Talk:Edison Ore-Milling Company

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A fact from Edison Ore-Milling Company appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 October 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Thomas Edison lost a fortune in his ore-milling company (building pictured) but "had a hell of a good time spending it"?

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Clarification/Verification Iron Stats[edit]

Iron ore wasn't particularly scarce in the Eastern US in the 1870's as large quantities were/are still available in the Adirondacks of NY and were regularly being shipped down to Troy, NY for smelting. Also, those deposits (in the Adirondacks) were not of "poor quality", in fact the limited sample(s) we had assayed in the mid 2000's showed they were 98% pure magnetite. According to the Iron Center Museum in Port Henry, NY most of the Adirondack Iron mines were shut down because of the depth (and therefore the expense incurred) they were pulling the iron from; the quantity and quality were not an issue as this article indicates. --Gobae (talk) 17:45, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Further sources[edit]

I'm glad to see this has an article; I had occasion to mention the process when writing up the Crane Iron Company some time back. Rodney Johnson's book (see [1]) will probably be of some use in expanding it. Choess (talk) 03:23, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Batchelor[edit]

Charles Batchelor was a long-time Edison partner who attempted to implement Edison's idea for concentrating ore. See chapter 9: "Batchelor and the Edison Ore Concentrating Works" in

Welch, Walter L. (1972). Charles Batchelor: Edison's chief partner. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University. OCLC 475205171.

Welch fills in several of the contributions Batchelor made to Edison's projects, often without credit apart from Edison's approval and some stock. — Rgdboer (talk) 22:49, 29 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]