Presence of Sulphide Minerals at Depth Resulted in Change of Mill Practice—
Much More Efficient Now
By J. O. GREENAN and F. M. BAGLEY
General Superintendent and MIII Superintendent, Respectively,
Consolidated Carte: Silver Mines Company, Carte:, Nevada
THE purpose of this paper is to describe briefly how a change in the character of an ore caused the local application of cyanidation to become expensive and inefficient, how the cyanide plant was converted to a flotation plant at low cost, and to discuss the principal advantages and disadvantages resulting from the change.
Early in 1927, the Consolidated Cortez Silver Mines Company had operated its 125-ton cyanide plant for about four years. The plant followed the usual ball- and tube-mill, counter-current decantation system, using Deister tables to make a small recovery of low-grade concentrate. The ore had been, in general, oxidized, and had consisted largely of low-grade stope fills that had accumulated for about 50 years. However, a sufficient quantity of silver-hearing minerals (mainly galena and tetrahedrite) was present to make a high extraction of silver economically impossible by cyanidation, as indicated by the accompanying tabulation.
In November, 1926, new orebodies were first encountered on the Arctic tunnel level, about 1,700 ft. vertically under surface. These orebodies, although partly oxidized, contained a much larger proportion of sulphide minerals than the ore previously milled. On the upper levels, galena and pyrite were the only sulphides visible, whereas on the Arctic level, galena, tetrahedrite, pyrite, and sphalerite were present in relatively great quantity.
The increased hardness of the Arctic ore promptly reduced the grinding capacity of the mill, and the in creased proportion of sulphides radically reduced the extraction of the silver. Incidentally, the lead and copper content of the ore had reached a point where it was desirable to attempt to recover these minerals also. Grinding capacity was increased by improvements in practice, but extraction decreased in spite of all efforts, and the rate of consumption of cyanide became prohibitive. The extraction of silver declined to a minimum
of 65 per cent; and the milling cost reached a maximum of $4.26 per ton.
Flotation tests had been started almost immediately after discovery of the new orebodies. Testing had been done by three nationally known flotation testing laboratories, by the local staff, and by the staff of a neighboring flotation plant, and in no instance were the results entirely satisfactory. In general, they indicated that a silver recovery of between 75 and 80 per cent might be expected, but that increased recovery might follow careful control and testing after full-scale operations had started. One report suggested that flotation be ignored for the present and that further efforts be made to improve cyanide practice. It was evident that the ore was far from ideal for flotation purposes, on account of the presence of oxidized minerals, among them plumbojarosite and (probably) argentojarosite. It appeared, however, that a milling cost of $1.50 to $1.75 per ton could be expected with flotation, with a somewhat increased marketing cost.
At this time, the arguments in favor of the adoption of flotation were the following:
1. Little ore was left on the upper levels. The new orebodies on the Arctic level were relatively high in silver-bearing sulphide minerals. Underground indications were that most of the future ore would come from below the Arctic level, with the chances in favor of decreased oxidation.
2. With flotation, a saving in milling cost of between $1 and $2 per ton could be expected.
3. Flotation could be expected to give from 10 to 15 per cent increased recovery of the silver, to a maximum of 80 to 85 per cent of the total silver content.
4. Flotation could be expected to recover galena and tetrahedrite and other lead and copper minerals in sufficient quantity to make a profit on these two metals.
5. Flotation would throw less load on the already overloaded power engines.
6. Flotation would eliminate all refinery costs.
7. The sequence of minerals with depth, already fairly well established in this mine, involves the possibility of a radical increase in the copper and zinc content, eliminating cyanidation as even a possible method, and pointing to selective flotation.
8. It seemed possible that flotation might allow coarser grinding, which would permit increased tonnage and lower costs per ton for the entire operation.
The arguments against flotation were:
1. Even the “sulphide ore” from the Arctic level contains a sufficient quantity of oxidized silver-bearing minerals, such as plumbojarosite (hydrated lead-iron sulphate) and argentojarosite, to make a good (90 per cent or over) silver recovery by flotation very improbable.
2. Since the entire output would be in the form of concentrate, which must be hauled 36 miles to the railroad point, hauling alone would greatly increase the cost of marketing, which would be increased further by freight and treatment charges.
3. Smelters would pay for only 95 per cent of the silver and gold in the concentrate, which would be reflected in increased marketing cost, whereas 100 per cent of the silver and gold in cyanide bullion is paid for by refineries.
4. One of the largest and most competent flotation organizations in the country, after fairly complete tests on a representative sample, recommended the retention of the cyanidation process.
5. Laboratory tests being regarded as undependable, it was uncertain whether full-scale operations would give a silver recovery even as high as the tests indicated. It seemed unlikely that results from the tests would, at best, be improved greatly.
6. No money was available to cover the cost of a flotation installation. In fact, for many months or even years, the operation had been conducted on so small a margin that each current month’s bills had been largely paid by the production of the succeeding months.
This argument seemed insuperable. Weighing the arguments, the conclusion was reached that flotation should be tried. The basic reason for this conclusion was that no 150-ton all-sliming cyanide plant could hope to operate at a profit, with 65 to 70 per cent silver extraction and a milling cost of about $3.50 per ton, except on fairly high-grade ore, and there was no reason to expect that the ore would average over 20 to 25 oz. This seemed to outweigh most of the arguments against flotation.
‘See The Cortez District Rejuvenated, Engineering and Mining Journal, Sept. 10, 1927.’
It was hoped that the cost of marketing could he kept to a minimum, by making a high-grade concentrate, thus reducing the tonnage to be shipped. The strongest argument against flotation was the first cost of the installation. Careful investigation of several of the leading types of flotation machines was made. The conclusion was reached that, for non-selective flotation, there would be little if any difference between them in the metallurgical results on Cortez ore.
From our standpoint, then, the important considerations were:
(1), low first cost; (2), low power consumption, and (3), low operating cost.
It was planned to install a flotation plant capable of handling 200 tons per 24 hours, as it was thought probable that the grinding capacity could be brought to that point. The company hoped that the machines could be placed inside the mill building already provided, to avoid additional housing cost, so the floor space required by the different types of machines was of importance.
Five different and popular types of machines were considered seriously. One of these, at least, would have required additional housing. Our own estimates of the costs of the various types, installed, were based on manufacturers’ figures, and ranged from $5,500 to $16,000. Average power consumption, likewise based on manufacturers’ statements, ranged from 12 hp. to 40 hp., and it was evident that the cost of upkeep of certain of the machines would be much greater than that of others. We finally decided that the Parker cell combined to the highest degree the features that were, from our standpoint, most desirable.
The principal argument against the cell was that it was relatively little known, although many Parker cells had been in operation for several years. In order to try it out, one cell was installed, and 110 tons per day was put through it for about three weeks, with an average recovery of 73.31 per cent, the resulting uncleaned concentrate containing 300 to 400 oz. silver. This was considered fairly satisfactory, in view of the heavy overload on the one cell. The entire 200-ton unit, consisting of three roughing cells and one cleaning cell, was then ordered.
In the mill was a small concrete floor, which, under cyanidation, had contained merely the precipitate press, a stove, and a desk. On this floor, which measured 19 ft. 6 in. by 30 ft., the four Parker cells were placed, on timber foundations. The cost of the installation was small, and, as much of the work was done by the regular mill crew, extraordinary expense was kept at a minimum.
From the classifier, which is in closed circuit with the tube mill, pulp is pumped to the first of the three roughing cells, which are in series. Tailing from the third rougher is passed over Deister slime tables, where a 100-oz. concentrate, relatively high in lead, is made. Froth from the first two cells goes to the cleaner, while froth from the third rougher is returned to the classifier, together with cleaner cell tailing. Froth from the cleaner goes to a Dorr thickener, is dried by an Oliver filter to about 11 per cent moisture, and is then sacked and shipped.
The total cost of the installation complete was $6,326. This included five Parker cells, two Wilfley pumps, pipe, valves, line shaft, belts, lumber, and complementary apparatus and supplies, and the labor of installation. In addition to the above, $2,122 was spent for supervision, flotation testing, and consultants’ fees. After the cells were well broken in, power consumption tests were made which showed that each cell consumed, including belt and line-shaft losses, 2.88 hp. when revolving at the normal speed of 60 r.p.m.
This figure of 11.52 hp. for the four cell units is very low, as it means 1.26 kw.-hr. per ton treated, on a 170-ton basis. The four cells have cost approximately $10 for upkeep in their six months of operation, having required attention only at the packing glands. No blower or other accessory apparatus has been needed.
The most interesting point, under flotation, is the relatively great importance of the marketing cost, which actually exceeds the cost of milling. Marketing includes all smelter deductions, treatment charges, freight, and hauling of concentrate. Smelters ordinarily pay for 95 per cent of the silver; in other words, there is a dead loss of 5 per cent of the entire silver output of the mill, which loss is not governed by the grade of the concentrate shipped nor by any other factor in control of the mill. If, for example, 4,000 tons are milled in a given month, and 100,000 oz., recovered, 5,000 oz., would not be paid for by the smelter. This loss of about $2,850 would amount to $0.71 per ton milled. It is important, therefore, to realize, in considering the advisability of replacing cyanidation by flotation, that, although a reduction in the cost of milling is ordinarily to be expected, together with an additional recovery of accessory minerals such as lead and copper, this saving may he offset to a large extent by the increased cost of marketing. Several methods by which the shipment of concentrate can either be avoided or reduced are being investigated at Cortez.
The Parker cell is a redwood box, normally 5 or 10 ft. Jung, with a bottom shaped Jike three sides of a hexagon. In this box is a centrally located rotating member, which consists of a series of 2x4’s mounted longitudinally on three cast-iron spiders, and spaced about 1 ½” apart, thus making tip a skeleton cylinder. The spiders are mounted on a shaft, which passes through a gland at each end of the box, the bearings being outside. Clear water is fed to the glands, a bushing around the shaft at the glands further protecting the shaft. Thus the only wearing parts are at the glands and the shaft bearings, aside from abrasion of the 2 x 4’s by impact against the pulp, which is negligible. In six months’ continuous operation of four cells, total upkeep material has amounted to 6 lb. of packing and two shaft bushings.
The rotor revolves at 60 r.p.m., and a series of baffles above this rotor encourages thorough aeration. On certain classes of Cortez ore, it has been found advisable to reduce aeration by closing tile openings between the baffles. The pulp enters at a corner of the cell, is picked up by the rotor, aerated in passing the baffles, is thrown on the surface of the spitz on one side, and thrown upward toward the surface on the other side, the mineral bearing froth overflowing the spitz weir. The particles of the pulp probably pass through this cycle many times before reaching the discharge opening at the opposite end of the cell. No difficulty is experienced in building up a good froth or in balancing the overflow on the two sides.
Flotation is responsible for the continuance of profitable operations at Cortez, and there is every probability that the next year will see a considerable increase in its efficiency and economy. If cyanidation had been continued, even with table concentration; it is improbable that operations could have been conducted at a profit. That the flotation plant paid for itself, in lowered milling cost and increased recovery during its first thirty days of operation, is a surprising fact.
F. H. Mohr, of McGill, Nev., acted as consulting metallurgist throughout the entire period of change, and J. B. Parker, of Salt Lake City, acted in a similar capacity after his cells had been chosen for the installation.
August 4, 1928— Engineering and Mining Journal
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MAGNA GOLD MINES, LANDER COUNTY, NV EMJ 8 4 1928
Magna Gold, in Lander County, Nev., Increasing Scope of Operations
OPERATIONS will be expanded to a three-shift basis during August at the property of Magna Gold Mines, situated in Lander County, Nev., 45 miles southwest of Austin, according to Thomas Varley, consulting metallurgist and secretary of the company, who is directing the development of the company’s holdings. During the 60 days ended July 6, hourly samples were taken of the heads and tailing at the ten-stamp Straub pilot mill used in treating the gold-quartz ore mined. Daily analyses of these samples, representative of 240 tons of mixed high- and low-grade ore milled in the period, showed that the heads averaged $8.45 and the tailing $0.80, the indicated recovery being 90.5 per cent.
Development of the property, which comprises 1,342 acres, including 160 acres of farm land, was begun by Magna Gold Mines in September, 1927, when the company was organized and acquired control of the area. From the start, all operations have been of a systematic nature and governed by thorough preliminary studies of the possibilities of the property. A 12,000-ft. east-west outcrop, varying in width from 8 to 30 ft., and dipping 80 deg. toward the north, was sampled at 200-ft. intervals by several engineers, and the average gold assay value obtained was $21.78. Subsequent tests of the ore, made at the Varley Metallurgical Laboratories, in Salt Lake City, showed that more than 90 per cent of the gold content could be extracted by amalgamation. The Straub pilot mill was then installed, and active development of the property started. A Wilfley table is now being added to the ore-dressing equipment, and, following further tests of the ore, the company plans to erect a large milling plant.
When acquired by Magna Gold Mines, the then existing development at the property consisted of three shafts—a 4x43-ft. main shaft, 125 ft. deep, and two others, 30 and 50 ft. deep, respectively—and 150 ft. of underground workings. The main shaft has since been enlarged to a 5x84 ft. two-compartment shaft, and extended to a depth of 200 ft. From this point 47j ft. of crosscutting to the north was done to reach the vein, where three drifts, one 40 ft. to the west, one 32 ft. to the north, and the other 10 ft. to the east, were driven in ore. A 100-ft. drift to the southeast was also driven from the bottom of the 50-ft. shaft. According to present plans, the main shaft will eventually be extended to a depth of 600 ft., from which point a crosscut will be driven to the vein, where drifts in opposite directions will then be started in the ore.
On the200 level about 300 ft. of drifting toward the west will be done to meet, at that depth, the extension of the high-grade ore found in the bottom of the 50-ft. shaft, which is 300 ft. west of the main shaft.
Operating on a three-shift basis, twelve tons of high-grade ore will be treated daily. It is expected that this ore will have a value of $18 to $20. Mechanical equipment used includes a 168-cu.ft. Gardner vertical compressor driven by a Fordson engine, and a steam hoist at the main shaft. At the camp on the property, situated three-quarters of a mile north of the main shaft, there is a fully equipped field laboratory, besides substantial and well-furnished boarding and bunk houses.
Numerous springs on the property furnish ample water for current requirements, and within a distance of three miles a supply adequate for even a 1,000-ton mill is available. Operations are in charge of H. F. Wilcox, superintendent. Officers and directors of the company, all of whom reside in Salt Lake City, are: A. E. Athas, president; H. L. Mulliner, vice-president; George W. Reid, treasurer; Thomas Varley, secretary, and consulting engineer; C. E. Athas, and R. E. Rudolph. Offices of the company are in the Continental Bank Building, Salt Lake City.
Joe Dandy Strikes Extensions of Orebodies on 400 Level
August 4, 1928— Engineering and Mining Journal 191
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NEVADA MINING NEWS EMJ 10 20 1928
Buscaglia to Develop Claim in North of Goldfield District
At a point about one mile northeast of the Sandstorm mine, the original discovery in the Goldfield district of Nevada, what appears to be the northerly continuation of the Columbia Mountain fault is being developed by Benjamin Buscaglia. A shaft has been sunk 130 ft. and equipped with a hoist. Several tons of ore, said to average $30 in grade, have been taken from the 70 level, and development to prove the downward extension of the orebody is now under way. As this part of the district has not been worked to any great extent, development of the property is being watched with interest by local mining men.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 3 30 1929
NEVADA
Hans Hanson and Associates, holding a lease and bond on the Copper Queen mine, seven miles east of Luning, Nevada, have the property on a production basis and are making regular shipments of copper ore to a Utah smelter. A vein of sulphide copper has been opened in the property.
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Sol Camp and Henry Finkel of Tonopah, Nevada, leasing on the Stewart-Hanson copper property at Lone Mountain, have made their first shipment of 50 tons to the International smelter at Tooele, Utah. The shipment sampled 7 per cent copper and 10 ounces silver to the ton. They are now installing a compressor and expect to get out two 50-ton cars of ore each month. A good road has been constructed to Gilbert Junction on the T. & G. railway.
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On February 8, the B. and B. Quicksilver Company, operating in Fish Lake Valley, near Arlemont, Nevada, W. T. Childers, manager, increased its capitalization from $200,000 to $250,000 of $1 par shares. Shareholders have the right to acquire one share in the new issue for every four shares they now possess, and the income from the new sales will be used in the erection of a second rotary furnace and in paying off all outstanding indebtedness.
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Jameson and Paxson, who have a lease on the Tonopah Divide mine in the Divide district in Nevada, report gross production for the last six months of 1928 was $89,090.80 from 5,112 tons. There are a number of sub-leasers working in the mine, but the largest output was made by Jameson and Paxson. Royalties received by the company have not yet been reported. Production for the first half of the year was $62,628.46.
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The Manhattan Gold Mine. Company at Manhattan, Nevada, has made settlement of a two to three years’ disagreement by the purchase of adverse interests. The property has been idle during the dispute, but systematic development is to be restored under the direction of Thomas J. Lynch, president and general manager, 420 Thirty-fourth Avenue, San Francisco, California. The property comprises a group of nine claims, including the Sunday claim on which a few years ago 20 inches of ore assaying into the thousands of dollars in gold was uncovered during development. Financial arrangements have been completed and the stock has been listed on the San Francisco Mining Exchange.
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Arrangements are being made for a geological survey of the property of the Oro Amigo PIatino Mining Company in the Yellow Pine district, near Goodsprings, Nevada. Prior to its shut down the mine was opened by two tunnels, the No. 2 having a two-foot width of ore that has been followed for nine feet and carries .15 platinum, 30 per cent copper and $25 in gold per ton. The intermediate tunnel, driven on an iron deposit, is said to have developed a large body of soft quartz carrying low gold values. A 60-foot winze from this tunnel is claimed to have opened an ore body assaying 80 per cent copper besides other values.
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The Azurite Mining Company, adjoining the Oro Amigo property in the Yellow Pine district in Nevada, is said to be making shipments of 80 and 40 per cent copper ore. [rehab notes- a big hike, nearly 60 degrees, about a mile from where you park the truck. Located directly east of the Boss Mine.]
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The January cleanup of the milling plant of the Eldorado Rand Mining Company, near Las Vegas, Nevada, is valued at about $14,600, and it is anticipated that the next cleanup will be the largest since the plant has been in operation, according to Superintendent P. A. Keegle. Two shifts are working and the ore averages $24 in gold per ton. [rehab notes, Nelson NV.]
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The Reorganized Rosetta Divide Mining Company, January Jones, Reno, Nevada, manager, is to install a new hoist and headframe at the Whim shaft and sinking will be continued without delay. It is planned to sink on the five-foot showing that averages $25.78 per ton in gold and copper encountered at a depth of about 100 feet and to make connection with the shaft at the 200-foot level for ore extraction.
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The Southgold Mines ‘Company, C. H. Terrel, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has practically completed plans for the building of a plant that can handle between 20 and 30 tons of ore daily as soon as a short tramway can be built and the equipment moved in. The Southgold property is about 60 miles east of Tonopah The veins vary in width from a few inches to 10 and 15 feet and the bulk of the ore will run from $8 to $15 in gold, with a small amount of silver. Development has not been done below a depth of 210 feet, but all indications are that the ore will extend farther.
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At a meeting of the stockholders of the Gold Zone Mining Company, held at Tonopah, Nevada, on March 12, the following officers and directors were elected: F. A. Burnham of New York City, president; Albert Silver of Tonopah, vice-president, treasurer and mine superintendent; Lowell Daniels of Tonopah, secretary, and Wilham Forman of Yuma, Arizona. The company is operating in the Divide district and at present is engaged in prospecting on the 600-foot level for the extension of the ore body on the 500 level, from which about 500 tons of ore have been mined and shipped. President Burnham has announced that on April 1 the company’s New York office will be closed and all records transferred to Tonopah, where Mr. Silver will be in charge of both the mine and office. President Burnham is retiring to his farm in Vermont.
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On March 17, the Nevada Coalition Mine Company, C. F. Wittenberg, general manager, began treating ore from the Schubert-Coop property, which adjoins the Keystone mine, in its War Eagle mill at Manhattan. The mill has been enlarged to handle 50 tons of ore daily and is being operated under lease. Drifts are being run east and west to determine the length of the oreshoot and it is said that there is enough to keep the mill operating for a long time. Matt Kane is mill foreman.
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The Pan American Mining Company, operating near Caliente, Nevada, has put on an additional shift. Gideon Snyder is president of the company.
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Ore shipments from the Pioche District, Nevada, for the week ended March 2, totaled 2,040 tons. The Bristol Silver Mines shipped 580 tons of copper ore and 640 tons of silver-lead ore, while the Combined Metals sent out 820 tons of silver-lead-zinc ore.
