RECOVERY OF TIN
NEW AUSTRALIAN PROCESS
j A new process for recovering tin {from lode tin ores has been developed in Australia by the Division lof Industrial Chemistry of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. The Minister in charge of the .C.5.1.R'.,-"Mr Dedman, said the new method gave promise of being able to separate from "tailings" ,or waste matter a large proportion of j the tin at present discarded with 'that material. It also opened up the possibility of recovering a considerable ' part of the tin in dumps ,of tailings left from past mining operations. j In the new process, flotation replaced the gravitation method now j used for the segregation of tin from j waste. j Patent rights for the protection I of the new method had been secured j and it was planned to establish soon : a plant for investigating its economies.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 42, 1 June 1945, Page 5
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