[?]kel Company

modern Installations [?]r Noumea [?]kel Company

'rom Our Noumea Correspondent [E new smelting installations of the Nickel Co. at Noumea, New Caledonia, are well under ley will be carried out in 4 ions. Section one will be the truction of mechanical devices :h will permit the mineral to ;arried directly from the ships’ s to the stocking points, and i there direct to the furnaces, le second section will be in lection with the pre-fusion aration of the ore. Three ;, revolving cylinders of the used in the cement industry be installed. In these cylinders ore will be dried and roasted, le third section is the most >rtant. It will be composed of electric furnaces for ting. Each will consume 10,000 vatts of electricity. These aces will receive the already ed ore direct from the

Iving cylinders.

ie fourth section comprises a ing installation. Electric arc aces and Robert converters rid the ferro nickel from the ting furnaces of sulphur and on impurities. le construction of this installa is well under way and actually be the first section terminated, being pushed ahead as it will ised in conjunction with the ait plant, is hoped to have the four

sections completed in three years, by which time it is anticipated that the new Yate dam and hydro electric scheme, which are being constructed to supply current to the new installations at the smelters, will also be in opera tion.