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Show fGS Again in Potash Production iit Cane Creek After 18 Months ."sing the new solution min-; min-; method, the Texas Gulf j Iphur Co. Cane Creek pot-i pot-i complex is once again - xlucing potash, according a release this week from tbert Curfman, general ma- ger of the operation. This ility has not been in predion pre-dion since July of 1970 en construction of solar poration ponds, slurry pits - f-pproximately 22 miles pipeline was begun to con-sfjjfce con-sfjjfce Cane Creek mine m conventional mining to ution mining. iTiis conversion has now :n completed, Mr. Curfman d, and during the startup iod, solids from the solar ids, 3.5 miles from the mill, are being pumped to the plant. Although no brine has been added to the ponds since they were filled .last November, with the startup some brine will now be added to keep them at a desirable level. Production at this time is planned at 12,500 tons per month, about half of projected project-ed production when the plant is operated at full capacity. The capacity production of the plant will be about 30 per cent under top production during du-ring the conventional mining at the facility and will employ ploy about one-fourth as many men. Transportation of the salts deposited in the ponds to the mill is being done by slurry lines and two self-loading scrapers harvest the salts from the ponds and then deposit de-posit them in one of three slurry pits in the pond area. There they are mixed with a brine solution which has been recirculated back to that area from the mill to form a 50 per cent slurry solution. The slurry, after arriving at the mill, will be stored in large tanks constructed for that purpose, and will then go into the milling process. From that point on, there are no changes in the operation over the established conventional milling process. 3 l ' ' ; , .. T:f.'4ry.y-.4 . ; . ' ... . - . v , . Vfe :;wx,v .... :. .,.- .' . .. . V- -'A. '" ' , . ,. . - - V' ., , : ;;;;.:.:,; t'. .ti..c .','!..," - (i ' ' 'i 1 1 S , " 4 - i v ; - - - ' ' ''f - ''"v - : J Texas Gulf Sulphur Company this week began mining of potash from solar evaporation evap-oration ponds at their Cane Creek plant. The ponds are shown here as they look from Dead Horse Point State Park, |
