Show The Story of Gar Garfield field J 4 1 Lt Y s y J I I. I t s a 4 P y wr Y v I. I J. Here the liquid metal becomes solid as the final smelting process Is completed at Garfield Hot metal Is being poured from the converter and cast Into cakes of blister copper Eddora Note ii L lh the fifth of a tries of ot eight elaM titled The Tb Story of ot Garfield The final smelter process at Galfield 1 id is 1 that of ot withdrawing the molten metal from the converter and casting it Into cakes for tor ship ment moot to the refinery I These eakes cakes arg are huge oblong blocks known as blister copper weigh roughly pounds each Blister Copper opper Is a 98 98 89 per fent com fentI I pure product but must go through another process that is I called refining re re- fining lining before the red metal is finally Cnally I ready for tor the one and one articles arti arti- articles cles des that it is ie I made into in the tho fabricating plants I Behind that cake of ot blister cop I per Is the ator story of much additional Industry that la fa net necessary before its c casting ta Is possible Thum nr orf I two copper smelters h id Utah t l tUt e eone J Jone one at Garfield and one at Tooele I operated by the International Smelt ing and aud Refining Rf company While the Garfield plant treats primarily concentrates from the Utah Copper mills at l fa Masna Marna a and Arthur It also draws from virtually every western state Some are concentrates from ot jr milling plants while other are dl dl- rec ree smelting ores Then for tor use as a flux limesand is brought from froma troma a deposit along aUng tho lake 8 shore ore and siliceous orrs also needed d as flux are drawn from any western states Owing to the size of ot the Garfield operation the need for tor fluxing TO I H is great and Iud therefore a II U 1 for tor bw grade low grade oro ore Is la made available due 10 to the Hie low a smelting elting charge Much ore ure now leJ wo in the ground were it not for far the scope of at the tha plant In han handling the trie Utah Ulah Cop Copper r concen concen- concentrates concentrates traces alone the 1 plant smelts nearly one third of pC the nations nation's nations nation's na na- tion's lions production of ot copper The sixth article of this thle series aeries will be r published later In these t |