Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-07 | Page 10 | $3,000,000 Mill for Anacondda Tailings

oo $3,000,000 MILL FOR ANACONDDA TAILINGS The Anaconda Copper compan Is to build a new $3,000,000 reduction plant Plans and specifications arc-said arc-said to have been drawn and approved and construction is to be started in February. This mill will be constructed construct-ed ofr the purpose of treating the tailings tail-ings and the initial plant will have a capacity of 2000 tons daily. Additions Ad-ditions are to be made to this later on until the plant is placed in shape to handle 12,500 tons daily. This company has a large dump, the accumulation of ears past, and an eighty-ton leaching plant has conducted conduct-ed successful experiments in the treatment of this product during the past year. A slime plant is now under un-der construction for the purpose of m.iLincr a recovery of eerv narticle of the precious metal that is known to science. An appropriation of $650,-000 $650,-000 has been made for this slimes plant, which will have a capacity of 2000 tons daily and will handle all the slimes that are now igolng to the settling pond. The new leeching plant is to be situated sit-uated immediately east of the present concentrator The tailings now contain con-tain an average of twehe pounds of copper to the ton. but le6s than two pounds will escape the improved methods. oo