INTERESTING TO MINE OWNERS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6986, 11 February 1891, Page 4

INTERESTING TO MINE OWNERS.

♦ (Home Correspondent Dunedin Star.) " Colonists who contemplate approaching the British investor for the wherewithal to develop mining concerns in the Antipodes will be Interested to learn that completely equipped works for the milling and reduction of every species of ore, combined with a chemical and metallurgical laboratory troder expert management, have been erected ia London by the well-known firm Messrs Boweß, Scott, and Western. The *pecial advantages offered to the proprletora of foreign and colonial mining properties by these works is that they can send a few tons of ore to Messrs Scott, who trill treat the samples by every known process of milling, and decide not only how beßt the metals may be separated but also ascertain the most suitable machinery for accomplishing the task. Consequently, it will no longer be necessary for the persons in charge of mining operations to order machinery and plant in comparative ignorance of its suitability for the purpose they have in view, for now they can send a sample of two or three tons of ore to the Phoenix Wharf, Battersea, where it will be roasted, crushed, stamped, and amalgamated, or chlorinated in the presence of qualified men, who will advise as to the class of machinery for treatment, and who will farther furnish practical tests of any ores entrusted to their charge. Anyone connected with mining knows how important a matter is the selection of machinery as a factor to dividends. A goodly proportion of the ghastly failures in mining enterprise can easily be traced to the ignorance displayed in the initial purchase of working plant.