Mohave County miner. [volume], March 30, 1912, Image 4

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MOHAVE COUNTY MINER; KINGMAN, ARIZONA, MARCH 30, 1912.
The New Copper
Process At Butte.
A Butto dispatch says:--The elabor
ate plant of the Copper Extraction
Process Company, built at the Washoe
smelter of the Anaconda Copper Min
ing Company by A. C. Burrage and
associates, for the application of the
Bradley process in the extraction of
copper, gold and silver from the slimes
of the Washoe concentrator, is nearly
ready for operation, though there
have been some unexpected delays.
There are over a million tons of
these slimes piled up near the Washoe
smelter, and the pile is constantly ad
ded to although the Anaconda
is itself treating some of the stuff by
briquetting it as it comes from the
concentrator and treating it in the
blast furnaces. However, the furnaces
cannot keep up with the output of the
concentrator. The slimes carry about
1 1-4 per cent of copper and about a
dollar in gold and silver per ton of
slimes. By the Bradley process it is
expected to recover practically all of
the copper in the slimes.
The Copper Extraction Process Com
pany has a contract with the Anaconda
Company by which it pays a stated
sum per ton of slimes used. Another
system of recovering the metals from
the slimes, known as the Peck centri
fugal process, is also being tested at
the Washoe. ,
The Bradley plant has been built at
a cost of over 25'),000$, and has a capac
ity for treating over 250 tons of ma
terial per 24 hours, with part of it
capable of treating 500 tons per day.
The process which is the invention
of Charles S. Bradley, was developed
'in an experimental plant In Hayonne,
N. J. The invention claims an econom
ical method of dissolving the metals
in copper ores by the use of a chloride
compound as a carrier and transform
er by which means waste products are
made Insoluble and the metals taken
in solution are removed from the gan
gue and other constituents of the ore.
from which solution they are after
ward recovered.
In the actual operation of the pro
cess the ore containing a sulphide is
subjected to a carefully conducted
roasting operation in what is known
as an amphldizer, in which operation
the copper in the ore is roasted to a
sulphate and most of the iron is con
verted into ferric oxide. This step in
volves heating the finely crushed ore
in the amphldizer (which is a rotating
moasting furnace) to a temperature of
450 to 550 degrees C, air being blown
in theamphidizer to accelerate oxida
lion. The roasted ore is thon brought
into association with an excess, of cal
cium chloride solution In a reaction
drum which is maintained at a tem
perature of about 100 degrees C
Cupric chloride Is produced by the re
action between copper sulphate and
calcium-chloride, while any ferric sul
phate in the ore coming from the am
phldizer reacts with calcium-chloiide
to produce ferric chloride, which is
soluble. The calcium sulphate result
ing from both these reactions is of
course insoluble and is separated by
Alteration in the succeeding step. The
production of ferric chloride at the
point is advantageous in that it dis
solves any copper oxide, copper sul
phide or metallic copper which was
unaffected in the amphldizer, pro
ducing copper chloride, and this ferric
chloride also maintains the copper
chloride in the cupric state.
The patent specification states "any
gold or silver present in the solution
may be carried down during precipita
tion of the iron, aluminum and copper
and subsequently removed or separat
ed therefrom, in any preferred man
ner known to those skilled in this
art."
Gold and silver present in the ore is
brought Into solution by making all
the copper Into cupric chloride and
then adding a small amount of chlor
ine, chlorus or chloric compounds.
The chlorides of silver and gold being
soluble in calcium solutions, may after
wards be precipitated with the cop
per and subsequently separated.
After leaving the reaction drum the
mass of gangue, solutions and precipi
tates is subjected to filtration. The
solid matter forms a cake which con
sists of the gangue In the oro except a
small amount of Iron and alumina
which have been taken into solution
and tho calcium-sulphate precipitate
already mentioned. The solution com
prises a carrier in which have been
dissolved the metals to be recovered,
a small amount of iron and alumina
and any zinc, which may have been
in the ore; the arsenic will have been
separated by dltration as it has been
rendered insoluble. The solution is
then subjected, if necessary, to a
further oxidizing operation in order to
be sure that the metals are all com
bined at their highest valence.
The solution is then in condition for
treatment for separation of the metals
dissolved. The prec'pitation of iron
and alumina may be made by cupric
oxide, hydrate or calcium carbonate,
and as this precipitate will carry some
copper, it is returned to the amphl
dizer after having been removed from
the solution by Alteration. In the am
phid'zer the iron and alumina in the
precipitate are rendered insoluble,
while the copper is left iu a soluble
condition and can be recovered. The
solution from which the iron and
alumina have been removed and which
then contains the bulk of the copper
is run to a second tank in which cop
per is precipitated by carbonate of
lime as oxide of copper. This precipi
tate is filtered from the solution and
the copper is recovered by further
treatment such as by reduction in an
ordinary smelting furnace.
Zinc contained in the ore passes in
to the solution as chloride of zinc and
accumulates. It is therefore necessary
at stated times to run the solution or
part of it, after the final treatment
and before returning it to the reaction
drum, to a third precipitator in which
the zinc is precipitated by means of
burned lime. The regenerated solu
tion from which Vhe gangue and all
metallic compounds have been remov
ed and which contain calcium chloride,
is returned to the reaction drum for
the treatment of additional ore from
the amphidizer, thus completing the
circle.
