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Lead Smelting and Refining, With Some Notes on Lead Mining

Part 10 — INDEX

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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

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