Show r ING ALUMINUM FROM a ALUNITE ORE new process of pennsylvania I 1 chemist important for our deposits news reaches here from lewisburg pennsylvania in a dispatch of the associated press that S C ogburn jr professor of chemistry at bucknell university has worked out a new way of producing alami aluminum n uni from alunite ore in vi view ew of the enormous deposits of alunite in the southern part 0 of f our county and the northern part of piute diute county professor Pio fessor ogburns Og burns in invention might be of gleat importance to the development of our deposits deoit p ait oit aluminum owes ones its commercial existence to charles martin hall who at 24 learned how to produce it cheaply from bauxite that was in 1884 a few years after aluminum had been a laboratory curiosity costing a pound professor ogburn has developed d a method of extracting aluminum from alunite a natural alum stone found in in a pure state in utah nevada and colorado his process crushes the stone puts it through a furnace pulverizes the mixture and finally obtains not only aluminum but also products byproducts by of sulphuric acid and potassium salts now professor ogburn is trying to determine costs of commercial production by his method |