"While the above description may
indicate a rather complicated process
the actual operation is comparatively
simple and involves novel features and
apparatus for the design and construe
lion of which the Inventor and his as
sociates deserve a great deal of
credit," says Arthur L. Walker (The
Engineering and Mining Journal),
professor of metallurgy in Columbia
Dniversity, in a recent article on the
Bradley process. "By this process it
is hoped to recover copper from
material which cannot be satisfactorily
treated in any other manner, and pos
sibly to even make a greater extrac
tion from certain ores than is now ac
complished by other processes. In
actual operation the regeneration of
the carrier solution is so complete,
there being practically no los. On
account of this a considerable excess
of calcium chloride solutions can be
used and by means of this excess
operators can bo conducted in a very
"lastic manner and the exact balance
required in the hydro-metallurgical
process as heretofore tried is not
absolutely necessary. The practically
complete chloridizing of the metals
takes place in a solution drum and not
in a preliminary roasting process, and
the reactions in this solution drum can
be simply and easily retrulated. The
results obtained by the plant in Ana
conda will be awaited with a great
deal of interest."
The Portland Mill.
It is predicted by Superintendent
Thomas Crowe of the Portland mill at
Cripple Creek that in March about
14,000 tons will be treated at the
Victor mill. Many additions are being
made from time to lime and new build
ings are being erected at the mill,
until now it covers the biggest portion
of the east slope of Battle mountain.
The slime tailings are being dumped
into Eclipse gulch.
There are 10 agitation tanks in the
mill no"-. Less than a month ago a
second tube mill was installed and the
sixth Portland filter, made by the
Colorado Iron Works, has been put in
the mill. There are 31 concentrating
tables, an increase of about eight since
the first 300-ton unit was installed. A
new Dorr thickener has been installed
and a house built for it. In two
months the mill will be just twice as
large as the original plant and will
have the capacity for treating twice as
much ore.
The sand tailings are dropped down
an 800-foot stope and used for stope
filing. The slime tailings are hauled
in cars to Eclipse gulch and there
dumped. The Portland metallurgists
have successfully solved the problem
of stacking the tailings, which has
been one of tiie obstacles in local mill
ing. Denver Mining Science.
Gold Mines in California.
A Jackson, Cal., The Lincoln Con
solidated Mining company, at the re
cent stockholders' meeting, decided to
take over the famous Wildman-Mah-oney
group of gold mines, in the Sutter
Creek district.
The Wildman-Mahoney has been
developed to a depth of 1,400 feet, by
the Wildman shaft, with two other
shafts on the group. There are also
three 40-stamp mills, which may be
still used to advantage. The property
has a credited productive record of
about 3,200,000$ and for several years
ranked among the greatest gold dis
burses on the Mother Lode. Several
companies have attempted to restore
the property to its old time position,
but lack of capital militated against
success. When last worked an ore
body 150 feet wide is said to have been
exposed near the bottom of the shaft,
with values exceeding 3$ per ton. The
ore is free milling, yields readily to
treatment, and is mined and milled at
low costs. The Lincoln Consolidated
people plan to open the property alobg
vigorous lines and will increase the
capital stock of the parent comopany to
raise sufficient funds. At the Lincoln
Consolidated the main 2,000 foot shaft
has been un watered to the 1,950 foot
point and irood ore opened on the 300
and 1,200 feet levels. Arrangements
are under way to thoroughly develop
the eastern portion of vthe property.
It is probable the drift from the 1,200
foot level will be continued to tap the
VViidman-Mahoney veins.
It i aunounced the famous App mine,
near Seulsbyville, is about to pass in
to the hands of interests allied with
the U. S Stnelting, Iiefining& Min
ing company. Further rich discover
ies have been recently made in the
famous old producer, and the purchas
ers are said to be highly pleased with
conditions. Pennsylvania capitalists
have acquired the old Pereira ranch,
near Jamestown, and are arranging to
prospect the property. The estate,
comprising 160 acres, is traversed by
a network of gold-bearing veins. As
says of surface ore gives good values
and the men from the Old Keystone
State are confident of developing a
valuable property. At the Eagle
Shawmut50 stamps are in action and a
heavy tonnage of good grade quartz is
being handled The property con
tinues to hold first place among Tuo
lumne producers.
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Notice for Posting and Publish
ing. Serial No. 016941.
Phoenix, Arizona, Land Office,
March 15, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that the SANTA FE
PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, by Howel
Jones, its Land Commissioner, has this day filed
in this office its application, Serial No. 016941, to
enter under the provisions of the Acts of Con
gress approved June 22, 1874 (18 Stat , 194) and
August 29, 1890 (26 Stat., 369), the following de
scribed lands, to wit:
Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter of
section four: the lots one, two, three, four, five,
six and seven. South half of the Northeast
quarter. Southeast quarter of the Northwest
quarter, Northwest quarter of the Southeast
quarter and the East half of the Southwest
quarter of section six; Northeast quarter of the
Southeast quarter of section eight; Northwest
quarter of the Northwest quarter of section four
teen; the lots one, two, three and the Southeast
quarter of the Southwest quarter of section
eighteen: South half of the Southwest quarter of
section twenty In township twenty-four north of
range nine west of the una anu salt Kiver
Meridian, Arizona.
itnyand all persons claiming adversely the
land above described, or desiring to object be
cause of the mineral character of the land, or for
any other reason, to the disposal to applicant,
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on or before the 30th day of April, 1912.
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