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Show Ohio Copper Mine Pre-cipitation Pre-cipitation Interests Utahns ? A representative gathering of . , Utah's business and mining men visited the Ohio Copper Com- v ' pany's precipitating plant last f Thursday. I On arrival at the mine at 9: ' 30 an inspection of the surface I of the Ohio Copper company's estate lying directly across i Bingham canyon from the Utah I ' Copper mine was made to see I the fractured condition of the ground as a result of the caving y ' method of mining operations be-f be-f ing practiced by the company I for several years when it was f mining ore and treating it in 1 its mill at Lark. I From the. surface the trip I was made down the Ohio Cop- per shaft to the 750 level. Here I a sight (unique even to those I " familiar with the phenomenous f of undergrotmdoperations will f . be seen. The process of oxidant oxida-nt tion at this depth is so intense as to cover the roofs, walls and floors of headings with the az-urite az-urite and malachite hues of copper cop-per sulphide formations. Next the . launder system, where the copper water leaching leach-ing down from the surface ap-. ap-. proximately 1100 feet vertical- ly above is caught and the red metal precipitated was visited on the Mascotte tunnel level. i |