Dear Peter and List.
There are number of good clear photo's in the South Australian Library
Collect for Kapunda of the Henderson Plant, there MAY be plans/drawings in
the Mines Dept Records?
Take Care.
Roger B Bradford,
22 Short Road,
Elizabeth.
S.A, 5112.
Australia
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From: "Peter Bell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 5:46 PM
Subject: Henderson Process
>I am seeking information about Henderson plants. In 1860 William
>Henderson of the Tharsis company in Glasgow patented a process for
>extracting copper from pyritic ores by roasting the sulphide concentrate
>with common salt to form copper chloride in solution, and then
>precipitating copper metal out onto scrap iron. The best description I
>have seen is in Manuel Eissler's Hydro-Metallurgy of Copper (1902), which
>says the process was "largely employed in Europe", which I think means
>Spain, the UK and perhaps Norway.
>
> I am investigating the remains of a Henderson plant which operated at
> Kapunda in South Australia from about 1866 to 1877. The ruins are
> fragmentary, and the site is very difficult to interpret. I have a
> feeling such plants were probably built to a standard plan drawn by
> Henderson, so the remains of one may help to understand others. Can
> anyone guide me to photographs, plans, other documents or site remains of
> Henderson plants anywhere else in the world?
>
> Peter Bell
>
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