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Show W ISOiET MILL " now wmmi Plant Handling Eighty Tons Daily at Better Than 90 Per Cent Recovery. The Sunset Mining ft Development company, which was organized two ye.ars ago for the purpose of taking over the j 'I' ramp Consolidated properties at Rhyo-H Rhyo-H ' lias corn pie ted its mill, f-Hi'u th Goldfleid Dally Tribune. The plant began operations November 10, and a.-dde from abut downs for ad Jut t me tits on the rra-j rra-j chinery, has bn running continuously ever hinc. The mill is oet-igned to handle 2'i'fO tons per month, but it I.;is ben thought best to proceed hlowiy in the matf-i- of tonnage. To begin w ith twenty mes-h r-:ereens v. ere used on th bii.tt eries. i 'oan-i-r :-crt.eni' vo, been 8ub.siitui.ed ay the mill lias demons' rat -ed Its abillt y to treat the ore until at present twelve nv-sh screens ar iX'hig used. It Is expected that eight insh screens will b- employed fm;-!ly. Th& capacity la now eighty tons per day and In steadily being : ncrcase-i. 1'n -3 ore. fiis.i pas-.es i'., rough a Bisk jaw cruihtr to itn I'.vO-pound tiamp.-, an A kins classifier, the tube mill, t h i k -eners, the agitators, a second set of Doir thickeners and then to a th'er. The system sys-tem is continuous, ho that the,re is' a steady stream of material riowing through the mill ai ad times. Gold-bearing -ohi-tion is de-anted al six points and finally final-ly filtered. The extraction- is reported to be over 30 per cent and often up to 37 per cent. Work lis been resumed in the mine and four ttop"-s are being opened up. These are the Nelson. Louisville. EMpse and Hobo. The ore broken assays from to il per ton, all the values being ln gold. The last face samples from the Hobo slope showed five feet of ore as-fcuying as-fcuying Tlie main tunnel, which is now in over 2.u0 feet, is being steadily advanced. lis objective point is the Denver Den-ver mine, t ho most northerly of tbs group. The tunnel mill has nearly 10y) feet to go. |