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William Woods and Jack Jordan, sub-lessees on the Fancher Mine in Georges Canyon, about 60 miles northeast of Tonopah, Nevada, have received returns of $85 per ton from their first shipment of 38 tons of ore. The consignment was a trial and the ore was very wet. Twenty tons more remain on the dump but are frozen. The ore came from a wine sunk from the tunnel level, where there is a vein of sulphide ore. It carried 85 ounces silver and .9 ounce gold and was treated at the Desert mill at Millers. The property is owned by William and Charles Fancher of Manhattan and is held under lease by five employees of the Tonopah Extension company, who expect to start work on their own account in about a month.
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Robert Hays Smith, president of the Carson Investment Company, has announced that settlement has been made with the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, for alleged infringements on patents held by George Campbell Carson of Los Angeles. It is understood that the settlement was made out of the courts and covered the use of the patents since 1920. Nevada Consolidated has been given the right to use the patents in its refinery at McGill, Nevada, in the future.
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Bradshaw, Inc., Mark Bradshaw, Tonopah, Nevada, general manager, resumed operations on March 16. Nineteen men are employed. The plant averages a saving of 70 per cent of the values in the tailings.
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George Wardle, Sam Ragonovich, Ernest Cole and B. H. Thomas have been granted a lease in the West End and Ohio sections of the West End Consolidated Company’s Tonopah mines. The lease covers a section of the old workings above the 800-foot level. These lessees have been operating successfully in the West End mines for the past two years and now expect to operate certain blocks on their own account and sub-lease the rest of the ground. This area has produced many million dollars worth of ore in the past. Some of the stopes are more than 40 feet in width.
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The Hughes and Fanchini Mill at Silver Peak, Nevada, which has worked intermittently as a cyanidation plant for the past two years, has been taken over by the Lucky Boy Divide Mining Company, and will be reconstructed for flotation with Hardinge equipment, capable of handling 50 tons a day. While custom ores will be handled, the main purpose of the plant is to handle ore from the Mary Mine.
Morris Abertoli, who has been successfully leasing on the Mary for the past two years, will be in charge of the mill. Mr. Abertoli states that he has thousands of tons of $17 and $18 ore in his lease that can be mined with profit with a mill on the ground.
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A 30-ton flotation mill is being erected at Silver Peak, Nevada, by Fred Vollmar, Jr., to treat ores from the Vanderbilt, Calumet and NivIoc properties, all in charge of Mr. Vollmar. The Vanderbilt is an old property that has produced many millions, and is now owned by the Liberty Divide Mining Company.
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E. P. Jennings, leasing on the Champion mine, two miles east of Luning, Nevada, has shipped his second carload of ore to the Mason Valley smelter. The first car returned 2.77 per cent copper, 1.51 ounces silver and 40 cents in gold to the ton.
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Leasers working the Richmond-Eureka mine at Eureka, Nevada, shipped about 100 tons of ore during the week ended March 2. The ore was consigned to the Midvale smelter in Utah.
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The Treadwell.Yukon Company. Ltd., Willard Hales, superintendent, Tybo, Nevada, expects to have its 250-ton mill ready for operation early in May. Building construction has been completed and most of the machinery is on the ground. A few carloads of lumber and timbers remain to be hauled. W. H. Blackburn, 923 Crocker Building, San Francisco, is consulting engineer for the company.
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Production of the two Tonopah mills for the month of February was 170,470 ounces of gold and silver bullion, valued at $134,200. The Tonopah Extension contributed $84,200 to this total and the Tonopah Mining Company, $100,000.
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The West Mines Corporation, W. E. Sirbeck, manager, Goldfield, Nevada, has started work on the 100 level of the Gloria mine at Quartz Mountain. The objective, is to cut a well-defined hanging wall that has been followed in a winze sunk below’ the 50-foot level. A short raise has been driven from the 50-foot level and the face of the east drift driven from it is in three feet of milling ore.
The west drift from the raise is in an excellent showing of milling ore that is accompanied by two feet of shipping grade. George M. Lerchen is superintendent at the Gloria mine.
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The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, McGill, Nevada, J. C. Kinnear, general manager, has declared a quarterly dividend of 75 cents a share, payable on March 30, to stock of record March 15 1929. This places the stock on a $3 annual basis. Three months ago Nevada Consolidated declared a quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share.
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EDEN CREEK NV MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 4 15 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL April 15 1929
SOUTHGOLD MINES PLANS BIG DEVELOPMENTS ON EDEN CREEK
Recent developments on the property of the South Gold Mines Company at Eden Creek in Nevada have demonstrated the immediate necessity for a mill, and plans are now practically completed for the installation of a small plant early this year, according to Manager C. R. Terrell of Tonopah. It is planned to install a 20 to 30-ton plant as soon as a short tramway can be built and the equipment moved in.
The South Gold property is located 60 miles east of Tonopah and is said to be an Immense free-milling proposition. The ore is of good mill grade and some sensational values have been opened up, but the bulk of the ore will run from $3 to $15 in gold with very little silver. The veins vary in width from a few inches to as wide as 10 and 15 feet and the ore is a semi-crushed porphyry and quartz and is easily mined and milled.
Surface material will be milled first and it is estimated that there are 20,000 tons available. This material ranges in thickness from 4 to 18 feet and all the “fines” or screenings from the overburden are excellent ore, running from $3 to $50 per ton in gold. A screening plant is being installed and the fines will be washed and the gold recovered in a homemade amalgamator until a mill is available. During the last two years considerable gold has been taken from washing operations, and all sales brought $18.10 an ounce.
Other operators in the vicinity of the South Gold ground are installing equipment and preparing for deep development. Shipping ore is being mined at one point, only 70 feet from the South Gold line and a shaft will be sunk at least 100 feet. It is also probable that a second mill will be installed in the district before the end of 1929.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 4 15 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL APRIL 15 1929
NEVADA MINING NEWS
The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company paid $8,641,832 in dividends during March. This is its quarterly dividend paid at the rate of 75 cents a share.
The sale and merging of all mines at Round Mountain, Nevada, to a syndicate controlled by Thomas F. Cole of Pasadena and Charles V. Bob of New York has been consummated, and preparations for operating on a large scale are underway. The
merger includes the Round Mountain Mines, Fairview Round Mountain, Fairview Extension, Nevada Gold Development and the Round Mountain Homestake, comprising about 4,000 acres of lode and placer claims.
Engineers are making tests with a view to installing a 2,000-ton mill. Power shovels will be used in both placer and lode mining and some of the lode mining will be by open pit method. L. D. Gordon, long identified with Round Mountain developments, will be general manager, assisted by Charles J. Pearce as superintendent.
John G. Kirchen, general manager of the Tonopah Extension Mining Company, reports that four feet of ore have been opened on the 1,650-foot level. The heavy flow of water on the 1,880 has subsided and work has been resumed at that level. Now that so many of the veins are so far away from the Victor working shaft, some consideration is being given to sinking a shaft of three compartments to the 1,880 level.
Incorporation papers for the Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., to succeed the Tonopah Extension Mining Company, have been forwarded to the secretary of state. The incorporators are H. R. Cook W. D. Hatton and Fred Cole. When incorporation is complete it is announced the following board of directors will be elected: John G. Kirchen, president; Fred L. Cole, treasurer; A. G. Raycraft, treasurer; H. H. Cooke, Homer Williams, H. D. Hatton, Hansen Jensen, W. D. Vandenburg and H. W. Stoddard.
The Kernick Divide Mining Company, J. A. McLaughlin, superintendent, Mina, Nevada, reports the station at the 150-foot level has been completed and crosscutting has begun. The formation at the bottom of the shaft carries some ore, but not of commercial value. A drift will be run along the vein to get under a good tonnage of mill ore exposed on the 38-foot level. This property is in Gold Canyon, near Sodaville, Nevada.
The Golden Eagle Mining and Milling Company is planning to reopen the Duluth mine and other bodies of ore, according to Secretary and General Manager Kay H. Beach of Fallon, Nevada. The organization is composed of Kansas City people.
The report of a rich strike in the Bull Moose mine of the Gold Ace Mining Company at Carrara, Nevada, has been confirmed. Samples from the new discovery assay from $1,000 to $8,692 from a several inch width of the material. The new find is opening up favorably with development. “Briz” Putnam is directing mine operations and G. H. Boggs of Los Angeles, California, is president and general manager.
The new 75-ton mill of the Chalk Mountain Silver Lead Mines Company at Chalk Mountain east of Fallon, Nevada, should be ready for operation by May 1, according to Manager E. M. Dawes. Foundations for the building and machinery are nearly completed and the mill is to be erected under contract by the Joshua Hendy Iron Works of San Francisco. It will be modern throughout and the process of milling has been worked out by J. B. lain and other engineers. The mine has been a producer of high-grade shipping ore for a number of years and there is still a large tonnage of mill ore in the stopes.
The Thompson smelter of the Mason Valley Mines Company closed down on April 1. The mines of the company, producing around 1,000 tons a day, continue operating and the concentrates are going to the American Smelting and Refining Company at Garfield, Utah.
The Nevada Quicksilver Mines, Inc., L. A. Friedman, manager, Lovelock, Nevada, has picked up an ore-shoot on the 850-foot level. It is five feet wide where encountered and is believed to be a new vein that was indicated 50 feet above. The ore is of a good grade and carries more antimony than does the high-grade deposit that the company has been mining, but the reduction process can readily eliminate this metal without interfering with operations.
The Silver Age Mining Company, William J. Walker, superintendent, Ely, Nevada, has shipped its first carload of ore to a Salt Lake smelter this season. The ore assayed 12 ounces silver, 24 per cent lead, .05 ounces gold and 6.9 per cent zinc and it is estimated that the shipment is worth $1,000. Systematic development is under way and regular shipments are expected throughout the season.
Two feet of quartz have been opened in a winze sunk from the tunnel level in the property of the Manhattan Gold Mines Company, Manhattan, Nevada. The gold occurs in fine grains in white quartz and is believed to be an offshoot from one of the veins that has produced heavily. Thomas 5. Lynch, 420 Thirty-fourth Avenue, San Francisco, California, is president and general manager of the company.
The Fluorite Producers, Inc., S. M. Summerfield, general manager, Mina, Nevada, has shipped two lots of fluorite to steel foundries on the Pacific coast. This deposit is near Broken Hills about 70 miles southeast of Fallon and until its discovery this mineral had to be imported.
The Argentena Consolidated Mining Company is working a full force at its property at Goodsprings, Nevada, and has placed its mill in commission. The mill is tuning out a fine grade of lead and platinum concentrates. Harry Lee Martin, 608 Title Insurance Building, Los Angeles, California, is president and general manager.
It is said that Smith Brothers and Company, leasing on the Anchor mine, near Goodsprings, Nevada, have struck a new body of ore, carrying high values in lead and zinc. The mill at the mine is in regular commission.
The Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company follows the general policy of leasing its properties at Goldfield, Nevada, and royalties from these operations both in the mine and on mill tailings have enabled the company to keep its workings open. The company performed a small amount of development, which did not result in the discovery of any important deposits of ore, neither has the work of the lessees opened any ore in advance of their extraction. The company has taken an option on mines near Field in British Columbia and active work is being carried on there.
Lowell Daniels, secretary of the Gold Hill Mining Company has notified the stockholders that a meeting will be held on April 9, to amend the articles of incorporation and to confirm the option granted to J. K. Kitto, trustee of the Gold Hill Syndicate of Philadelphia, to purchase all the assets and real estate of the company.
The circular sets forth that the trustee will incorporate the Gold Hill Development Company under the laws of Delaware, with a capitalization of $2,000,000, divided into $1 shares, non-assessable. About 720,000 shares of this corporation will be exchanged for stock on the old company on a share-for-share basis. If the option is exercised the trustee will advance $100,000 about May 1, 1929, to carry on operations. As soon as developments justify a milling plant will be installed.
Mann Everson, for several years foreman with the West End Consolidated, has been appointed superintendent and three shifts are working. The shaft has reached a depth of 275 feet and considerable pay ore has been disclosed in drifts on the 150 and 250 levels.
It is understood that officials of the McCoy Nevada Gold Mines Company will visit the company’s property at Battle Mountain, Nevada, for the purpose of considering the construction of a mill to treat the ore on the ground. Assays from the 100-foot shaft show values as high as $500 per ton and interest in the property has been heightened by the recent strike made on claims owned by Charles Brankey and Ernest Chatelle about one mile north of the McCoy-Nevada property. Harry W. Bower of Los Angeles is vice-president of the company. B. P. Howell is mine superintendent.
The Harmill Divide Mining Company has hoisted about one carload of ore carrying from $115 to $120 per ton in silver and lead from the 50-foot level of the winze sunk below the 800-foot level in its property in the Montezuma district in Nevada, according to Gerald B. Hartley, president and general manager, 112 East Second Street, Reno. Owing to the condition of the roads, no attempt is being made to ship this ore at the present time.
The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, J. C. Kinnear, general manager, has just completed a new stack 350 feet high at its McGill plant in Nevada. This chimney is 20 feet in diameter inside and is the highest chimney at the plant. It is of acid-proof lining, which is only four inches thick but separated from the main shaft by a two-inch air space. The foundation is reinforced concrete, 60 feet in diameter at the bottom and is in the ground. 15 feet. Construction was started last October and required 40 carloads of gravel 7 carloads of cement and 50 tons of steel reinforcing. The company has added five new locomotives to its rolling stock.
Stock control of the Black Forest Mining and Smelting Company and the Missouri Monarch Mines Company, owning the Spruce Monarch group of mines in Elko county, Nevada, has been purchased by the Big Missouri Mining ‘Company and associates, according to Duncan MacVichie of Salt Lake City, Utah, consulting geologist. Operations are being carried on in the Black Forest group at the east end of the group as well as in the Spruce Monarch at the southwest end.
The upper Black Forest tunnel is being extended into the formation, where an ore body 400 feet in length and 15 feet in width has been exposed. A shaft will be sunk in the Empire Claim, also. A shaft is being sunk from a point 1,600 feet from the face of the Spruce Monarch tunnel and the tunnel is being driven ahead to cut the Thelma and the West Fault. The Big Missouri Company is also operating near Stewart, British Columbia, and maintains offices in the Clift Building, Salt Lake City, where Mr. MacVichie may be addressed.
The St. Joe Consolidated Mines Corporation, which holds control of eight claims six miles from Wallace, Idaho, and the Haywood group of 18 claims in the Silver City mining district in Nevada, has outlined a development program for its properties. Financial support is to be given by New York and Florida capitalists-Charles Oster of New York City is president of the corporation and E. S. McCurdy, 576 Mills Building, San Francisco, is secretary.
The Idaho property is opened by four tunnels. The No. 1 tunnel has several ore-shoots that average $35.84 per ton in lead, silver and gold and the No. 4 tunnel will gain a depth of 900 feet on this vein.
The Nevada property has been opened by a 485-foot incline shaft and $1,950,000 is said to have been taken from the workings. It is said that there is sufficient ore to justify the construction of a milling plant, which the management is prepared to build and in addition, search for ore will be continued to depth.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL JUNE 30, 1929
NEVADA
A rather extensive program has been announced by N. H. Getchell, president and general manager of the Gold Circle Consolidated Mines Company, operating near Midas, Nevada. The Elko Prince shaft is to be continued from the 900-foot level to a depth of 1,200 feet and the Grant shaft sunk from the 225 level to the 425. Water stands in the Link shaft at a depth of 300 feet and is to be lowered to the 500-foot level to permit the development of the lower levels of the shaft. Some new machinery will be necessary, including a 400-horsepower Diesel engine. James Pike is mine superintendent and Victor Jacobson is mill superintendent at Midas.
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The Lost Spanish El Dorado Gold Mining Company plans installing a flotation mill, concentrators, hoist and compressors at its property, near Mountain Well, according to General Manager E. I. Connell, P. 0. Box 21, Fallon, Nevada. A small force is engaged at the present time in developing a new strike of rich sylvanite ore made in La Platte Canyon. This is a gold-silver-lead proposition.
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There is some talk of the resumption of operations on the property of the Montezuma Silver Mines Corporation, near Goldfield, Nevada. An 800-foot tunnel is proposed which will open the ground below the old workings, which has produced a large tonnage of silver-lead ore. E. S. Giles is general manager of the organization and Arthur B. Brown is assistant.
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The Appian Mine. Company, H. W Hickel, president, Elmcourt, Newlands Heights, Reno, Nevada, set June 20 as the date for starting the treatment of ore in its new flotation mill. The plant is designed to treat 50 tons of ore daily and engineers estimate 25,000 tons of ore in the glory hole workings above the tunnel level that will average $11 per ton. The Christensen shaft, sunk on a vein paralleling the glory hole vein, is to be equipped with an electric hoist and sunk to greater depth. About 400 tons of ore from this shaft have been shipped direct to the smelter, one lot, carrying values of $70 per ton.
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At the annual meeting of the stock’ holders of the Hawthorne Mines, Inc., Hawthorne, Nevada, it was voted to consolidate with the Lucky Boy Consolidated Mines Company, which controls the former organization. The officers and stockholders elected for the coming year Include: President and General Manager J. H. Miller, George S. Green, D. M. Buckingham, A. J. Bogard, Jr., and A. M. Lasher. F. E. Buckingham was elected as secretary. A lease has been granted to the New El Dorado Gold Mines Company on the McCormick section of the Hawthorne property.
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The plant of the Golden Glow Mining Company, near Gardnerville, Douglas county, Nevada, has shut down temporarily on account of high water, according to President R. N. Lake. The company has 100 acres of placers above Horseshoe Bend on the Carson River and has been successful in the recovery of gold values. The gravel averages 50 cents a yard and with the dragline scraper and equipment has been handling from 75 to 100 yards a day. This is a California corporation.
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The tunnel being run in the development of the Silver Coin mine, owned by L. K. Kramer of Golconda, Nevada, is passing through the edge of an old hot spring and the formation is panning cinnabar. The objective is a gold and silver showing six feet wide at the surface and shipping will start as soon as it is reached. No production has been made since February, 1929, on account of the mine being blocked with mill ore.
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The Golden Eagle Mining and Milling Company, Kay H. Beach, secretary and general manager, Fallon, Nevada, is completing an ore road from the mine to the mill and will start milling as soon as enough ore is opened to make a long run. Gold and silver are the principal minerals. Gas and semi-Diesel power of 100 horsepower capacity are available for development and for operating the milling plant, which is of 50-ton daily capacity. The working force varies from two to 15 men.
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The Grey Eagle Mining Corporation, H. M. Gilbert, general manager, Beowawe, Nevada, plans installing a concentrating mill at its property in Lee Canyon. Some new machinery has been installed recently in the development of ores, carrying gold, silver, lead and bismuth. This property is owned by the same men as the Nevada Mexico Mining Corporation, but does not have the same officers. Franz Altmeyer of Chicago is president, and A. C. Hickman is mine manager.
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The Tri’O-Lite Product. Company has added two driers to its equipment at Vivjan, Nevada, and is mining, refining and distributing a non-metallic ore, known as kieselguhr. Twenty-four men are working and 24 tons of material are handled every 16 hours. The operating officials are C. T. Hurd of Carlin, Nevada, president and general manager; Len Hurst, mine superintendent, and E. E. Kedding, mill superintendent.
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A unit of 150-ton daily capacity is to be added to the 100-ton plant of the Premier Mine. Corporation of Nevada, according to President and General Manager Walter C. Bracking, P. O. Box 158, Reno, Nevada. Regular development work will be carried on, through tunnels, drifts, raises and glory holes. Fifteen men are engaged in mining and mill construction. George S. Cade, Canon City, Nevada, is superintendent of both mining and milling.
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A shaft is to be sunk in the Pearl claim of the Diamond group of mines at Silver Peak Nevada, according to Oscar Olsen of Goldfield, one of the three owners of the group. The property comprises 12 patented claims and 16 locations.
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According to President and General Manager H. C. Nicholson, a new ball mill will be installed at the property of the Nicholson Mining and Milling Company, near Ely Nevada. The company is developing the shaft and tunnel method with a small force of four men.
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The Gold Ace Mine Company, G. H. Boggs, general manager, Beatty, Nevada, has sunk its double-compartment shaft to its objective at a depth of 60 feet, the vein being from eight to 10 feet between walls. A six-inch streak is “picture rock,” according to Mr. Boggs, and the remaining width assays from $4.80 to $20.60 per ton in gold.
Complete Mat-O-Gold equipment has been installed to replace the old method of amalgamation. With this equipment, nearly all of the gold and concentrates are recovered and the cleanup from the Mat-O-Gold equipment is being treated by barrel amalgamation with a recovery of 90 per cent of the value of the ore treated.
