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Show d INTEK-MOUNTAI- FOR REFRACTORY GOLD ORES. If the Fauvel process is all that its inventor claims, and will accomplish what he asserts has been demonstrated, it will work as great wonders in the mining world as have been wrought by the cyanide solution. At a meeting of the Fauvel Gold Recovery company, held at London last month, Air. Fauvel gave the stockholders a description of the process and announcrd that upwards of forty contracts were likely to be entered into in America. He had been engaged upon the work, he said, nine years, and had spent nearly twice as many thousand pounds. He gave a practical demonstration of his method of treatment, using ore containing arsenical pyrites and sulphides of iron. He described the process as follows: When the ore has passed through some form of crusher or from rolls, it is deposited in the lower hopper, then raised by the elevator to another hopper, and by a patent automatic feeder is fed into the furnace. Now, the furnace working is not a theory, but the embodiment of a true principle, and the demonstration of a metallurgical fact. While the ore is falling down the furnace, it meets a gradually increasing purer oxidizing medium. The atmospheric air is heated in the chambers around the furnace, and passed into the tower, ascending against the falling stream of ore. The ore falls down, and, as I shall show you by experiments, the alrefractory elements are eliminated most instantly; and as it goes down through the tower, it gets cleaner and cleaner, until at last it is thoroughly oxidized, and the gold is left free from the film of sulphide of iron, or any other refractory element which may surround and keep it from that contact with mercury which is necessary. When it reaches the highest point of temperature-1600 degrees the ore falls through a shower bath of cold water, as described in the pamphlet. You can understand what takes place, and why the ore is found in such a fine powdered state after it has passed through the cold shower bath, and the temperature reduced from 1600 degrees to the ordinary temperature of 100 degrees; the time occupied in this work is only about two minutes. It is the act of nature, I repeat it is a metallurgical fact, and not a theory. The ore comes down the tower perfectly 'free and clean, and, dropping through the shower bath, is further reduced, the crystals separating along their natural line of cleavage. Another stream of water carries them to a series of amalgamating plates, so that by the time it reaches the end nearly the whole of the gold is recovered, and only the valueless tailings are left. The whole time occupied here is five or seven minutes. I do not think there is much reason to fear any one else doing the work quicker. For simplicity, economy and efficiency, I do not think it possible for any superior process to be brought forth. We are not in opposition to cyag ore; nide, which will treat our wTork is only with refractory ore. Air. Fauvel claimed that the cost of treatment by his process could be reduced to one shilling per ton where the ore is rich in sulphur and coal can be free-millin- MINING HEVIEW. N obtained for 25 to 30 shillings per ton. eralty of twro adjoining tracts, proHe had received inquiries from all vided that the lessee should pay as royalty a certain sum monthly to the parts of the world, and an expert told lessors. One of the lessors subsequently him he would put up a thousand plants conveyed his separate tract to the lessee. one corner of Colorado alone. He in Held, that the remaining lessor was to royalty thereafter in an entitled estimated that 80 to 90 per cent of the amount equal to the value of his disgold ore in the world was refractory. tinct tract, as compared with that conveyed to the lessee. Higgins vs. CaliCAMP FLOYD INCORPORATIONS. fornia Petroleum and Asphalt company. 