Show AMERICAN SMELTING MINING department RE reestablished established TO AID ORE PRODUCERS an important announcement was made in salt lake about the first of the year by edgar edg ar L newhouse jr who is now the general manager of the utah business of the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company manager newhouse states that his company now is putting into operation a program of operation cooperation co with utah and surrounding state metal mining interests with the purpose of aiding in the solution of metallurgical problems and resulting reduction of costs in the mining treatment and marketing of ores in order to speed up the campaign along these lines the mining department of the company which was abolished here about three years ago is being reestablished established re to fo work in conjunction with expert mill men and metallurgists identified with the department manager newhouse states that the zinc production will be the first one attacked the zinc content of lead ores in utah and the territory served by utah smelters shelters sm elters is be coming a serious factor in lead silver mine operations present high smelting smelling sm elting costs against lead zinc ores reflect the seriousness seriousness of this problem the zinc entails a high cost in smelting smelling sm elting lead ore expensive flux has to be mixed with a lead ore charge containing zinc the more zinc in the ore the greater amount of flux required the zinc not only slows up the operation of the furnace but reduces the capacity of actual smelt ing per furnace charge by the space required for the barren flux which has to be introduced in addition the zinc metal in the ore is lost entirely being driven off in the fumes both the increased costs and the metal loss are economic factors of 6 great importance to the mining indus try tr it is the plan of the american smelting smelling Sm elting and refining company to put their experts to work on the problem of treatie treating 9 zinc lead ores both for them the purpose of eliminating the high costs and the saving of the zinc metal making it a for the miner milling experimentation will be done to develop methods for separation of the zinc from the ore making as mill products a high grade lead smelting smelling sm elting product and high grade zinc smelting smelling sm elting product the zinc question has become one of great importance with the american smelting smelling Sm elting and refining company the company is completing the first unit of a zinc sulphating sulp hating plant at durango colorado which unit will be started march 1 it also has azine a zinc plant at henrietta oklahoma A new zinc plant is now being built by the company at amarillo texas all of these plants are available as markets for the zinc products which may be made here mr newhouse said the local zinc product can be shipped to the plant which is best adapted for treating the particular ore so as to give the best return to the producer |