The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-11
MILL Shows
Up BETTER Than EVER

sJut been scraping some more dividends off the battery pateso, said
Superintendent Barton of the Florence mill, as he struggled with a pan cn
tanning m go pounds of amalgam that he vas trying to put tin the I'M u
occupied compartment of a safe. See all thatf" he continued, pointing to
several like pans. That's from a two weeks rum The pan of ama!gam
per lent god-and retorth figures showed hat this as bot ma the am'-
gam such as was being slowed in the safe as worth, as it had been squeez
ed" until n o nor mercury would drip from it.
For son time the IL amalgama:ion tables in the Florence mill have been
''blanketed" and used merely as rough concentration tables When Mr.. Bar
ton took charge of the mill ON three weeks ago he promptly resumed the
amalgamation process, and the results have gone beyond his most anguine g X
pectations. Seven of the tables are working now, and the blankets will be
taken off the other tables as oon as the concentration and cyanide depart
ments are adjusted to the order of things-that is, this feed adjusted 80
as to secure the highest result.
"This is al ideal amalgamation ore,, said Superintendent Barton :" The
gold is fine, and is quickly taken up IN the plates. We are saving 40 per
cen If the value of the ore Oh the plates w. Heretofore, this has all gone
into the concentrates, which have hold so per cent of the values of the ore.
that it costs much money to ship them m have them reduced at a smster
We will retmt the amalgam here, turning 40 per cent of the total value, that
has heretofore been shipped away, into bullion right here at tn MILL ms
bullion will lot only bring higher prices than the III ITO" ne concen
but W are rid Of the great expense of handling such a bulk of cn
1t will mean a saving of some thousands of dollars per month to TN
Florence company.
cyanide department something tt do Now that amalgamation has been start
ed, the cyanide tanks are getting Lat $50 values. We are cutting the concen-
fner,a and will run the cyanide feed up to about So, this being tn
point of highest efficiency. And IL will take but very few days To get the
feed adjustments made"
General Manager Lawrence vas authority for the statement that the
E1orence mill is getting a lew record for itself now, and stated that despite
the CHARGES mad by certainN New York interests that the Florence mill is a
patchwork affair, and that patching is still in progress, the mill is complete In
every respect and 'no more ew equipment will be purchased or I'M mn
untI il hal paid man dividends. The mill record or the past ten months
shows a actual extraction of 50 to "a per cent, and now we arr raising ven
ehat to som extent. Operating expenses have been cut down very materially,
the ore reserves in the mine are larger than It any previous time IN INT ms
tory If the property, and the dividends that all 81 regularly turned tut VIII
be thu best answer to the interests that have been consistently hammH1ng
MI Lawrence is gradually getting the old lease workings IN the estate
.onnecte with the main workings of the Florence. Some attention is be.
;no given % proving u veins exposed by the leasers, but SO far tut little
ore has been taken from any of them, development work in the main work
nos constantly opening vi e ore for milling. The mill is steadily hanf
limo = close to 100 tons If ore per day, with the tonnage slowly increasing. a
constant mill head Of between $5 and $50 per ton is being maintained.