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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE Payson, Utah pine poles from Utah Unintah Mountains are forced into the glowing metal, and as the poles burn, oxygen, another impurity, is consumed and removed as carbon dioxide. This process produces anode copper, 99.5 pure. Thursday, July 13, 1967 84651 .lQWEARlSENTENCE EOOUSTFINGERt f$a THE REFINING The refinery, completed in 1950, produces electrolytically refined copper, the purest type. Anodes from the smelter are placed in leadlined tanks containing copper sulfate and sulfuric acid. Then sheets of refined copper, called cathode GUARAN UM With an Ffpmith J fpiQQ tUWll starting sheets, are placed between the anodes dissolve in the solution, the electrical charge transferes small particles of copper to the starting sheets. Impurities, including minute amounts of precious metals, fall to the bottom of the tank as mud. Precious metals are later recovered. 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The mineral carrying bubbles float off the sides of the flotation cells and are filtered to remove water and produce copper concentrate. The final copper concentrate, containing almost 30 copper and tiny amounts of gold, silver and other metals, is then shipped to the nearby smelter. The concentrators produce about 2250 tons of concentrate daily. This leaves a residue of 87,00 tons of finely ground rock which mixed with water, is called tailings. Tailings flow to a nearby 5100 acre tailings pond, which is surrounded by a dike from 70 to 100 feet high. Water from the pond is recovered and returned to the concentrators where it is reused. ch I I car, truck, or tractor Reduced prices on all tires IV Polyester AAARK UNICO the famed Including Cord Tire, the ultimate in tire smoothness and safety. FREE a tire gauge with the purchase of each MARK IV Polyester Tire, July 17 to 31st only inProper air pressure insures longer wear and creased safety. Talk to your IFA branch manager today about your tire needs and SAVE! INTERMOUNTAIN FARMERS ASSOCIATION l l t ! i One of the new buildings under construction at the Western Mining Divisions Kennecott Copper Corporation. UTAH COPPER STORY Kennecott Copper CorporatUtahs largest taxpayer, averaging $12.5 million instate and local taxes annally. This added to the payroll and local purchases totals about $87.5 million in annua! costs that ion is Payson Branch Manager is ALMON HARMER directly benefit the Utah econ- omy. mea are involved in production at Kennecott Corporation. T.ae Big cycles in production of include Mining, Concentrating, Smelting and Refining. Many copper Copper Four copper MINING rQ Oj Blasting to remove ore and overburden is the first basic operational step at the mine. This is done by drilling holes 24 to 30 feet deep into the toe of the bank at 15 to 20 foot intervals. The holes are loaded with ammonium nitrate or dynamite which explode about 2,200 tons of material in each blast. An average of 25 holes are exploded at one time. Overburden is loaded by electric shovels into huge trucks pays you interest every 3 months on deposits of $500 or more in and railroad cars and hauled to disposal areas outside the mine. Water is filtered through this overburden to leach out small amounts of copper which are present; then the copper-bearin- g water is collected at a precipitation plant near the mouth of Bingham Canyon where copper precipitate is recovered. Ore is loaded into 100-tore cars arid hauled by electrically powered locomotives to the Copperton main assembly yard at the mouth of Bingham Canyon for movement to the Arthur and Magna concentrating on mills. CONCENTRATING At the Arthur and Magna ore concentrators, ore is process- ed Inside the Utah smelter, a separate plant operated by Kennecott subsidiary, Garfield Chemical and Manufacturing Corporation, sulfuric acid is produced from the waste gases of the converters. come thinner, until about 15 of the original anode remains. The cathodes now 99.96 pure copper, are removed washed and taken to electric furnaces for melting and casting into new shapes. This is the home" in copper production, thus enabling Ken8th North & Main, Spanish Fork necott Copper Corporation to Thur. - Fri. - Sat. become the largest taxpayer in JULY 13 14 Utah. 15 to produce a concentrate ARCH Business Machines fftWTMG AMO ADvtHnSlMQ THEATRE - - SPKIAUSTS PARAMOUNT PICTURES mm PRESLEY Excitement! Adventure under the sea! insa on NEW 1967 FORD CARS SAVE NOW & GEDGrl TRUCKS - 1968 Models will Cost $200.00 More See Keith Bradford, Delos Argyle or Clyde Hicken SMELTING At the smelter, centrate is mixed copper conwith fluxes and charged into roasting furneses for preheating. This process drives off some sulfur an impurity, and prepares the mixture, now called calcine, for treatment in huge brick reverberatory furnaces. In these furnaces, this calcine is melted at 2700 degrees F with natural gas as fuel. Impurities float to the surface as slag, consisting of silica, iron, lime and alumina. The slag is skimmed off and hauled to the slag dump near Great Salt Lake. What remains is copper matte abou 40 copper and 60 impurities such as iron and sulfur. The copper matte still molten, is taken to the converter furnaces where a combination of air (blown into the furnaces) and silica flux removes sulfur and other impurities to produce Thats At smith Phone 798-355- 3 AUTO 3 North & Sat. 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