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W rs r S iy t Y 1 b GENERAL VIEW OF CO COMBINED METALS REDUCTION CO COMPANY BAUER UTAH COMBINED METALS REDUCTION CO Few mining enterprises anywhere possess more interest than that of the Combined Metals Reduction company company company com com- pany at Bauer 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 without roasting or smelting smelting smelting smelt smelt- ing and return to the miner ten times the revenue from complex ores re received received received re- re in the old days Nor is this the only significant feature ea ure The Combined Metals enterprise represents represents represents the first entry of the National Lead company compan into Utah and intermountain inter- inter intermountain intermountain mountain mining The resources othis o othis oC this powerfully financed finance company ar arc enlisted in a venture to found an in industry industry industry in- in that will make profitable the exploitation of large reS reserves rv s 01 oi of mineral mineral mineral min min- eral not now amendable to treat treatment treatment treatment ment and push the pre present ent 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 o of f began in 1913 with but live five individuals E E. E W. W Clark E. E H. H Snyder Snyder der G G. G V. W. Snyder Frank Nichols and ver pounds of lead and 10 10 pounds of zinc What it means to the state and county can be estimated when it is known that the company is now producing each month of metal and employing employing employ employ- ing an average of men who are paid an aggregate of approximately annually But the importance of the Combined t. t i r. r t fN f N 3 Flotation Plant Combined Metals Reduction Company tion that sixty-seven sixty per cent of the total content of the ore is sulphide The Greenwood d 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 lend 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 Villard W. W F. F Snyder and Sons and Frank Frnnk Nichols was organized to block out the ore- ore body and develop suitable metallurgy By 1923 this work had progressed to the point that the National Lead company compan was induced to take part in inthe inthe inthe the development of the patents and the Combined Metals Reduction company company company com com- pany owned jointly b by the National Lead company and the Combined Metals Inc came into being From the laboratory stage the process evolved to the pilot plant stage Construction Construction Construction Con Con- of the present mill was begun begun begun be be- gun in December 1923 and treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment of ores by the flo flotation process started in May 1924 making the Combined Metals' Metals plant the first selective selective selective se se- flotation mill in Utah How rapidly the Bauer industry has grown and how well it has prospered may be judged by the fact that during 1925 the company produced 1686 ounces of gold ounces of sil- sil 3 k v aATI N fo rr Ni N t tIN Tir IN 19 6 OUT T of 0 TO Tt CR cats f OF or Co fine X a OfU ti ONLY OH TH TY fo GD O TO TD AND ao FOR roK TO 7 f NT t AND ON FlOrl PULLS Our 7 N CR S FO FOR THE f tJ J I lA 5 t ArM C j T TIO J M t M J N C P 93 IN r ot T of or fORTY SAKS S OF EY x axes OW FLOTAT OI p NG WILl v PULL our ra FOR PoR TN THC Y V r What Scientific Tr Treatment of Complex Ores Has Done for the Miner Harry Cushing Gushing who organized the Greenwood Leasing company This partnership acquired a lease on the Combined mine at Pioche Nevada and opened up what has developed into into into in in- in- in to one of the largest zinc-lead zinc ore bodies in the west a deposit 1000 feet long on its dip f feet t wide 15 feet thick with a gross value of 40 a ton So intense has been the v pd sr to r Ord S PR r. TO serene BETOR TN rr N Of iN fR A r re et Ui TA MA OUT COT OF Cf fORTY ORTt OF OT X exes THIRTY NINE Hint WENT lI foR foRNO iS TN TH fHt Mt fJ S IN N ONE CAR RNO RHO NO TO Wrt AND NO TH TN THE ONLY ON GOT OT WITH roTH fOR OR HIS H Metals' Metals enterprise is even more vital to the miner Before the company worked out its present processes out of 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 ninety cents the miner had to pay his mining mining min mining min min- ing costs Today under improved methods of treatment the miner receives receives receives re re- re- re ten times as much or approximately approximately approximately 25 per cent or out o oan of f an ore with a gross value of 40 However the company is not content s d f fG G 7 y wI Y fy r f k S y w y a S yo 4 I iC iq i 9 C y r q 9 Ti 9 G I. I M. M no n. n i 0 1 Lead Ore in No 1 l Lease Honerine Mine k r with this improvement b but t has its metallurgists constantly experimenting experiment experiment- ing in or order er that the mar margin in of profit to the miner may be further aug aug- Did space permit the telling of the whole story of the steps steps' whereby or oris ore is converted by the Combined Metals process direct into pure silver or lead leadin in the same plant without roasting or smelt smelting ng and all the intricate changes explained a romance based on scientific data and as enthralling as any ever written out of sheer fancy would result But suffice it to say that the crude ore is ground ninety per cent to minus mesh and leached in a hot acid brine Cooling Cooling Cooling Cool Cool- ing of the hot acid salt solution containing containing containing con con- the mineral values precipitates precipitates precipitates tates the metal and without roasting or chemical or electrical precipitation a high-grade high product is made Fully as daring and as well con an undertaking fully as illustrative illustrative illustrative illus illus- of modern mining methods as the company's pioneering into new metallurgical fields is the reopening g of the old Honorine mine by the Combined Combined Combined Com Com- Metals This mine had long longa a ago o been given iven up as worked out Now officials of the company in view of recent discoveries and present production production production pro pro- averaging fifty tons of mill 01 ore e and five eighty-five tons tens of shipping ore dail daily believe that but a small part of the mines mine's real potentiality has been 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 certain tain that the mine is entering upon a second and probably more productive productive productive tive era than that of the past when or more were m mined ned The company also plans to build buildup up an important product by-product business It makes its own hydrochloric acid for leaching by a standard process from salt taken from Great Salt lake Anhydrous Anh Anhydrous An An- h hydrous drous sodium sulphate used in the manufacture of glass paper and conditioning conditioning conditioning con con- powders for stock is also manufactured Twenty tons of concentrated concentrated concentrated con con- hydrochloric acid can be produced daily and seven tons of anhydrous anhydrous anhydrous an an- hydrous sodium sulphate Operations at the Bauer plant are favored by situation Water Vater for all purposes is abundant Common point freight rates help to reduce costs Supplies used in the various processes salt salt acid coal and limestone limestone can an 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 what should ultimately develop into one of the states state's largest metal manufacturing enterprises Results Results Results Re Re- of operations have been een so favorable favorable that the company compan- is planning an expansion program to take care of I ores other than those from its own i mines In solving the metallurgy of I Ithe 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 j t fl f r r. r y W i I. I r I i h f 1 0 h 4 t i r l I Leaching and Refining Plant Combined Metals L Reduction Company I I r H i J v 1 tf J r r r x e. e Bauer Orchard of the Combined Metals Reduction Company I Figure in the extreme left of th the picture is Charlie Chaplin Chaplin- 1 |