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Show Fss a Thursday, October 30, 152 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE to the,surface of these bubbles, ride them to the top of the vat where they "float over the side. Water is removed from this product which then goes to the smelter. The worthless material "sinks to the bottom of the vats and goes out to the tailings pond. Thus a new ore milling method was born, born of bubbles! Thus did flotation help make possible the great Utah Copper enterprise which today accounts for 30 of the nations newly mined copper. In excess of $120,000,000 annually is expended by Utah Copper for payrolls, tax payments, supply purchases and other expenses, the benefits of which reach into every home in every city, town and farm in our state. Directly or indirectly YOU, your family and all Utahns benefit by this continual "blowing of bubbles. LOWING bubbles, an age-ol- d symbol for idle pastimes, has turned out to be the key to one of Utahs greatest industries. For without the magic of bubbles, it is quite possible that the mountain of copper ore at the Utah Copper Bingham Mine could not be profitably processed. Many years' were spent searching for a better method of removing the 99 worthless material in Utah Copper ore. Finally Daniel C. Jackling and his associates helped perfect the flotation process. How does flotation work? The flotation departments at the Utah Copper mills at Magna and Arthur contain hundreds of vats full of a mixture of water, chemicals and powdered ore flowing from one vat to the other. Billions of bubbles are created by a "frother chemical arid by violently stirring the mixture. The copper particles attach themselves low-conte- nt fi li tl vj K E N N E C O T T A G COPPER CORPORATION T OOD. NEIGHBOR HELPING J J; ') T O BUILD A BETtER UTAH" |