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Inside the Tooele International Smelting plant operations
A detailed description of the Tooele Utah plant of the International Smelting Company, including its location at Pine Canyon in the Oquirrh mountains, the lead zinc flotation concentrator, copper smelter and lead smelter, rail access via Tooele Valley and Western Pacific lines, and the extensive ore handling, sampling, and processing facilities. It covers aerial tramway ore delivery, a two unit lead zinc concentrator started in 1924 with capacity growth to 1000 tons per day, lead and copper production flows, sintering operations, blast furnaces, drossing, reverberatory and converter plants, and supporting infrastructure like a large power house, laboratories, and safety department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Western Pacific Railway
Hich
Park City
Bingham
Utah
Colorado
Nevada
Idaho
Tintic
California
Bingham District
Tooele Valley
Utah Delaware Mining Company
Utah Metal and Tunnel Company
Tooele
Oquirrh Mountains
Highland Bay
China
Taylor and Brunton
Bing
Great Falls
Dwight- Lloyd
Tuyere
Tuyeres
Evans-Klepetko McDougall
McDougall
H. P. Stirling
New Jersey
Dwicht-Lloyd
General All A. CG
Utah Power & Light Company
D. C