Show go THE STORY OF TOOELE ie va 1 on the right is the new slag zinc fuming plant at tooele thoele an answer to the nations plea for more metal for the war program editors editor note this li is the fifth of a series irle of 0 eight articles titled the story ot of during the past sixty years the metal mining industry in utah has been successively forced to the production ot of lower grade ores due to the exhaustion ot of the more easily mined higher grade ores following this trend has been successively increasing costs inherent in deeper work with no increase in the market value tor for its products changes in mining methods milling practice S and smelting smelling sm elting practice havo have been ea necessary for survival at toofic the international smelting smelling Sm elting and refining company well aware ot of this from past experience Is constantly striving to improve Us its smelting smelling sm elting te practice testimony to this may be had from internationals latest addition to its tooele thoele works in 1911 1941 the company began the erection of 0 a slag zinc fuming plant designed primarily tor for the ot of thuu thousands sands of tons ot of slag which contained varying amounts ot of zinc which had been lost in the regular lead smelting smelling sm elting practice the plant was completed in 1941 at a cost ot of first tests lust just prior to pearl harbor proved to be successful the plant could not have been completed at a more opportune time as considerable consider abla concern was expressed when the war broke out over the increased amount of 0 zinc needed to keep pace with copper in the manufacture ot of brass tor for arni armament ament internationals slag zinc plant did much to alleviate what could have been a serious shortage in this strategic metal which forms about one third ot of the metal which goes to make up brass which has been so vital to the success ot of the war since its completion the tooele thoele slag plant has added nearly pounds ot of zinc per month to the zinc production ot of the nation moreover the plant has haa made possible the treatment of certain oxidized lead zine zinc ores which heretofore have laid dormant in the mines and the plant will probably open a new field to utah and western metal producers the sixth article in this series will appear soon in these thesa columns |