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The Mining and Scientific Press, 203
Ofritten rar tie Mintiy awd Setentile lress.]
The Hagan Furnace.
Epitors oF THE Mininc anp ScienTIrio
Puess :—The results attendiug the working
of the Hagan Furnace Process, at the mill
of the Enterprise Gold and Silver Mining
Company, are so remarkable in their character, and so important iv their bearing
npon the quartz interest of tho Paeific
Coast, that the undersigned, Secretary of
that Company, deems it dune to the public
that a statement of the facts should bo
widely published.
It is well known that the ore of the En
terprise mine has been regarded as one of tho
most refractory of the Cailfornia gold ores,
audthat it has hitherto suecessfully resisted
the almost innuimerablo attempts of tho
most skillful motallurgists who have sought
to reduce it, No ehemieal agent could be
fonnd which would taiue its rebellious naturo or make it susceptible of amalgamation, and the Trustees were at a loss to
know what experiment next to try. The
Magan process having been brought totheir
notieo, they entered into a contract with
the Pacific Ore Company, of San Fraucisco,
for the erection of a Hagan Furnace, the
acceptance of which was conditioned upon
the successful treatment of their ore by
that method, and it is but proper to say
that bnt little expectation of success was
entertained by the Trustees, so hopeless did
the casescem. Indeed, during tho erection
of the furnace, and subsequently, every
effort was put forth to find some way of conquering the ore, and much money was
spent for this object, but without successful
results. The last working of 20 tons, under
the superintendence of a skillful and experienced amalgamator, returued only about
one hundred dollars for the lot (less than
five dollars per ton), while the value of the
quicksilver lost in the working amounted
at the lowest estimate to $105,—being about
five dollars more than the whole value of the
bullion realized from the twenty tons.
The Hagan Furnace was now set to work,
and up to this time we have reccived the
returus from fifty-five tons of the ore treated
by that method, under our own snporvision,
and we should have remarked thatthese fiftyfive tons secmed idcutical in character and
value with the twenty tons previously
worked, having been carefully assorted
with a view to uniformity and for the purpose of a rigid test and comparison of results.
The total bullion returned from these
fifty-five tons is the sum of $1,015.50, equal
to $18.52 per ton, or nearly four times as
much as the best returns we were able to
get by any other method of working. It is
hardly necessary to prononnce such results
avery decided success, in view of which
the Company have accepted the furnace.
And the conviction cannot be resisted by us
that the Hagan process is a complete solution of the whole question of the treatment
ofsulphuret ores—and that it opens up to
the public use the way to secure all that
yast mineral wealth which has been so long
locked securely within the refractory ores
of this coast. In this conviction, the undersigned most heartily recommends the
Hagan method of rednection to the earnest
and careful-investigation of all interested
iu quartz mining, being fully satisfied that
such an investigation will lead to its geueral adoption for the treatment of all refractory ores.
(Signed) Wa. B. May,
Sec’y Enterprise G. and 8. M. Co.
San Franeisco, Sept. 22, 1868.
GEO. E. ROGERS,
(Sneeessor to G. W. Beil.)
Ss s A Y E R,
612 Callforola st., San Francisco,
J. A. MARS, Assayer.
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