Show I Combined Metals Enterprise Blazing New Trails for Metal Industry Orchard Old Lago Portal ICO acres Bonneville Flotation Leaching Acid Apples Appless level Mine Plant Plant Plant T q f frN rN v F e y l rr t k rr y fix p ki N. N H S' S q J ii y t y rN 1 ld Z er z'S R.- R. r a i n Y r 1 y wi r r rr a G t nr M- M r w t e Me r r n r r s- s v f ss Y t ite GENERAL VIEW OF COMBINED METALS REDUCTION COMPANY BAUER UTAH tb COMBINED METALS REDUCTION CO Few mining enterprises anywhere possess poueu more interest than that of the Combined Metals Reduction company company com com- pany at Bauer Dauer Utah for here science technical skill and money are cooperating cooperating cooperating cooper cooper- to pioneer a process which will revolutionize the treatment of silver silver- zinc lead-zinc complex ores permit the manufacture of metal direct from a crude ore are without roasting or smeltIng smelting smelting smelt smelt- ing and return to the miner ten times the revenue from complex ores received received re rf in the old days Nor is this the only significant feature The Combined Metals enterprise represents represents represents the first entry of the National Lead company into Utah and intermountain intermountain intermountain inter- inter mountain mining The resources o othis this powerfully financed company are enlisted in a venture to found an industry In Industry in in- that will muke make pro profitable the exploitation of large reserves of oC mineral mineral min min- eral not now amendable to treatment treat treatment ment merit and push the present frontiers of profitable mining back to previous ly Iy unattained horizons The Combined Metals enterprise which even in its present embryonic state represents an annual payroll of be began an in 1013 wit with but five live individuals E. E W. W Clark I E. E II Snyder Snyder der G. G W. W Snyder Frank Nichols and ver pounds of lead and 10 pounds of zinc What i it t means to the state and county can be estimated when it is known that tha t the company is now producing each month of metal and employing employ employ- ing an average of men who ar are e paid an aggregate of approximately annually Dut But the importance of the Combined f lr l cr ett t i r 1 x R i il S 'S Sj j l 1 10 1 f Flotation Plant Combined Metals Reduction Company tion that sixty-seven sixty per cent of the total content of the ore is sulphide The Greenwood Leasing company soon found it had a large tonnage of ore but no market The product was too low in zinc for a zinc smelter and too high in zinc for a lead smelter Association of the zinc sulphide and the lead sulphide was so intimate that ordinary concentration methods were valueless Accordingly the Combined Metals Inc consisting of J. J C. C Jensen Charles Read Willard W. W F. F Snyder and Sons and Frank Nichols was organized to block out the ore ore- body and develop suitable metallurgy By Ly 1023 this thil work had progressed to the point that the National Lead Lend company was induced to take part in inthe inthe inthe the development of the patents and the Combined Metals Reduction company com com- pany any owned jointly by the National Lead Lead company and the Combined Metals Inc came carne into being From Front I the laboratory stage the process evolved to the pilot plant stage Construction Con of the present mill was begun begun be be- gun in December 1023 1923 and treatment treatment treat treat- ment of ol ores by the flotation process started in May 1024 1924 making the Combined Metals' Metals plant the first selective se se- flotation mill in Utah How flow rapidly the Bauer Industry has grown and how well it has prospered may be judged by the fact that during 1925 1025 the company produced 1086 ounces of gold ounces of sll all i Metals' Metals enterprise is even more vital to the miner Before Delore the company worked out its present processes out of ol a gross value of forty dollars to the ton of ore the miner received but ninety cents or but two and one one- half per cent and out of this ni ni- cents the miner had to pay his ing costs Today under improved methods of treatment the miner receives receives re reo ten times as much or aPT apI rox rox- 25 per cent or out of an ore with a gross value of 40 However er the company is not content J t d L til vY 4 1 i J. J q tSi Lead Ore Oro Slope in No 1 Lease Leue Honerine Mine MInI IlL with