Show bingham Bing hain again in in its stride notable events in the past year of operation at bingham has been the resumption of operations at normal capacity by the utah cogeer company its heavy construction campaign in providing new housing and hotel accommodations for its army of employees and its introduction of electrically operated shovels in the big bench and pit mining methods the improvements and refinements introduced at the mines have been more than duplicated at magna and anal arthur where its milling operations are being carried on the companas comp anys record of production dividends etc are covered in other artitles articles they speak for themselves ohio coppers notable achievement one of the most notable achievements in copper metal mining in the old camp has been that of converting the old ohio copper mine from a losing to a highly profitable proposition this has been accomplished through the introduction of leaching in situ methods by samuel K kellock general manager of the property and F E turner the mine superintendent in the summer of 1922 they conceived the idea of installing a pumping z plant for the purpose of conveying water on to the dumps and from there allowing it to percolate perc into the mine workings and then collecting the water in launders on the mascotte tunnel level and precipitating the copper content of the water with scrap iron first results were obtained in september 1922 and the experimenters were convinced that with larger installations the mine which under tinder the old methods of milling could not be made to pay could be made to yield handsome profits during the past year convictions have brencon been converted into realization and the mine now is on a handsome earning ing basis during the first six months of 1923 a total of 1307 pounds of copper were produced at a cost of per pound in june pounds of copper were produced at a cost of per pound and the mine has since been yielding approximately pounds a month with a recovery of better than 90 per cent of the copper contained in the leached beached water solution engineers have estimated that there is more than CCO tons of ore amenable to the process which contains in excess of pounds of recoverable copper and that without further development of the mine still bigger results are ara anticipated during the cearto year to come during the year the united states mining smelting smelling Sm elting refining company has added largely to its mine property holdings and now is engaged in running a long operating tunnel that will permit development of this added territory and at the same time afford facilities for more economical and deeper mining in its producing mines the bingham mines company has ban ben a regular producer during the year its production varying viar ying but little from one month to another A number of other companies including montana bingham bingha m lilae hadje been wo working aking 1 steadily and some ore has been shipped 1 by a number oi of them i there has been considerable talk re recently about a consolidation of the utah apex utah consolidated consolidated c and other properties and their ultimate taking taki g over by the anaconda copper interests but nothing f a definite ti nature has so far developed what may tr transpire aspire later on only time can tell |