Show new process being be iulg worked out at mill U sponge iron made from dragon company ore may be used in the precipitation of lead and f N copper values 0 while officers of the tintic gintic mil ing company are backward about div ing out the information it is learned from other sources that a furnace Is being erected at that plant tor for the purpose of making sponge iron from ore taken from the dragon cona cons property the object being to ube u this sponge iron in the precipitation of lead and copper values in ore treated at the mill the reason that the mill officials do not care to dis ds CUES the proposition is that the mat ter is still in the experimental stage although the use of sponge iron tor for the purpose stated above is not nw n w and it is simply a question of adapt ing it to the requirements of the tin tic ores sponge iron according to those versed in metallurgical work ia 1 much more energetic and efficient than scrap if ion on which Is quite generally us used ed in similar milling enterprises with sponge iron it is possible to do within twenty minu tei time work that requires a week or more where scrap iron 1 Is used the knight people are particularly trot in having keying a supply of iron ore within a very short distance of their milling plant and it should should be possible tor for them to manufacture sponge iron ak a a most reasonable cost the bureau of mines has for 0 ome time been conducting expert mental work tor for the recovery of lead and copper values through the all of sponge iron and well known rep of this organization have been and are now co ope operating ratin with the officials of the mil milt ing co giving the local concern the benefit of all data previously corn com piled at the present time the mill Is not treating lead ore contin ing its operations to straight sliver silver products but if the new p process icess works out successfully the useful ness of the plant will be materially material lv increased because most of the ores contain lead the tintic gintic standard milling plane plant at harold la Is making a very satis sails factory saving of lead by the usi of tin toll foil scrap but this calls tor for rather excessive heating of the tion which Is brought almost to the boiling point there is a bill y of reducing the costs to some ex tent under a sponge iron process especially it if a supply ot of sponge iron could be secured from some source close at hand the tintic gintic standard a mill and thi tha plant of the knight leopla at silver city are similar in their construction and operation both being equi with the well known holt der i roasters both of these mills aie bp ing operated in a lery very successful manner at the present time this week the tintic gintic milling co Is melting down copper bulli which will go toward a shipment to be marketed later in the year cop per bullion Is not being made very rapidly owing to the tact fact that most of the ore now going to the mill car ries only the silver values A ship ment of silver bullion was forward ed to the mint early in the present month |