Lead Smelting and Refining, With Some Notes on Lead Mining

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INDEX

• Alloy, retorting the, in lead refining, [267]
• Alumina, experience with, [259]
• American Smelting and Refining Co., [4], [6], [26], [93], [113], [252], [295]
• at Murray, Utah, [287]
• Atmosphere, effect of on concrete, [242]
• Bag-house, cost of attending, [246]
• standard, [246]
• Bag-houses for saving fume, [244]
• Bartlett, Eyre O., [244]
• Bayston, W. B., [199]
• Bennett, James C., [66]
• Betts, Anson G., [270], [274]
• Between products, working up of, [39]
• Biernbaum, A., [41], [148], [160]
• Blast furnace of circular form, [253]
• Spanish lead, [307]
• Blast, volume and pressure of in lead smelting, [76]
• Blower, rotary, deficiency of, [251]
• Blowers for lead and copper smelting, [256]
• now more powerful for lead smelting use, [252]
• Blowers, rotary, method of testing volumetric efficiency of, [254]
• vs. blowing engines, [254]
• vs. blowing engines for lead smelting, [251]
• Blowing engines, when to use, [259]
• Bonne Terre lead deposits, [18]
• orebody, Missouri, [13], [14]
• Borchers, W., [114], [116], [127]
• Bormettes method, combination processes in, [222]
• Bradford, Mr., [55]
• Bretherton, S. E., [251], [258]
• Broken Hill Proprietary Block, [14], [59]
• Broken Hill practice, [51]
• Proprietary Co., [52], [113], [124], [145], [175], [178], [206]
• Bricking plant for flue dust and fine ores, [66]-70
• Briquetting costs, [62]
• methods of avoiding, [63], [64]
• process, operations, in [59]
• Bullion, analyses of in lead refining, [281]
• refined lead and slimes, analyses of, [282]
• Canadian Smelting Works, [275]
• Carlton Iron Co., [63]
• Carmichael, A. D. [56], [199]
• Carmichael-Bradford process, [175]-185
• brief estimate of, [209]
• claims of in patent, [199]
• recommendations of, [124]
• process, points concerning, [131]
• Cement walls, how to build, [241]
• Channing, J. Parke, [254]
• Charge-car in smelting, true function of, [94]
• feeding of in lead smelting, [77]
• mechanical character of in lead smelting, [78]
• Charges, effect of large in lead smelting, [77]
• Cherokee Lanyon Smelter Co., [104]
• Chimney bases, [237]
• Chisholm, Boyd & White Co., [64]
• Clark, Donald, [114], [144], [175]
• Cœur d’Alene mines, [5], [6], [7]
• Concrete flues and stacks, advantages and disadvantages of, [242]
• in metallurgical construction, [234]
• Connersville Blower Co., [252]
• Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining Co., [285]
• Coke, percentage necessary to use in smelting, [259]
• Croll, H. V., [253]
• Cupellation in lead refining, [269]
• De Lamar Copper Refining Co., [297]
• Desilverization in lead refining, [265]
• Desloge practice contrasted with others, [46]
• Doeltz, F. O., [139]
• Dross, analyses of in lead refining, [279]
• Dupuis & Sons, [63]
• Dust chamber, arched form, [231]
• beehive form of, [232]
• design, [229]
• rectangular form, [230]
• concrete, [235]-237
• Dwight, Arthur S., [73], [81]
• spreader and curtain in furnaces, [91]
• East Helena and Pueblo smelting systems compared, [93]
• plant of the American Smelting and Refining Co., [302]
• system of smelting, [88]-94
• Edwards, Henry W., [234], [240], [242]
• Einstein silver mine, [14]
• Engine, blowing, proper field of, [257]
• blowing, and rotary blowers, [258]
• Eriksson, Hjalmar, [306]
• Federal Lead Co., [38]
• Mining and Smelting Co., [7]
• Feeders, cup and cone, for round furnaces, [81]
• Ferraris, Erminio, [311]
• Flat River mines, [18]