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The Yellow Pine Mining Company, Herbert Shear, general manager, Goodsprings, Nevada, is contemplating the erection of a 100-ton flotation plant to recover lead. Later, an oxide plant will be built for reducing the carbonate ores to zinc oxide. Nineteen men are employed and production is mainly lead and zinc. Mining is conducted through the cooperation of G. J. Knight, 611 Financial Center Building, Los Angeles, president; H. B. Whitman, superintendent; J. O. Kemple, master mechanic, and C. N. Magnuson, secretary and auditor.
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Assessment No. 4 has been levied on the stock of the West Mines Corporation, Goldfield, Nevada, at the rate of 2 cents a share and payable on or before July 1, 1929. Proceeds will be used in further development of the mine at a lower level. The discovery in the Gloria mine in the early part of the year, and which has been followed 100 feet with varying widths of ore, has not been sufficient to prove the property.
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Beruatto, Franks and Morris, lessees at the Brougher Divide property, near Tonopah, Nevada, are shipping two carloads of ore that has been opened in a raise above the winze sank from the 176-foot level, 800 feet west of the Combination shaft. This is the first production since last December, when a rhyolite intrusion in the raise appeared to cut off the ore. Eddie Gehringer, operating the old Sanger lease west of the shaft, is delivering ore for shipment, and Walter Ross has his ninth carload of ore ready for shipment from his sub-lease in the winze from the 176 level, directly beneath the three B raise.
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The Black Mammoth Mining Company, Fred Vollmar, Jr., manager, Silver Peak, Nevada, has taken over the Morris Albertoli lease on the Mary mine and control of the Black Mammoth, now nearing completion. Mr. Albertoli will remain as mine superintendent for the Black Mammoth Company and Fay and Frank Hill will have charge of the mill. The plant was designed by Albert Silver, metallurgist for the Tonopah Belmont and the Gold Hill companies, and by use of the flotation process can treat 50 tons of ore daily, making a recovery of 90 per cent of the assay value.
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The Belmont Uncle Sam Mining Company, Charles Meyer, secretary and manager, 188 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, has entered the hanging wall of the vein on the 400 level of the Keyes Mine in Six Mile Canyon by driving to the north. The drift is in four feet of ore, averaging $80 per ton, according to President C. L. Richards, who, with other company officials, visited the property. Mr. Richards also stated that the workings are hot and the air is none too good, but better ventilation is to be provided.
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Charles H. Segerstrom of Sonora, California, has purchased the Silver Dyke and Tungsten property, near Sodaville, Mineral County, Nevada, and with Ott F. Heizer are getting development started. A compressor and pump are being installed and 1,700 feet of pipe are being laid to a well below the mine. Contracts will be let oh driving a 1,000-foot tunnel to tap a ledge highly productive during the war and on a 750-foot crosscut tunnel to reach the downward extension of a rich ore-shoot found by Alex Hanson.
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The report that the Nevada Gus group of five mining claims, two miles northeast of Olinghouse and four miles northwest of Wadsworth, Nevada, has been acquired by the California Mother Lode Mining Company, has been confirmed by J. E. Miller, 420 Clay Peters Building, Reno, who is vice- p resident and general manager for the California Mother Lode.
A vertical shaft was sunk 200 feet on the East vein and a 235-foot crosscut driven from the bottom when work stopped. Ingalls, a former operator, drove a 1,400-foot tunnel into the andesite, roughly paralleling the vein. The mine workings are in good condition, equipped with a hoisting plant and other equipment and accommodations for 12 men.
An assay from a small veinlet on the footwall of the ledge in one of the tunnels returned 400 ounces silver and 23.92 ounces gold to the ton, in the face of a crosscut driven west from the 200 level of the shaft, according to Mr. Miller.
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J. C. Bradley, Charles A. Hock and other Los Angeles, California, men, have organized the Shiloh Mining and Milling Company, for the development of the Eureka or Shiloh group of mining claims, 45 miles southwest of Goldfield, Nevada. Two tunnels and two shallow shafts have opened the property, said to contain commercial deposits of ore and plans are being made for a concentrating plant. There is plenty of timber and water for domestic and milling purposes.
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The Security Mining Company, N. H. Getchell, Betty O’Neal, Nevada, general manager, is sinking a new shaft to a depth of 300 feet in the hanging wall of a vein in its property in the Gold Circle district. The incline shaft is down 250 feet and water stands within 75 feet of the collar. The road to the mine is being repaired and the machinery overhauled. No work has been done at this mine for about 14 years, but it is estimated that several thousands of dollars worth of ore are in sight.
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The Bristol Silver Mines Company, E. H. Snyder, manager, has announced its intention to sink its three-compartment incline shaft in the Pioche District in Nevada, from the 1,700 level to a depth of 2,200 feet, and will start drifting at that depth to cut the fissure productive above. Stoping is being done on the 1,200-foot level and drifting has been started on the 1,550. The new 360-horsepower Diesel engine has increased power capacity to 840 horsepower, an ore bin is nearing completion, and other betterments are planned. J. H. Buehler is superintendent at Pioche.
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The Seven Troughs Extension Mines Company is engaged in the construction of a milling plant, near Lovelock, Nevada, for the recovery of gold and silver from its ores. Ten men are engaged in mining and mill construction, under the direction of G. W. Warmoth, vice-president and general superintendent, Box 8, Lovelock.
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Production of Tonopah’s two mills for the month of May was 167,710 ounces, valued at $119,800. Of this amount the Tonopah Extension contributed $26,800 and the Tonopah Mining, $93,000. With the present low price of silver, the Tonopah silver mines axe having a hard struggle, relieved somewhat by the fact that Tonopah ores carry an average of 1 ounce of gold to each 100 ounces of silver. Outlying camps, tributary to Tonopah, such as Manhattan, Round Mountain, Silver Peak and Tybo, are not affected by the declining price of silver, as all, with the exception of Tybo, are gold producers. Tybo production is lead and zinc.
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The Gold Hill Development Company, operating at Round Mountain, Nevada, H. A. Johnson, general manager, is concentrating development on sinking the shaft from the 400-foot level to a depth of 500 feet. Fourteen men are employed.
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Bradshaw, Inc., Mark Bradshaw, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, treated approximately 82,000 tons of slime from the Goldfield tailings pond during May and reclaimed about $27,489.44. The grade of material was lower than in April, but a good profit was made.
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It is understood that the Boulder Dam Placers, Inc., Mark Musgrove, 1185 Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles, California, has purchased machinery for the pumping unit of the gold recovery plant at its property, near Las Vegas, Nevada. The machinery includes a dragline scraper outfit, flume and sluice boxes. An order has also been placed for an 80-foot launch for use in connection with the company placer mining operations, up and down the river a distance of about 20 miles.
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Nevada Consolidated Copper Company declared its regular quarterly dividend of 75 cents a share, payable June 20, to stock of record June 14.
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MINING POSSIBILITIES OF CLARK COUNTY TMJ 6 30 1929
JUNE 30 1929 THE MINING JOURNAL
MINING POSSIBILITIES OF CLARK COUNTY BEING SURVEYED
Stimulated by the assurance that the construction of the Boulder Dam is practically an established fact, Clark County, Nevada, is swarming with engineers representing large mining and industrial concerns, it is reported. Metal mining conditions in that section, as well as the possibilities in the non-metallic line, are being made the subject of careful and exhaustive surveys.
Of special interest, in this connection is the attention being paid to the existence and extent of deposits of manganese ore, the Manganese Producers Association, with its consulting engineer, Alvin B. Carpenter, having made a thorough investigation of the county, gathering data regarding the deposits of this material.
The probable and possible tonnage of the metal producing mines of the county are also being given careful consideration, preparatory to the ultimate construction of reduction plants for the economic treatment of metal ores, either at Goodsprings, or Las Vegas. The ores of the district classify principally as lead, silver, zinc, copper and gold, with a frequent occurrence of the rare metals as well as non-metallics. The metal producers of the Yellow Fine district include the Yellow Fine, the Argentina, Potosi, Oro Amiga, and other mines of note.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 9 30 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL 9 30 1929
NEVADA
According to the State Tax Commission, the B. and B. Quicksilver Company, operating near Mt. Montgomery, west of Tonopah, made a gross yield of $78,971.16 for the first six months of 1929. The net proceeds were $29,518.98, as compared with $20,189.87 during the corresponding period in 1928. Peter Buol of Los Angeles, is president of the company.
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The old Calavada Mine near Luning, Nevada, which was recently taken over for taxes, by Mineral County, has been leased to A. G. Hachman of Luning. He has already shipped one 30-ton carload of ore that is expected to run 10 per cent copper. The ore came from an old tunnel, where a 12-inch streak is exposed that runs from 10 to 12 per cent copper.
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It is understood that the Eastern Iron and Metals Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, has started dismantling the mill and smelter of the Mason Valley Mines Company, at Thompson, Nevada. The Bluestone flotation mill has a capacity of 1,100 tons of ore per day and was operated for three years until the company closed down on April 1 of this year.
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The Goldfield Deep Mines Company, A. I. D’Arcy, president and manager, Goldfield, Nevada, has purchased a storage battery locomotive, and will put it in operation as soon as the track is strengthened. Ore up to this time has been moved by manpower. The locomotive can haul six cars, and the track will be required to carry 10 tons, instead of one, as formerly. New ties are being laid and the ditch is being repaired to keep it free from water. Elmer Hurt is general superintendent and Corrin Barns is chief geologist for the company. An average of 80 men are working.
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Announcement has been made that the Gold Hill Mining Company, Gold Hill, Nevada, has opened high-grade milling values in gold on the 400-foot level and about 42 feet from the shaft. The ore averages four feet in width, and will supply a large tonnage of feed for the proposed mill. Several improvements have been made by the Gold Hill Company, including four miles of power line, and a 75-horsepower hoist. H. A. Johnson of Tonopah is general manager of the company, and R. E. Tanner is mine superintendent.
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M. P. Revsbeck of Fallon, Nevada, has moved the slow speed Lane mill, from the old camp of Rawhide to Sand Springs, to treat ores from the Dan Tucker Mine, upon which he holds a lease. About 250 tons have been hauled from the mine to the mill, and considerable ore is said to be blocked out. Gold is the principal mineral.
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Production of Bradshaw, Inc., Mark Bradshaw, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, during August was $30,929.95. The July output was $88,858.52. Decrease is said to have been due to electrical storms, which caused an interruption of power on four occasions. The tailings yield a little higher than $1 in gold per ton, and it is estimated that there are enough to supply the plant for four years. With the advent of cool weather, production will decrease on account of the solution not working as well as it does in warm weather. On this account, the plant operates but seven to eight months a year.
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The Castle Peak Quicksilver Company, operating 19 miles northeast of Reno, Nevada, has been treating ore in its new rotary furnace, and at a capacity of 40 tons daily, expects to recover about 150 flasks of quicksilver a month. H. F. Loufek of Reno is president of the company. Development of the mine was started in April, 1928, and since that time approximately 50,000 tons of ore, averaging 12 pounds of mercury per ton, have been developed. An additional tonnage of ore, running in the neighborhood of six pounds of quicksilver per ton, has been opened in raises from the main workings, but is not blocked out.
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Horace A. Johnson, manager of the Tonopah Mining Company, Tonopah, Nevada, reports 3,000 tons of ore were extracted during the month of August. This is the greatest production in any single month in six years. “Ore in the old Mizpah Mine continues of a good grade,” said Mr. Johnson. “The ore reserves and the prospects for continued development and production are as great, if not greater, than at any time in recent years.”
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Plans of the Gold Hill Development Company at Round Mountain, Nevada, call for 1,000 feet of drifting on the 225-foot level and the same footage on the 400 level, according to H. A. Johnson of Tonopah, general manager. The objective of development is to open up enough ore to justify the erection of a mill of large capacity. A good grade of mill ore has already been opened up on three levels.
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A sample of ore from the winze being sunk by the Caliente Cobalt Mining Company, Caliente, Nevada, William S. Lawrence, manager, assayed 85 ounces silver and $6 gold to the ton. The winze has reached a depth of 27 feet below the tunnel level, or 70 feet below the surface. Aggressive development is planned on a number of strong showings.
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Harry Springer of Mina, Nevada, has shipped seven carloads of gold ore from the Mary Ann Mine in the Douglass District, to the smelter. He intends to install a hoist, and will sink a shaft to a depth of 200 feet below the tunnel level.
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B. T. Lyons of Mina, Nevada, president of the United Mining and Milling Company, announces that San Francisco and Los Angeles people, will furnish the money to build a 50-ton custom mill, near the springs at Sodaville, eight miles from Mina. The cyanide process will be employed.
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A good showing of cinnabar is reported in the Kane property in Dunlap Canyon, 11 miles east of Mina, Nevada. The property is under lease to A. I. Mills, who is operating a retort and producing about one flask of quicksilver a day.
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The Chalk Mountain Silver-Lead Mines Company is adding another Deister Table, and a classifier, to its concentrator, and will have the plant ready for operation by September 15, according to President and General Manager E. M. Dawes of Fallon, Nevada. Upon the installation of this machinery, a concentrate, carrying from 40 to 45 per cent lead and 18 to
30 ounces silver will be made. The property is at Chalk Mountain, 85 miles south of FalIon, where the main office is located.
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High-grade gold ore has been opened in a stope from the tunnel level in the Spade and Dot Mine, at the mouth of Galena Canyon, south of Battle Mountain, Nevada, according to G. D. Mathewson, manager. Specimens are reported to run as high as $1,000 per ton.
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One of the most successful quicksilver developments in Western Nevada at the present time, is that of McKinney and Good, near Arlemont, Nevada. A small rotary furnace is being operated, producing an average of three flasks a day, treating 20-pound ore, rejects sorted out. The high-grade is treated in retorts.
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The directors of the Missouri Monarch Consolidated Mines Company, met at the Salt Lake City offices, in the Clift Building, to check over plans for an 80-day development program, presented by Managing Director Duitcan MaeVichie. Among those present were S. T. Gregory of Tacoma, Washington; Frank D. Oakley, Tacoma, secretary; and W. M. Archibald, manager of mines for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. Application for building a 24-mile branch railroad between Ventosa and the mines, is being made to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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The Nevada Standard Mining Company is completely rehabilitating its old concentration and cyanide mill, at Cherry Creek, Nevada, and is installing flotation machinery. The initial unit will have a capacity of 50 tons daily and its machinery will be thoroughly tested on the ores before any attempt will be made to increase its capacity. The old power plant is being supplemented by a new Diesel engine and the old gas plant will be used.
During mill construction and other improvements the Star tunnel was re-timbered where necessary and ore chutes built. Work is to be started on the Imperial-Exchequer vein. L. E. Foster, Cherry Creek, Nevada, is trustee.
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The bullion production of the Tonopah Extension Mill, for the month of August, WAS 59,960 ounces, valued at $41,300. This is the largest production in ounces since last January.
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Alex. McMath and H. McKay, leasing on the Homestake company’s estate at Gilbert, Nevada, have received returns of $34.50 per ton on a shipment of 49 tons of gold ore consigned to the Desert Mill of the Tonopah Mining Company. This is their second carload shipment since taking over the lease last April. The first shipment, consisting of 40 tons, returned $54 per ton. The ore comes from a 30-foot depth from the old Midas tunnel.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 10 15 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL OCTOBER 15 1929
NEVADA
The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, operating in Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, disbursed a dividend of 75 cents a share, quarterly. The total payment was $3,642,986.
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At Tybo, Nevada, one shift is milling ore at the rate of 400 tons daily. About 70 tons of concentrates are hauled to Tonopah, daily. Mine development is pushed ahead of milling and the fourth Fageol truck has been purchased in view of milling during another shift. W. E. Hales is superintendent at Tybo; A. R. Hammond is mine foreman and H. M. Lewers is mill foreman.
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Louis McCrea and Frank M. Otto, who recently secured a lease on the Booth Mine at Wahmonie, Nevada, [as in NRDS, Nevada Test Site] are reported to be sacking $75 ore on the 150-foot level. It is said that Otto, was working in mine, when it was being operated by the Booth Company, and knew of a streak of high grade. With McCrea, he leased a block of ground 200 feet square with the privilege of working through the 600-foot shaft.
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The first shipment, consisting of a little over 54 tons, made from the Gilbert Mammoth Gold Mines Company’s lease on the Mammoth Mine, at Gilbert, returned $67.75 per ton, $61.60 of this being in gold. The Gilbert brothers, Fred, Herman and Logan, the original discoverer of the camp, control the company. “We have been shipping ore opened on all levels,” said Fred Gilbert, “but for the present about one carload every 10 days is about the best we can do, but later expect to do better.”
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The new furnace of the Castle Peak Quicksilver Company, near Virginia City, Nevada, has been adjusted to suit the ore and is working nicely. During a recent 20-day period, 110 flasks of quicksilver were shipped from Reno to San Francisco. Some 23-pound ore was opened in extending a stope north of the ore pass, above the south drift. It is being mixed with low grade to bring mill heads to between 10 and 12 pounds. Estimating costs of production at $45 per flask, the net operating profit should be around $12,000 a month. Arthur Schumaker is furnace superintendent and C. N. Shaffer is mine superintendent.
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It is understood that in drifting west from 104 crosscut, and 35 feet below the croppings, the Round Mountain Mining Company, L. D. Gordon, president, Fallon, Nevada, has followed 55 feet of ore that averages higher than $5 a ton. Exploratory work is being done on both placer and lode property. Due to lack of water, this has been a short season for hydraulic operations. Production up to the present time is $33,000 from 22,500 yards of gravel.
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George Lerchen and John Berlin have leased the Illinois Mine at Lodi, south of Quartz Mountain, Nevada, and are working lead-silver ore on the 200-foot level. This property was operated by the late J. C. Gorin.
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The B. and B. Quicksilver Company, E. J. Bumstead, superintendent, Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, has contracted with H. W. Gould and Company, in San Francisco, for the installation of a Gould 4x60-foot rotary furnace, dust chambers and condensing system and an 80-horsepower Fairbanks-Morse Diesel oil engine and electric generator. The engine will be direct connected with a generator to replace the steam plant now in use. A 5x50-foot rotary furnace has been in operation at the mine for about a year, with the exception of the month of August.
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The 50-ton mill of the Nevada Standard Mining Company, L. E. Foster, trustee, Cherry Creek, Nevada, will be ready for operation upon the arrival of a 200-horsepower motor, which has been shipped from the east. This is the first unit of a larger plant and is equipped with flotation machinery. Diesel engines and an electric generator will furnish power for operating the machinery in both the mine and mill.
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The Western Nevada Mines Company, C. J. Carpenter, general manager, Dayton, Nevada, is sinking a new vertical three-compartment shaft in its property at Como, Nevada, to a depth of 500 feet, for the development of two parallel veins, the Surprise and the Sundstrom, about 700 feet apart. Some development has been done from the 400-foot level of the incline shaft in the Surprise mine.
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H. L. Slosson, Jr., 333 Kearney Street, San Francisco, California, president of the Chollar, Savage and the Gould and Curry mining companies, owning property at Virginia City, Nevada, is making arrangements to drain the entire American Flat District. He will work through the Overman shaft, 1,600 feet deep, and connected at the 1,200, 1,400 and 1,600-foot levels with the Sutro Tunnel South Lateral, by means of drifts through the Crown Point, Belcher and the Yellow Jacket workings. The water can be handled by gravity through the Sutro Tunnel. A hoist has already been purchased and electric power and water connections are ready to start work.
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The Pan American Mining Company, George E. Coxe, general manager, Herald Building, Caliente, Nevada, has sunk the main shaft in the Stella Property, to a depth of 642 feet, and is raising from the 630-foot level, to determine the thickness of the ore body at that width. At the 500-foot level the ore was 28 feet thick. Eighteen men are working at the Forlorn Hope Mine in One Wheel Canyon. This is believed to be the same mineral belt as the Stella Workings are on. A power line is being built. John Valenti, who is working the Mountain Lion mines, has shipped a test lot of ore to the Murray smelter.
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Alex. Boyle has secured a 25-year lease on the W. G. Hoffman property, about 35 miles from Garderville, Nevada, and a mile from the Kit Carson Highway. A shaft has been sunk from the bottom of the gulch on a promising showing and either wall is in blue gouge, the ore being three feet wide and averaging as high as $89 a ton. Enough water and wood is close by for mining purposes.
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The Argentum Mining Company, F. G. Grube, general manager, 2401 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California, is developing mining property at Candelaria, Nevada, formerly operated by the New Candelaria Mines Company, John C. Rodder, manager. The Argentum Company erected a new gallows frame, over the Northern Bell shaft, and installed a 100-horsepower hoist and compressor. The shaft was sunk to the 1,900-foot level and a drift is now within 160 feet of the extension of ore opened on the 1,700-foot level, when the mine was under the management of Rodder. The 1,900 workings are very warm, but this condition is partly relieved by the installation of a No. 7 Buffalo blower. Two shifts of four men each are working.
