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Show Smelting In Utah rwv J'-V 4h ifrr-'J -7fc A - 4. V i Nearing the end of a lonR-thain of industry in Utah molten metal Is being poured into slabs at Too; le plant. (Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of six articles on Utah's smelting industry.) The first complete metallurgical plant erected in the West was the Germuniu smelter at Bingham, which included complete smelting and refining departments. The plant was designed as a lead smelter as copper ores in the Bingham district had not made their appearance in large quantities. quanti-ties. Then the red metal associated asso-ciated with lead was shunned, just as zinc was shunned and lost to the slag dump. Discovery of copper in the Highland High-land Boy mine at Bingham was followed by the erection of a copper cop-per smelter in the nineties. Copper Cop-per metallurgy was introduced to Utah as it was practiced elsewhere. Shortly after 1900 metallurgist), took up the problem of treating the low grade ore of the Utah Cop- per mine, ore then averaging 2 per cent copper. At first the min supplied ores at times for six different dif-ferent smelters, but early in the twentieth century two large concentrators con-centrators were erected at Magna and Arthur and a copper smelter at Garfiuld. I In this period was seen develop- j ment of the copper blast furnace and the beginning of reverbera-tory reverbera-tory operations on a large scale At first the blast furnace had the advantage, but was supplemented more and mor? bv the rover!jera tory furnace d.ie to the increa.;infi amount of concentrates and de creasing amount of crude ore tha' required smelting. (The fifth aitich in this series will appear soon it i these columns.) |