MAORILAND COPPER COMPANY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 155, 1 July 1907, Page 3

MAORILAND COPPER COMPANY.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHEISTCHDKCH, this day. The Maoriland Copper Company, Limited, have secured the services ol Mr. G. C. HeMurtry, who has been engaged as general manager and metallurgist for the last 16 years, llx. MeMurtry, who is an tssociate of the Royal School of Mines and Metallurgy, and the Royal College of Science ia Chemistry, and also holds a fellow of the Chemical Society, has beeu engaged on copper smelting and refining works for nine years. He was assistant general and metallurgical manager at the smelting -works belonging to the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining and Smelting Company, Ltd. Then he became manager of the Electrolytic Copper Refinery at Lithgow, N.S.W., belonging to the Greatv Cobar Copper Syndicate, which works he designed and erected. Returning to the Wallaroo and Moonta Company as manager of the smelting works, the whole of the designing and •instruction work, the purchase of ores, the sulphuric acid, and snlphate of copper works were under bis charge. While in this position Mr McMurtry designed and erected a new electrolytic refinery, altered the method of smelting, erecting a large calcining plant for tine dressed ores aud rich mattes, based on bis own process (which has since been patented, and obtained world-wide recognition), materially redncing the losses, and rendering tne fine ores suitable fnr blast furnace treatment. It might be mentioned th,at toe annual output of the Wallaroo and Moonta is nearly 15,000.0001b of fine copper, the "Handbook of Copper" particularly mentioning their product as being a blister copper of exceptional purity, and adds that the

"WaJlBroo" brand has a deservedly high connnercial standing:. Mr. Mnrtry has been on a visit of inspection to the Maoriland Co.'s property for the past three -weeks, and decided to accept the position as a result of his visit.