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The Raymond Van Ness Mining Company, C. E. Van Ness, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, is getting ready to install a 40-ton rotary furnace at its property in the Spanish Belt District. Power for the plant and electricity for the camp will be generated by two Diesel engines.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation at Kimberly, Nevada, is producing at the rate of 2,500,000 pounds a month, according to President Smith, and production costs are averaging about 8 cents a pound. About 750 men are on the payroll. Earnings are running about $1.50 a share on the 1,400,000 shares, but no immediate payment of dividends is planned as extensive exploration and improvements have been in progress. Good reserves of high-grade copper ore have been opened at the Alpha Shaft. The management has sufficient working capital, and has no bonded, or other indebtedness. J. B. Haffner is manager of mines at Kimberly.
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The Ben Hur Mining Company, R. J. Kelly, president and manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has purchased the Surprise Mining Claim, end-lining the Gold Hill Development Company’s property at Gold Hill, four miles north of Round Mountain. The Gold Hill ledge runs directly through this claim with a showing of surface values of $5 to $6 in gold.
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The Kernick Divide Mining Company, James A. McLaughlin, superintendent, Fallon, Nevada, has made an important strike on the 150-foot level of its property, in Gold Canyon, near Sodaville. The ore body is six feet in width, all good shipping ore. An ore bin is being erected and a carload shipment will go forward at once.
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An assessment of 1/2 cent a share has been levied on the stock of the Silver Butte Consolidated Mining Company, payable to Secretary-Treasurer D. A. Walton, 400 Atlas Building, Salt Lake City. This is assessment No. 11. Silver Butte has a group of 16 claims in the Ruby Valley District in Nevada.
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The Ramsey Comstock Mine, at Ramsey, Nevada, is reported to have been closed down, except for a watchman. The only mine reported to be working in that district now is the Senator, where two men are sinking a working and prospect shaft for Thomas F. Cole.
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The Pure Salt Company, C. S. Boden, president and general manager, Box 861, Reno, Nevada, is setting its kiln on concrete foundations, near Fallon. Foundations for the main building and the furnaces have been completed and the brickwork on the furnaces will start within two weeks. The property is about 25 miles southeast of Fallon and machinery is being installed there to gather the salt, which will be taken to the plant for refining.
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The new mill of the Pioche Mines Company, Pioche, Nevada, John Janney, president and manager, was destroyed by fire on September 16, the eve of the starting of operations. Its capacity was 250 tons and less than 20 per cent of its cost was insured. About two hundred men have been thrown out of employment as the result of the fire.
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The Pony. Meadows Mining Company, D. F. Meiklejohn, president, Dayton, Nevada, intends to build a mill that can treat about 20 tons of ore daily. Its equipment will consist of a Joshua Hendy battery of two stamps of 850 pounds each, two Kinkead mills for finer grinding, plates and four Kraut flotation cells.
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Fred Gilbert, manager of the Gilbert Mammoth Gold Mines Company, operating the Mammoth Mine, at Gilbert, on a five-year lease, announces they now have a large quantity of shipping ore opened on the 160, 200 and 300 levels and will make regular shipments from now on. The first shipment of 60 tons, estimated to run better than $30 per ton in gold, went out September 21, consigned to the Tonopah Mining Company’s Desert mill at Millers.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 10 30 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL FOR OCTOBER 30 1929
NEVADA
The Tybo-Dominion Mines, Inc., has started the development of the Old Dominion Mine on the Uncle Sam fault, near Tybo, Nevada. A shaft has been sunk to a depth of 50 feet and a hoist is being installed to go to greater depth. This ground has been taken over from the Divide Extension Mining Company and development is being financed in New York City.
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The Reorganized Booth Mining Company has levied an assessment of 1 cent a share to pay off an indebtedness resulting from operations in the Wahmonie District in Nevada, and payment on an assessment of $2,242.95 on stock held by the company in the San Rafael Consolidated Mines Company. The indebtedness consists of money borrowed from banks amounting to $10,100.
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The Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, L. A. Friedman, general manager, Lovelock, Nevada, has completed retaining walls of concrete for its 100-ton cyanide mill, and is putting in foundations for the machinery. This plant was designed by Frederick Bradshaw, of San Francisco, and Albert Silver of Tonopah. Orders have been placed for a 460-horsepower Fairbanks-Morse Diesel oil engine and a 300-k.v.a. electric generator, which will be installed in the mine power house, at the portal of the tunnel. The tunnel, 7,840 feet in length, is equipped with two 120-horsepower Fairbanks-Morse Diesel engines, each directly connected with a 90-k.v. a. generator, and one 120-horsepower engine of the same type, which is operating an air compressor.
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The Mason Valley Mines Company has declared a $2 distribution in liquidation, payable to stockholders on surrender of certificates to the Bankers Trust Company, on and after October 15 and before December 31, 1929.
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Bradshaw, Inc., Mark Bradshaw, Tonopah, Nevada, general manager, reports production for September was $27,244.22, making a total of $174,597.69 cleaned up from the tailings ponds of the Goldfield Consolidated property, since resuming operations on April 15 of this year. This is the third year that the plant has been in operation and Bradshaw estimates that there is enough material to keep the plant going another three or four years. Production for 1928 was approximately $250,000.
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C. H. Lawson, superintendent of the Dumortierite Mine, 17 miles northeast of Lovelock, Nevada, reports 600 tons of ore ready for shipment to the Champion Porcelain Company of Detroit, where it is used in the manufacture of spark plugs for gasoline engines. Dumortierite, commonly known as spark plug ore, is a basic silicate of aluminum, and the Nevada deposit is said to be the only commercial deposit of its kind in the world.
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On the 600-foot level, the Reorganized Broken Hills Silver Corporation, J. E. Bevis, manager, 15 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, has drifted 90 feet east to get under the Belmont vein, and 80 feet to the west, to intercept the Broken Hills Vein. The latter heading is making considerable water, and is in a block of andesite, in which high-grade values were found on the upper levels. To take care of the flow of water, a sump has been sunk and the water is being hoisted in mine buckets. An assessment has been levied lately to permit continuing development.
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The Chalk Mountain Silver-Lead Mines Co., E. M. Dawes, president and general manager, Fallon, Nev., has remodeled the flow sheet of its new mill, and expects to resume operation within a few days. Although originally designed to recover vanadium and other rare metals, the mill will, in the future, recover gold and silver values from the ore.
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Operations in the West End Consolidated Mines, at Tonopah, H. D. Budelman, manager, which were suspended September 30, were resumed October 21, under lease to A. C. Spiers. Mr. Spiers has been the company’s electrician for the past 15 years and is conversant with every part of the mine. Work at present is on the 400-foot level of the West End shaft.
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It is understood that Frank Crampton, who recently returned from China, where he has been engaged in the export business, is reopening the Quo Vadis Mine, 24 miles east of Las Vegas, Nevada. This mine was located by the Catlin Brothers in 1905 and has produced much high-grade ore.
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The Mason Valley Mines Company will liquidate its property at Wabuska, Nevada, shortly through the distribution of $2 per share to the stockholders who surrender their certificates, according to H. E. Dodge, secretary to the company. The Majuba Hill was not included in the sale several weeks ago, but it is expected that it will be sold.
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The London Silver-Lead Company, owning property at Marietta, and at Weepah, Nevada, has been reorganized as the Gold Gulch Mining and Mining Company. The former has 1,200,000 shares outstanding and the latter has a capital stock of 5,000,000 shares of 10 cents par. Exchange will be made on a share-for-share basis and the remaining stock will be sold to assume indebtedness of about $26,000. A 50-ton Denver quartz mill was completed a short time ago. D. A. Whitaker, 102’k Burns Street, Reno, is president of both companies. M. W. Chiatovich, Box 172, Mina, is mine superintendent.
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A syndicate, represented by E. V. Price, of the Capital Insurance Company at San Francisco, has taken a bond and lease on the McNamara Mine at Railroad Springs. According to Mr. Price, a fund of $25,000 has been made available for development of the mine and rehabilitating the mill. Six men are sampling the mine. A road is to be built to connect with the highway, midway between Lida, and Goldfield, Nevada. Eight samples assayed, one coming from the upper stope, returned $36 across four feet. Two of three samples from the big stope gave 53 percent lead and 26 ounces silver, while the third returned 76 percent lead and 37 ounces silver to the ton.
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In compliance with the court order, the Rochester Silver Corporation in Pershing
County, Nevada, is to be appraised and offered for sale, after having been advertised for 20 days. The action follows a petition of the receiver, Charles T. Stevenson. The indebtedness amounts to $51,000, including $21,000 for federal taxes. Until recently, the mine and mill were operated on a lease, to W. G. Emminger and E. R. Bennett.
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J. W. Dunfee of Goldfield, superintendent of the Calavacla Mines Company, developing the Townsite group of claims at Hornsilver, Nevada, reports a rich strike on the 300-foot level. The strike is 18 inches of ore, carrying values of $160 per ton, and made 150 feet southwest of the shaft. The Calavada property is owned by L. W. Dye and Dr. Otto Dieckman of Cincinnati.
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The Arista Mines Company, W. H. Callicott, superintendent, is installing a 60-horsepower West Coast engine and five-drill Ingersoll-Rand compressor, near Carrara, Nevada. Two thousand feet of two-inch pipe have been laid to a recent find of high-grade ore, which assayed $90 per ton. A tunnel has been driven more than 30 feet to reach the downward extension of this ore and has about 90 feet to reach its objective.
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The Tonopah Extension Mining Company, J. G. Kirchen, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, produced 66,360 ounces of gold and silver, during September. It was valued at $45,600. This is the greatest monthly production by more than $4,000.
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The Reorganized Rosetta Divide Mining Company, January Jones, Box 1021, Reno, Nevada, president and manager, developing the Golden Rule group of eight mining claims, midway between Virginia City, and Ramsey, reports that the vein in the south drift from the Whip Shaft has been drifted upon a distance of 20 feet. It varies from three to five feet in width and carries values of $75 per ton in gold. Considerable commercial free-milling ore has been exposed in the north and south drifts on the 50-foot level, where the vein shows a width of eight feet.
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The Combined Metals Reduction Company, E. H. Snyder, general manager, Stockton, Utah, intends to install additional flotation machinery in its mill at Bauer, Utah. This plant is three units, and has a combined capacity of 520 tons daily. About 150 men are employed in the mill. At Pioche, Nevada, another 150 men are employed, and arrangements are being made for shaft sinking. R. A. Campbell is mine superintendent at Stockton and L. G. Thomas is mine superintendent at Pioche.
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WHITE CAPS MINE, MANHATTAN, NV TMJ 11301929
for NOVEMBER 30, 1929
NEVADA MINE ACCOMMODATES THE MINERAL MARKET
There is a mine at Manhattan, Nevada, that enjoys the reputation of being able to produce whatever metal, world industry most needs at some certain period. During the World War, when the nation was badly in need of antimony, this mine, the White Caps, proceeded to mine the needed metal, and ship it out by the carload; when the cotton crops were being destroyed by the boll weevil and the cry went out for arsenical solutions to destroy the pests, among the first to come to the rescue was the White Caps, with almost a carload a day of arsenic from its treasure house of many metals and substances.
When the demand for antimony and arsenic subsided, the White Caps returned to mining gold, and for the past few years has been shipping it at the rate of 15 tons [of ore] a day.
Now this unique mine has sprung another surprise by opening a shoot of cinnabar, that Manager J. O. Kirchen describes as “very, very rich.” He declines to make any further statement, but miners working in the property describe the shoot from three to six feet in width, which has been drifted upon, 60 feet, and is breaking down 80 percent cinnabar, and from $25, to $40 in gold, making a value totaling more than $1,000 a ton.
The new discovery was made on the 1,100-foot level, while exploring for new gold deposits. Once more, this unique mine has met the ever-changing whims of the market.
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NEW CLAIMS AT HAWTHORNE, NV INVALID TMJ 11301929
for NOVEMBER 30, 1929
NEW MINE LOCATIONS WITHIN MUNITION DEPOT INVALID
When the government decided upon Hawthorne, Nevada, as the site for the naval ammunition depot, a considerable area of land was withdrawn from entry by executive order. Included in the withdrawn area is the Pamlico Mine and the Lucky Boy property, together with much potential mineral ground. This led to considerable discussion among mining men and prospectors as to whether locations might be made within the bounds of the withdrawn area.
A request to the general land office has brought forth a ruling on the matter, which sets forth that valid mining claims within the reserve are fully safeguarded, but no new locations may be made.
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It is estimated that manufacturers of dairy equipment consume between 4,000,000 and 6,000,000 pounds of copper annually.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 11 30 1929
NEVADA
The Calavada Mines Company, J. W. Dunfee, superintendent, Goldfield, Nevada, has 400 sacks of ore that run from $100 to $300 a ton in gold and silver, ready for shipment from its property at Hornsilver. The 18-inch streak of high-grade ore is holding up well, and it is understood that it is accompanied with eight or nine feet of milling values.
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C. A. Rose, California mine operator, has gained a working option on the Prince of Wales Mine at Cedar Station, 35 miles north of Eureka, Nevada, owned by Mrs. Jennie Leighton of Eureka. The engine and hoist on the ground, have been placed in working condition, and the 500-foot shaft and drifts cleaned out, preparatory to a thorough sampling of the mine. Mill tests are being made of the ore to determine a suitable process of treatment.
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The Silver Circle Mining Company, operating at Wells, Nevada, has levied an assessment of 1/2 cent a share, payable to Secretary-Treasurer J. W. Luckart, at his office at Contact, Nevada. Date of delinquency is December 2, 1929.
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A reorganization of the West End Consolidated Mines Company was announced in a regular circular to stockholders, mailed November 12, and signed by H. D. Budelman, manager. The new company will operate under the corporate name of the West End Consolidated Corporation. Shares of the old company are exchangeable for shares in the new company on a basis of one share of new for five of the old. The new corporation will have a capitalization of 1,000,000 shares of $1 par value.
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In its regular weekly report, the Gold Hill Development Company, reports a three-foot vein of gold rock, ranging from $25 to $50 per ton, exposed on the 225-foot level. The drift on this level is in ore for 165 feet. H. A. Johnson is general manager.
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The net income of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, J. C. Kinnear, general manager, McGill, Nevada, during the third quarter of the current year, was $5,717,409, or $1.14 a share, after depreciation, but before depletion and federal taxes. During the corresponding period in 1928, the net income was $4,649,695, or 96 cents a share. The net production of copper, from all sources, amounted to 60,190,553 pounds during the third quarter; 72,616,900 pounds during the second quarter, and 78,881,399 during the first quarter. The net cost per pound of copper produced in the third quarter, after crediting revenue from gold and silver, and other miscellaneous earnings, and income from subsidiaries, was 9.32 cents as compared with 8.96 cents in the first quarter of this year.
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Bradshaw, Inc., Mark Bradshaw, Tonopah, Nevada, general manager, has reclaimed $29,005.51 from the tailings of the old Goldfield Consolidated mill during October, making production for the seven months of this year $193,604.20. It is expected that the Bradshaw plant will operate until December 1, before suspending work until next spring. Production this year will be less than during the 1928 season on account of the shutting off of power on account of storms at various periods.
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Willard E. Hales, superintendent of the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., Tybo, Nevada, reports that the concentrator is treating 300 to 350 tons of ore daily. A station is being cut at a depth of 860 feet in the new shaft, and sinking will be continued to the 1,000-foot point. All of the mine levels are being worked. On account of the long haul from Tonopah, to Kellogg, Idaho, by rail, improvements are being made in the filtering methods, so that a dried concentrate can be shipped during the winter. W. H. Blackburn, representing the Treadwell-Yukon Company, has taken a lease and option on the Byron S. Wilson claims on Dry Creek, 10 miles west of Alpha, Eureka County, where there are said to be 1,000 feet of lead, zinc and silver surface croppings. This ground will be prospected to determine whether or not it justifies more exploration.
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During October, the Tonopah Mining Company turned out 106,500 ounces of gold and silver bullion, valued at $76,000, and the Tonopah Extension Mining Company turned out 65,520 ounces, valued at $43,500.
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The Goldfield’ Deep Mines Company, A. I. D’Arcy, president and manager, Goldfield, Nevada, is taking over a group of four mining claims, 35 miles from Weiser, Idaho. This is a new producing mine in an old district, and ore now being sent out is averaging $50 a ton in gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc. Additional equipment is to be installed later.
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The Nevada Massachusetts Company, O. F. Heizer, manager, Mill City, Nevada, is negotiating with the Mineral County Power system for the construction of six miles of new line, connecting with its Silver Dike Mine. The cost of construction wilt be between $10,000 and $11,000. The 75-ton mill at the Silver Dike tungsten Mine is nearly constructed.
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J. Grant Crumley, president of the Tonopah Keystone Mining Company, Tonopah, Nevada, announces that work will be resumed in about 10 days. A 75-horsepower hoist has been ordered to replace the old 85-horsepower hoist. The Keystone suspended work about a year ago, at which time the shaft was down 765 feet in values.
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The Empire Trust Company of New York, through its attorneys, has filed a suit in the United States Court at Carson City, Nevada, against the Eureka Smelting Company, to foreclose a mortgage for $1,000,000 with defaulted interest. The mortgage covers the mines of the company at Eureka, and was given to secure the payment upon bonds to the amount of $1,000,000.
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The Eastern Iron and Metal Company of Salt Lake City, Utah, which purchased the mine and mill of the Mason Valley Mines Company, at Thompson, Nevada, is understood to be making arrangements to let leases on the ground. The Majuba Hill property in the Antelope Springs District was not included in the sale to the Eastern Iron and Metal, and, on October 29, was sold to the Newmont Mining Company, at public auction in Reno. During the war, the Majuba Hill Mine shipped about 2,000 tons of 12 per cent copper ore and is said to contain a large tonnage of 3 per cent ore in its upper workings.
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It is stated that the stockholders of the Oro Amigo Platino Mining Company of Los Angeles, have voted to increase the capitalization from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, while the directors have approved the purchase in fee, of 160 acres of prospective oil land, located about one mile southeast of Farmington in the San Juan oil basin of New Mexico.
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The report of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, J. C. Kinnear, general manager, McGill, Nevada, for the first nine months of the current year, shows a profit of $16,028,182, or $3.29 a share, Computed similarly, the company earned $10,368,093, or $2.14 a share, in the corresponding period of the preceding year.
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The Sutro Tunnel Coalition, Inc., James M. Leonard, manager, Virginia City, Nevada, has installed an electric hoist at the collar of a winze, sunk below the Crown Point Tunnel. A power line has been built and transformers set in place, to permit continuing the winze below its present depth of 48 feet. The workings on the 865-foot level of the Chollar and Potosi mines in the Middlemines group, nearly a mile north of the Crown Point, are being placed in condition for mining and some new ground is being explored with success. The management is considering building a mill at a point advantageous to the two groups of mines.
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A shipment of 50 tons of ore was consigned to the Midvale smelter by the Tonopah, 76 Mining Company, operating a lease on the Garfield Mine, in the Mina District, in Nevada, and settled for at the rate of $15 for gold, and $78.08 for silver to the ton. After deductions for freight, smelting, etc., the net smelter returns on the shipment were $3,601.58.
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It is understood that F. W. Bradley of San Francisco and associates, have purchased the option on the Mine Mercury property, 12 miles east of Mina, Nevada, held by Bedford, Gunnell and Miller. Late in August a 25-ton rotary furnace was installed at the property, but some difficulty was encountered with soot, and this was not overcome until recently. The last run of the furnace recovered five flasks one day, and seven during the next, from about 20 tons of ore each day.
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E. A. Montgomery, and Fred Wallace, of Hawthorne, have closed a deal for the Wallace and O’Brien quicksilver mining property at Paradise Peak, 44 miles north of Mina, Nevada. The deal included the transfer of three mining claims, and a water site, four miles distant. James O’Brien has charge of the work there, which includes clearing a road to the tunnel site, and establishing a camp.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 8 15 1931
THE MINING JOURNAL
NEVADA
The report of the Consolidated Coppermines Corporation for the first quarter of the current year shows that 208,975 tons of ore were mined and treated from the Emma Nevada mine and 951 tons from the Alpha property, which is a much curtailed production. The metal contents recovered from these ores were 5,820,921 pounds of copper, 2,885 ounces of gold and 6,471 ounces of silver. The operating costs per pound of copper, after crediting income from gold and silver but before writing off development charges applicable to the tonnage mined and before provision for depreciation, were 7.666 cents, as compared with 8.886 cents per pound similarly computed for the year 1980. There was a reduction in the amount of development work done and, in view of the unsatisfactory immediate outlook for copper metal prices, steps have been taken to effect a still further reduction. Net current assets as of March 5, 1931, with unsold copper carried at 10.5 cents a pound were $1,775,620.27. With unsold copper valued at 8.5 cents a pound this figure would be $1,540,686.68. Under existing conditions, the company’s policy is to conserve resources and to reduce operations and expenses to the point most consistent with efficient operation.