• Flue gases and moisture, effect of on concrete, [242]
• Flues, concrete, [234], [240], [242]
• Foundations for dynamos, [236]
• Fremantle Smelting Works, [145]
• Fume-smelting, cost of, [33]
• in the hearth, [32]
• Furnace operations at Desloge, Mo., [45]
• Furnaces at Desloge, Mo., [43]
• reverberatory, at Desloge, Mo., [42]
• Galena, experiments in roasting, [129]
• lime-roasting of, [14]
• new methods of desulphurizing, [116]
• roasting of by Savelsberg process, [122], [123]
• Gas, furnace, effect of on cement, [240]
• Gelatine, use of in electrolytic lead refining, [275]
• Germot, A., [224]
• process, [224]
• Globe plant of the American Smelting and Refining Co., [304]
• Smelting and Refining Co., [244]
• Greenway, T. J., [59]
• Guillemain, C., [133]
• Harvard, Francis T., [242]
• Hearth, covered-in, [36]
• Heat, effect of on cement, [242]
• Heberlein, Ferdinand, [113], [167], [199]
• Hixon, Hiram W., [256], [258]
• Harwood, E. J., [51]
• Hourwich, Dr. Isaac A., [27]
• Huntington-Heberlein process, [113], [144]-147
• consideration and estimate of, [203]-209
• credit due to, [126]
• process as distinguished from others, [118]
• economic results of, [155]-159
• Huntington-Heberlein explained by the inventors, [167]-173
• process at Friedrichshütte, [148]
• process, from the hygienic standpoint, [160]
• ideas of in patent specifications, [117]
• process, introduction of at Tarnowitz, Prussia, [41]
• and Savelsberg processes, essential difference between, [192]
• process, some disadvantages of, [165], [166]
• Huppertz, L., [121]
• Hutchings, W. Maynard, [108], [126], [170]
• Huntington, Thomas, [113], [167], [199]
• Iles, Malvern W., [96], [252]
• Ingalls, W. R., [3], [16], [27], [42], [177], [186], [193], [215], [224], [244], [287]
• Iron, behavior of in silver-lead smelting, [75]
• Jackson Revel mine, [14]
• Johnson, E. M., [104]
• R. D. O., [18]
• Jones, Richard, [244]
• Samuel T., [244]
• Laur, F., [224]
• Lead, analyses of refined, [281]
• bullion, electrolytic refining of base, [270]
• bullion, Parkes process of desilverizing and refining, [263]
• bullion, softening of, [263]
• concentrate Joplin district, valuation of, [25]
• and copper smelting, the Bormettes method of, [215]-223
• deposits, southeastern Missouri, [18]
• Joplin district, [8]
• marketing, [3]
• -ore roasting, consideration of new processes, [135]-138
• Lead ore, average prices for, [27]
• ore, cost of smelting, [32]
• -ore roasting, theoretical aspects of, [133]
• ores, Galena, Kan., [24]
• ores, method of valuing, [26]
• ores, southwestern Missouri, [24]
• Park City, Utah, [8]
• -poisoning in old and new processes, [162]-165
• refining, electrolytic, [274]
• soft, Missouri, [25]
• smelting at Desloge, Mo., [42]
• smelting at Monteponi, Sardinia, [311]
• smelting and refining, cost of, [96]
• smelting in the Scotch hearth, [31]
• smelting in Spain, [306]
• smelting at Tarnowitz, Prussia, [41]
• source of in Missouri, [13]
• in southeastern Missouri, [7], [10], [17]
• sulphide and calcium sulphate, metallurgical behavior of, [139]-143
• total production United States, [5]
• yield from Scotch hearths, [39]
• Leadville, Colo., mines, [8]
• Lewis, G. T., [244]
• Lime-roasting of galena, [126]
• Lotti, Alfredo, [215]
• Messiter, Edwin H., [229], [240]
• Middleton, K. W. M., [31]
• Mine La Motte, [14]
• Minerals, briquetting of, [63]
• Mining methods in Missouri, [19]-23
• Missouri Smelting Co., [197]
• Mould, H. S., Co., [64]
• Murray smelter, Utah, [291]
