Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-14 | Page 8 | Nevada Cinnabar Co., Preparing to Ship

El CIMHDAR CO. PREPARING 10 SHIP Producing Quicksilver at Capacity; Metal Selling Around $90 Per Flask. Between eight and ten flasks of quicksilver are, being produced daily at the property of the Nevada Cinnabar company, aeoording to the management, and a shipment will bo sent out in tho near .future. The metal is now quoted between $92 and $D5 per flask of j seventy-five pounds in lirst hands and j between $93 and $100 per fHtsk in bee-i ond hands. The Nevada Cinnabar com- I pany 's property is located at lone, No- vadn, with the offices of tho company; in Salt Lake. The mine was never in, a better con d it ion. j The best opinion prevalent in the quieksilver trade is to the effect that the metal is bound tosell higher in the near future, duo to the embargo that has been placed on shipments from Italy bv that government. Practically all of tlie European' powers have prevented pre-vented the shipment of the metal. Prior! to the declaration of war by the European Euro-pean powers the metal was selling in , New York and 8an anciseo around ifoo per flask of seventy -five pounds. The Scott furnace is now producing at capacity, the walls having become thoroughly charged so that tho metal flows from the condensing chambers with regularity, increasing and decreasing decreas-ing according to whether the ore being treated is of a high-grade or of a low-grade low-grade nature. The mine is responding to tho development work and a better grade of ore is being broken daily. Quicksilver is useo mainly in the manufacture of fulminate for explosive caps and various other forms of explosives. explo-sives. Recently the powder manufacturers manufac-turers of the United States have been using larger quantities of the metal in manufacturing powder, their chemists having discovered, it is said, the formula formu-la used by the Japanese and held secret se-cret for years by that government. The metal is also used in the form of drugs, electrical appliances and scientific scien-tific apparatus and iq tho recoverv of precious metals, especially gold and" silver, sil-ver, by amalgamation. The production in Austria, one of the mai n producing countries, has been seriously curtailed by tho war, despite the needs of that country and Germany.