Show 1 01 u T r I f J Arsenic sen c Worth More Th Than il Gold Poisonous Mineral al Yields YIelds' a Much More Han Handsome some Profit Per Ton Than the Precious Metal Was Once Thought to toBe toBe Be Valueless and anda a Nuisance e to Miners Gold miners in Hastings county Canada for years sought for fot some some S means to rid the ore of the arsenic j deposit which in hi that region is found In combination with the tho gold They offered rewards tried numberless experiments experiments ex ex experiments and did everything they could to get rid of the poisonous troublesome troublesome troublesome trou trou- stuff that lay between them t and arid their precious gold But But now a wonderful transformation has taken place Instead of sep separating the gold from the arsenic the miners are workIng working working work work- ing to get the arsenic away from the ther r gold It is much the same thing but bu different The difference is that th the i arsenic and not the gold is what the miners are after they do not throw throwaway throwaway throwaway away the gold but the arsenic is the prize The miners were still swearing vainly at the arsenical deposits that buried their thel gold from them wh when when n a party of scientists came over from fromi r i England They asked the miners miners' how much ton took of gold a they out their rough ore The miners replied that the ore ran all the way from 4 4 to 60 worth of gold They said the trouble was that it had so much arsenical N pyrites in t t. t The scientists Investigated invest invest- I It gated d and informed the miners that the arsenic in one ton of their ore was was worth something like 90 O. O Then Theil t the e miners quit swearing at the ar art This strange turn of the wheel of fortune has been has been ca caused sE by the he virtual exhaustion of the former chief chief source of supply supply- of arsenic in Germany and England together with the superior quality anc and purity of the Canadian product The companies in the Hastings county gold fields have successfully introduced the bromo bromo process in treating the the previously refractory as the ore In which arsenic is contal contained ed Is called and are are re now turning out eighty tons of arsenic a month The arsenic can be placed on on- on the cars at Marmora in Hastings county at a cost of 20 20 a ton It sells at 70 and frequently as high as 90 a ton This arsenical ore ore also carries carries car car- ries fr from m 4 to 60 worth of f gold in iu each ton which is a handsome profit in Itself Arsenic Is a metallic s substance ex extremely extremely ex extremely brittle of steel gray shade and is one of the most poisonous of subs substances ances It is used sed for m mixing xing with lead In tl the e manufacture of of shot andis andis and andis is also added to Iron and steel In the manufacture of chains and ornaments It is indispensable in the manufacture a of glass being used for reducing theiron the iron oxide contained In sand |