Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-23 | Page 9 | Miami Copper is Nearing Capacity

MIAMI COPPER IS NEARING CAPACITY The Miami Copper compnnv has about reached rapaeitv copper production, llio record August yield compensated in part for earlier subnormal outputs, and will not. In all probability, bo regularly main- taifCthc mine can produce 5.000.1X10 pounds of copper a month it will be performing good service. "Beyond this the management manage-ment does not look.. Some day a method for treating its low-grade ores will proba-blv proba-blv be found, but that will not add materially ma-terially to production: it will, however, lengthen the life of the property. The experimental plant which Miami will operate in conjunction with the Vnited States bureau of mines will soon be running, and from the results attained will probably . be found a method lor treating its own carbonate ores, which heretofore have not been amenable to treatment. . Miami faces the payment of a fairly substantial amount of money to the Minerals Min-erals Separation company for infringement infringe-ment of the latter' s flotation patents, j The matter has been before examiners for the past few months, hut not for some time will the actual figures be available-Boston available-Boston News Bureau.