Show THE OHIO COPPER MILL bulletin bingham utah ahe contractors who are grading the dite for the new ohio copper mill at the mouth of the mascot tunnel have a large force of men and teams at work on the ground it is expected that it will take six months to grade the whole site but there will soon be room to put the concentrators centra tors on the foundations the contract for constructing the plant has been awarded to the minneapolis steel stee machinery company work will be commenced within a very short time to have the mill in operation by the end of the year the mill is to have a 2000 ton per day capacity every detail will be considered carefully to make the entire treatment wholly adapted to bingham ores it will be built at the mouth of the mascot tunnel on the dalton lark property the tunnel will be carried ahead into ohio ground thus providing an outlet for ore from heinze property to the average mind figures carry but little and yet by comparisons we realize something of the magnitude the big plant is modeled after after the arrangement ran gement followed in the west mountain mill each of the six sections will be half that of the experiment ment plant the ore goes from the big bins to the coarse crushing department each section containing two no 7 12 1 2 gyratory crushers having a capacity of tons an hour total in each department are two inch roughing rolls in these coarse crushing departments the ore is crushed dry to 3 4 inch size general dimensions of these two coarse crushing departments is GO 60 feet square from then it goes to the fine crushing eru shing department each unit will contain nine chilian mills and six sets oi of rolls in all thirty six chiliano Chi lians and twenty four sets of rolls the concentrating rooms will cover five and six tenths acres there will be seven ty two jigs forty eight filfly tables and I 1 banners of the suspended type resembling the johnson the two storage reservoirs will have a capacity respectively of gallons the other gallons the total area covered by the main building and ore bins in approximately seven acres the total floor space in the main building being something over eight acres the total area covered by shops warehouses yards reservoirs etc is about 30 acres the machine shop thoroughly equipped with every modern appliance has a ground aground area of feet the carpenter shop likewise equipped an area of feet the warehouse building is feet the power pow er plant will have sufficient capacity to supply power for the garfield gadfield Ga ifield works as well as for far the mine and mill at bingham to supply the latter a transmission line seventeen miles in length is being constructed the power plant will contain twenty water tube boilers having a capacity under the conditions in which they will be used of about horse power each or horse power total it is the intention of the company to concentrate at the rate of about twenty tons of ore into one and as the companas comp anys ores run about one and five eighths eight hs to one and seven eighths copper and from to in gold and silver values this will give a concen concentrate frate that will run about 30 per ton in precious metal values the combined plant will yield tons of concentrates cen which will have a gross value of at 25 cents the pound adding 30 per ton for the values in the precious metals we have a total gross return per days operations of from which all expenses of extrac extraction ilon must be taken |