WIZARD EDISON'S LATEST. An Ore Separation that May REVOLUTIONISE Iron Mixing Methods.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 400, 7 September 1889, Page 3

WIZARD EDISON'S LATEST. An Ore Separation that May REVOLUTIONISE Iron Mixing Methods.

Thomas A. Enisox, ' the Wizard of Mcnlo Park,' has been stopping at the small village of Bochtelsville, Perm. Ho attracted a groat deal of attention, and was followed by crowds of the plain country folk wherevor he wont. For the past four or livo months large buildings, with mys-terious-looking machinery, have been going up on the Gilbert farm, a mile from Bechtelsville, on which a large tract of rich iron ore land, has been purchased. Work was pushed night and day. Mr Edison is at the head of a company which has purchased the land and put up the buildings to shosv to the world the experiments with the Wizard's latest invention, a patent ore separator that is expected, to revolutionise iron ore mining. The present mode of separating the ore from the earth and rock is on expensive and tedious one. The working of the new invention is explained in this way : The rock containing tho oro, after passing through the crusher and being broken into pieces about the size of an egg, is conveyed in small buckets into a largo hopper. From here it sifts in a thin stream down an incline, passing within a few inches of a powerful .magnet. This latter is so heavily charged as t<> t/raw the iron ore from its course into one channel, permitting the rock and other foreign elements contained in the ore to pass through a runaway to tho refuse pile. The invention being patented, there isjio secret about its working. Mr Edi«on is accompanied, here bv a number of. New York eapitulistp.r • There is every reason to beHove that the invention will prove a success.