The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-04-16
VALUE SAVING
MINE MACHINE

.. has ever been tne cream OF Tue
noctor and miner that he might
r. m see process discovered
.'sough which for a small amount of
V he might build him a little
m Of his isolated holdings; reduce
-, ,a,ues to metallic form or a high
ID concentrate and ship to market
,r,,h the least possible profit to him.
80 legitimate human manufacturing
,ac,or in the creation of this new
.'oalth for the world. That happy
sav has come; the process perfected.
and a little five-ton plant is right now
demonstrating it every day at the
Cd. Lake Engineering works. Fourth
contb and sixth West, according to
q w Clapp and his associate. Col
caoree f. Cooke. who have construct
"a equipped and perfected the Clapp
process. 1t takes the crude ore and by
roasting and using certain cheap chem
,coIs turns off the waste and precipi-
totes and saves the metals separa ted
and in metallic form. or in a high class
concentrate This Is the first story
the world has had of this process which
has been through long and to'lsome
serjes of evovings, requiring the app
cation of twenty five years of the lives
o two men. Mr.. Clapp has spent the
mast seven years at it, In his tests Of
Yesterday, for instance, he put GER
tain kind of nickel ore through an ana
lvtical process thirteen times Each
time the chemicals were varied to Sc
cure a possible better recovery The
two crucibes with the best results were
marked good and their record Is pre-
served,
New Discovery
.This is absolutely a new discovery
in metallurgy," said Mr.. Clapp. Never
before was the chemist able to take
iron lead and copper ores mix them
grind them up and extract each metal
separate" Last year W. S. Butler chief
copper metallurgist of the United States
bureau of mines. was here and nvesti-
gated. He expressed establishment in
witnessing Mr.. Clapp make one of these
demonstrations. and in just twenty-five
minutes.
"There are billions of tons of ore in
Utah which with this process can be
made profitable continued the met
alurgist Take for instance the i'm
mense tonnages of the oxidized Gaping
which is being removed and dumped as
waste every day al Bingham. This ore
probably carries 1 to LIS per cent cop
per- The mills are handling only the
sulphides. Our process can treat oxi-
died Gaping rock successfully.
.Then there are the nickel deposits
Of Nevada, Oregon, North Dakota and
North Carolina. This carries from 4
to per cent We expect to have our
process working in all these districts.
ported all but 34S tons of the $4,000 tons
Of nickel used. we expect to be supply
ing that $4,000 tons from home mines
in less than five years.
High Recoveries
''The mill we have here win handle
In day one and one-half tons of nickel
ores, four tons of copper, three tons
Of fvon, silver and gold and five tons
Of lead ores. We claim to be able to
make extraction recoveries as follows:
Copper ores, SO to 1916 per cent; nickel
1915 per cent; silver. gold and antimony
pure; iron and lead, 967 to 1916 per cent
Our mill can be made any size, from
ten tons up to thousands of tons daily
lO0-ton plant will cost about $4,000
It can be worked either by the dry Of
wet separating process. So it can be sue
eessfully operated in sections far from
water 1t win use for fuel either wood
coal, gas or OIL
Colonel Cooke said yesterday; 1--WE
consider that we have worked out q
process that will revoutionize mining
In the western states. Few local peo'
pie seem interested, but they will prob
ably wake up when it is too late. =
Herald Republican, Salt Lake.