Philippine Smelting Company

Title: Philippine Smelting Company
Language: English
Year: 1939
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Fulltext: PHILIPPINE SMELTING COMPANY All units worked very satisfactorily and at full capacity. The sintering ma chines and blast furnace showed 95.4 % and 100% operating time respectively. The smelter set a new all time high for material smelted and values shipped. Total gross value of shipments amount ed to Pl,046,633.27. Smelter products shipped to the refinery during the month were as follows: Tons Ozs. gold Ozs. silver Lbs. copper Lbs. lead Smelter concentratea . • 184.46 5,676.67 28,894 209,480 —■— Bullion ............ 13.41 7,787.12 4,799 11,525 — —■ • — Cottrell dust . 83.66 42.82 518 — 71,709 Total ... 281.53 13,496.61 34,211 221,005 71,709 Ratio of concentration was somewhat lower (10.32 to 1) due to the greatly increased amount of copper being re ceived. Increase in amount of copper was 70% over any previous month. A total of 3,064 tons of material was smelted, of which 2,043 were concen trates, 325 tons limerock, 152 tons sili ceous ores, 52 tons flue dust, and the balance smelter secondaries, and 280 tons of coke were used which amounted to 9.14% of total fluxed charge. Excavations for the new bag house have been completed and the construc tion work has started. The large #5 Mace furnace is being conditioned and will be put into operation during Sep tember. The Marsman Magazine for September, 1939