Show ANACONDAS ANACONDA'S OPERATIONS AI AIDED OED BY TRIUMPHS IN METALLURGY Coincident with the declaration of a dividend of 2 per share payable next month to stockholders by the Anaconda Mining company compan there are emanating from seats of finance in the East numerous numerous numerous nu nu- nu- nu extended analyses of the gi gigantic gigantic gigantic gi- gi gantic magnitude to which this corporation corporation cor cor- has ascended since its modest modest modest mod mod- est beginning in Butte which is credited credited credited cred cred- by the historians to the tile far sightedness sightedness sight sight- edness and constructive ability of the tile late Marcus Daly As Daly laid th the foundation de declares declares de- de clares dares one writer so has the Anaconda Anaconda Anaconda Ana Ana- conda of today developed all the while with an eye to use of the most efficient efficient effi effi- dent methods and the attainment of the most practical results in copper coppert t production Another pamphlet writer speaking with seeming authority says Anaconda Anaconda Anaconda Ana conda is mining reducing and marketing marketing marketing market market- ing today at the rate of pounds of copper annually annually approximately one-fourth one of the tile copper produced produced produced pro pro- in the United States and one- one seventh of the copper produced In the whole world in addition it Is refining refining In ing and selling the mined product of other companies in some of which it has part ownership to the extent of pounds thus making a grand total of pounds of copper more copper more than third one-third of all the copper product of the United States and nearly one-fourth one of the total copper copper copper cop cop- per production of the world world which which it treats and markets Anaconda besides its copper is producing producing producing pro pro- annually ounces of silver ounces of gold is smeltIng smelting smelting smelt smelt- ing and refining at its custom plants an additional ounces of silver and pounds of lead it will within a few months be producing at the rate of pounds per an annum annum annum an- an num of high profit zinc Electrification has meant a saving of from to annually Prior to 1915 Anaconda found it impracticable impracticable im Im- im- im practicable to separate more than 82 per cent of th the copper in the ore With slime flotation machines machine in installed installed in- in stalled the recovery of copper in concentrates concentrates concentrates con con- has been increased to 96 06 per cent The leaching plant in which tailings are treated has a capacity of more than 2000 tons per day and recovers about 8 85 55 per cent of the metal content of ot the tailings Its annual recovery amounts to pounds of copper at a cost of 8 cents per round pound As As the old tailing piles plies contain more than tons there then IT ii enough of this material available to enable the tile leaching plants to continue at the present rate for nearly nearly near near- ly thirty years These tailing piles aro are capable of being converted into 00 OO poun pounds ts of ot copper Anacondas Anaconda s new processes summed UD Un UD have ha-e brou brought ht about a net recovery of more than 90 per cent of the available avail avail- able metals in ill the ores as against a II recovery o o of only 77 per cent a year apo ago without t a penny of extra expense Not only have they made pos possible the recovery of this high percentage from the ores which are now being mined and which are are areto to be mined they have made possible in addition the recovery of the 13 p per r cent cent formerly formerly coni considered ered impossible to extract from extract from practically all the ores which the Anaconda Ana Ana- conda has mined since the beginning |