Dumortierite is being dumped into the new ore bin of the Champion Sillimanite Company in Limerick Canyon, northeast of Lovelock, Nevada. It is to be shipped to the company’s spark plug works in Detroit, Michigan. C. D. Woodhouse of Mocalno, California, is manager of the mine and the office for the mine is in Mocalno.
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L. F. Jacobson, who has been leasing the property of the Bullion Mining Company in the Yellowpine District in Clark County, Nevada, for the past few months, has shipped a second carload of ore to the Ozark Smelting and Mining Company at Coffeyville, Kansas. The car contained 65 tons of ore and the control assay was 81.5 per cent zinc and 14.9 per cent lead. After deducting $554.50 for freight from Goodsprings to Coffeyville, the shipment returned $1,101.15. The first shipment was made in June and returned $1,175. According to Mr. Jacobson, good ore is showing in two or three places, and production will be continued.
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July 29, the Pilot Range Mining Company, J. F. Milton, president, shipped six and one-half tons of ore to the Selby smelter from his lease on a block of the Belleville mine, 12 miles east of Mina, Nevada. The ore is similar to a three-ton shipment, which these lessees made on
June 30, and which returned $747.25 a ton. The Belleville Gold Metals, Inc., which was being organized in April, was never fully organized and the property is still owned outright by 0. S. Belleville. On his own account, he is driving a working tunnel 120 feet lower than the present workings to cut the contact, and the adit will give a depth of 100 feet below water level. Mr. Belleville says that the dump contains a good grade of milling ore.
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The Consolidated Virginia and Andes Company, Inc., organized by Los Angeles capitalists, has begun the development of an extensive area of practically virgin ground on the north end of the Comstock Lode. Charle E. E.gan, mining engineer of New York City, is in charge of the mine. Sections of the Consolidated Virginia mine are to be opened from the Andes shaft and an east-west drift driven to the Consolidated Virginia ore body at the 600-foot depth. An electric hoist is being installed. It is probable that the old C. and C. shaft will be used later and connected with the Andes.
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The sinking of a 800-foot shaft in the old Montezuma gold-silver mine at Silver City, Nevada, will be started immediately upon the installation of a hoist and compressor. The property has recently been acquired by Dr. John W. Ross and Irwin B. Hall, 205 East First Street, Long Beach, California. The Montezuma lies near the Dayton, Kosuth and other noted producers.
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Both the quartz and placer claims of the Copper Canyon Mining Company, near Battle Mountain, Nevada, are on production. The ore from the quartz claims, is averaging $20 a ton and the placers are said to be yielding $5 and higher a cubic yard, although a shortage of water and crude methods of operation hamper operations somewhat. Control of the property is vested in southern California, and S. C. Brumblay of Winnemucca is field representative and manager for the company.
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The Belmont Uncle Sam Mining Company has decided to build its own reduction plant, one of about 25 tons’ daily capacity, according to Charles Meyer, 138 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, secretary and general manager of the company. A substantial tonnage of gold-silver ore has been developed, ready for treatment; the shaft is 400 feet deep, and the main ore vein that has been followed more than 40 feet averages seven and one-half feet across. C. L. Richards, an attorney, also of Reno, is president of the company.
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The Snyder interests of Salt Lake City, Utah, of which B. H. Snyder, 220 Felt Building, is president, are carrying on some development in the Bristol and Raymond Ely Extension properties at Pioche, Nevada. In the former, the work is confined to drifting beneath the old Hillside property, which yielded heavily on the upper levels. During 1929 and 1930 the Bristol was the largest lead producer in the state and also enjoyed a heavy silver production. The latter is a prospect, financed for the purpose of finding the extensions of the Raymond Ely and Meadow Valley vein systems, which were highly productive west of the fault. Jackrabbit, a mile distant, is the loading station and the power plant which serves the various Snyder projects in the district, is located there.
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The Rhyolite Consolidated Mining Company, D. M. Findlay, manager, has remodeled its amalgamation mill and is considering installing a cyanide unit. With the old arrangement, a recovery of 85 per cent was made, and tests have shown that the addition of cyanide will allow a recovery of 92 per cent. Power for both mining and milling will be furnished by two Diesel engines of 100 and 150 horsepower, and either of these machines will be able to carry on the work in the case of a breakdown of the other. Approximately 48,000 tons of $12 ore is on the dump and it is estimated that the tailings ponds hold another 120,000 tons that were recovered largely from the Overbury lease, which paid $100,000 in 15 days. William Kidd, formerly with the Tonopah Extension, will have charge of the mill, and M. A. Nelson, formerly at Creede and Cripple Creek, Colorado, will have charge of the mine. A four-inch pipeline is being laid from Indian Springs, five miles distant, and will be in place before the end of this month.
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The Tonopah Hasbrouck Mining Company has purchased a group of five claims in the Sawtooth Mountains in Pershing county, Nevada, not far north of the new camp of Scossa. The claims are known as the Golden Locks and were purchased from A. E. Ludwig. Water rights for mining and milling purposes will be filed on, and it is understood that they will do some work on the new ground this fall. Tonopah Hasbrouck has completed the annual assessment work on a number of its claims.
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W. S. Baxter, M. C. Stromer, John Berlin and George M. Lerchen of Broken Hills, Nevada, are installing a hoist over the old Reader shaft in the Aspen camp close to the Nye-Churchill county line, nine miles north of Lodi Tanks. This shaft was sunk to a depth of 50 feet a little more than 20 years ago and is included in the 12 claims taken over by the Broken Hills man. After cleaning out the old workings they resumed sinking and are now below the 100-foot point. The formation is getting harder and it is understood they intend to crosscut to the ledge, which has passed out of the shaft.
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Ore from the Mustang Extension mine in the Manhattan district, Nevada, is being treated in the local custom mill, owned and operated by Matt Kane, at a rate of approximately 50 tons daily. The mine is owned by Lowell Stanley but is being operated by a syndicate composed of Mr. Kane, J. B. Cowden, George Ferrick and H. W. Tucker, all local men. Since June 9 they have been working the property and have sunk a 110-foot shaft and drifted 70 and 110 feet east and west. The quality of the ore has improved from $10 to about $14 a ton in gold in the drifts. The water supply is adequate.
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With all departments of the mine and mill working nicely, the Gold Hill Development Company at Round Mountain, Nevada, is extending its shaft from the 400 to the 500-foot point, in pursuance of a policy outlined by J. K. Kitto, president of the company. All the stopes are full of ore and approximately 8,000 tons are being delivered to the mill a month. Notwithstanding the two-day holiday over July 4th, the production was $11,800, as compared with $10,600 for the previous two weeks. George E. Spitzer, formerly on the staff of the Tonopah Mining Company, is assisting H. A. Johnson of Tonopah, manager of the company, as mine superintendent.
Dr. O D. Thomas of Las Vegas, Nevada, has taken over the Pompeii mine at Searchlight, Nevada, and has a crew of seven men reopening it. The 10-stamp mill will start work shortly.
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The Seven Troughs~ Gold Mines Company has closed down its mill, near Lovelock, Nevada, and has reduced its crew in mining to 15. Most of the work is confined to prospecting with diamond drills the Mazuma Hills area. L. A. Friedman is general manager.
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Harry W. Boyer, 2406 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, California, has optioned the Childress-Welter group of five claims about 80 miles south of Battle Mountain. This property adjoins the Gold Dome mine, controlled by the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company, and of which air. Boyer is president.
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What has all appearances of being a large body of ore has been uncovered by lessees in virgin ground in the Potosi mine at Virginia City, Nevada. The property is owned by the Sutro Tunnel Coalition, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of the Comstock Tunnel & Drainage Co. The ledge is 25 feet wide and was located at a depth of 90 feet from the surface. The ore carries an average metallic content across the ledge of $10 per ton; however, much richer ore exists on the hanging wall side of the vein, and this is being taken out and shipped separately. Two railroad cars, sampling $40 per ton, have already been shipped to a Utah smelter. The men interested in the lease are Frank Erno, Andy Antunovick, Henry Harrington and George Antunovieh. James M. Leonard is general manager of the company.
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G. S. Woodward and associates of Salt Lake City, Utah, have acquired the old Hartley mining property in the Spruce Mountain silver-lead district, about 20 miles I from Tobar, Nevada. A company organized as the Centennial Consolidated Mining Company is getting the property ready for development and installing machinery at a cost of approximately $6,000. It will include a Fairbanks-Morse hoist and a Gardner-Denver compressor. The Hartleys had shipped considerable high-grade ore from the shaft and, upon investigation, it was found that the lower grade had been put back of poles and stulls, since decayed, leaving the ore in a mass that is easily broken. Copper and iron are associated with the silver and lead values.
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Development at the Fireball camp in Washoe county, Nevada, 10 miles from Hot Springs, is said to be going forward by leaps and bounds. In the few weeks since the rich gold discovery attracted attention, general camp equipment, a compressor, pipe, rails, power drills, cars, blacksmith tools and small supplies, costing approximately $4,000, have been placed on the ground.
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Some development has been undertaken by a group, known as the Yellowgold Mining and Milling Syndicate, on property 20 miles north of Springdale and about six miles east of the Beatty-Tonopah railroad. The work follows the discovery of a new vein that runs from $25 to $80 a ton in gold in the bottom of an old 100-foot shaft. The new district has been christened Yellowgold.
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Both wet and dry washers are being installed on the Andy Pruett placer ground in Limerick Canyon, 23 miles northeast of Lovelock, Nevada, and tests of the placers will be made as soon as the installation is complete. The work is being carried on by a group of San Francisco capitalists, represented by T. FL Bacon, who have recently taken an option on the property.
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To carry the company over the industrial depression, the Basque Mining and Milling Company has amended its laws to permit assessing the stock and has levied an assessment of ½ cent a share. The funds from the assessment together with the regular proceeds from the operation of its mill at the mines, 17 miles north of Winnemucca, Nevada, are expected to provide for regular operations for six months. B. T. Godfrey is general manager and has a force of 13 men employed. W. R. Benedict is mill superintendent.
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Five days after the rehabilitated McTigue mill at Silver City, Nevada, was placed in operation by the Comstock Speculator Mining Company, it had cleaned up 76.13 ounces gold, which netted $839.70 at the mint, according to Charles G. Stuart, president and general manager.
While the mill has only 15 stamps it has been reconditioned to a degree that it can treat nearly 50 tons of ore a day. Additional stamps may be added to keep pace with the tonnage that is being mined. The ore is coming from the face of a 70-foot drift in the Flora Temple property, which has a production of close to a million dollars in gold to its credit.
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The Mt. Montgomery Quicksilver Company at Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, is ready for the installation of a 25-ton furnace, according to L. W. Whiting, president and general manager, but on account of the difficulty of financing it will probably operate the two retorts on the property for awhile. The ore is soft and is expected to average 6 to 12 pounds of quicksilver to the ton, with some shoots of higher grade. Six men are on the payroll.
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The Trinity Gold Mining Company has completed a tunnel to a winze that has produced $30,000 in sinking 100 feet, but the lease expired before all the ore could be extracted and the winze was destroyed by caving it in. The winze has been found to be in such condition that it will be very much cheaper to sink another, on or near the same fissure. Since the ground is dangerous in its immediate vicinity, the work will begin soon, according to H. M. Gilbert of Beowawe, Nevada, president and general manager. The mine has been opened to the 100-foot level and found to contain much low-grade ore that is now being milled. Nine men are working. J. F. Gilbreth is assistant general manager, and Clyde Herbert is mine superintendent.
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The Mercury Mining Syndicate, controlled by F. W. Bradley, 1022 Crocker Building, San Francisco, California, has been succeeded by the Bradley Mining Company. The new concern has the same backing and its operations are being conducted under the general supervision of 0. L. Cash, who was in charge for the Mercury Mining Syndicate. The change occurred when the former company had exhausted its supply of low-grade cinnabar ore, and the Opalite reduction works, 15 miles west of Mcflermitt, Nevada, which had treated the ore, is still in operation under the new name. But, it is treating ore that is being trucked from the Bretz property, just across the state line in Oregon, at the rate of 50 to 60 tons a day. This property was optioned last February and is being operated by power shovel, tractor and scraper. The company has also optioned the Corders prospect, 20 miles southeast of Opalite, and the Buckskin prospect in the Buekhorn Mountains, 40 miles southeast of Opalite. H. Burmeister is in charge of the furnaces. A. V. Lidell of San Francisco is general manager of the company.
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The Esmeralda Gold Mining Corporation intends to change its shaft to vertical and to install a larger hoist and a compressor, according to Engineer C. D. Wilkinson, Box 174, Tonopah, Nevada, president and general manager of the company. The company has been idle since 1919. The equipment is being operated by gasoline power. Six men are engaged in development and are producing the ore that is accumulate by development. At the present time the workings are 100 feet deep.
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Bradshaw, Inc., Mark Bradshaw, president, Tonopah, Nevada, has declared dividend No. 8 calling for a distribution of $10,000 to its three or four stockholders, and making a grand total of $100,000 paid since the company went on a dividend basis last year. This is the fifth year of operations and gross production to the close of June, 1981, has totaled $1,041,415.88.
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SALT LAKE CO. TO WORK OXIDIZED
AND SULPHIDE ORES AT WABUSKA
The Eastern Iron and Metal Company at Salt Lake City, Utah, has announced the development of a new reagent for the treatment of oxidized ores, and as soon as copper prices warrant, they intend operating the 1,500-ton flotation mill at Wabuska, Nevada. The new reagent can be use’] In the regular flotation circuit and the sulphide and the oxide ores floated at the same time.
At the present time the Mason Valley and the Bluestone mines are being developed by lessees, who have opened up five new faces of ore, averaging 10 per cent copper, according to Joseph Rosenblatt of the Eastern Iron and Metal Company. A large tonnage of 2.5 to 8.5 per cent oxidized copper ore is blocked out, as well as a large tonnage of 1.5 to 2 per cent sulphide ore. Eastern Iron and Metals has owned these mines and concentrator since July, 1929, when it closed a deal with the Mason Valley Mines Company, now dissolved.
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PIOCHE MINES, NV WORD POST TMJ 12 30 1930
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PONY MEADOWS MINE, COMO, NV WORD POST 11 15 1932
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LANDER COUNTY, NV BROCHURE TMJ 5 15 1939
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DELINQUENT PATENTED CLAIMS IN NV WORD POST TMJ 3 15 1940
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NEVADA METALS PRODUCTION 1937 WORD POST TMJ 1 30 1938
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NEVADA GOLD PRODUCTION WORD POST TMJ 6 15 1930
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NEW ACTIVITY AT DELAMAR NEVADA TMJ 6 15 1930
for JUNE 15, 1930
DELAMAR MINING DISTRICT SHOWS RENEWED ACTIVITY
Thirty miles southwest of Caliente, Nevada, is Delamar, one of the old gold camps which is showing indications of renewed life. While the present activity may not lead to a return of the good old days, which the old-timers never tire of recounting, a prosperous year seems to be in store for those who still have faith in the hidden wealth of the district, and who are reopening several of the old mines.
Delamar, first discovered in the ‘60’s, but not then known by its present name, has an interesting history. In those pioneer day, the nearest railroad connection was at Milford, Utah, a distance of approximately 200 miles. The cost of hauling supplies and ore by mule and ox-freighting outfits, was $45 per ton, making it impossible to mine anything but high-grade ore. The April Fool Mine, which is said to have produced $26,000,000, was the first discovery in the District. It was purchased by Captain Delamar, associated with the Bambergers of Salt Lake City, and a dry crushing plant was installed. The fine quartz dust inhaled by the workers killed a large number of them, before a water supply was developed, and wet crushing employed.
This was at the time when the country was infested with outlaws, who preyed upon stages and freight outfits hauling bullion. It is recalled that the Delamar operators, in order to outwit the robbers, used a round safe, which weighed several tons. The door to the safe was screwed in, and could be removed only by machinist, when the shipment reached Salt Lake City. Each shipment was accompanied by four guards, armed with sawed-off shotguns, two of the men riding on the wagon, while two rode horses, and it is said that no hold-up attempt was ever made on this outfit.
Among those interested in the present activities, is a company, headed by Springdale, Utah, men, which has leased the Delamar tailings, of which it is said there are a million tons, averaging $8 per ton. The Nevada-Arizona Gold Mining Company, in which A. F. Jensen, of Fredonia, Arizona, B. C. Granger of Sparks, Nevada, and C. T. Banovich, one of the old pioneers of the Delamar District, are associated, has taken over the Little Gem and Rainbow properties. It is said that a lease and bond has been obtained, and that work is under way on the Magnolia Property, which is credited with a past production of $4,000,000. Caliente, which is 30 miles distant from these mines, over a fair road, is now the shipping point.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 1 15 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
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The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, operating in Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, disbursed $8,642,936 in dividends during the month of December. Payment was made at the rate of 75 cents a share quarterly.
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The Reno Divide Consolidated Mines Company has given notice of assessment No. 3, of 2 cents per share, which is payable to Maurice J. Sullivan, secretary, 806 Byington Building, Reno, Nevada. Date of delinquency is January 19, 1930.
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John H. Miller of Hawthorne, mine operator, has located a showing of copper ore, on the west side of Walker Lake, Mineral County, Nevada. Samples have assayed as high as 10 percent copper with some gold and silver, and the average of a number of samples taken at random was 1.42 percent. He has located 26 claims, and has an option on six more. It is planned to use a portable air compressor, and machine drills, in exploratory work. Water is available, and power can be brought to the property by a 15-mile power line.
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The Gold Circle Consolidated Mines Company, N. H. Getchell, president and general manager, Betty O’Neal, Nevada, shipped a 20-ton carload of high-grade gold ore from the Benane-Miles-Rae lease, to the United States smelter in Utah, just before the expiration of its lease on December 31, 1929.
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Excavation, preparatory to the construction of a 80-ton mill, has been done at the portal of the lower tunnel of the Basque Mining and Milling Company, Frank H. Stewart, foreman, Winnemucca, Nevada. This company is operating in the Sherman Mining District, 28 miles north of Winnemucca, and intends to begin actual construction in the spring. According to a survey, the lower tunnel, now in 800 feet, should cut the vein within 50 feet. This tunnel will be advanced 120 feet, and will be connected with the upper tunnel by a 167-foot raise. The officers of the Basque company are: Franc S. Brereton, president and general manager, 1505 Josephine Street, Berkeley, California; J. S. Brereton, vice president, 803 Kearns Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, and T. H. Perlewits, secretary and treasurer.
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The Gold Hill Development Company, H. A. Johnson, superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada, has discovered a two-foot vein of ore, assaying about $20.50 per ton, 97 feet from the shaft on the 400-foot level. This crosscut had been driven to determine whether or not there was a split in the vein. Five, somewhat parallel quartz veins, crop on the surface of the property, showing values in gold and silver. [Rehab Notes: now part of Kinross Gold.]
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Two carloads of ore, netting $22 a ton, have been shipped to the market at Salt Lake City, Utah, by the Missouri Monarch Consolidated Mines Company, E. E. Gardanier, superintendent, Black Forest, Nevada. The Black Forest Tunnel, now in 2,400 feet, should cut the first north-south vein, in another 200 feet, and 650 feet of drifting, should intersect an east-west vein. A shaft is to be sunk from the crest of the mountain, to connect with this tunnel at 8,200 feet, and will be used for shipping, in event the proposed railroad is built. Driving of the Spruce Monarch Tunnel has been discontinued, with the exception of development on the 600 level, to permit diamond drill prospecting.
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It has been announced that the Cortez Consolidated Mining Company at Cortez, Nevada, is closing down, and that out of the 100 men employed during the past year, only a few remain. It is understood that this is the result of the low price of silver. No announcement of future plans has been made.
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The R. and K. Mining and Milling Company has completed its new 60-ton mill, and is treating a daily average of 40 tons of ore from its Valcalda Mine, near Silver Peak, Nevada. The ore assays from $12 to $15 per ton in gold. Both the flotation and amalgamation processes are used in milling. Frederick N. Rock, 8820 Falcon Street, San Diego; California, and associates, control this company.
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The Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Inc., near Arlemont, Nevada, is operating a small rotary furnace and, is producing from 60 to 75 flasks monthly. This was formerly known as the Good and McKinney Property, but was transferred to this name last July. Elmer F. Good recently bought the interest of J. L. McKinney, his partner, and he now controls 90 percent of the stock.
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The shaft in the May Property of the West Mines Corporation, is now down 70 feet, and will be extended to the 100-foot level, where a station will be cut, and crosscuts driven into both the footwall, and hanging wall. The vein at the present level, is about six feet wide, and on the west side of the shaft, wedges of shale with quartz stringers are showing, indicating that the exact width of the vein is not known. W. E. Sirbeck, Goldfield, Nevada, is president of the company.
