The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-03-25
BABBITT PLANT
MAKING HEADWAY
"MESABI sINTER" TRADE NAME
FOR BABBITT PRODUCT
1000 TONS A DAY.

"Mesabi Sinter" will be the trade
name of the product of the Mesabi
Iron Company, operating at Babbitt
and Clement X. Quinn & Co. of Dull
nth will be the exclusive sales agents,
says Skillings' Mining Review.
Production of Mesabi Sinter at the
new plant now under construction
at Babbitt will begin about June Is,
and it is expected that regular ship
ments will begin about July 1. The
initial unit of the Mesabi Iron Com
pany has capacity for turning out
1000 tons of sinter per day. The
product is obtained from the con-
centration of low grade magnetic.
The Mesabi Iron Company is ex-
pending upwards Of $4,000, 900 in the
installation of it's first unit for the
treatment commercially Of these east
ern Mesabi low grade iron ores, and
very naturally the enterprise is at
tracing widespread attention. The
success of the operation is generally
regarded as foregone conclusion.
The D. c. lacking and Hayden,
Stone & Co. interests expended $3.50,
600 in experiments before they decid-
ed to proceed with the investment of
millions, and they brought to the
undertaking successful experience in
the concentration of ores.
The fact that the production of
sinter on commercial basis is now
so near at hand on the Eastern
Mesabi is calculated to further i'm
press all parties interested with the
Importance of the enterprise to north
ern Minnesota. It's success means
that all of the low grade magnetic
of the eastern Mesaba, consisting of
billions of tons, at once becomes an
asset of Importance and that a more
or less exact knowledge of the value
is established.
It appears that all that is, now need
ed to make these ores of commercial
value is an opportunity for operators
to proceed under fair and reasonable
conditions, but the margin of profit,
as may be readily assumed, does not
anticipate hardships in the way of
taxes or other conditions calculated
to stifie an enterprise requiring large
sums to reclaim resource which, in
its normal state, is absolutely value
less.
The state of Minnesota already is
under great obligation to mining men
and interests which have been leaders
in the use of certain of the ores of
the state, and it will be under further
obligations in the case of the low
grade ores of the Mesabi range. A
group of men who, by scientific re-
search and experiment, and much
money, can at one stroke show the
way to make billions of tons of low
grade ore of commercial value are
surely entitled to much consideration.
1t is not sufficient to state that some
body else would have done much the
same thing in the course of time, or
that nobody would have done it unless
there were some profit to be had. Men
like lacking and Hayden, Stone & Co.
are never at a loss where to spend
money in experiment and develop
ment. The fact that they have come
to Minnesota, and have performed a
great service in the mining industry
should be viewed from the standpoint
of a business proposition. It will
mean to Minnesota the establishment
of a large enterprise which may be
described as the last word in con-
serving a natural resource.
The production sof sinter on the
Eastern Mesabi will be in progress
generations hence. The development
at Rabbit s,the second phase of the
concentration of iron ore in Mime