| OCR Text |
Show Further Particulars As to the Proposed Ore-Treatment Plant For Milford It will be remembered that in the issue of the NEWS of August 25th, there appeared an article on the possible pos-sible establishment, near Milford, cf a plant for the treatmentof ore by a new process being promoted by D. S. Rob-bins, Rob-bins, a mining expert from New Mexico. Mex-ico. In that article, furLher particulars partic-ulars were promised, as to the profess itself, as well as concerning the plans of the promoters. The followioig letter just received from Mr. Robbins, will be of interest. Editor Beaver County News, Milfoid, Utah. Dear Sir; The item so kindly published in your issue of the 2(Sth insr. relative to our process of extracting direct, the metal content of "raw," ores, does not touch upon the phases of the process, nor our immediate intention in the way f operations. It Trill, no doubt, be of interest to your community for me to make a brief statement of the facts. The Process As is well known, metals are usually found in mechanical and chemical combinations with other elements and then variously tightly mixed through the rock formation, usually termed, ' gang." As an example, chalcocite or copper glance ore, consists of 'glance" and "gang." But th6 pure glance consists of sulphur, 20.23, and copper, 79.89i. What our process does is to reduce the metal content of the ore to a commercial product in the form of metal granules, which are then easily separated from the gang. These granules vary in size up to about one-half inch in diameter. The cost depends somewhat on the, location of the plant, but I should judge a plant in your locality could treat the ores at about one dollar per (Continued on page 10) |
