Show the low grade ore will be big asset here in tintic gintic the following item pertaining to the treatment of low grade ores from the mines 0 le w as written ly 1 red C dern and it will no doubt te of inte interest iest to many of 0 r read era e rs the alining district pro deuced ip to the end of the 1914 ore valued at over in va ai ning it the various companies en countered 0 e that w 0 ild not pay to sh p to the smelters tremendous tonnages of that ore have been lift n the dartois vano is properties awaiting the advent of some process that treat it is ii p to the compan es the facts that the tintic ores aro of a h ehly is nature cauce t the sn an eiter elter charges to be higher than for ores 0 i a better fluxing only the higher grade ores cin can b mined and ani shipped d to the sm am I 1 tera there are several millions of tons of lo 10 v grid grad 0 e that ia is ore thit that cannot be shipped at a profit stand ng rig in the following mines bal I 1 on beck beek black jak beck beek turin I 1 carisa cenceni al eu eka eureka hill iron blossom chief consolidated colorado dragon eagle blue bell gold chain grand central mam im moth and the victoria ft t when these facts were baroug brought to the attention of N C christensen jr and theodore P holt me fists who had been belen working on 01 a process for the treatment of 1 lo 10 0 grade ores a series of el clabo ab rate tests were ere made on the tintie orca ores the tests proved satisfactory from practically every point of vew v ew and as a result the tintic gintic milling company was formed the p process process had been discovered in 1911 and had been worked out on a small scale by the mines operating company in the park city district it was perfected and standard zed by march 1914 and the plant at that time was treating treat ilag tons per day and getting agn an extraction of about 75 per cent ot the values this was m as being done with a crude hand ei furnace the present mill that is being con strutted ted at silver city in gintic tintic d strict will have a daily capacity of tons by adding additional roast ing facilities and leaching th capacity can be readily brought up to tons per day it is a steel con crete mill that is being constructed and it is modern in every deta I 1 |