How South-West Wisconsin tailing piles can be worked at a profit

Alternative Title

How South West Wisconsin tailing piles can be worked at a profit
How Southwest Wisconsin tailing piles can be worked at a profit

Author

Gerald Henry Pett

Abstract

"It was not until the Flotation Process was introduced in this S.W. Wisconsin zinc district that the writer was convinced that some of the tailing piles here could be worked at a profit. In 1928, the Badger Zinc Company built a 120 ton Flotation Plant about two miles north-east of Linden. It was after the second visit to the plant that the writer learned the above company was making a profit of a 5% zinc ore with very little lead and with a low market price for the finished product, namely $30.00 per ton for a 60% zinc concentrate...the body of this thesis is the result of actual experience, deductions, and laboratory tests, as the writer practically "grew up" with flotation in this district"--Introduction, page 1-2.

Department(s)

Mining Engineering

Degree Name

Professional Degree in Mining Engineering

Sponsor(s)

Badger Zinc Company
Wisconsin Mining School, Ore Dressing Laboratory

Publisher

Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy

Publication Date

1938

Pagination

v, 58 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 59) and index (pages 60-63).

Geographic Coverage

Wisconsin

Rights

© 1938 Gerald H. Pett, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Thesis - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Flotation
Tailings (Metallurgy)
Zinc mines and mining -- Wisconsin

Thesis Number

T 719

Print OCLC #

5971696

Electronic OCLC #

609408687

Link to Catalog Record

Recommended Citation

Pett, Gerald Henry, "How South-West Wisconsin tailing piles can be worked at a profit" (1938). Professional Degree Theses. 256.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/professional_theses/256