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Show BRITISH FLOTATiDf-J I paom upheld! Supreme Court of United j States Sustains Patent of the Minerals Separation. WASHINGTON", Dec. 11. In a decision regarded as of much importance in the mining world Uie supreme court upheld j a patent for the flotation ooncentiatint; j process of i!:e Minerals Separation. Lim- it eel, a British corporation, extensively , used in many countries. An infringement injunction was ordered againsi Jamoe M. Hyde, a Butte mining engineer. The British process is used under license in manv minins districts, and is said to i have earned more than 4.000,00u. Its 1 opponents contended it was not patentable and merely aji adaptation of former dls- . coveries. ' |