| Show smelting in utah VT 7 sa N ff P A all 4 vw r 6 ar VITI 4 a N V t 4 v bauer utah one of major industrial centers where ores from utah and other western states meet for reduction editor s note inasmuch as smelting is one of utah s leading industries a series of six articles has been prepared on smelting in utah the first of which fol lows S the alchemy of mill and smelter by which metals are released from the crude ore constitutes one of utah s major industries the state s smelting industry is represented by plants of the united states smelting refining corn com pany at midvale american smelt ing refining company at murray and garfield international smelt ing and refining company at tooele thoele and combined metals re company at bauer lead smelters are located at murray midvale and tooele thoele with copper smelters at garfield and tooele thoele these plants together with the giant metallurgical twins at gar field and magna the two largest flotation concentrating plants in the world make utah the world worlds s leading smelting center ores from all over the west and at times foreign countries are shipped to utah for concentration and smelt ing naturally mining and smelting go together one complements the other and together they are fight ing the battle of increased costs inherent in progressively deeper mining and lower grade ores both of which are problems in utah smelting has become an in austry separate from mining during the early days of utah mining many companies built their own smelting plants with little or no success custom smelt ing was the outgrowth of these experiments the second article in this series will appear soon in these columns |
