Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-04 | Page 5 | New Mill Takes Gold Values from Old Mercur Tailings Dump

New Mill Takes Gold Values From Fro Old Mer Mercur cur Tai Tailings lings Dump 1 I 3 di L az a z Ut c u 4 tt M I 1 m 1 SI Six ton hundred nd n concentration mill of the lannI 1 Manning Gold Mince MInea company compa 1 which has baa Just jost gone one Into I operation extracting gold ore from T tailings The Thel site j Is b near the famous mining camp of Mercur 1 A new ton mill near Utah's famous famous fa fa- fa mining camp of Mercur Is successfully successfully suc suc- extracting additional g gold ld from tailings piled up by many years of ot operations of ot the Consolidated Mercur Mining company in that district dis dis- The plant built by the Manning Gold Mines company has been in operation several days and the warm warm- up tag process has been Inaugurated without the usual difficulties of a first run Satisfactory results were reported Wednesday by Sam S S. S Arentz of the mill mm on his return from the scene of operations W. W F. F Snyder Is Sons company and Ur Mr Mr Arentz former congressman from rom Nevada and associates financed the he enterprise EXPERIMENTAL WORK Many months of ot experimental work satisfied the group that there were available approximately a half milion mil mil- lion ion tons of tailings with an average gold content of ot 2 to 3 a ton at the statutory price of 2067 an ounce Metallurgical studies and tests brought the conviction that the gold could be extracted at a profit Accordingly Ac Ac- cordingly the dumps were purchased and the erection of ot a mill started Ground was broken in March and by the first of October the plant was devouring tailings at the rate of tons ons a day The statement of ot Mr Arentz that laboratory results are beIng beng be be- I Ing ng realized means that about 70 per percent percent percent cent of the gold is saved that being the he recovery indicated in the prelim prelim- mary inary nary tests LARGER TONNAGE There seems to be bc no obstacle to the handling of ot a larger tonnage except ex cx- the limitations of ot the water sup sup- ply Plans have been worked out to obtain more water from springs in Cedar valley Presently the Manning Manning Man Man- ning mill may be treating better than tons daily All AIl of ot the tailings have been treated treated treated treat treat- ed once and some of them twice That there is 15 enough gold left tomake to tomake tomake make further milling pro profitable is due to the difficulties formerly encountered encountered en en- countered in separating the precious metal from the slime with which it was merged Much of ot th the gold was saved but a great deal of it escaped George Snyder is president of the new company Sam S. S Arentz vice president C. C A. A Selby secretary W W. J. J Franklin superintendent and J. J C. C Ingersoll consulting engineer I