Show TIN 11 1 CANS 1 A TUR TURNED NED INTO COPPER AT ARIZONA MINES H 2 v I 1 process consists of recovering I 1 metal from water fc phoenix ariz abo business of j turning tin cans into copper as the process Is popularly described Is IB g reaching large proportions tu in arizona jl 4 the process which actually consists insists f in recovering copper from water through the use of scrap iron which displaces the copper in solution Is 14 by no means new nev but has been extended end and improved in recent years so that soy beveral eral hundred carloads of tin cans ns as well is as large quantities of scrap iton ore are now shipped to arizona min ing centers each year at most of the mining coaters in th the estate stute tho process le la subordinate to main mining operations being used merely to extract the copper from water 1300 POSO pumped from tuo mines anh water rater a small quant lt of copper less than two tenths of 1 per cent in solution tho the water Is run through sluices where scrap iron has been pinned part of the iron goes into solution and the copper Is deposited in the bottom of the sluices and to la collected at intervals tho the process to Is valuable principally on account of the low expense involved at ajo a mining camp in the south western part of tho the state tho the principle bno ha been extended expended to the scrap iron electrolytic process of extracting cop per from ore the process according to mining men Is not confined at arizona mines but Is also used in montana and utah since anco the object la in to get scrap iron with as surface ao an possible in I 1 proportion t ion to its weight tin cans which are actu actually tilly made of liron con and tot not ua answer the purpose admiral admirably ly most 1 ot cf c f tho the tin cans cam are shipped a from arizona and southern california cities although shipments aro also made from eastern states |