The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-05-05
ZINC MINING.
Wonderful Increase In the Demand for
This Metal for Commercial and
Scientific Purposes.

The profits in zinc mining are
something enormous. The demand
grows constantly stronger, and the
price consequently increases. There
is not that uncertainty attached to
zine mining which is always present
in the mining ofthe so-called precious
metals. Veins OF zinc are not only
much larger than those of gold and
silver, but they are permanent and
not subject to rapid fluctuations,
and they increase in value as they
increase in depth.
1t is well-known fact in financial
circles that dividends aud values in
successful zinc mines are certain to
increase from year to year. The
presence of zinc and the amount of
the deposit are indicated by signs
which are unmistakable to the expe-
rienced miner. Vast fortunes have
been made in zine mining, but it is
safe to say that the money that is
to be made in the near future will be
without precedent.
i Next to iron, zinc is the most wide
~ used and most valuable metal,
from a commercial standpoint. If
there were no zine there could be no
brass, as brass is merely combina-
ton OF zine and copper. Everybody
knows how universally brass is used,
and how necessary it is:
Electricity has come to be an abso-
lutte necessity in almost every branch
of industry. In every electric battery
in the world zine is necessary, as it
is the only purely negative metal
known.
What is wrongly called galvanized
iron. steel, wire and pipe is simply
metal treated to a coating of zinc.
Zinc is the chief metal used in making
bronze, and the demand in that di-
rection is, of course, large. 1t is also
coming into extensive use tor tomb
stones, particularly for use in tropi-
cal countries, where the climate is
fatal to marble and granite.
Zinc is used in enormous quantities
in place of white lead as a base for
paint. The demand in this direction
is so great that it slowly but con-
stantly increases the price OF zinc.
Zinc is simply invaluable for roof
ing, spouting and guttering, as well
as for step and sidewalk covering,
1t is also used as hux in smelling
| gold and silver ores, as well as in
the cyanide processes and in the
manufacture of babbitt or white
metal. Zine is also used for photo
engraving purposes and in the
science of medicine is to be found in
the following forms: Bromide of
zinc, zinc acetate, zinc carbonate,
zinc chloride, zinc iodide, zinc oxide,
zinc phosphide, zinc sulphate and
other preparations.
The demand for zinc is growing
stronger every day, as the industries
and arts in which it is used are mod
ern and progressive and widening
in extent very rapidly. The only
variation in the price of zinc is a
steady increase, for the reasons that
mines which yield zinc in anything
approaching pure ore are very rare,
and the cost of producing where it
is found in a limited combination
with other minerals or matter hav-
ing no commercial value is very
large.
Another reason why the price of
zinc constantly increases is that it
is volatile metal Other metals
cannot be destroyed. If you melt
them, they return to their former
condition when cool. This is not the
case with zinc. 1t wears out, and
disappears when melted. For this
reason we have to depend upon the
zinc output from year to year to
supply the acknowledgement II.
Congdon in the Successful American.