the la Monte furnace. [FROM THE THAME8 STAR;]

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 117, 29 August 1885, Page 7

the la Monte furnace. [FROM THE THAMEB STAR;]

As some concern ts manifested in the work now being earned on on the foreshore, Thames, on Account of the Smelting Company, the following particulars concerning it will be read with interest I — The works Are expected to he r<»ady for the commencement of operations early itt October. The site of the furnace is on the foreshore, in close proximity to the Goods Wharf, within a few "yards from the end of Burke street. The building wich is rery strong and substantial, is covered altogether with ••prrugated. iron, and is now nearly completed, the contractors (Messrs lugfis untt McCrnp, of Tbanas) having given every satisfaction to Mr Lami, the superintending engineer. It is so diytded that erery inch of space is utilised to advantage. The engine-room comes first, in which is the boiler (a turbtijar one), a 14-horse power en^iue, and the Baker Blnwef, which will be driven by belt direct from the engine shaft } the stone-breaker wijl 1 be placed | on thetop floor, 12 feet over the engine, ! and""TJsiVen direct. Next com« 3 the .crucible, the base of which is in position oi\ ft solid concrete bottom, and Mr Winter is busy bricking in and forming the le»(( well, which work has to be extra Well done, with fire-bricks and fire- : clay (tltU-is ono of the most important , r parts df'the work)* Next comes the refining room, in which are the two refining furnaces for -cupelling (the process of extrtjiting the stiver and &old from the teajdj) tne bullion, and refining the silver upd g"^ f° r niarfsefc. Then comes laa^ but not least, the assayer's i room, iuMjthicb is a small crucible furiiace, and a imifile fdi'nnce for cupelling ; the results of scorification of melting, as the page may be, of samples of ore, lead^ silfl&ir, 0«"#old« Doth' the essay' | a»«i re^iijng floors are concrete aud cemeiiU)d r presumably in case of a mould \ »urstingf or any accMeut^ so as to per- | uiit of silver ot gold being recovered. I i'tve cliiiiirt'ey stuck, which i» to bw 00

feet I»i«h, is now more than half way up, and Me.-sra Buckley ,iml Porter, ilioon tractors for "the" biij-k-worfy arV> uui. ♦ dent thai tlu»y c«tt their pa it of M»° work within cijiiUj»cfc.timt}. Tue cou'ionsing, clrainliors, whifcli nreof brick, nrchet ovori, ire especially constructed for prev<»nf.irtg the arsenical fumes a»l oxi<ip» from Iwing cArrietl otf ahd distributed with the atmosphere* * In another article we purpose describing, the appliances and menus tt&od to txtraut the precious metals from the rariotw orea treated.