Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-12
PELATAN.cLERIcI PROCESS.
lhis Method Of Treating Gold Ores
Coming 10 ahe Front.

lhis Method of Treating Gold Ores
Coming TO the Front.
The Peiatan- Clerici process for thu
| treatment Of gold ores 10 at presen
demanding considerable attention
rom mining men throughout the
country. IL Idaho the process lie IL
use at five different properties AMI tn.
=! results are highly salts actory, Will,
in our own State tests OF highly re.
fractory ores have been msde with
equally satisfactory results. For in
| stance test made with ore from the
Mercur mine, which contains about 25
per cent OF arsenic anu has value oil
S32 to the ton, the savit & by the Pels.
| tai -Clerici process wss 80 per cent.
fhen again On ore from the Northern
Light, valued at Sl9 30, the saving
was So Ter cent despile It's being q ell.
YER, lead add arsenic proposition. In
the Silver City and DeLsniar districts
OF ILah0 the saving ny the process In
question 10 about SO per cent, the ores
u the,e campo b.iug q quartz and tale
with gold anu silver.
For the pr, Gers. which 10 COMPARE.
lively q new one in this western c0u n
try, II 10 claimed to be quite as simple
AS the pan ainAlg smati0n. or even as
the ordinary stamp milling, since 1t is
com p)etei ny single operation in n
pan Or tank, aud the precious metals
are recovered as Anan lgam. The time
required Tor working out q charge
v4.iss from six 10 twelve hours, Will.
It Ia Otherw Lee with the oruipafy Cyan.
idirg prOcssseu whicn include p,icJlA.
Il II aud teaching Of the SOLUTION,
which operation under the most iRv0r.
able conditions requires q few days.
The Pelatan. u erioi process claims 10
avoid Nil the q ifficulties and q mpl.ca.
tIuns connected with the leschink q
and warnings Of the tailihgs, the re-
covery OF the gold aud silver IN the
soiui.oLs, anu the presence u laser
metals. When The ore has boz u
allowed to remain sufficiently
,org In The vat under the combined
IL fluence OF the stirIer and ihe
electric current, the gold anu
SILVER are deposited as an amalgam
al the bottom. The solution and the
ore are then removed through an open.
ing a. the button and the vat 10 ready
10 receive another charge Ut ore. Tue
waste quld anu tie ore are allowed t.
ettle Ia. u tank below the vals, aud
aiief short time about tw0.thirds OF
The liquiu are separated by simple de
cantaliOn, or II desired, by drain age.
This naturally only In case The waters
supply sh0uiu be- scarce. Even II this
lquiu lie not clear, anu contains very
hae suspended substances, it 10 said
that that dUes not uetract from Its fur
,her use, ~ with other PROCESSES, rs enc
VI the features OF the Pslatan.C lsrici IL
precisely that it works even better vii b
very due shines than with any other
coATser stuff.
Tue working cost OF the Peiatan.
Cisrici process 10 said to be lees than
that OF other, In that the crushing oil
ore 10 uons R~ ny with, tue cost vestiug
mainly In that OF tue chemicals ussu
In the solution; the motive power for
generating the electric current anu
stirring the sluuge or pulp and the
labor, repAirs, Interest on capl, ! ana
Depreciation.
The process 10 owned and operated
by the General GoIu Extracting com.
pany, limited OF Dsnvei, Colorado,
ana from present Indications II woull
appear that before long the PelA an.
Cisricl will be isund In Mercuf, Treat.
log the very refrR ct0ry ores OF that
splendid minerai-b caring country.