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The Mountain City Mine, north of Elko, Nevada, has struck a vein of gold-silver ore, assaying about $100 per ton, in a raise from the main tunnel, according to B. L. Cutler, mine superintendent. The mine crew is now working about 2,000 feet from the tunnel adit on a two-foot vein of quartz, and ore is being stored in the bins and on the dumps, for mill operation in the spring. The high-grade ore will be shipped to Salt Lake City, Utah, and the low grade will be milled at the property.
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Heavier hoist machihery is being installed by the Keystone Divide Mining Company at Manhattan, Nevada, and underground work will be resumed within 30 to 60 days, according to J. Grant Crumley. The 765-foot shaft penetrated 665 feet of water flow, before entering mineral formation, and the last 25 feet show gold stringers. At the bottom of the shaft, a crosscut will be run to the main vein, and a station will be cut.
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The Nevada-Mont Mining Company, Ira Stanley, superintendent, has completed a water reservoir, laid 4,000 feet of pipe, installed equipment, and begun washing gravel, at its property about 45 miles north of Lovelock, Nevada. The gravel tests from 70 cents to $25 per cubic yard, and the company expects to work 200 cubic yards during each eight-hour shift.
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The Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., J. C. Kirchen, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has issued an official letter to bondholders and stockholders, which states that it is advisable to build a concrete dam on the 1,180-foot level, to hold back water released by development, and which will be pumped out by electric pumps. Indications of a new ore body have been encountered in the west drift, on the 1,540-foot level, and on the 1,530 vein. The circular further stated: “It may be feasible, if good ore bodies are found in the near future, to finance through the sale of treasury stock of your company. This could not be accomplished if transferable stock certificates were issued, and outstanding.” The company has asked that the time for issuing transferable stock certificates, be extended to October 31, 1930. This can be effected only upon consent of 90 percent of the stockholders.
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The Gale Mining Company has opened a body of copper ore in its property, in Pumpkin Hollow, 10 miles south of Yerington, Nevada. Seventy-five tons of ore have been mined from a 75-foot shaft, and will be shipped to a Utah smelter. The ore assays $5 in gold, 10 ounces silver, and from 10 to 40 percent copper, to the ton, with small amounts of lead and zinc. The principal stockholders are A. S. Phipps of Yerington, and Jeff Slater, Lon Garr, and Mrs. Farr, of Ogden, Utah.
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On December 1, 1929, the Gold Ace Mining Company at Carrara, near Beatty, Nevada, shut down its mine after completing 361 feet of crosscuts and drifts on the 250 level of its vertical shaft. On December 9, W. W. Herritt, who on August 1, succeeded James Shea as general superintendent, was appointed receiver of the property. A. B. Carpenter has been acting manager for the company since September 15, when he succeeded O. Ray Boggs.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, general manager, Kimberly, Nevada, is said to be considering building its own concentrating plant. At the present time, the company is mining and shipping 3,500 tons of ore daily to the reduction plant of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company. About 3,000 tons of this, is of milling grade and the remainder is direct smelting ore. Coppermines would like to increase its production to 6,000 tons a day, and several years ago obtained enough water to justify such an increase in production.
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The Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company, William Sharp, superintendent, is making regular shipments from its property in the McCoy District south of Battle Mountain, Nevada, to custom mills. Samples of the ore, carry from $45 to $100 per ton in gold. The ore is being stoped from deposits, 12 to 20 feet wide, on the 50, 100 and 150-foot levels. Some exploration has been done below that depth.
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The 1929 production of Bradshaw, Inc., from the tailings of the old Goldfield Consolidated Mill, was approximately $256,000, according to Mark Bradshaw, manager, Tonopah, Nevada. The plant was in operation from March 15 to December 10, and from 1,000 to 1,150 tons of material were treated daily. It is said that sufficient material remains for three or four years’ production. The company has paid all indebtedness, and may declare a dividend on its common stock.
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Eugene and John L. Sullivan have recently made a gold strike on the Early Bird Property, in the Wahomie Mining District, near Manhattan, Nevada. A six-foot ledge, which sampled from $20 to $100 per ton, was found at a depth of 75 feet. The ore body apparently extends into Mammoth Mountain. Temporary suspension of production, is said to have been caused by litigation.
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A V-shaped ledge of cinnabar ore, averaging from $30 to $600 a ton, has been discovered in a crosscut, from a 100-foot tunnel, near Antelope Springs, Nevada. Equipment capable of treating in excess of 15 tons of ore daily, at a cost of about $1.80 per ton, is to be installed. The property adjoins that of the Nevada Quicksilver Company, which is a large producer. E. L. Burney of Hollywood, and L. C. Newton and Samuel Jay, both of the United Casting Company of Los Angeles, have control of the property.
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The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, J. C. Kinnear, general manager, McGill, Nevada, has started operating the new Cottrell dust precipitation plant at the McGill smelter. About 15 or 20 tons of fine dust, averaging 15 percent copper per ton, should be recovered daily. Heretofore this dust was lost, being carried off by smoke from the roasters.
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The Nevada-Massachusetts Company, O. F. Heizer, Mill City, Nevada, manager, has been treating an average of 144.6 tons of ore in the Tungsten Mill daily, producing about a ton of concentrates. Machinery from the 125-ton Humboldt Corporation mill unit, is being moved to the 75-ton mill being completed at the Silver Dyke-Tungsten Mines. The Humboldt Corporation Shaft, which has been advanced from 500 to 590 feet, shows about 65,000 tons additional ore reserves.
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The mining and milling equipment of the Rochester Silver Corporation has been sold by C. T. Stevenson, receiver, 811 Reno National Bank Building, Reno, Nevada, to the United States Machinery and Steel Company of San Francisco, California, for a consideration of $15,250. The sale included: Compressor, drills, hoists, electric locomotives, offices and equipment, residences, garages, bins, several miles of pipe, and a complete 160-ton milling plant with 10 stamps, three tube mills, agitators, thickeners, filters and cyanide equipment. Some of the material, including a compressor, has been resold to the Nevada-Massachusetts Company for its new 75-ton plant. Water rights, said to be the most valuable in the County, and mineral rights, are being retained by the receivership.
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According to H. P. Kervin of Los Angeles, California, the ore channel at the Groom Silver-Lead Mine, 120 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada, has been penetrated 50 feet by the lower tunnel, giving 125 feet of backs. The ore body in the upper level was 700 feet long. This mine is under bond and lease to Bohanan and Whitacre, and Joe Kendall is superintendent.
[Rehab Notes: this mine is located about 2 miles from the main, above-ground camp, known infamously as AREA 51. It has been in the Sheehan Family since its discovery in 1858, when this portion of Nevada was still part of AZ. Onsite, there is a complete encampment, concentrators, store, school, recreational building and area, and a number of residences for roughly 30 families. Inside of the garages and shops, were some rather pristine vehicles and equipment of old, which were all shot full of holes by invading USAF fighter jets on a practice strafing run in the 1970’s, that mistakenly mistook the old camp as a target. The Sheehan family has a prior run in with the USAF that shot up the new concentrator, soon after its installation in the 1950’s. Though the Sheehan family pursued the USAF for reparations for the damage, no payment nor any sort of reimbursement for the damages was ever made.]
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An air compressor and drills are being installed by the Hasbrouck Divide Mining Company, J. A. McLaughlin, Mina, Nevada, superintendent, at its cinnabar property in Dunlap Canyon. A shaft has been sunk 40 feet in ore said to average 1 percent.
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The Buckinghatn Mines Corporation, E. A. S. Whittard, general manager, Battle Mountain, Nevada, which is sinking a shaft to the 1,000-foot level, reports some improvement in the ore, and the permanent water level appears to be at 798 feet. A pumping station, 16x20 feet, and a reservoir, 24x24 feet, have been cut, and two pumps having a combined capacity of 150 gallons per minute, direct connected with a 50-horsepower motor, will be installed immediately upon their arrival at the mine. Four-inch pipe is being installed in the shaft and a sinking pump, electrically operated, will be installed to lift the water from the bottom of the shaft, to the reservoir. An 86-horsepower Diesel electric power unit has been provided at the shaft, as a standby for mine signals, etc., in compliance with safety laws.
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J. H. Goodman, P. 0. Box 57, Ely, Nevada, president of the Nevada Standard Mining Company, has announced that operations at Cherry Creek will be resumed at once. Work had been suspended on account of the stock exchange condition.
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The Tonopah Hasbrouck Mining Company, Mina, Nevada, J. A. McLaughlin,
manager, has levied assessment No. 19 of 1 cent per share, delinquent January 7, 1930.
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A small concentrator has been installed at the Little Jumbo Mine, 28 miles west of Austin, Nevada, and is expected to begin treating about 10 tons a day, according to Douglas Tandy, owner. The bottom of the 180-foot shaft is in ore, which is said to contain $25 per ton, in silver, lead and gold.
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The Harmill Divide Mining Company, Gerald B. Hartley, 112 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, president and manager, has been reorganized as the Harmill Mining and Smelting ‘Company, incorporated with 1,000,000 shares of $1 par value. One share of new stock at $2.50 a share will be exchanged for each two and one-half shares held.
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The Joe Scott Property, at Mill Canyon, about 80 miles from Beowawe, Nevada, has been taken under option by the Nevada-Mexico Mining Corporation, H. M. Gilbert, Beowawe, general manager. An air compressor has been installed, and camp buildings erected. The quicksilver plant of the company has been closed down.
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The Western Nevada Mines Company, C. J. Carpenter, general manager, Dayton, Nevada, is preparing to develop the May Day Property, northeast of the Como Property, on completion of the survey by B. Fraser, consulting engineer. A gasoline hoist and a portable air compressor have been purchased, and a shaft site will be selected. The company expects to find the extension of the main Como Vein system.
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Silver ore has been discovered in a crosscut, from the main vein, in the Silver Legion Shaft, of the Nob Hill Gold Mining Company Property, in El Dorado Canyon, near Searchlight, Nevada. Samples have been taken for analysis and a crew of men is building an ore bin preparatory to a shipment to the Garfield smelter. George S. Bates, Hotel Hayward, Los Angeles, California, is vice-president of the company, and Ben Ivey of Inglewood, California, is manager.
[Rehab Notes: The Nob Hill Mines are located just east of the dirt Nelson to Searchlight Road, approaching the mountains from the Searchlight, NV side. A patented mine comprising 11 claims, there is quite a showing of gold and silver ore in rusty ore. Highgrade gold ore on the property had the appearance of limonite on an oxidized iron background. There is a resident living on a part of the property, but some placer gold was obtained from the washes draining SW towards Highway 95. The first mine one approaches is an open cut, varying 4-10 feet in width, nearly vertical for 700 feet, then a curved dip for the remaining 400 feet. Scenic but dangerous! Water in the mine also. John S Sartain was the original locator of the property, and had ties with several nelson, NV mining interests, such as Yeoman Briggs (Capitol Camp), and John Weyerhauser (lumber fame).
During the 1980’s, the australians from Plenty River, built a pilot plant next to the power lines, just off the Nelson Dirt Road, planning to develop some of the area mines, but lost financing for the venture and sold the plant. In the area of Grand-dad Road, off US 95, heading south towards Searchlight, and Arkansas concern had a trommel plant set up for placer gold, and hired a number of college students for summer work. Another placer location of the 1980’s is just west of the Dirt Nelson Road, at its intersection with US95, near the powerlines; though the gold in both operations was small stuff, and the paystreaks anywhere from 15 to 65 feet down. FYI]
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The Newhall interests of California, have taken over the Ivanhoe Cinnabar Claims, including the Mayflower, and Wild Horse, from F. B. Bowers, on bond and lease, for a consideration of $75,000. The property is 14 miles southeast of Midas, Nevada, and 70 miles from Winnemucca. Two carloads of machinery, including a new type furnace, are being shipped to the property. Installation of equipment will be in charge of Mr. Andrews, chief engineer for the Newhall interests.
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The Ohio Mines Corporation of New Jersey, has taken over the Dunfee Mine at Hornsilver, Nevada, from the Calavada Mines Company, J. W. Dunfee of Goldfield, superintendent. Both companies have been financed in Cincinnati, Ohio. The vertical shaft of the mine is down 390 feet, and will be extended to 400, where a station will be cut. The company may purchase the Orleans property adjoining, which has a 700-foot incline shaft, and a winze 75 feet below the bottom level.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, general manager, Kimberly, Nevada, has discovered a body of concentrating ore between its Morris-Brooks Property, and the Liberty Pit of the Nevada Consolidated. An estimate of the total new tonnage has not been made, although one drill hole shows about 200 feet of ore, averaging 1.5 per cent copper, while another shows 150 feet of ore, averaging 1.83 per cent. Both high and low-grade ore is being shipped to the smelter. Copper production for the month of November was 2,650,000 pounds.
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Eleven carloads of zinc concentrates were shipped in November by the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., W. E. Hales, Tybo, Nevada, to the electrolytic plant of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company, at Kellogg, Idaho. The shipping route was via Wells, Nevada, on the Southern Pacific, to Rogerson, Idaho, and thence over the Oregon Short Line system to Kellogg. Lead concentrates are shipped to a Utah smelter.
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The Reorganized Carrie Silver-Lead Mine Corporation, C. B. Murdoch, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, is considering building a pilot mill at its property. Both shipping and milling values are found in the drainage tunnel, and assays of heavy sulphide samples, taken intermittently from the tunnel, show values varying from $44 to $854 in gold per ton.
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Operations, said to be financed by Iowa and Idaho men; have started on the Lost Frenchman Mine in the Ten Mile District, of Humboldt County, Nevada. A. A. Duffner of Winnemucca, is in charge.
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The Majuba Hill Mine, 25 miles west of Imlay, in Humboldt County, Nevada, last operated by the Mason Valley Mines Company, has been purchased by Guy Brouilett, G. B. Williams, J. S. Austin and others. The Mason Valley people mined about 2,000 tons of 12 per cent copper, and smelted it in the Thompson Smelter, and it is said considerable ore can yet be taken out by sorting. Brouillett will be in charge of operations.
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A long term lease is now held by the Royston Royal Blue Turquoise Mines, Inc., Deseret Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, on the Royston deposit in the Lone Mountain District of Nevada. This deposit is owned by the Hudson Mining and Milling Company. Four or five grades of turquoise, are found in this mine, and it is the company’s objective to develop the secondary grades on a large scale. Terrazas, which is used in interior decoration, will be produced. Frank Keller has charge of the work.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 1 30 1930
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The Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, L. A. Friedman, manager, Lovelock, Nevada, has nearly completed construction started last summer. These improvements include a 100-ton cyanide mill, three Diesel engines having a combined energy of 860 horsepower, an additional storehouse, change and bath building, battery charging and assay buildings, and additional cabins. Rather extensive development is planned for the coming year, and includes about 5,000 feet of drifting, 1,000 feet of shaft sinking, and 3,500 feet of crosscutting.
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The 50-ton concentration plant of the Chalk Mountain Silver-Lead Mines Company, F. M. Dawes, Fallon, Nevada, president and manager, is working nicely on oxidized lead-silver ore. The company is planning an extensive exploration program, requiring the installation of pumps in order that ore may be developed below the water level.
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The Reorganized Pioneer Mines Company, J. R. Bryan, president and manager. Pioneer, Nevada, is drifting on the 256 Level, with the objective of cutting the bonanza ore body, which is possibly 50 feet from the drift face. Ore from this point, assays about $5 per ton. Future work includes prospecting this section of the mine with crosscuts and drifts, and sinking a shaft where the ore is found.
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The Gordon Mines, Harry Morris, Eureka, Nevada, manager, have been closed for the winter, on account of the low price of silver. Recent work included raising on the tunnel level, and drifting on ore on the 120-foot level.
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The Nev-Mont. Mining Corporation, S. A. Hale, manager, P. 0. Box 607, Lovelock, Nevada, is planning to install another dragline excavator bucket of larger capacity, than the one operating, and add more sluices and larger pumps. The water supply is sufficient, as the water level in the trench was not noticeably lowered by pumping at the rate of 400 gallons per minute for 12 hours. The trench is 700 feet long, 5 to 15 feet wide, and from 8 to 27 feet deep. O. A. Nepstad has succeeded Ira Stanley, as president of the company, and E. A. Rice has succeeded I.
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A. T. Wilkerson, and associates, of Tonopah, Nevada, have 20 tons of high-grade copper-silver ore ready for shipment to a Salt Lake smelter, from their property in the old Ellendale District, 82 miles east of Tonopah. Surface work has been discontinued on account of snow and cold weather, and drifting on good ore is progressing at a depth of 180 feet. As soon as the road is open, trucks will carry the ore to Tonopah.
[Rehab Notes: Ellendale is just on the NE flank of the Tonopah Test Range.]
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The Tonopah Divide Mine, in the Divide District, six miles from Tonopah, Nevada, produced, during the year 1929, 989.70 ounces of gold, and 110,587.88 ounces of silver. Net mill returns were $39,812.84. Production of the Brougher Divide Mine, in the same district, was 289.21 ounces of gold, and 31,816 ounces of silver. Net returns were $18,929.15. Both [of] these properties are operated exclusively by leasers.
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The Consolidated Holding and Development Corporation of New York, has purchased the unissued stock of the Goldfield Yellow Cat Mining Company at Goldfield, Nevada, and will develop the property, according to John J. Goetz of Reno, Nevada, president of the former company. Work done on the property includes a 200-foot shaft, and 800 feet of drifting to the sulphide zone. The Consolidated also owns the Princess Group of claims at Manhattan, where a shaft is down 60 feet, and holds a lease on the Portland Claims in the Tonopah District, which are owned by Sam Lutz of Tonopah, and M. J. Scanlan of Reno. A gas drill capable of making 60 feet daily in this ground is to be installed.
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The tunnel of the Liberty Mines Corporation, at Cherry Creek, north of Ely, Nevada, has been driven 1,600 feet. A crew of seven men is employed. Burton A. Russell of Ely is president of the company.
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The Nevada Gold Dome Company has suspended operations at its property, 30 miles south of Battle Mountain, Nevada. Eight carloads of good grade ore, with values principally in gold, have been shipped, but it was discovered that the ore body does not extend deeper than the 150-foot level. A lease has been granted to Joe McCoy, who is planning to ship ore from the dump, and from above the 50-foot level.
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On January 7, the new equipment, at the plant of the B. & B. Quicksilver Company, was put in operation, according to Edward J. Bumstead, general manager, Mt. Montgomery, Nevada. The plant is now handling 140 tons daily, from which the production is nine flasks. It is estimated that 200,000 tons of ore, averaging five pounds of mercury per ton, are available. The 1929 production was 1,075 flasks, which brought about $119 per flask.
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The Kernick Divide Mining Company, A. A. Codd, president, Box 5021, Reno, Nevada, will begin construction of a 40-ton mill near Sodaville, in the near future, as the ore is of too low grade for shipment. Arrangements have been made with the Nevada-Massachusetts Company, to tap the line to its Silver-Dyke, and Tungsten mines, after voltage has been reduced from 66,000 to 6,600. A two and one-half mile power line to the Kernick Mill will be necessary, and a line of that length, which belonged to the Jumbo Camp, near Reno, has been purchased, and will be moved. New equipment will cost about $10,000. There are 8,000 tons of ore, assaying $12.50 per ton in gold on the 35-foot level, and an undetermined tonnage of ore that will run from $7 to $10 per ton. There are also 1,000 tons of ore on the dump, which assayed $15 per ton from grab samples. The ore contains a quantity of free gold, which will be recovered by amalgamation, and a 50-ton Marcy ball mill will be used. The final payment on the Gold Canyon property has been made to Harry and August Priess, at a much lower price than the contract stated.
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December production of the Tonopah Mining Company, H. A. Johnson, general superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada, was 1,580 ounces of gold, and 127,700 ounces of silver, valued at $47,900. November production was $81,600.
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The Tonopah Extension Mining Company, John G. Kirchen, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has opened 12 feet of ore on the 1,200 Level, which assays from $15 to $18 per ton at the present low price of silver. Streaks of especially rich ore, are found in the ore body, and it is about 500 feet above the water level. The bullion valuation for the first 12 days of January was $83,400, which is $10,900 more than the previous 15-day period. Production for 1929 was 44,989.10 ounces of bullion, having a gross value of $450,465.79. During December, Tonopah Extension produced 69,520 ounces of silver-gold bullion, worth $45,200.
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The Nevada Standard Mining Company, J. H. Goodman, president, P. 0. Box 57, Ely, Nevada, has opened an ore body, four feet in width, in virgin territory, at a depth of over 700 feet. A sample, which was taken recently, assayed $50 a ton. The gold content is greater than that of the ore in the Star Vein, and the quartz ore contains less lead, and very little zinc.
