The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02
OA1MAN BUILDS
MILLING PLANTS
THREE COMPANIES WILL BE.
EQUIPPED TO TREAT
LARGE PRODUCTION

OATMAN. Ariz., Nov. 22.-Three
of the most advanced and modern
gold reducing and extracting plants
il the world are being Constructed
or will soon be under way in the
Oatman district. These mills will
embody every late device and pro
cess for the treatment cf the ores
OF the Oatman district and will
have a combined capacity of from
1900 to 1900 tons of rock daily.
The United Eastern mill is prac-
tically completed, and will be grind
ing within the next 80 days, having
a daily capacity of 400 tons. This
mill was designed under the direc-
ton of mining experts, including
d.. C. lacking, a director of the
Fred A. Keith and Seeley
W. Mudd of Los Angeles who are
also officers and directors of the
and Otto Wartonweiler OF
Los Angeles.
Crushing of the ore will be con-
Quoted by both the ball and peDple
mill process, while the counter cur
rent decantation system of cyanldlnS
will be used. The ores of the CAT
mar district are all OF the Tree
milling type so that the problems
presented to the mill designer are
comparatively simple, the chief ques-
ton being to reduce the costs So
that comparatively low-grade ores
can be utilized.
A total mining and milling cost
of SO per ton is predicted when the
three new mills are in operation
Tho machinery for the United EAST
e,n is all in place and was turned
over to the new owners NOV. d.
AT the time of the annual meetihs
of the company.
The other two mills are being de-
signed for the Tom Reed Gold Mines
company and the Big Jim Gold NJ H.
inc all located on the same
general lode system. The new Tom
Reed mill will have a daily capacity
OF 500 tons and the Big jim mill
either 400 or 500 tons.
The new Tom Reed mill will be
located just below the Aztec SHAFT,
where an body of ore IS
row being opened up, estimated to
be from two to five times as great
in extent and value as the original
Tom Reed deposit, which yieldd
more than $6,00O,0O0. This de-
post is now being explored by sink
ing a shaft to the SOO-foot lever
dnow down 500 feet) and by DRIFT
ing on the 40O-foot level. 1t is 80
feet wide, 1000 feet long and aver
ages in value from SIS to $40 in
gold per ton.
Orders have already beer placed
for the electrical equipment ana
some of the machinery, as from
five to seven months time is neces-
sary before deliveries can be made.
The general plans and speciflca-
lions of the Big Jim mill are com
pleted, but before the type OF ma
chinery is decided upon anage
A. C. Kaeting will spend a month
or more studying the latest methods
being used in gold and copper plants
throughout the country. me BIS
Jim mill will be located Just west
of the working shaft of the COM
pany, and it is the aim OF the
MANAGEMENT to have this pronoun-
ced the last word in gold milling
practice in America.
With these three mills reduclhg
1900 tons of ore daily, the output
Of gold bullion should be $50
600 worth every "a hours, or near
Nv a million a month from these
three properties alone. This is the
production estimated by the man
aeements of the three companies,
based upon accurate knowledge OF
what their ore runs.
Milling ore by an entirely new
process is being done at the Cola
Dust plant. This process consists
OF a rotary pulverizer and a centrl-
fugal separator, a combination which
II is claimed, will reduce milling
and extraction to 81 per ton. III
this is achieved it will mean that
riany properties~in~th the Oatman as
trict having r serves of low-grade
ore will be able to mill 1t Mt d
good profit, which has not been
possible with cost of mining ana
milling from So to $40 per ton