Tintic Standard Reduction Mill

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The Tintic Standard Reduction Mill—also known as the Tintic Mill or Harold Mill—built in 1920 and only operating from 1921 to 1925, is a vacant refinery located on the west slope of Warm Springs Mountain near Goshen, Utah, in the United States. Metals processed at the mill included copper, gold, silver, and lead; all of which were received from another mill near Eureka, Utah. The reducing process used was an acid-brine chloridizing and leaching process which became outdated, leading to the abandonment of the site in 1925. At the mill's highest productivity it processed 200 tons of ore yearly.

What remains of the mill are foundations for water tanks, crushers, roasters, iron boxes, leaching tanks, and drain boxes. The site dominates the surrounding landscape with its size and unique colors and shapes.

It has been speculated that this mill may be the contributor of heavy metal pollution in the Goshen Warm Springs which lie below it.

[edit] References

• Warm-Water Interim Hatchery Facility - Environmental Assessment. Utah Reclamation Mitigation Conservation Commission.
• National Register of Historic Places
• Virtual Globetrotting - Includes image of the mill from Google Earth.

[edit] External links

• The Center for Land Use Interpretation - Includes a photo of the site.