Show fARS fAR'S OWN OUN MOUNTAIN OF COPPER b HAM AM I INOt S Ss NOt f fU s r. r U R l D r.r. r. r f Utah's Copper in Reads Like Tale fale Production I Unlimited C la ra C. C r. r Ie h enor scientists ie and n ing men asked to 3 1 a feature that eon con uld be named as the rider J ler of the world they would with I vote declare that a moun- moun ham Into copper should ud Jud distinction operations ot of the company by which a ot of low grade ore is p being eing leveled now is an like all stories connected rIds rId's wonders it is ever er this true as it applies to I l men en connected with big ot of a mining nature f e callings constantly r Om m one or more o ot the theof of the earth to view with c 8 the immensity o of the I which they had read in md Ind magazine articles FACT t Utah the Immense Bingham Is an everyday l t they never forget that Jt during the i years ot of the has placed this aid ard the top ot of the list in ot of red metal so I modern industrial I I essential In min min- mill mill-I is do not forget torget that to our I Daniel C. C Jac Jackling klin who leas lea's participation in the I ved as one ot of the govern overn busIness exI ex- ex I dollar I ments ment's a a. year ex- ex experts con I I belongs the credit ot of having con con- put Into operation and has successfully suc- suc I cess Cully managed a a. project which sue sue-I now IS adding annually nearly to the wealth ot of the nation and employs I to men at a monthly wage ot of approximately DISTRIBUTED For labor and materIals the company has during Us its comparatively brief history his his- I tory distributed moro more than 00 In Utah while Its dividends have reached a total ot of more than 92 The old saying that It takes money to make money has proved true in the case ot of the Utah Copper company compan which began in a modest w way y with a capitalization ot of In 1903 but which has successively Increased Its capitalization for tor the purpose ot of enlarging enlarging en- en its operations until now it has reached tile the big figure ot of and ot of which In 10 shares has been Issued While the first discovery ot of ore was wasi made as long ago as 1863 i in the w West i Mountain mining district where the property ot of the Utah Copper company is located the real copper excitement did not begin until about 1895 During this year the late Captain Joseph R. R De Lamar ot of New York whose death recently occurred obtained an option on the property but later dropped it Three years rears later De Lamar took another option At this time Robert C. C r emmell the present general manager manager man man- ager of the Utah Copper company was engaged for tor De Lamar at the Golden Gate Gale mine at Mercur and made the preliminary sampling ot of ore while Daniel C Jackling also a member ot of De Lamars Lamar's staff as metallurgist at the Golden Gate mill made milling tests ot of the West Yest Mountain ore ORE OF LOW VALUE I 1 IDo Do De Lamar again gaVEl gave up his option and In succession options were taken r by several other mine operators and andas andas as regularly dropped because ot of the thelow thelow low value ot of the ore I Jackling finally resigned from the theDe De Lamar staff and went to Colorado I where he became consulting engineer to the United States Reduction and Refining Re- Re fining company which had been Re-I Re organized organized or- or by some ot of his former Cripple Creek associates Including Charles M. M I MacNeill Spencer Penrose and Charles CharlesL L L. McNutt Jackling when he left the BIngham district took with him his enthusiasm I over the possibilities ot of the mountain ot of ore and as the tho result ot of his stick stick- he Imbued his associates with the feasibility ot of the project The result was the acquisition ot of the property and the formation ot of the first Utah Copper company in 1903 From that time until now there has been mined more than tons ot of ore are from which have been extracted about I pounds ot of copper dearly ounces ot of gold and I ounces ot of silver FUTURE ESTIMATED I This much much-is is history an and the probable I able future of the project can be fairly estimated by comparing comparing- the I 1 tons ot of ore alread already mined with the 71 tons as thE QuantIty of Ol ote at 1 AT RIGHT Bingham Garfield railway ore train en route from the mines at Bingham to the concentrate mills and smelter at Garfield At left left-A trainload of lore than forty cars of copper ore departing from Bingham via the Bingham ingham Garfield railway the mammoth surface mine of the Utah Copper company compan in the background r f u I v e il ii i 1 lit f jT n aj 1 r r 1 a. a t t a 6 oz's d JW nv tz o 4 r 4 f il t ri r l 1 I tJ f t h F present classed as tully fully and partially developed The fact that tha t a mass of 1 4 to 2 per percent percent cent ore was unattractive fifteen to twenty years ears ago should surprIse no one It required constructive Imagination tion o ot no common order and unusual financial courage to undertake the large scale exploration ot of such a deposit deposit de- de posit at that time declared T. 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A Ricard In an article In the Mining and Scientific Press Pres Preson on the Utah Copper project while the operations were described de- de scribed as by the same writer IMPRESSIVE PICTURE To realize the bigness or of the mine it Is best to ascend halt half way up the opposite slope on th the east Mt sidE of Bingham ham can canyon on There one faces the serried terraces that marl mark the successive successive success success- ive slices now being cut out ot of the tho thomass mass of copper bearing rock It Is an impressive picture ot of highly organized human Industry The crest has been removed already but foreshortened b by Y distance the mountain still looks like a 11 pyramid the levels of successive excavation exI ex- ex suggesting the cross section of one ot of the famous Egyptian I tombs The outer cover of the hill Is covered red by oxidation the mass itself it- it self Is gray It is a huge theatre In InI which the actors are 1800 men but so I big is the stage that they are hardly discernible at this distance Ore trains i Hk ens en's toys tos seen from afar run along alone th and black steam r 7 C t sa A Q rt v 6 as r 1 Z p r r y as s o f s ry ryr e r shovels vomit putts puffs of smoke as they dig energetically into the thc precipitous face ot of the cliff clift The smoke from the engines and the little black figures here and there give a touch of I the Internal infernal to the picture but the suggestion Is contradicted by the blue bluesky sky that canopies the scene On top ot of the hill like a redoubt Is n. n tank to I I which water Is brought by gravity I from Middle canyon four miles west to be conducted to the different levels for tor drinking for Cor the boilers and for I other purposes It Is a big mine m In the open air Winter does not seriously hinder operations oper- oper I hardly four twenty hours is lost per J. J although last winter twice for tor halt half a shirt shift durIng blizzards II It was Impossible to move the ore trains until the tracks cleared by br bythe the snow plow Being open to the skY I the men are visible all the time this j is not without a influence during labor troubles There is nothing nothing noth- noth ing secret about these al fresco operations operations opera opera- which are always open to public view LEACHING PLANT The leaching is one ot of the most interesting features ot of Utah Copper op- op opI I This plant was designed to extract the tho copper from the oxidized that has been partially leached by natural processes and ot of wl co m. m re than tons has already been mined and stored where it can he be recovered The material Is low grade ore carrying per cent copper or thirteen pounds to the ton In the form ot of carbonates malachitE an and azurite with a small mall proportion of silicate and from 01 to 02 per cent copper in the form torm of and The principle prin- prin ciple underlying the metallurgical I Is t borrowed from nature for forI I 5 sulphuric lph lc a. a acid Q derived from d decompo- decompo sitton ot Af sulphide mineral is used to ta dissolve the copper which is then precipitated pre pre- upon scrap Iron The plant is isto isto to have an ultimate capacity of tons of ore a day |