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Show BEGIN OPERATIONS AT MAGNA PLANT SALT LAKE. Nov. 11. The Magna j plant of the Utah Copper company has resumed flotation operations, ac- I cording to General Manager L. i. ICates, and ore Is being treated it the rale oi 1,000 tons dal'y. Ky the end of the month, it is expected that the I capacity will be brought up lo 2000 ' tons On July 1 work was begun by the pany to convert the Magna mill 'from a table concr titration to a flot-J alien plant. Thl.i necessitated the re-i i moval of the lurge number of vanncrs jnd their replacement l .?;irna type I Janney oil flotation machines. Xo-I Xo-I additional work had to be done in the ling department of the mill. In present practice the ore is put ; th rough rolls and tube mills, Garfield land Wllfley tables .r used in the concentration department. The mate-! mate-! iial containing mineral values not recovered by the concentration Is con-v con-v yi .1 lor treatment to the Janney flotation flo-tation cells. At present the Arthur mill Is treating treat-ing about 17,000 tons daily. bnnR-in bnnR-in the total tonnage now handb-ill by the company at both plants up to J 18,000 Ions. Before Lbe plant was converted to I I an oil flotation plant, it had an es-! Clmated capacity OI L'4,000 tons dally. The entire ore production of the com-1 pany D shipped over Its Dingham and! Garfield railroad to the two mills. |