| Show SCIENCE AIDS THE MINER klines buil ang U U A V A VIM Y IL eli ill Z X metallurgical 8 3 M V C ta gyte az wm A A gy by S F director utah engineering experiment station that the life mines and R REALIZING smelters shelters sm elters of utah not only provide employment for a large number ot of people but furnish lurnis li markets tor for supplies and equipment whose producers in turn are consumers of agricultural products d acts the utah legislature in 1913 established the department ot of mining anil and metallurgical research ol of the engineering experiment station at the university of 0 utah this has grown to be one of the outstanding institutions in its held field its staff consists of five men trained in metallurgical science a mechanic and a secretary its plant ot of research and chemical laboratories a machine shop and considerable scientific and engineering equi equipment Dment in cooperation with the united states of mines it has DuVIl published shed more than articles which are in demand throughout the united states and in most foreign boua aoun tries I 1 experience experienc has demonstrated that constant research 11 is necessary to improve our mineral products to find better and less expensive methods ot of making them to find new uses for them an to develop sources of 0 raw material flotation cr and grinding mine ventilation electro metallurgy m e t a 11 u r g y ore dressing microscopy and coal investigation vesti gation are among the things covered by flotation alove aloi i n the development ot of which the station has played an important part ori ore bodies in utah at one time considered worthless have become heavy producers eni employment has been provided tor for literally thousands ot of persons T the state and millions mill lond of dollars dol lira worth ot of business has resulted the microscope is proving exceedingly cee useful in helping to solve problems ln crushing and grinding flotation etc so beneficial were its accomplishments that seven large utah companies beg beginning nning in 1929 assisted for several years in maintaining a cooperative microscopic laboratory tit nt the station this has hag been taken over by the university and is still 91 alting ing essential service studies of utah coals have yielded much valuable information tor for the coal industries re research Larh la in smelting smelling sm elting lias has been very un to the local smelters shelters sm elters and work in progress in mine ventilation gives prom promise se of appreciably I 1 increasing ne easing efficiency and lowering bering C costs I 1 is meanwhile the study of funda mental principles is not overlooked discoveries in physics and chemistry the nature ot of which no man can predict now may be made with effects by giving fellowships and degrees in mining and metallurgy the university helps to carve careers tor for students and provide for or companies competent replacements and additions to their staffs although a large proportion of 0 the graduates of the station find employment in various mines and smelters shelters sm elters within the state former fellowship men can bo be found holding important positions in pr practically every mining region in the lite world industrial concerns and indita duals may use the tha facilities of the station it if such facilities ire are lacking else elsewhere here illa the state it if the worl work involves fundamental research likely to extend scientific linc knowledge or it if the results of 0 the work will v ill the mineral industries dus dust tries of the state in fit general routine essays assays analyses and ore tests which aich raould lie be in competition with private busias ss are not accepted the Stati cri I 1 s undertaken several important con commercial aal problems lems in ili ntina with various comp ora or 3 ot of these was the wAr extraction action of it sold gold from tile the tailing dumps at mercur utah preliminary to eya complex material was subjected to roasting first in ill small quantities and finally in ili the tha stations large rotary kiln with a capacity of one ton per hou silver ore from mexico submitted by the A S 11 smelter at el EI paso texas was also subjected ito to a series of tess in the large kiln under supervision ot of three metallurgists from the el paso plant many other big companies through throughout oat tile alia country have used the stations equipment to work out difficult problems though it does not do assaying tor for applicants the station makes tor for trae free of charge preliminary micros examinations of samples the tha only requirements for the free service are that the sample must weve originated in utah and bs bl accompanied by a description ot of the locality from which it came cama and of the aliz ch sacr cf the deposit the dita data thus obtained is in U be used ai a baags to tor a survey of at the mineral resources of the state the tree free microscopic mccra copac examination usually Is su to determine the principal in a sample and aind whether it is lilay likely to depre 11 value in this way pro pec tog tors very often arc saved the tha cost of ranted blind asray and in addition are often e enabled abbed to obtain important ini I 1 to io amston ton is rot of furnished aby i by a camia ch mia analysis |