• National plant of the American Smelting and Refining Co., [299]
• New Jersey Zinc Co., [246]
• Nutting, Mr., [256]
• Ore and Fuel Co., [63]
• different behavior of coarse and fine in lead smelting, [79]
• treatment in detail by the Huntington-Heberlein process, [150]-155
• Parkes process, cost of refining by, [99]
• Percy, Dr., [244]
• Perth Amboy plant of the American Smelting and Refining Co., [296]
• Petraeus, C. V., [24]
• Pfort curtain for furnaces, [82]
• Picher Lead Co., [197]
• Piddington, F. L., [263]
• Potter, Prof. W. B., [15]
• Pueblo lead smelter, [294]
• Smelting and Refining Co., [84]
• Pufahl, O., [38], [291], [294], [296], [299], [302], [304]
• Pyritic smelting without fuel practically impossible, [256]
• Raht, August, [251], [254]
• Refining, monthly cost of per ton of bullion treated, [100]
• Roasters, hand, and mechanical furnaces, average monthly cost of, [98]
• Roberts-Austen, W. C., [139]
• Salts, effect of crystallization of contained on concrete, [243]
• Santa Fe Gold and Copper Mining Co., [255]
• Savelsberg, Adolf, [122]
• Savelsberg process, [186]-192
• process, claims of in patent, [201]
• process contrasted with Huntington-Heberlein, [209]
• process, difference between and Huntington-Heberlein, [197]
• Savelsberg process the simplest, [132]
• Scotch-hearth method, permanency of, [195]
• Scotch hearths, [34]
• Schneider, A. F., [81]
• Seattle Smelting and Refining Works, [273]
• Silver-lead blast furnaces, mechanical feeding of, [81]
• blast furnace, proper conditions, [73]
• smelting, details of practice, [73]
• smelting, modern, [73]
• Slag-smelting costs, [34]
• Slime analysis at Broken Hill, [51]
• Slimes, analyses of in lead refining, [281]
• desulphurization of by heap roasting, [51]
• treatment of at Broken Hill, [53]-55
• Smelter, new, at El Paso, Texas, [285]
• Smelters’ pay, [32]
• Smelting, average cost of per ton, [98]
• Smelting Co. of Australia, [263]
• costs, [48]
• detailed costs of, [101], [102]
• of galena ore, [38]
• preparation of fine material for, [59]
• Solution, washing from slime, [277]
• Sticht, Mr., [256]
• St. Joseph Lead Co., [16]
• St. Louis Smelting and Refining Co., [81]
• Sulphide Corporation, [145]
• Sulphur dioxide, effect of on cement, [240]
• Sulphuric acid, making of at Broken Hill, [174]
• Tasmanian Smelting Co., [145]
• Tennessee Copper Co., [255]
• Terhune, R. H., furnace gratings, [84]
• Thacher, Arthur, [14]
• Ulke, Titus, [270]
• United Smelting and Refining Co., [88]
• States Zinc Co., [295]
• Vezin, H. A., [252]
• Walls, retaining, [237]
• Walter, E. W., [260]
• Waring, W. Geo., [24]
• Welch, Max J., [229]
• Wetherill, Samuel, [244]
• Wheeler, H. A., [10]
• Zinc, amount required in lead refining, [265], [266]
• crusts, treatment of in lead refining, [267]
• oxide in slags, [108]
• retort residues, analysis of materials smelted and bullion produced, [106]
• retort residues, smelting, [104]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] During 1905, antimonial lead commanded a premium of about 1c. per lb. above desilverized, owing to the high price for antimony.

[2] The figures for 1903 and 1904 have been added in the revision of this article for this book. The production of lead in the United States in 1903 was 276,694 tons; in 1904, it was 302,204 tons.

[3] Ounces of silver to the ton of lead.

[4] These figures are doubtful; they are probably too high. (See table on p. 5).

[5] The production of zinc ore in this district has now been commenced.

[6] The manuscript of this article was dated Oct. 5, 1905.