The border vidette., 1928-01-14
WORK BEGUN ON SAHUARlTA
CONCENTRATION

"A WClCOu0 duu COuSVIuCttVc
announcement for the New Year
to the people of Southern Ari-
zona in mining circles, and par
ticularly those of Santa Cruz
and Pima counties, has recently
been made by the Minerals &
| Metals Corporation. which is
now laying the concrete founda
tions for it's new custom concen
traitor for complex ores at Sa
huarita station on the Southern
! Pacific railroad between Tucson
and Nogales, says the Patagonian
| The complete mill, which is
entirely of steel construction,
electrically driven, aud includ-
ing the last word in selective
| 1otation equipment, has been
fabricated and assembled at the
plant of the Southwestern Engi
neering Corporation at Los An.
geles and now awaits shipment
to the site as soon as the founda
tions are completed. Many tests
have already been made on typi
cal milling ores occurring in this
| section, including those from the
| Hemet Peak mine at Olive camp
1 and the old Ridley mine near
Helvetia. The results were en-.
tirely satisfactory and showed
high satisfactions, according to
/ representatives of the company.
These tests included only sui
phide ores, for which the mill is
| designed, and the separation of
the zinc from the lead, copper
and silver minerals was so com
plete that payment for the zinc
contents can be expected by
those consigning their ores to
the Sahuarita mill for purchase.
Formerly shippers we're penal.
| lied or else received no pay
ment for their zinc if shipped to
the lead or copper smelters, and
usually this class OF complex
ore did not have sufficient value
in other metals to stand the haul
to q distant reduction plant.
/ FL. @. Hammond of Tucson is
manager of the Sahuarita enter.
prise, other officials being Floyd
Fisher, president, and F.Lincoln
Dean of Hollywood. Calf.
| The company has secured the
services, as mill superintendent,
of G. e. Corbus. formerly with
the Ray Consolidated Copper
Company. who has just left the
employ of the Southwestern En-.
gineering Company to accept
this opening. At the South
western, Corbus was in charge
of their ore testing and flotation
department for some time. The
appointment assures for the new
mill an operating supervision
an6 efficiency of the highest de-
gree.
The concentrator is being built
on the railroad right of way, un
der a ground lease from the S.
! P. company. adjoining the spur
and ore-loading platform at the
Sahuarita depot. The Twin
Buttes railroad also connects at
| Sahuarita. thus making possible
the movement of ore by rail
from mines within it's influence.
| All truck shipments will arrive
at the mill over the Tucson-No-
gales highway, which passes di.
rectly by it. This central loca.
ton, with the railroad facilities
at Sahuarita, were the para.
mount factors in locating the
milling plant there, and should
| lessen the shipment charges on
ore lots by rail or truck from the
mines in the Patagonia and No
gales districts, as we'll as from
all points along the Santa Cruz
basin and in the vicinity of Tue.
son.
The company states they are
now in the market for sulphide
ores of lead, silver. copper" zinc
and molly bdenum for early de-
livery to Sahuarita, and state
that they also are buyers of
tungsten, vanadium, antimony
and manganese. No consign.
ments should be made. however,
without first communicating with
the company.
1t is expected that the mill
will be in operation about Janu.
ary 20. with a capacity of ap.
proximately 35 tons of ore daily.
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