Arsenic Removal from Water
The removal of arsenic from water has been practiced for many years (8-11) but with the recent emphasis on clean water standards there has been renewed activity in relation to the problem. The methods which have been investigated include precipitation, co-precipitation, adsorption, ion exchange and liquid-liquid extraction but to date only precipitation and co-precipitation processes […]
Wohlwill Process
Amalgamation of Gold & Mercury
Any amalgamation test is found to possess most merits and fewest limitations when reduced to the smallest possible dimensions permitting uniform action and certain treatment. A limit is always reached at some point in this reduction in size, where some condition no longer can be fulfilled. In many continuous mechanical tests the limit is set […]
Assay Laboratory Supplies & Lab Design
The chemical laboratory in our industrial establishments has remained a factor of minor importance, and, for this reason, not only has progress been permitted to lag, but the methods of analytical work have been carried on along individual traditional lines. Some works-laboratories are equipped with such conveniences as Gooch filters, suction-pumps, compressed air, shaking-machines, centrifugal […]
Classification of Ore Deposits
What is the use of a classification of mineral deposits? From the days of Agricola, the founder of the science of ore deposits, successive authors on the subject have attempted classifications, none of which have attained unanimous endorsement of miners, engineers, or geologists. The miner and engineer naturally have little regard for a classification that does […]
Sieve Analysis Calculations and Graph
The experiments described in this paper were undertaken primarily for the purpose of measuring the quality of work done in screening and sorting in American concentrating-mills for Prof. Richards’ work on Ore-Dressing. For this purpose a series of samples of screened and sorted products was obtained from four different mills, and a plan was devised […]
Geological Mine Maps Sections: Coal Mining
The maps of our large mines are usually prepared with the greatest care; and it is somewhat singular that, in comparison with the great amount of time and money spent in surveying and platting, so little actual use is made of them. Almost the only purpose for which a completed survey-map is afterwards consulted, is […]
Metallurgical Chemistry Laboratory Equipment List
The equipment of a laboratory in which students are to be trained for practical work in metallurgical chemistry presents many difficulties not encountered in the fitting up of a commercial or works laboratory. At an industrial plant the chemical work required usually demands the frequent repetition of a comparatively limited number of methods. In a […]
Smelter Laboratory Equipment List
The work of a chemist at a busy smelting-plant differs radically from the work of a student, who takes all possible care to have his analysis exact within hundredths of a per cent., and has plenty of time to devote to the operation. The works- chemist, having the shortest time in which to make his […]
Assay Lead & Copper by Electrolysis Determination
The increasing demand for greater speed and more accuracy, in making daily assays of ores and products from mills treating material containing but very small quantities of lead and copper, has caused the older analytical methods to be supplanted by new ones devised to meet the needs of modern work. For “ control ” work […]