Show AT BIG INDIAN BEING IMPROVED steadily IlY better results are steadily being obtained at the big indian copper mill where a flotation process for the extraction of the ore was recently installed according to thomas varley metallurgical engineer who supervised the installation of the new system mr varley and harlow E smoot the mill electrician were in moate tuesday en route to salt lake city from big indian the percentage of recovery Is being improved constantly and the flow of concentrates from the Is increasing dally according to mr varley at the present time about 90 tons of ore are being milled each 24 hours and five tons of concentrates are being produced dally the percentage of recovery of copper Is running better than 75 per cent and this will be increased as operations proceed and the mill crew becomes more familiar with the process A carload of concentrates weighing in excess of pounds was shipped from thompsons Thomp sons this week to the Gartl eld smelter this carload will carry considerably higher values than the first one shipped which tested about 25 per cent copper the shipment made this week will run better than 35 per cent |