Document 27jJMMgZydJQRzpe6rOGeomg

August 11, 19S1 Hr* J 8. Bobbins, 7ioe President, Anaoonda Coppar Mining Ccepengr, ^tte, Montana* Dear Sir In aoeordanoe with jeer Instruct!cos, tba following information regarding tha Boat Balaam alag operation and ita effort upon owr operations is subnittsd. Assuming Combined Metals to continue to ship to ws and to produce a tonnage equal to onr last adrioee, cor expected receipts of sine oonoantrats beginning with October will be as follows** To ps per Month federal Hercules h Soleonda Mldrale (0. 8. Co.} Tootle Combined Metals 1.600 100 4,000 600 1,000 Total probabla receipts 7,100 To naintain a four wait operation, wo will require approximately 2,600 tone additional per month* Srpeeted total etook of ocaaoentrate on October 1st, 1991 is 59,000 tons, last Helena slag operations bare produced an arrange of 1,100 tans of funs per month for the first six wonthq of 1991, eqairslant to 1,400 .tons of sine ecnoentrato per smith. Of this production, 290 tons per month has gens into de-le*ded product for sine oxide department and 760 tons per month has bean treated through the sino plant. Tbs remainder baa bean stored for protection of sins oxide operations* tills atook mow aanunbing to approxi mately 2,000 tons,* Me are informed that the sino oxide department bars reoelred tame complaints regarding araenio in oxide produoed from ftmm and that tha future requirements of funs for this outlet are somsehat uaoertain. In any pNYC 000A2678 jtr# J Bobbins - 2 August U, un rrvstt th* oxide department doe* sob expest to require any additional 4,l*ad*d fw until 1st* la th* fall* Stoek of fm# on hwid st Great falls will supply thsir aoraal requirement* for sboot eight sooths sod by suppleswutlag this stock with roasted xlno dross, th* osddo business oould be supplied their re quirements for at least a year fires now with no additional production of fan* fross Bast Helena, Trsatssnt of 760 tons of fnas per sooth through the sins plant has not resulted la any serious operating difficulties, hot hss added to the aoraal operating expense, which is rofXoeted la the ertlasted profits froe has. *hould last Belens rosiest operations ia Ootober aad the sins paid* outlet fail as, w* sight be la seats difficulty ia treating 1,000 to 1,300 teas of fas# per sooth aa a fenr salt baais, especially la saiataialag produetlea sf lt>W^ % siae grade. As aa alternate outlet for any teenage whisk ae say flad asrt desirable to treat, a* her* prastloally agreed with the Slldden muqitigr eat terse fer sale to tham of a tonnage ef fuse, shieh terse souId return to the Bast Helena pleat free #3,00 to #4,00 per toe of fuse sore than they reoeite froe firoat falls siae plant, Be here boss eaiting for resumption ef Bast Helena operations before finally ooccluding negotiations with Qllddan, as e* did net sare to doplets etooh of fans being held for oxide departsant. Therefore, aside from profit or lees froe th* Bast Helena operation, the only situation direetly affected by a decision as to afoother Bast Helens slag troatsant is resumed or not shea lead sseltlag operations are recused, is th* natter ef rate ef depletion of our siae sonoeatrato supply. If oxide prodas, tion Is roamed, or if se soli aa equivalent tonnage, fine will replae* appradsuitely 1,000 tons of oonoentrat* from stock pile, sating oar expected rats ef dspletien sheet 1,500 tons per sooth Instead ef 2,600 tons. Should Best Helena slag treatment not he usiawi and oonoentrat* shipments eon* throu^t ae no* axpeoted, w* scold oarry on a four unit operation for another year and supply th* oxide reqolrsneata without reduoiag our ooswsntrate stock hole* 20,000 toss. If we lose Ccabined Metals tonnage, or any other substantial tonnage, oar etooh would bo depleted by ceoh added amount, VIth the slag plant operating, ** oould oarry out the same program and have about 65,000 tons of oanomtrat* on hand at the end of a year, as th* slag plant would supply oxid# requirwoent* ia addition to supplying equivalent of 1,000 toe* of oonoentrat* sonthly for sino pleat troatsant, flnanodal esteems before depreciation, fras Mast Belena slag operations, without uay allowaaoos for reduction ia aost of slag or power from ecntfaet prises end without say allowance tor oodd* or fesas eales profit, is gives ia Mr, Biggin's letter to yea under date ef Kay 9th, 1961 snd, ia so far as 1 know, there has bean no satorial change in flpurss then given* froflt frost oodd* departsent on fa* treated In first three souths of 1961 is given as 16,000,00 per sonth. If w* are able to esll 800 tons of fume pur scoth, instead of delivering to oxide department, Mr, Biggin's profit figures would be Inareased by epprodxately 91,000,00 per month* Trusting that this will give you tbs infunsatlen desired, Z sa **>*** Tours very truly, a. /3. o^fUuc pNYC 00012679