Gunnison news-champion., 1903-01-09
Trss FUTURE ~ ZINC

~ A M.HI W al# SCI tt-
daenE dstmrts q the State sre
.5..AauE { IraaFd a4tb Ereat iaiersa-i
90 ths ag-.rlng q she $50 zIue
su.aIter - Fuebls. lhs smelicr
vi hase aaly gaYa1Ey c.sasle oi
hauaIlng etsf taHs e z5ur He. aaa %
el Hat g. necessar1 fr zaE ~
m1ns ot she mluez g. o. Cmau-
fraiel 81 uuasr Er.seut C1HlItllus
o. All b. pa=slb.r O. shIF tHe crude
ore alfel..y ta the sme.ter md au
lumeu-e am8anf af the arr vill D.
rlaired fo keop the p.aE.s u gper
arau There are aIsa taa zur
-meIter. 81 Csuau Cits sud r9Haeu
trailug plants far seisrafuuz ths 1re
tr.m chez gangar are multT. T.ymg H
q raut rsmFs - the STATE Mining
meu saF the autI8ak f1r Ieatmeu
g Nuc IS she is-f Caiurada bas ever
ku0uu-
ZINC. wtiah Ser tl5ry-tse or
f1rtv years iu the history IT the
uiuIug devriopment q Ca.uad
sas regarded as aie ~ the usHr-
uGuutahle abstael les. is uaW coming
Co the tr1ai a. ONE 1f the best pay
az ores that can b. oPeued in shiP
aug quantities. Zane commands iu
the market about g per une hun
bred pounds At that rate It D.
yarth 300 ton. The course for
i've wears at some af the mines has
~en % concentrate the ore TO A.
sr cent and ship il b. Belgium for
reatmeut. The Santa r. road IL
r1W delivering 100 cars of Colorado
zInc a week at Galveston for ship
ment to the other side of the Allan
IC.
The eagerness Of the foreign mar
set to purchase the ore led TO many
Investigations and numerous long
ontiuued experiments for the pur-
pose of developing home treat
ment. Twenty years ago at the
State School of Mines the nnc prob
l-m was brought forward and Pro-
lessor Benz. Sadtler, then professor
IT metallurgy IN the school. became
became interested IN the subject. A
few years ago he invented a zinc
process which is being successfully
applied at Gas, a smelter town of
southeastern Kansas. Other Den
ver men have been equally assiduous
IN experiments and several zine pro-
cesses are said to be launched sue
cessfully.
Electricity has been applied in
separating the zinc from the lead
and difficulties which appeared in
superahls few years ago have been
wholly eliminated by the persever-
ance aud genius Of Colorado metal
lurgists.
All this means an immense in
crease In mining development of the
state. 1t means that whereas this
year the output of zinc 10 Colorado
will hardly exceed $1,000 900, next
year it Is estimated by conservative
mining men that the output will
reach s1O,000,000. During the year
the value of the zinc mined in Colo
RADIO will exceed the value of the
silver mined IN the state and silver
will drop to third place in the
tables.
As the daily capacity Of Colorado
plants next year will reach 100
tons Of zine ores daily. active deyel-
opmeEt work Is now IN progress
upon mines carrying pay percenta-
ges Of this much sought mineral.
An interesting fact Is that for
many years the penalty charged
mine owners by smelter men Of the
state for the presence Of zinc in the
ores ranged as high as SIS a ton.
making It impossible to snip many
ores to the smelter at a profit. With
the aid present improved separat-
ing processes the zinc can be sep
arated from the lead and other
metals at the mine and shipped as
an independent product whose value
may be greater than that Of the
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