Bingham News | 1923-08-11 | Page 6 | Sources of Arsenic

Sources ef Arsenic. The most Important sources of the world's supply of arsenic are the silver sil-ver mines of Saxony, the 41a and pyrlte mines of England and the mlsplckel (arsenical pyrites) mines of Spain and the province of Ontario, Canada. The Canadian mlsplckel contains gold. Germany, In normal times, produces the greatest quantity of metallic and white arseslc, England, which led the world's production In 1912, having fallen behind. It is estimated that the United States consumes about half of the entire production of metnlllc, white, red and yellow arsenic, The yellow arsenic Is known as orplment. In the arts arsenic Is used in pyrotechny and In the manufacture of shot, as well as for medicine and the making of fly-powders.