The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-07
4 LARGEST IN The STATE.
Cyanide Plant to BE Erected at Gilt
Edge Description OF the Works.

Cyanide Plant to BE Erected at Gilt
Edge Description OF the Works.
Great Falls, FEB. 6.-The manage
ment of the Great Northern Mining &
Development company at Gilt Edge has
been fortunate in getting the larger
part of the material for the new mill
on the ground before the blizzard
blocked the roads between Arlington,
which is the railroad point, and its site
AS planned. il will be the largest
cyanide process gold mill in the state,
and will undoubtedly add largely to
the wealth of Fergus county during
the coming years. A. r. Ledoux of
New York is the president of the COM
pany and E. w. King, formerly of this
city, general manager.
The tank floor is 32x1SO feet, machin-
cry building and engine room 56xS4 feet,
zinc and cutting down room 32x44 feet.
solution room 1ex3O feet, main ore bin
19X33 feet. 26 feet high and ground ore
bin capacity of 100 tons.
There are six teaching tanks, each 2S
feet in diameter and three feet high,
made of one-quarter-inch steel; two
solution tanks IL feet in diameter and
diameter and four feet high; one water
tank 20 feet in diameter and - feet
high.
The motive power is furnished by a
125-horse power Corliss engine and two
65-horse power boilers furnish the
steam. A three-drill Rand air COM
pressor will be used in the mine and
electric lights in both mill and mine
The ore from, the mine will be con-
veyed in the car to the large ore bin,
where one man will be employed to
regulate it's fan on to belt conveyor
which will carry it to a No. 5 Gates
rock breaker and thence to the Allis
ore dryer, where all the moisture will
be taken out Of it. From thence the
ore will be elevated to the screens and
all that goes through the screens will
be again elevated to the ground ore bin
over the tanks What does not go
through the screen will be discharged
into two Gates improved rolls, where
it will be crushed and from thence
carried back to the screens again. the
same process icing repeated until all
the ore is in the ground ore bin. Only
one man will be required to handle the
ore from the bin, where the miners
have left it. until it has reached the
ground ore bin over the tanks.
The teaching tanks will be filled by a
two-ton car driven by a wire cable, SO
the time required in filing will be sho-s;.
After the ore has been leached the tail
ings will be dropped through an open
irg in The center of the tank irto 4
car and run out OH to the dump by IN
er f,less rore.
Mac l;ne-y WI! largely replace hand
labor in every department, and by this
means less thai Ealf the nump"r Of
men will be required to operate the mill
as were needed ct the old m u.
The intention of the company is to
drive a tunnel through the Chiekadee
mine a distance of about 1900 feet and
bring all the ore from the Peerless,
Storm King and other mines on the
other side of the hill through this tun-
mel to the mill Although the tunnel
will be very expensive it will effect
cheaper TRANSFORMATION for ore and will
also demonstrate whether the ore goes
down to any great depth. There are
several places in the mine where #
has been worked like a quarry, and for
over 80 feet in depth the ore has been
taken to the mill.