41 Pac. Rep. 10S7 (Supreme court of The magnitude to which operations California, October 2, 1895). Alining Claim, Quieting Title, Pleadin the Camp Floyd gold belt have ing. An answer in a suit under Regrown during the past year is most vised Statutes of the United States, forcibly shown by a list of the compa- section 2326, to determine the right to of a mining claim, denying nies incorporated to develop properties possession the allegations of the petition, and for in that district. The Alining Review a second aldefense and cross-petitibesuch list the data below, leging ownership and right of possespublishes as wrell as actual possession and sion, official of from the records ing compiled full compliance with the mining laws, the Secretary of State. The properties and praying that defendants title be of one or two of the companies are quieted, does not require a reply, located in districts adjoining Camp though said section provides that, if title shall not be established by either Floyd, but all are upon what is known party, the jury shall so find; and the as the Camp Floyd gold belt The total judgment must show which party, if number of companies is thirty-siwith either, is entitled to the property; and an aggregate capital of nearly fifty mil- if it is found that neither party has a right thereto, that must be lions. It will be noted that all but shown and the must so state. found, seven of these companies have been in- Iba vs. Centraljudgment Association of Wyo42 20 (Supreme court Pac. ming. within the last Rep. and corporated year, Wyoming, October 25, 1S95). yet there are already four mills in ofNuisance, Pollution of Stream as Reoperation and another nearly com- sult of Alining Operations. To a bill by pleted, while the owners of several a riparian proprietor to restrain deother properties, which have been de- fendant from polluting, by discoloration, the stream, it is no defense or veloped into mines, have decided to equitable excuse that the discoloration erect cyanide plants. It should be ex- is the natural and necessary result of plained that the number of claims mining operations prosecuted in the way. Reach vs. Sterling Iron credited to each company below' are as ordinary Zinc company, 33 Atl. Rep. 826 and showm by the records, but several com- (Court of Chancery Of New Jersey, Nopanies have added to their possessions vember 8, 1895). Deed in Escrow. In an action by a since incorporating, notably the to compel the delivery of a deed vendee (now the Alarion), the Aler-c- held in escrow', and to restrain the and the Golden Gate. vendor from conveying the land, when on x, Spar-rowha- wk ur Date of Inc. and Name of Company. Jan. Jan. Nov. Alay Dec. Dec. Dec. Feb. 19, 1896, Bonanza Gold Alining Co 11, 1896, Brickyard Gold Alining Co 25, 1895, Camp Floyd Gold Alining Co 1, 1894, Cannon Gold Alining and Alilling 14, 1895, Camp Floyd Alining and Alilling 7, 1895, Golden Gate Alining Co 2, 1895, Eldorado Gold Alining Co 16, 1895, Eagle Gold Alining and Alilling East Co Co Co .lko Gold Alining and Alilling Co Dec. 20, 1895, Flodora Alining company Jan. 14, 1896, Geld Hill Alining company Jan. 3. 1896, Gold King Alining company Dec. 14, 1895, Gladstone Gold Alining and Alilling Co Dec. 3, 1895, Golden Era Alining and Alilling Co April 30, 1895, Geyser Alining company Jan. 17, 1896, Golden Seal Alining company Sept. 17, 1892, Golden Gate Alining and Alilling company Jan. 9, 1896, Great Eastern Gold Alin. & Alilling Co Jan. 15, 1896, Independence Gold Alin. & Alilling Co Dec. 16, 1893, Little Alining company June 4, 1890, Alercur Pittsburg Gold Alining and Alilling Co Feb. 18, 1S95, Alercur City Alining Co Jan. 8, 1896, Alercur King Alining Co Jan. 10, 1896, Newr York Gold Alining company Dec. 3, 1895, Old Fred Gold Alining and Alilling Co Sept. 9, 1895, Occidental Alining company Sept. 4, 1895, Rover Gold Alining company Alay 21, 1890, Sparrow Hawk Alining company (Alarion) Aug. 13, 1892, Silver Lode kilning & Alilling Co Dec. 14, 1895, Segregated Alercur Gold AI. & Alill. Co Nov. 19, 1895, Searchlight Gold Alining Co Nov. 2, 1895, Sterling Gold Alining Co Sept. 23, 1895, Sunshine Gold Alin. & Alill. Co Nov. 27, 1894, Syndicate Alining and Alilling Co Dec. 26, 1895, The Utica Gold Alin, and Alilling Co Jan. 15, 1896, New Year Gold Alining Co -- Total number of claims, ABSTRACT ... 232. OF RECENT DECISIONS. MINING a preliminary injunction is granted and a decree is entered requiring the delivery of the deed on payment by the plaintiff of a certain sum at a certain time, and plaintiff makes default in Prepared for the Alining Review by such payment, it is proper to amend the decree by dissolving the injunction George Westervelt, attorney-at-laand directing the delivery of the deed Salt Lake City, Utah. to the vendor, and the title in Alining Lease, Construction, Royal- him. Carson Aliningvesting company vs. Hill. ties. A certain joint lease for mining 42 Pac. Rep. 687 (Court of Appeals of purposes, executed by owners In sev Colorado, November 11, 1895). w, |