| Show interesting INTE TO MINERS on saturday is iiii ats in ia comp atif etith a number of gentlemen WO we paid a viett visit t 0 the laboratory ofa of J ita ic bols esq to witness somo with kroms patent concentrator a machine which there is u every won reason i to believe will yot yet a greit great revolution in ia tho the working of ores bud and prove of more lasting to tho the territory than any ny other invention yet introduced on katurd ty morning we alluded to results i which lad bad been readied reached in nevada today to day we give tho the results of two experiments witnessed at mr nichols nichola laboratory the fira wo woi i with a galena and carbonate ore which had bad been pre prepared for the concentrator A measured nica aured quantity weighed seven pounds and nd six ounces before being submitted to the iho operations of the iho baebi machine after a sufficient amount of the iho crushed ore had boost passed through the same quantity or of concentration by measure weighed nine dine pounds and three cuocci while an equal volume of tailings or gangue weighed only five pound a closs examination fx of the latter with 0 powe powerful fal glass proved that a complete bep reparation of tho the mineral from the gangue dauo Df hid had talen taken place 1 another f ample of ore biag then til ed which was claimed too 10 bo be a milling ore containing about it 11 4 11 44 1 4 1 per coot cent ol of lead principally pally carbonates A meas ared quantity of if ibis weighed before conceal M lion four I 1 and fourteen ounces after being subjected to the action or of the machine tho the same bull of tho the concentration weighed five pounds and thirteen ounces while an aa equal volume or of tailings tai lingi had decreased in ia weight to four pounds and four ounces these experiments appeared I 1 to give the utmost satisfaction to oil all present who saw at once that sir fr nichols nichola was no mere novice novice i in the business bLi inci he bad but was one of iho those mi li men who having thoroughly comprehended ended 1 the m sacred the difficulties our opinion of tho the matter u ill that mr NL ichols his has struck at tho the IOA of the tha pre ent difficulty of utilizing low gride ore lor for be argues the great expense pense attending present methods ol of sm smelling smelting elting in overcoming tho the refractory giaque gasgue by the use of fluxes to melt the silim silica i and not net in the aimoli sm findring smelting elting ol of the galena or othor other material if ho he cabi succeed io in separating tho the 91 liCiOUS Bili cloua matter or tho the gangue frota from the mineral m by A ai adaptation ol of the principle of specific gravity still and that cooj att a small expense the reduction of the concentrated product becomes an easy cay ca y task and ell cn a bles the possessor of low grade ores to realize a banda profit from thorn them when it is considered that a very large larga of utah smelling smelting sm elting ores will not average more than perhaps 10 to 50 per ton the importance of air 1 I r kroms invention to the territory cannot bo be overestimated it is ia this view of the case that causes us to take a deep p inte interest in alyin any invention iren that pro promises a paying utilization of so greal a proportion of our product in connection with the krom concentrator we hope soon to be ablo able to give the particulars of a new dew sm smelling elting furnace which has already proven a sue BUC cess in tho the Sm smelling elting of highly refractory materi aland of chih strong hopes are arc entertained that it will vill prove just the thing wo we need forthe for tho smelting smelling sm elting of our silver lead ores |
