The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-06
ARSENIC PRODUCTION
AMOUNT TURNED OUT IN THE
UNITED STATES IN 1904.
Commercially Important Deposits Of
Bearing Minerals Are Few in
in Number Through
out the World.

arsenic, without which the arts could
hardly do business. AS paris green it
figures in some of our most aesthetic
wallpapers and crates an uplifting if
not sanitary atmosphere The colors
possessed by certain arsenic salts are
beautiful and peculiar, but the highly
poisonous nature of all the compounds
of this element greatly restrict their
use as dyestuffs and pigments. AS
vermicides preservatives, and NOR
dants, several arsenic salts find wide
employment, while the oxide is an in
sredient of certain high-grade en-
amels and glassware To many
people, therefore, it will be matter of
interest that the production in the
United States during 1904 of arsenious
oxide, the simple "arsenic'' of COM
merce, was only 26 short tons Alb
pounds. This fact is conveyed to the
public by DR.. Edmund Otis Hovey in
a paper entitled "The Production of
Arsenic in 1904" which is published by
the United States geological survey as
an extract from the forthcoming VOL
ume Mineral Resources of the United
States, 1904
This small production which had a
value of $2,185 is considerably less
than the production of 1903, which
amounted to 554 short tons, valued at
1861, and much less than that of
1902, which was 1926 short tons, valued
at $81 $50. This marked decrease was
due to the fact that the works of the
American Smelling and Refining COM
pany, at Everett, Wash, were not oper-
ating on arsenical ores during 1904
The works are reported to be in opera
ton at present, and an increased pro-
duction may be expected in the near
future.
The United States Arsenic Mines
company, of Pittsburg, Pa, began
the production of refined material
in September, 1904, from it's mines,
which are at Rewald, Floyd county, Va.
The Mineral Creek Mining & Smelt-
ing company was mining realgar and
other arsenic ores at Mineral, Lewis
county, Wash, during 1904, and it is
o~>IOONSA
produced there during 1905. Several
of the great smelters of the country are
reported to be preparing to save arsenic
al fumes from. their furnaces. If this
be true, there will soon be rapid increase
in the domestic production of this impor-
tant mineral substance.
misunderstanding minerals are known
to occur in many localities throughout
the world, but commercially important
deposits are few in number. The princi-
pal present sources of the worlds sup
ply of arsenic and it's compounds are
Germany, Great Britain, Spain and Port
ugal, while small quantities are pro-
duced from mines in the United States,
Turkey, Italy and Japan. During 1904
there was imported into the United
States 6,800,235 pounds of arsenic and
arsenic compounds, valued at $243, $3.50.
1t is interesting to note that no white
arsenic was produced in Ontario during
1904. The only producer in previous
years was the Deloro mine, Tasting
county, and this mine has been closed for
more than year on account of strong
How OF water encountered in the 5OO-foot
level. Operations will probably begin
here again in the near future. Some
mispickel concentrates were produced
IN the treatment of gold ores at the At
las arsenic plant, which adjoins the
Deloro, but these concentrates were not
roasted. The new arsenic districts of
the province which are now being de-
veloped are situated in the vicinity of
Lake Temagami and near Cobalt sta
ton on the line of the new government
railway, the Temiskaming & Northern
ontario. Lake Temagami lies a little
over 300 miles north of Toronto by rail
and Cobalt station is about 25 miles far
Their north.