Improvements in the Disintegration of Quartz or similar Ores.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 27th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Disintegration of Quartz or similar Ores.
I, ADOLF GUTENSOHN of 90 Park Street, Limehouse, in the County of Middlesex,
Metallurgist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the treatment of quartz or similar gold
bearing ores where the same is hardened under the application of intense heat due
probably to the admixture of a considerable amount of clay or argillaceous earths
with the ore.
In such cases where I wish to apply intense heat and chilling by water to disrupt
and disintegrate the quartz I find such process can only be made effectual by the
addition of sulphate or bi-sulphate of soda to the chilling injection water or to the
water in a tank designed to receive and disintegrate the white hot quartz ore.
Or alternatively I may soak the ore in a solution of sulphate or bi-sulphate of soda
before treatment by heat in a retort or other furnace.
Under such treatment I find even argillaceous quartz ores are rendered readily
amenable to disintegrating treatment by alternative heating and chilling of
the ore.
Dated this 13th day of July 1896.
FELL & JAMES,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Disintegration of Quartz or similar Ores.
I, ADOLF GUTENSOHN of 90 Park Street, Limehouse, in the County of Middlesex,
Metallurgist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in the treatment of quartz or similar gold
bearing ores where the same is hardened under the application of intense heat due
probably to the admixture of a considerable amount of clay or argillaceous earths
with the ore.
In such cases where I wish to apply intense heat and chilling by water to disrupt
and disintegrate the quartz I find such process can only be made effectual by the
addition of sulphate or bi-sulphate of soda to the chilling injection water, or to the
water in a tank designed to receive and disintegrate the white-hot quartz ore.
Or alternatively I may soak the ore in a solution of sulphate or bi-sulphate of soda
before treatment by heat in a retort or other furnace.
Under such treatment I find even argillaceous quartz ores are rendered readily
amenable to disintegrating treatment by alternative heating and chilling of
the ore.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In a process for the disintegration of quartz or other similar ore by heat and
subsequent quenching, when the same is hardened by the action of heat, the treatment
of the said ore by the addition of sulphate or bi-sulphate of soda to the chilling
liquid, or by the preliminary soaking of the said ore in said solution before heating,
substantially as described.
Dated this
dor of February 1807
FELL & JAMES,
1 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.