| Show i- i 1000 A DAY FROM WASTE MATERIAL MA fERIAL t j I u. u i Homestake Mine Has Immense I Treating 91 91 t I if Cent Slimes USES NEW FILTER PRESS 5 Metallurgist Declares It Will Pf Revolutionize te Mining for or Low Low- Grade Ores Oreg j Maric I J. L. L Lamb Lumb metallurgist i anti and 1 mining ii engineer of oC who was in this cH city yesterday oil oft the wa way I 4 home hoine from lom Deadwood S. S I IX D. Is enthusiastic 4 over o tho the results being attained at the the- great tho-great lie great Homestake mine with the i Merrill filter press which he says MS is an Improvement In the cyanide process pro 1110 t cess COSS which promises to revolutionize tho the treating o of ores J Homestake has jm just l completed a n OOOO plant using the new now filter pres' pres and Mr Lamb AY that It I wilt will wil i make maJo the company compan not flOt loss laM than a year treating only the he slimes from rom Its Is lamp tamp mills mis The Tho Homestake's Home- Home 1 stakes stake's ore ole as Is 11 well velI known is low l grade Itc running something 1 like 2 GO tI to tu 3 00 a 0 ton In Iii free fcc sol gold After Ael It Il I. I has hiss run lUI through h the stamp mills mis It Il is found that the tho slimes which Heretofore heretofore hereto Hereto- r fore have ha been thrown away contain I an average of or 91 cents In gold and the new now machine Mr Ir Lamb says mS m'S saves eaves ves 83 cents celts of oC this thi The mill mi Just completed com corn will wJ treat 1000 tons a day at 4 cost of 1 19 9 cents u t toli tOi th thus us giving t hot liet returns of oC about about 1000 a da tiny day I The Thc distinctive feature of the Merrill Mer Mer- 1101 F rill 11 press Is that it I is emptied empted by sluicing ing instead of oC opening and there Is Iso I io o a agitation or oi naton Mr Lamb says ay s 's that It I will vIiI wi operate Just as satisfactorily satis saUs- in the treating of or refract refractory t tor tory ry ores as It does docs with wih tho ho free J milling In proof of or which he ho points T Ib tO th the tho fact that tho Portland Golden C Cycle cle nn and Standard mills at tt t Colorado Springs which treat Cripple Creek ores are all al abandoning the tho chlorin- chlorin dUon tion anti and erecting cyanide process are arc Y plants which shall use the Merrill t- t press reA jj 31 It I will vill wi be he readily seen sen that if I the to they y pw process will wi treat 91 cent cont 9 slimes sHines jit nt a 1 profit It will wl mean great things ll for Utah Idaho Maho and Nevada Ne ada making ery profitable as It must the working If f many low grade propositions which iff ire tre now re regarded as entirely out of or hc he reckoning reckoning as |
