Show t Aid id to to Mi Mining ing Industry 1 I T- T By Ira C. C Tichenor A J A I TION previously has been called in this column t to the inci increasing as ng importance of the Salt Lake experiment station which i i is s. s conducted by the University of Utah in cooper cooperation tion with the r a of mines department nt of the interior and the b benefits mining Industry of ot the state 1 Is deriving from its work The alt lt Lake station however ho L is only one of at eleven such euch institutions Jo located iA in clUes cities adjacent to mining enters centers and all are en energetically engaged in tn s soling mining problems that are are- local to their part part of ot the country at the Salt Lake station there have been devised among anong ower otHer In novel methods of ot treating low grade and c complex ores orea of r lead These methods it 1 is ts stated show a a. large saving of ot metal over m heretofore employed and have made available ores that other met methods method's could not treat profitably j 61 t Golden Colden Gala Cob Is ts a a. station which among other work Is 19 given giren credit tor havin developed the American radium Industry Formerly the low Jow grade bearing learing ore are was wasted the best of at the ore was bought b by foreign con concerns r ri riat t. t at ridiculously low pric and radium extrac extracted ed was vas shipped to td this country at excessively high ligh price prices As the re result of ot the ex experiments e rf conducted at the Golden station the thelow low grade radium bearing ores ores' now can be treated profitably tA tf the station in Seattle low grade ores are being successfully 8 treated and the mining of at coal is aided by experiments the Tucson Ariz station Isik is working ik especially on J low w grade c copper capper ores while the Berkeley Cal Cat station has shown how losses losse may be reduced In quicksilver plants Columbus Columbus 0 O. has bas a station which is employed to a great extent on problems in connection with the manufacture of ot clay products ts the the st station at Pittsburg has done much for tor the coal industry the station at B Olka Olka- has worked out many problems In connection with the oil al industry while the station at Minneapolis Minn has devised methods o of ot utilizing low Jow grade iron tron ores Mining Mining men generally recognize recognize- the benefits that have been derived from the work conducted at the various experiment stations and are cooperating In lit every every manner possible |