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Info Last updated: 17.01.2024 (14:34:51)
Id No. (Mine / 1902 map):
2547
Type:
Cyanidation Mill
Date Located / Formed:
Location:
Florence
Location Map Description:
Discovery / Formed by:
Status:
Unknown
Fate details:
Owned by:
- Cripple Creek Beam Milling Company
-> - American Cyanide Gold and Silver Recovery Company
-> - American Reduction Company
-> 1896-??-?? [reported As Owner] - United States Economic Reduction Company
->
Known claims:
Location Claim Description:
Patented Date:
Mineral Certificate No.:
0
General Land Office No.:
0
Known Transportation Connection:
Extra Info/Details [Linked at One Time to the Entity]:
Known Producing Info:
General notes:
I seen various references to this mill, even seen it called the Economic Mill but that is probably a mix-up with the more famous one in Eclipse Gulch, Cripple Creek District that at one time might have used the Beam Process before that one failed...
This Beam Mill is just west of Union Mill north of Florence, it shows up in some maps and some texts, but I have hardly any info about it! It was the same mill as is said was the first one built at Florence, on the bluffs north of the Arkansas River by the United States Economic Reduction Company, an association of Chicago investors, this was in 1894. Using a bromide process it failed to extract a reasonable percentage of gold, and within less than eight months the enterprise passed into bankruptcy. The buildings were subsequently leased to the American Cyanide Gold and Silver Recovery Company, promoter of what was known as the dioxide-cyanide process. The plant was remodeled and reopened, but remained in operation only a brief time. It could not match the performance of the Metallic Mill with the MacArthur-Forrest process.-> The source of this text (except the United States Economic Reduction Company name, that is mine), 'Colorado Magazine of Spring/Summer 1978' continues its text and call this Beam Mill the Economic saying it remained idle till 1899 when the Cripple Creek-Beam Company purchased the site and occupied a portion of the plant. The new owner installed the so-called "Beam process, " the invention of A. M. Beam, an experienced metallurgist, and the property of the newly organized Beam Furnace Company of Denver. The firm claimed its unique method of treating ore extracted values in excess of gold identified by accepted methods of assaying. Critics, including some prominent mining engineers, denounced the process as a fraud designed to deceive ignorant and unwary investors. The plant, as predicted, was a failure . The promoters sold the mill to some of the original Chicago stockholders who tried without success to modify the machinery in order to employ more traditional methods of chemical ore reduction.
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