Show copper refinery defines y process helena mont herald the copper refinery in anaconda has been regarded as an experiment of the tho tao electrolytic process it may be an experiment but it Is 13 the biggest experiment ot of its kind not only in this country but in the woid wo id it has lont long since passed the experimental period it has a capacity for foil turi turning ting out fitly fifty tons tona of refined copper every dav davend and that Is what which it t Is doing the th building in n which the work Is carried on covers more than an acre of it contains GOO vats in which the copper anodes are placed and the crude copper precipitated and transferred by the electrolytic current to a thin sheet ot of copper when tho the anode comes out weighing about rounds pounds each anode furnish two ot of these refined copper plates plat cs although it takes twenty days time to dissolve the copper arid and transmit it to the thin sheet in A refined state so eo large 13 the re finery that fifty tons of the red metal Is secured every day the capacity ot of turning out this amount of copper 13 11 only limited by the amount of power available it Is ds stated on reliable authority that the anaconda refinery fluery re to be built at great falls will be three times tho the size ot of the anaconda plant in other words it win will contain 1800 2800 vats will have a capacity tor for turning out tons 0 of copper per day and will cover probably three acres of ground when one stops to think of the dynamos dynamo that will ile be used in supplying the current for so uree large an institution their immensity will be amazing however os an the current will be generated from the abundant water power of black easle eagle falls the cost coat will be materially reduced |