MAORILAND COPPER COMPANY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8476, 1 July 1907, Page 5

MAORILAND COPPER COMPANY.

By Telegraph—Special to Age. CHRISTCHURCH, June 29. The Maoriland Copper Company, Ltd., have secured the services of Mr G. C. McMurtry, who has been engaged as general manager and metallurgist for the last sixteen years. Mr McMurtry, who is an Associate of the Royal School of Mines and Metallurgy and the Royal College of Science in Chemistry, and also a Fellow of the Chemical Society, has been engaged on copper smelting and refining works for nine years. He was assistant general and metallurgical manager of the smelting works belonging to the Wallaroo and Monta Mining and Smelting Company, Ltd. Then he became manager of the electrolytic copper refinery at Lithgow, New South Wales, belonging to the great Cobar Copper Syndicate, which works he designed and erected. He returned to the Wallaroo and Monta Company as manager of the smelting works, the whole of the designing and construction works, the purchase of ores, the sulphuric acid and sulphate of copper works being under his charge. While in this position Mr McMurtry designed and erected a new electrolytic refinery, and altered the method of smelting, erecting a large calcining plant for fine-dressed ores and rich mattes based on his own process (which has since been patented and obtained world-wide recognition), materially reducing the losses and rendering the fine ores suitable for blast furnace treatment. It might be mentioned that the anannual output of the Wallaroo and Monta Coy. is 15,000,000 pounds of fine copper, the "Handbook of Copper" particularly mentioning their product as being a blister copper of exceptional purity, and adds that the "Wallaroo" brand has a deservedly high commercial standing. Mr McMurtry has been on a visit of inspection to the Maoriland Company's property during the past three weeks, and decided to accept the position as a result of his visit.

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