this improvement but has its metallurgists constantly experimenting experiment experiment- ing in order that the margin of profit prom to the miner may be further aug aug- Did space apace permit the telling of the whole story of the steps whereby ore is converted by the Combined Metals process s direct into pure silver sliver or lead leadin leadin in the saute same plant without roasting or smelting and all the intricate changes explained a romance bared based on scientific data and as enthralling as any lany ever written out of sheer fancy would result But suffice it to say Ray that the crude ore is ground ninety per cent to minus mesh and leached in a hot acid brine Coolin Cooling Cool Cool- In ing of the hot acid salt solution containing con can taming the mineral values precipitates precipitates tates the metal and without roasting Coasting or chemical or electrical precipitation a high-grade high product is made Fully as daring and as well con l r w v fc UI J rf rut mi of HUNT N II r 1 run I our or f AI i or O C ft am I HUrry MINI WN rif ItA IN I t t tUNO UNO N NO fO IO J AND N HIHI M AWRY Hf IV V ITH If M fHt r ru IN IH OHI ONI C CH CRR CHIt It OR It Mil N IM Mr N NIN e IN N Jl out CUl of OR If e s o OR 0 count ux ONLY so TO ro H ND N NO O ran FOR CN ND Ol OH I p tl our JilT ren C TNt f I o rpt 30 I L t f I ry I T 7 TN O Ar Ir of parr ONn es of 0 C r count I tX cc axes OUI oN am ANt NG Will W L Putt FUU our CUT Y ran 01 TH THC I R What Scientific Treatment of Complex Ores Ore Has lias Done for the Miner Harry Cushing Gushing who organized th the e Greenwood Leasing company This Thi s partnership acquired a lease on th the e Combined mine at Pioche Nevada and opened up what has developed into into in in- in to one of the tho largest zinc lead ore bodies in the west a deposit 1000 feet fee t long on its dip feet wide 15 feet fee t tt thick with a gross value of 40 10 a ton So intense has been the an on undertaking fully as illustrative illustrative illus illus- of modern mining methods as us the company's pioneering into new metallurgical fields is the reopening of the old Honorino Honorine mine by the Combined Combined Combined Com Com- Metals This mine had long a ago o been given Riven up up as worked out Now officials of the company in view of recent discoveries and present production production pro pro- averaging fifty tons of mill Hill ore anti and five eighty-five tons of shipping ore daily believe e that but a small part of the mines mine's real potentiality has bee be been it exploited New horizons in both old and new territory unexplored fissures in what was thought to be worked out ground have made it certain certain cere tain that the the mine is entering upon a second and probably more productive productive tive era than that of the past when of or more were mined The company also plans to buildup buildup build buildup up an important product by-product busin business ss It makes Its own hydrochloric acid for leaching by a standard process from salt taken from Great Salt lak lake Inks Anhydrous An An- hydrous sodium sulphate used in the manufacture of ol glass paper and conditioning con con- powders for stock is also manufactured Twenty tons of concentrated concentrated concentrated con con- hydrochloric acid can be produced daily dally and seven tons of anhydrous an an- hydrous sodium sulphate Operations at the Bauer Dauer plant are favored by situation Water for all purposes is abundant Common point freight rates help to reduce costs Supplies used in the various processes salt salt acid coal cool and limestone limestone can can canall all be secured from nearby original points of supply Notwithstanding the remarkable strides the company has made during the last two years ears it has only made madea a beginning of ol what should ultimately develop elop into one of the states state's largest metal enterprises Results Results Re- Re suits of operations have ha be teen n so favorable favorable favorable that the company compan Is planning an expansion program to take care of ores other than those from its own mines In solving the metallurgy of ol the complex zinc lead-zinc ores from Pioche it has been found that practically practically practically all zinc lead-zinc sulphides are amenable to the same treatment r w t Leaching Machin and Refining Plant lant C Combined Metals Reduction Com Company pan |