 per pound or per ton since the mill started work just before christmas the firm has shipped fifty tons of concentrates worth and the mill is working to a larger capacity now than at any time since it was put in commission it is reported here that the mine has developed to a point that makes it safe to construct a mill at soda ville which is but eleven miles mile from the mine and that this will be done the process by which the precious ore is reduced is the simplest form of wet concentration frue banners and delster deister slime tables comprising the equipment the ore is crushed to 30 mesh and the concentrates are dried at low temperature over a wood fire the product is packed in tight sacks of the material used in the manufacture of flour sacks but much smaller these are enclosed in burlap sacks which are securely sewed the concentrates are shipped east atkins kroll company is a san frail francisco firm which is a buyer of tungsten and antimony ores the demand for and scarcity of tungsten led the firm to start production on its own account it has been operating the atolia mines in kearn county california and last fall built a concentrating plant at toy in humboldt county nevada for the treatment of tungsten ores the firm bought the sodaville daville So property from C E noble when it was but a promising prospect for it already has repaid the purchase price half a dozen times and bids fair to produce millions of dollars |