White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-07-06
KIMBERLY RECOMMENDED
AS SITE FOR SHELTER

Several months ago the News pub
ushed the result of the findings OF
Vice President Thomas A. Merritt OF
the Consolidated C~oppermines COM
pany, who visited the district with a
party OF stockholders, which findings
have been incorporated In President
Cotton's annual report 10 stockhold-
ers. President Cotton recommends
the early construction of the plant
and embodies in his report q report
of Frederick Laist, manager of the
Anaconda company's shelters and
concentration plants. who was en-
ployed by the Coppermines company
10 investigate the question OF treat
ing the Kimberly ores and study the
questions involved. In this report
Mr.. Laist recommends that the plant
be located at Kimberly and gives
figures and comparative costs Of
transportation and pumping to show
that this would be the most practical
and economical method Of operation.
At the time OF the recent visit to
Ely of Vice President Merritt and
other officials of the Consolidated
Coppermines company, while it was
a foregone conclusion that building
operations would be forthcoming,
nothing had been decided upon az to
Just where or when the smelling
plant would be erected. The loca-
ton was a matter left with the en-
gineers, and as announced in Presi-
dent Cotton's report Kimberly APP
pears TO be the site favored. Later
developments prompted the News In
forecasting In its edition of June Sth
an early date for the work of con-
struetion to be undertaken. and IL
now seems more certain thai this
assertion was correct.
The exploratory work and the es-
Inmates given out as to the ore re-
serve is practically the same as was
printed in the News of May 18th.
To handle these ores Mr.. Laist
recommends n concentration having a
capacity of 1000 tons of porphyry
ore and $50 tons of sulphide ore. and
In connection Herewith a power
plant capable of generating 5000
X. W. which would furnish sufficient
power for water supply. operating
concentration, smelling and mining
plants; also a reverberatory smelling
plant capable of smelling the On
c~entrates resulting from the above
ore as we'll as about $50 tons of oxi-
died ore per day.
The concentration plans call for two
sections, but so arranged and pro-
vided with spare grinding mills and
tlotation machines that breakdown
of n of these would not affect oper-
ations. Allowance Is made for flu
ture extensions to 5000 tons per day.
The crushing plant is recommended
to be capable OF handling 5000 tons
per eight hours. The smelling plant
will consist of a drying department
containing four 20-foot finch hearth
Anaconda Wedge roasting furnaces;
a smelling department containing
one 100 by 20-foot coal dust fired
reverberatory furnace, equipped with
Stirring waste neat boilers, and .
SSAtth& ato -
onv@rf..s department containing
two 12-foot diameter Great Falls
type %converters and stands.
Although no official information
has been given out as to the date
when work of construction Will be-
gin, the Coppermines company has
been busy In the past two weeks To-
eating claims in the vicinity OF its
holdings and buying other claims
that appear % have no greater value
than that OF space for dumping over