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The Reorganized Broken Hills Silver Corporation, J. E. Bevis, manager, 15 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, has discontinued operations at Broken Hills on account of unfavorable returns from exploratory work. The Broken Hills Vein was not found, although the main shaft was sunk from 350 to 600 feet, and much drifting was done on the 600 level, which was badly faulted. The company intends to acquire another property.
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The Silver Glance Mining Company, Mark Bradshaw, Tonopah, Nevada, manager, is retimbering and enlarging the old shaft to one of two compartments. It is now down 70 feet, and will be continued to 200 feet. The mine is equipped with gallows frame, compressor, hoist, blower and blacksmith shop, which were brought from the Alto holdings at Gilbert. A crew of 10 men, working on two shifts, is employed.
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The Tungsten Production Company, Inc., intends to place its remodeled mill, at Nightingale, Nevada, in operation within 80 days. M. B. Ray of Boulder, Colorado, secretary to the company, has charge of the Nightingale Property.
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Electric power will be installed in the near future at the Montgomery Mine, by the Nevada Quicksilver Mines, Inc., L. A. Friedman, manager, Lovelock, Nevada. The company is also considering the installation of a milling plant. Some large bodies of furnace ore have been opened and are being developed. About 20 men are now employed.
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The new mill of the Seven Troughs Extension Mines Company, C. W. Warmoth, superintendent, Lovelock, Nevada, is nearly ready for the installation of machinery. The intermediate tunnel is being driven on a four-foot ledge, sampling about $86 per ton, with bunches of high-grade. The entire ore body is about eight feet wide.
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Harry E. Springer of Mina, Nevada, has purchased a controlling interest in the Nevada Douglass Gold Mines, Inc., and is ready to resume development. There is a cyanide mill on the ground, and funds are available for the installation of a 50-ton Lane Mill. Construction of the latter is expected to start in the spring.
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Whittaker Brothers have taken a lease and bond on the Mary Ann Mine, near Mina, Nevada, owned by Harry E. Springer and his father, I. M. Springer, and Lloyd Wilson. They have sunk a shaft and are drifting on the vein. Some good ore is in sight.
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The Security Mining Company, N. H. Getchell of Betty O’Neal, Nevada, president and general manager, will continue sinking its shaft to the 820-foot level, and crosscut to the vein on which drifting will be done. New camp buildings recently constructed include a bunkhouse, boarding house, shaft house and gallows frame.
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An administration building, a boarding house and two bunkhouses have been constructed by the Pan American Mining Company, George E. Coxe, general manager, Herald Building, Caliente, Nevada. The incline shaft is now down 850 feet, and the plant is being equipped with electricity.
[Rehab Notes: just north of the Comet Mine, which is about 12 miles west of Pioche, NV.]
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Shipments of ore are being made from the property of the Gilbert Homestake Mining Company, L. E. Maxwell, general manager, 501 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, California. The last consignment of 50 tons, averaged $51 per ton. M. J. Monette is president of the company.
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The Nicholson Mining and Milling Company, H. C. Nicholson, P. O. Box 807, Ely, Nevada, is sinking its shaft from the 200 level. A test of 88 tons of ore from a three-foot showing, returned 144 ounces of gold.
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On December 6, the Combined Metals Reduction Company started sinking a 1,000-foot, three-compartment shaft, located one mile west of the No. 1 Shaft. The new shaft site has been equipped with the necessary machinery, including hoists and a compressor, and a complete camp has been built. A 44,000-volt powerline, from the Bristol Silver Mines Company’s powerplant at Jack Rabbit, Nevada, and a substation, have been completed. L. C. Thomas, Pioche, Nevada, is mine superintendent of Combined Metals.
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A 3,500-foot pipeline is to be laid to the Lead Carbonate Mine, J. C. Williams, manager, Box 163, McGill, Nevada, to supply water for domestic purposes. A new bunkhouse has been built, and the tunnel is being driven, to cut the ore body below the bottom of the shaft.
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The Portable Mill Company, Inc., 1569 West Jefferson, Los Angeles, California, shipped a 50-ton flotation plant to a property at Tuscarora, Nevada, and expects to begin custom milling about March 1, 1930. Ore from the company dumps will also be put through the mill. The only available water and pipeline to the camp, has been acquired, and the water supply is sufficient to warrant milling 1,000 tons daily.
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J. R. Keller, who holds a lease on the Mary Mine, at Silver Peak, Nevada, is holding 40 tons of ore, averaging $100 per ton, for shipment to the International Smelter at Salt Lake City, Utah, as soon as trucks are available. The east side of the Western Soldier Fault, east of the Elizabeth Claim, is the scene of the strike. The ore body is now five feet wide.
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The crosscut of the Goldfield Deep Mines Company, A. I. D’Arcy, president and manager, Goldfield, Nevada, has encountered a fault, after passing for about 210 feet through quartz, showing low values in gold in silicifled shale, and has been driven for 30 feet beyond the fault. The shale-latite contact, which is the objective of the crosscut, was not discovered. Prospect drilling is being continued upward in various directions, the sixth hole being in 61 feet, while the fifth is in 97 feet. Drilling progress has been hampered by crumbling ground.
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E. T. Heggland, president and manager of the Heggland Mines Company, P. O. box 61, Mina, Nevada, has made a strike of tungsten ore, on property a few miles west of Sodaville. The vein has been exposed for over 1,000 feet by trenching, and in one place about 30 inches of high-grade scheelite was uncovered. A shipment that will average as high as 45 percent, is now being accumulated, and will be consigned to the custom mill at Thorne, where a new concentrating table is being installed, especially to treat tungsten ores. Heggland has granted two sets of leases, and expects to grant two more.
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Allen Armstrong, and Harry Bennetts, have recently made a mill run of 27 tons, having a gross value of $96.61 per ton, from their lease on the old Haywood Mine, near Silver City, Nevada. The ore came from the 50-foot shaft level, on the north end of the property. The mine is owned by the St. Joe Consolidated Mines Corporation, a holding company, of which Chas. Oster of Wallace, Idaho, is president.
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The Glen Mill group of cinnabar claims, east of Mina, Nevada, which were taken over last October, by H. H. Leighton, P. 0. Box 271, Tonopah, Nevada, has recently produced six flasks of cinnabar, from a four-day run, treating 1,500 pounds [of ore] a day. The ore shows as high as 10 percent quicksilver. Work was not discontinued during the holidays, as only one man is
needed to handle charging and withdrawing, since the ore goes directly to the retort from the mine. A complete outfit of machinery, including a compressor, has been installed. Two ore bodies have been proven.
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The Wedekind, and Arkell mines, three miles east of Reno, Nevada, have been taken on option by J. E. Miller, 420 Clay Peters Building, Reno, who is president of the California Mother Lode Mining Company,and of the Southwest Mines Investment Company. The Wedekind Mines Company, which at one time produced over $500,000, and was worked to a depth of 800 feet, has been out of litigation about a year. The Arkell, a silver-lead producer, is owned by the Combined Metals Company, and almost all the stock is controlled by E. R. Dodge and C. I. Miller of Reno.
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The Rogawa Copper Mining Company has struck ore, valued at $100 per ton, in copper, silver and gold, in the Prince of Wales Mine, at Cedar Station, 35 miles north of Eureka, Nevada. The shaft is 600 feet deep, and ore has been found on the 400, and 500-foot levels. Manager Henry Rose is planning to stope from the 300 Level, to the surface, to determine the extent, and value of the orebody. A compressor, air drill and new rails have recently been installed and, according to Rose, the Eureka-Nevada Railway officials will put in a siding at Cedar Station. The partners in the company are: Henry Rose, College City, California; W. W. Rose, Reno, Nevada; U. S. Gabby, and H. W. Wachsmith.
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The Forvilly Metals Corporation, leasing the south end of the Henrietta Claim, near Unionville, Nevada, has opened the main ore body at a depth of 480 feet below the old workings. The tunnel has been driven into ore, 20 feet and shows values in gold, silver, lead, zinc, and sulphur. It is planned to install a sintering plant, which will recover the sulphur, and lose the zinc, by volatilization. The sintered ore will then be treated by flotation. Walter Ritz of Modesto, California, has charge of the work.
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The Cinnabar King Mining Company, C. S. Clack, Carson City, Nevada, manager, is producing two flasks of quicksilver daily, and intends to increase production to five flasks. The ore body extends to a depth of 150 feet, in what appears to be a true fissure, and improves with depth, in both size and quality. This is the old Harris Property, and is developed by a 150-foot shaft, and a 300-foot tunnel. It is planned to sink this shaft to the 500 level, and to run a 150-foot tunnel, on the 100 level. Mine equipment consists of a compressor, crusher, four Johnson-McKay furnaces, jigs, power drills, hoist, 400-foot tramway, one-mile of water line, and three tanks.
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The Pearl Shaft, of the Diamond Group of mines is down 85 feet, according to Oscar Olsen, manager, Goldfield, Nevada. About $3,000 has been spent during the past year in various improvements, which include a road to the property. An eastern concern is considering taking over the property, although no definite announcement has been made.
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The old Alabama Claims, in the Daveytown District, 48 miles north of Winnemucca, Nevada, have been leased to Tom Turner, and J. M. Donaldson. About 500 tons of ore, valued at $100 per ton, are said to be in sight. There is a five-stamp mill on the property.
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The Tonopah Belmont Development Company, E. C. Belding, mine superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada, has announced that its mill at Hamilton will operate all winter, provided that weather conditions permit. The plant is equipped for concentrating, using the flotation process.
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A mill run of 38 tons, which produced 144 ounces of gold, has been made by H. C. Nicholson of Ely, Nevada, who is operating a property at Osceola, about 80 miles southeast of Ely. The ore is being taken from a winze on the 200-foot level, where the vein has an average width of three feet.
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The F. W. Bradley interests of San Francisco, California, have forfeited their option on the bond and lease, held by Bedford, Gunnell and Miller, on the property of the Mina Mercury Mines Company, 12 miles east of Mina, Nevada. Failure to arrive at a satisfactory financial arrangement caused the withdrawal, although a payment of $5,000 had been made last July. Work was suspended following the death, on Thanksgiving Day, of James A. White, who was Engineer in Charge. It is reported that L. Friedman, of Lovelock, a well-known cinnabar mine operator, may take over the Mina Mercury. The Bradleys now have no interest in Nevada quicksilver mining. They plan to terminate operations soon at Opalite, 15 miles west of McDermitt, on the Oregon-Nevada line, and to remove the power plant, and rotary furnace.
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The Cortez Consolidated Mining Company, operating at Cortez, Nevada, uncovered ore assaying 4,050 ounces of silver per ton, on the eve of closing down the property. The strike was made in a new vein on the Arctic Tunnel Level. Fred J. Siebert is general manager of the company.
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Two claims adjoining the Sullivan Gold Strike, near Manhattan, Nevada, have been acquired by the Consolidated Holding and Development Corporation of New York, and development work has been started. A 500-foot shaft will be sunk before drifting is begun, and power equipment will be installed soon, according to John F. Goetz, manager. This company is also installing equipment on a cinnabar claim near Round Mountain, Nevada, and is working properties in Arizona and other states.
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The Hasbrouck Divide Mining Company, S. A. McLaughlin, Mina, Nevada, is planning to install a rotary furnace at its cinnabar property, in Dunlap Canyon, provided the ore maintains its values. Work is to be started on a tunnel, which will intersect the vein, about 160 feet below the shaft. A raise, for exploration and ventilation, will then be put up to the shaft.
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Wet, and air dried salt, are now being shipped to the Pacific Coast by the Nevada Pure Salt Company, Limited, C. S. Boden, P. 0. Box 861, Reno, Nevada, president and general manager. With the operation of the drying kilns, which will begin shortly, crude salt can be furnished for sheep and cattle, ice cream manufacturers, ice and fish companies, and others. A $100,000 bond issue has been sold, and the stockholders have authorized the sale of an additional $260,000 issue, to be represented by 8 percent coupon gold notes.
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The Flynt Silica and Spar Company, A. F. Flynt, president, 1047 Richmond Street, Los Angeles, California, has been reorganized in Reno, Nevada, as the Silica and Spar Company of Nevada. The company operates alunite, barite and clay properties in Southern Nevada, as well as non-metallic properties in other states. The officers and directors of the new organization are: A. F. Flynt, president; E. T. Grua, vice-president; J. E. Sexton, secretary and treasurer; Governor F. B. Balzar of Nevada, and S. I. Kervin.
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Five tons of concentrates, averaging over $1,000 per ton, have been shipped to the Selby Smelter in California, by the Appian Mines Company, F. J. DeLongchamps, Reno, Nevada, general manager. Drifting has been discontinued temporarily on the Christensen Shaft, which supplies water for the mill, and is in a different vein, from [that of] the glory hole. On the 250 Level, the east drift seems to have reached the end of the vein, while the west drift is in four feet of 50-ounce ore. The mill is treating 60 tons of ore from the glory hole daily.
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Two cars of gold ore have been shipped by the Spade and Dot Mining Company, George D. Mathewson, manager, to the International Smelter in Utah, from its property in Galena Canyon, south of Battle Mountain, Nevada. The first car, from the Buzzard Mine, contained some silver and copper, and ran about $25 per ton, while the second car, from the Gold Wedge Mine, was straight gold ore, and should assay about the same.
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A REAL TREASURE MINE IN NEVADA TMJ 1 15 1930
Drifts and Crosscuts THE MINING JOURNAL 1 15 1930
Believe it or not—G. C. Measles, Hawthorne, Nevada, has discovered a ready-made mine, with ore all broken, and sacked for shipment.
In opening an old tunnel, Mr. Measles found 186 sacks of gold-silver ore which ran, it is reported, 1.70 ounces gold, and 172.05 ounces silver, giving a total value of about $120.00 a ton.
A date was carved in the timber near the find, which indicates when the mine was being worked. The date was 1864.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 6 15 1930
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According to Mark Bradshaw of Tonopah, Nevada; manager of Bradshaw, Inc., $15,000 was distributed aniong the company’s three stockholders, on June 2, and a similar amount is to be distributed every 30 days, until cold weather when the plant will be closed down. This is the fourth year that the company has operated on the tailings of the old Goldfield Consolidated Mill, with an average yearly production of $250,000. The Bradshaw Plant is in operation for only six or seven months in the year, because, in cold weather, the [cyanide] solutions do not give satisfactory results.
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The Uvada Copper Mines Company, C. M. Zabriskie, manager, Contact, Nevada, is planning to install a compressor and power drills at the mouth of the lower tunnel, in Claim No. 5. This tunnel, now in 210 feet, is to be driven 1,000 feet ahead to intersect an ore body opened in the upper tunnel, 500 feet above. A carload of ore taken from a recent strike, is now in transit to Salt Lake City, Utah. One carload, shipped from dump material, carried 4 percent copper, and $1.80 gold, per ton, and another shipment from the No. 5 upper tunnel carried 12 percent copper, $2 in gold, and 60 cents in silver, per ton. In driving the lower tunnel, two crossbreaks, one three and the other eight feet wide, have been encountered and are said to assay from 8 to 15 percent copper.
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The Silver Butte Consolidated Mining Company, D. A. Walton, 400 Atlas Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, manager, has let a contract for sinking its shaft, in the Mud Springs District of Nevada, from the 300 to the 600-foot level. Two shifts are now at work, and considerable progress is being made. The Radiore Company of Los Angeles, California, recently made a geophysical survey of the property. Development work has been principally in the oxidized zone, where leaching is apparent, although some shipments of galena, and carbonate ore, have been made from places protected from water.
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A small mill is to be installed by Roy Cook and associates, who are developing a gold property at Rowland, in Northern Elko County, Nevada. A tunnel is now being driven to open the ore bodies.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, general manager, Kimberly, Nevada, produced 8,100,000 pounds of copper during the month of April. In March, 3,276,000 pounds were produced. Direct smelting oxide ore, from the Alpha Property, averaged 7.5 percent copper.
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The Silver Banner Mining Company, B. L. Cutler, superintendent, Mountain City, Nevada, has let a contract to S. Benjamin Parker, metallurgical engineer and inventor of the Parker Flotation Machine, 168 Helen street, Sugar Station, Salt Lake City, Utah, to erect a small portable mill for testing purposes. Mine operations are being carried on in three tunnels, the Main, the Point and the Queen.
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E. M. Dawes of Fallon, Nevada, manager of the Chalk Mountain Silver-Lead Mines Company, has announced that the mill will remain idle until the market for silver and lead improves. Underground development is being continued.
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The Tonopah Extension Mining Company, John G. Kirchen, Tonopah, Nevada, general manager, has opened two ledges, averaging about 12 feet wide, on the 1,660-foot level of its mine. Samples are said to show 20 to 80 ounces of silver, per ton, with the usual Tonopah gold ratio. The mill is treating 250 tons of ore each day, and 175 men are employed.
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The Seven Troughs Gold Mine. Company, L. A. Friedman, general manager, Lovelock, Nevada, has had most of its new mill machinery operating recently, in order to allow construction engineers to make small adjustments. Crushing plant and belt ore conveyor are ready for operation. A 100,000 gallon water tank is being set up on the hill, and connected by a six-inch pipeline to all fire hydrants around the mill, to provide fire protection. Development work in the mine is continuing. About 100 men are working on three shifts.
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The Nevada Quicksilver Mines, Inc., L. A. Friedman, manager, Lovelock, Nevada, is planning to increase the capacity of its mill in the near future. A pipeline for compressed air, has been laid to the point of the new discovery in the Juniper Mine, and machine drills are now being operated to open the ore body. A tunnel is to be driven, which will cut the ledge in a distance of 70 feet, and at a depth of 60 feet. On completion of loading chutes now being built, some of the high-grade ore is to be taken to the mill, which is now treating from 85 to 45 tons daily. The holdings of the Nevada Quicksilver Company amount to 880 acres.
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T. O. Jones, of Contact, Nevada, is installing a Gardener Denver compressor on his silver-lead mine, one mile north of that city. The property has been developed by a 100-foot shaft, and a 60-foot drift at the bottom of the shaft has been in ore all the way. Mr. Jones is planning to sink the shaft deeper before extracting the ore already opened. This property is considered unusual because it carries values in silver and lead, but lies inside the copper contact.
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C. A. Josephs, and Clarence Ferras, leasing on the Clifford Mine of Western Gold, Inc., have opened a ledge of ore, which, at a depth of 25 feet, assays as high as $137 per ton, $117.80 of this amount being in gold. This strike was made north of the old McCormick Shaft, which produced several hundred thousand dollars during the Goldfield boom. Homer Buckley, another lessee, is getting out another shipment. A total of seven men are leasing on the Clifford property.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, general manager, Kimberly, Nevada, has under consideration the construction of complete reduction works, consisting of 7,500 ton mill, smelter and power plant. This copper-gold property is developed by 15 miles of mine workings, consisting of open pits and shafts, 1,840 feet being the greatest depth attained. Diesel engines provide 4,000 horsepower, which is used in producing 8,150 tons daily. About 515 men are employed.
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The Nicholson Mining and Milling Company, H. C. Nicholson, principal owner, P. 0. Box 307, Ely, Nevada, is planning to install a small hoist. An ore body, two feet wide and valued at $100 per ton, is said to have been opened at the bottom of the 220-foot incline shaft. The property is about 80 miles southeast of Ely [near Fay?]
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Forty-two men are working on mill construction, and in the mine, of the Golden Ace Mines Company of Las Vegas, Sol Camp, Beatty, Nevada, superintendent. The company owns 24 claims in the Fluorine District, of Nye County, a portion of the property being under bond for $120,000 to be paid by royalty. Recent improvements have cost $52,088 and mine development consists of 1,000 feet of shafts, 5,000 feet of tunnels, 2,000 feet of winzes, 160 feet of raises, and 800 feet of crosscuts. Golden Ace stock was recently listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange.
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The Rhodes Alkali and Chemical Corporation, E. H. Hastings, Mina, Nevada, superintendent, is rushing installation of its plant, for recovery of salts and various chemicals. Drill tests are being made of the property, which is situated nine miles south of Mina, in the Rhodes Marsh.
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A 3,000-foot aerial bucket tramway has been installed for lessees, working the Majuba Hill Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, formerly operated by the Mason Valley Mines Company, but recently purchased by Frank Reber of Reno. Recent storms have made the road to Jungo, the shipping point, impassable. It is said that over 200 tons of 15 percent ore have been broken in the stopes, and that the mine workings contain a considerable amount of shipping ore.
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L. B. Spencer of Mina, Nevada, has given a three-year option on the Dispo, or Shoemaker lead mine, seven miles west of Tonopah Junction, to K H. Brooks, 756 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California, and associates, of the same city, who will operate as the Dispo Lead Mines. A cash payment has been made and royalties are to apply on the purchase price of $40,000. A gasoline hoist has been installed and work has begun under the direction of Roger Scofield, superintendent. The property is in rough country, and the last one and one-half miles, must be made by pack train. The ore is galena, containing 1 ounce silver, and 1 unit of copper to each unit of lead, and it is said that a shipment once returned 65.2 percent lead. The mine has been opened by about 500 feet of tunnels and sha fts, one drift being driven 800 feet in the vein, and a winze sunk to the adit level. The hoist has been stationed at the collar of a 70-foot incline shaft, which will be sunk 110 feet more. where a drift will be run on the vein. A road is to be built to the mine, when development justifies it.
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J. H. McCoy, who is leasing the property of the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company, south of Battle Mountain, Nevada, has shipped one carload of ore, which returned $40 a ton, to a Utah smelter, and has another carload, of better grade, ready for shipment. McCoy holds a two-year lease on the property and has let several sub-leases.
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The Tonopah Premier Mining Company, Albert Silver, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has resumed work, and is continuing its shaft. The purpose of this work is exploration for ore in the East Tonopah District. Dana T. McIver, 116 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, is president of the organization.
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Donald Terrell and George Robertson, leasing on an area of surface overburden of the Southgold Nevada Mines Company, have opened a vein of high-grade ore. This is the first discovery made away from the vein system of mill ore, which crops on the hill top. At a depth of 15 feet, the ore body is from 18 to 20 inches wide and is valued at from $20 to $50 per ton in free milling gold.
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The Gold Zone Mining Company, Albert Silver, Tonopah, Nevada, manager, has completed an 85-mile road to its shaft, and has constructed buildings for the hoist, compressor, blacksmith house, and powder storage. The shaft has been sunk 12 feet, and a collar set in place for the gallows frame. Practically all supplies and equipment, including enough lumber for 80 feet of sinking, are now at the mine. It is planned to sink the shaft to 100 feet, and to crosscut to the main vein, as well as to two branches.
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The National Consolidated Mining Company, Frank W. Stall, president, 2530 N Street, Sacramento, California, has resumed operations at National, Nevada, and is employing from 15 to 20 men. The tunnel is being driven parallel to the ledge, with an occasional crosscut to it, to determine the quality of the quartz.
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The Argyle Mining Company, Gerald B. Hartley, 122 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada has taken a lease and option on the Shang Gold Mine, four miles from Mt. Montgomery, and is planning to build a 80-ton mill. The purchase price is $30,000, payable in three years, with royalties on ore or bullion produced to apply on it, and 100,000 shares of treasury stock of the company. The president is giving the organization a 30-ton stamp battery, and from one to three assessments are to be levied to cover cost of buildings, etc. The property is developed by three tunnels, which have uncovered a considerable amount of ore. It is believed that mining and milling costs will not exceed $3 per ton and that 98 percent of the values can be extracted.
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L. Hacoccina, of Tonopah, Nevada, lessee of the Olympic Gold Mines at Omco, has a crew of five men working, and is planning to ship 200 tons of ore each month, to the Desert Mill, at Millers. Last year a number of test runs were put through the mill, and it is expected that later about 5,000 tons of tailings, averaging $6 per ton, will be milled. The property has been equipped with a 100-horsepower marine engine, and a compressor.
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The American Pumice Corporation, George B. Wright, president, 21 Cladianos Building, Reno, Nevada, is planning to build a reduction plant at Oakland, California. in order to finance the plant, 10,000 shares of treasury stock are being sold for $1 per share. An additional pumice deposit, estimated to contain about one million tons, has recently been acquired. The corporation now owns four properties, totaling 800 acres in different parts of Nevada.
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The Goldfield Deep Mines Company, A. I. D’Arcy, Goldfield, Nevada, president and manager, has opened an ore body, assaying from $30 to $50 in copper and gold, in a raise from the 2,150 level, and within 900 feet of the shaft. This discovery was made by following a small stringer, which widened to three feet and has been proven for a length of 10 feet.
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A set of rolls, a crusher, and a concentrator, are to be installed on the old Jim Cain Cinnabar Property, which has been recently acquired by W. T. Childers of Mina, Nevada, on behalf of the F. R. Rudolph interests of California. There are several bodies of good ore in sight. About 800 tons of dump ore, the concentrate of which is said to contain from 10 to 15 percent quicksilver, are to be treated.
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Jim Butler, who is working a lease on the property of the Tonopah Divide Mining Company, six miles from Tonopah, Nevada, recently shipped 50 tons of ore to the Desert mill at Millers. The Butler Lease is near the summit of the mountain, and the ore is carried to the loading bins at the base by large tubes.
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T. F. Logan and H. Fitzgerald of Hollywood, California, recently made a test run at the old Kinkead Mill, near Gilbert, Nevada, and have made arangements with H. J. Fick of Hawthorne, owner, to use the plant to treat 10,000 tons of ore, from a property south of Mina. Arrangements have also been made to treat ore from the Roy Lindsay Property, recently purchased by Los Angeles interests, on a flat rate scale.
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A special meeting of stockholders of Tonopah Mining Company, has been called for June 28, to consider reorganization of the company. The plan includes reduction of stock to $500,000, from $1,000,000, par being $1; proposed sale and transfer of all assets of Tonopah Mining Company, to Tonopah Corporation, and offering 100,000 shares of the latter company to stockholders in the former at $5 a share, proceeds to be used to pay stockholders 50 cents a share in reduction of stock.
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The Consolidated Mayflower Mines Company, W. J. Tobin, secretary, Pioneer, Nevada, is planning to reopen its mine in the Pioneer District, and to recondition its mill. Funds for this work are to be provided by an assessment, which was levied recently. Good milling ore has been opened on the 800-foot level, about 200 feet north of the main working shaft. The leasing policy of the company is to be continued.
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In the Comet district, 12 miles west of Pioche, Nevada, the three-compartment shaft in the Forlorn Hope Mine has been sunk 280 feet, and a large station is being cut at the 200-foot level. About 85 men are employed, and William Franklin is in charge of operations.
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John Valenti has had a force of men at work for the last three months, taking ore from the Mountain Lion Mine near Pioche, Nevada. The second class ore is being placed on the dump, and two carloads of sorted ore are to be shipped soon.
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The Pan American Mining Company, George F. Coxe, general manager, Herald Building, Caliente, Nevada, recently received a triplex pump, which is to be installed in the main working shaft. The electric hoist and compressor, ordered some months ago, have both been installed. In the mine, a raise is being extended to connect with the old Stella workings, from which high-grade silver-lead ore was taken several years ago.
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The completion of a 23,000-volt power line, from the main line of the Sierra Pacific Power Company, to the mill of the Premier Mining Corporation, near Carson City, Nevada, marks the beginning of active operations. The contract for building the power line, placing the transformers, etc., was let to Dachner Electric Equipment Company, 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California. The work was completed in record time, and operation of the mill is now in full swing. Walter J. Bracking, 250 North Virginia Street, Reno, is manager of the Premier Company.
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The Imperial Gold Mines Corporation, E. J. Roberts, 520 Financial Center Building, San Francisco, California, has started two tunnels in the north end of its property, near Battle Mountain, Nevada. The adits are a few hundred feet apart. It is said that steam shovels will be used in mining. C. W. Birum is superintendent.
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The Tonopah Extension Mining Company, John G. Kirchen, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, on May 19, made the largest shipment of gold-silver bullion in the past 18 months. The shipment consisted of 88 bars, weighing 66,000 ounces, valued at $38,000, and represented cleanup for the first half of May. Gold content of this ore, averaging 1 ounce gold to 100 ounces silver, makes it possible for the company to continue operations with silver around 40 cents. Due to its new, rich ore bodies, the Tonopah Extension is making a better showing than at any time in the past 18 months.
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Considerable machinery is being hauled to the Nightingale Camp of the Tungsten Production Company. Among the items is a 220-horsepower, full Diesel, Allis Chalmers electrical generator plant. This plant was purchased from the Dachner Electric Equipment Company, 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California, shipped by freight to Fernley, Nevada, and from there transported by truck over a considerable distance to the mines. Installation of this equipment is being rushed and it is expected that steady mill operation will begin in the near future. The initial run of the mill has already been made, although there have been temporary shutdowns for adjustments. The Tungsten company is backed by Boulder, Colorado, people, represented by the following officers: J. G. Clark, president, Box 296; M. B. Ray, secretary and purchasing agent, and H. K. Lidstone, superintendent and metallurgist.
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W. J. Rogers, and Charles Andrews, operating the old Quartette Mine, near Searchlight, Nevada, under lease, recently opened some high-grade ore, as well as a vein of shipping ore, which runs from $200 to $400 per ton. There are four sets of sub-lessees at work.
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The Belleville mine, O. J. Belleville, Mina, Nevada, owner, has been equipped with a 15-ton Ellis mill, operation of which was recently begun. It was necessary to build a mile of new road to haul the mill machinery in, as the country is very rough. This property produced $10,000 from high-grade shipments, which was sufficient to finance mill construction. A return of $238 per ton was received from the last shipment of 12 tons. A small streak in a winze, from an upper tunnel, assayed $4,536 per ton. A crosscut tunnel is being driven 320 feet to the contact, where it is expected to open additional milling ore.
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According to George A. Newhall, Jr., Newhall Building, San Francisco, California, work is to be resumed on the property of the Newhall Corporation of California, near Midas, Nevada. Operations were delayed recently when John Andrews, superintendent, was found dead in his cabin. In a few days a trial run of the furnace will be made on mine-run ore.
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The B. and B. Quicksilver Company, E. J. Bumsted, manager, Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, is said to have solved its dust problem by moving the blower from over the dust chamber, where the temperature was high, to a cooler location outside. This results in better precipitation, and in the gas stream going through the cyclone first, and entering the blower free from dust.
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The Tonopah Mining Company, H. A. Johnson, Tonopah, Nevada, superintendent, reports a profit during 1929, of $193,038, after expenses, charges, federal taxes, and expenditures for examination of mining properties. No mention was made of depreciation and depletion. This compares with a profit of $343,917 in 1928. The net profit from operations of the mine and mill during 1929, was $108,889, and the miscellaneous income, less taxes, etc., amounted to over $100,000. This was largely derived from profits on sale of securities and income from investments. According to W. L. Haehlen, president, certain stockholders have requested partial liquidation of the company which is to be given consideration.
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The Mercury Mining Syndicate, 0. L. Cash, superintendent, P. 0. Box 667, Winnemucca, Nevada, is said to have opened a considerable deposit of high-grade furnace ore, between two raises, which entered barren ground, when the property was first developed. The mine is at Opalite, Oregon, just across the Nevada State Line. Winnemucea is the shipping point.
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The Gold Metals Mining Company, A. Homer Black, Manhattan, Nevada, has purchased the headframe on the Big Four Property, nearby, and will erect it over its shaft. The 100-foot shaft is to be sunk to the 200 level, and the ledge explored to that depth. While machinery is being installed, 30 tons of ore are to be shipped to the Desert Mill, at Millers. Over eight feet of ore, averaging about 8 ounces in gold per ton, are said to have been opened by a drift on the 100-foot level.
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The Gold Hill Development Company, John L. Dynan, superintendent, Round Mountain, Nevada, is employing 45 men in mill construction and mine work. Of this number, 27 are working on the mill, pouring cement and concrete, and framing timbers. Five benches, quarried from the mountain side, are to be covered with concrete, ready for the units of the reduction plant. A fleet of trucks is busy delivering materials and machinery. A new gallows frame, 56 feet high, is being installed over the small frame used while prospecting. The mine crew is working in three shifts, building underground ore bins, and straightening the incline shaft. As soon as possible, the drift on the 400-foot level, will be extended 700 feet east of the shaft, and raises extended to the 800 level, for ventilation, and to block out ore. A crosscut is to be run on the 50-foot level, under the ore dump. The ore will be dropped down a short chute, taken underground to the shaft and used in stabilizing heads when milling high-grade ore.
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Wes Watson of Tonopah, Nevada, and associates, have secured a lease on the Schubert-Coop Property, and the Casperson Placer Property, near Manhattan, consisting of 75 acres, the gravel running 50 cents to $7 per ton, in gold. A complete wet and dry washing outfit has been installed. This equipment is the invention of J. N. Knight of Brawley, California, and has been successfully operated in California and Arizona.
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On June 1, 1930, the Tonopah Belmont Development Company, Earl E. Belding, general superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada, turned its property over to a Tonopah leasing syndicate composed of H. D. Budelman, Fred C. kinnis and Homer O’Connell. The lease includes a block of ground in the Tonopah Mining Company’s property. Between 30 and 40 sets of lessees will be employed, and Mr. O’Connell will be in charge as superintendent. All operations of the property are to be assumed by the lessees. Horace A. Johnson, general manager of the Tonopah Mining Company, has assured lessees, that the company’s Desert mill at Millers, will continue operating for at least three months, and indefinitely, if they furnish enough ore to justify it.
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THE SILVER STATE BECOMES THE GOLD STATE TMJ 6 30 1930
ATTENTION TURNS FROM SILVER TO GOLD PRODUCTION IN NEVADA
Old Timer remarked, “I’ve allers held that some good comes out of everything; there’s plenty of gold in Nevada, and our wrecked silver market may be just the thing needful to spur us on to dig for it.” Necessity does seem to be a good leader, as many new and promising gold prospects are being worked, a number of the old mines are being re-opened, old dumps are being profitably treated, and the state is showing a remarkable gain in gold production.
Round Mountain activities are employing 150 men, and the Round Mountain Company is having an unusually successful season, with more water available, than for several years. The Gold Hill Development Company, operating four miles north of Round Mountain, is rushing construction of its 100-ton mill, which is to be operating by August 1. At Manhattan, the Donald Placers are being churn drilled with satisfactory results, and several other small placer operations are udder way.
The White Caps is producing 15 tons of ore daily, and the Gold Metals Company has started shipping from its recently acquired Sullivan Claims. Two carloads of gold ore a month, are being sent from the old camp of Gilbert, and five sets of lessees are operating in the old Clifford property, 45 miles east of Tonopah, taking out high-grade ore, some of which has been shipped.
The new gold ore body in the Tonopah Extension Mine is causing many to speculate on the old silver camp’s chance of becoming a gold producer. It is recalled that Leadville, after being known for years as a silver-lead camp, became one of Colorado’s big producers of gold, through discovery of the famous Johnnie Mine, almost in the center of the District. On the 1,622-foot level of the Tonopah Extension, samples have been taken running $100 gold, in addition to 500 ounces silver per ton. One sample ran $400 gold and 1,000 ounces silver.
At Goldfield, Bradshaw, Inc., is recovering from $30,000 to $35,000 a month from the tailings of the old Goldfield Consolidated Mill. Enough of the material is left to keep the plant operating for two or three years longer.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
NEVADA
The American Development Company, Ed. Benane, superintendent Fallon, Nevada, is planning to resume operations in a few days, at its barium property, at Eagleville. The mine has been closed down for about two weeks, and shipments were suspended because of lack of storage room, at the new Berkeley, California, plant. V. H. Carter, general manager, is expected to come from Berkeley to visit the mine.
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A subsidiary of Balfour, Guthrie and Company, known as Balfour, Guthrie Investment Company, San Francisco, California, is planning to build a 300-ton plant, for washing silica sands on the property of the Steamboat Springs Mining Company, which it is operating under lease, with a flat, per ton royalty. The plant site is to be about half way between the upper and lower basins, where excavating is now in progress. Mercury, occurring as a filament on the particles of silica, is to be removed, and saved by the washing process, but the plant for concentrating the quicksilver is not to be used. The silica product is to be shipped to San Francisco for the manufacture of glass. Deposits of kaolin and sulphur are also found in this mine, which is located about 10 miles from Reno, Nevada.
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Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., John G. Kirchen, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has reduced the wage scale 50 cents a shift, effective June 16, 1930. Miners will now receive $5.25 per day, while muckers will earn $4.75. This action was taken because of the low price of silver, and it affects both mine and mill employees.
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The Bruneau Mining Company, Roy Cook, manager, Rowland, Nevada, has purchased machinery for a 40 to 50-ton cyanide plant, which is to cost about $25,000. The plant is to be built within 60 days, and, according to the designer, Walter Techow, 620 Eye Street, Sacramento, California, the process differs from the counter-current decantation method, usually employed in cyanide mills, and has been thoroughly tested. Situated near the Nevada Idaho line, the property is said to contain enough ore to run the mill for two years. About 20 men are employed in the mine, under the supervision of Lew Blewett. The company is being financed by H. E. Barnum and associates, of Los Angeles.
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E. C. Henry of Reno, Nevada, operating as the Lakeview Mining Company, is preparing to drive a 1,500-foot tunnel to explore at depth, a surface showing, in a silver prospect, at the southeast end of Pyramid Lake, about 40 miles from Reno. An Ingersoll-Rand portable air compressor, jack-hammer drill, sharpener, tugger hoist, and half a ton of steel rails have been purchased, together with two Ford trucks, to haul the equipment to the property. Philadelphia capital is said to have financed the company. Mr. Henry was graduated this year from the Mackay School of Mines.
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The Jumbo Extension Mining Company, Charles S. Sprague, president, 309 South Hobart Street, Los Angeles, California, has given permission to experienced miners of Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada, to examine its Goldfield property, for leasing. If leases are taken, work will be conducted through the Claremont shaft of the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company. It is said that the plan to reorganize the company on an assessable basis, is meeting with approval, and if it goes through, the company will develop its property in the Diamondfield section of the Goldfield District, adjoining the Great Bend Mine. J. K. Turner, 1227-28 Rowan Building, Los Angeles, is general manager.
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Nevada Quicksilver Mines, Inc., L. A. Friedman, Lovelock, Nevada, president and general manager, has ordered a 15 percent stock dividend, paid to stockholders of record, July 19, and has approved listing stock on the Montreal Curb, and later on the New York Curb, to be called whenever directors and underwriters deem it advisable. The company’s three mines are responding well to development, and seven to eight flasks of quicksilver are produced daily, from 35 to 40 tons of ore. Lloyd J. Lathrop supervises the crew of 45 men. During the year ending April 30, 1930, $490,395.36 were received from sale of quicksilver and other sources, while operating costs were $78,975, and development work $244,908.98. The report also shows $116,333.84 paid on mining property and $79,560.75 cash paid for buildings, equipment, etc.
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The Gold Hill Development Company, John L. Dynan, superintendent, Round Mountain, Nevada, has laid concrete foundations, and set the heavy crushing and grinding machinery. Cyanide tanks are up and filled with water, the 56-foot head-frame is also up, and the ore skip has been slung on the cable. A pump, having a capacity of 500 gallons per minute, has been set on the 400-foot Level of the mine, and a five-inch water column is now being laid in the shaft. This will allow preparations for stoping in the East Drift, on the 400 Level. Plans are also being made to drift West, through a fault which cuts the vein, about 170 feet from the shaft.
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The Bristol Silver Mines Company, E. H. Snyder, Stockton, Utah, manager, is said to have purchased the Pioche Pacific railroad, the deal including 15 miles of narrow gauge railroad, running from Pioche, to Jackrabbit, Nevada, one locomotive, 12 ore cars, and other equipment. A railroad terminal, and round-house, are to be erected at Jackrabbit, and Ernest Neilson is to be in charge of the line. A two-mile aerial tramway hauls the ore from the Bristol Property, to the loading station at Jackrabbit, and it is believed that haulage costs can be cut from 76 cents to $1 per ton. Production is under way from the 500, to the 1,200 levels of the mine. J. H. Buehler of Pioche is superintendent.
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Southern Mines, Inc., W. T. Childers, superintendent, Mina, Nevada, recently made its first shipment since taking over the Mina Mercury Property. The shipment consisted of 15 flasks, which were taken largely from ore left on the dump, by the former owners, although new ore, containing more than 5 percent mercury, has been opened. About 12 men are employed.
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R. H. Rowland, and O. W. Warmoth, owners of the Auburn Mine, near Winnemucca, are planning to equip the property with a 25-ton mill. Mill and camp are to be supplied with water from a spring, two miles distant, and a two-inch pipe is now being laid. It is estimated that there are available about 6,000 tons of dump ore, which will average $8.90 per ton in gold.
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It is reported that 25 sets of sub-lessees, are at work in the Tonopah Belmont Property, near Tonopah, Nevada, which was recently leased for three years, by H. D. Budelman, Fred C. Ninnis and Homer O’Connell. Truscott and Wiley started on a streak of high grade, followed it to the south, with a raise for 40 feet, and are now working on a five-foot face of high-grade ore. They are to make a shipment soon. Owing to the fact that a considerable amount of track and pipe has been removed, in parts of the mine that offer opportunities to lessees, work has been somewhat retarded.
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The Forlorn Hope Mining Company, William Franklin, superintendent, Pioche, Nevada, is receiving electricity over the line, which provides power for the Pan America Mining Company. General conditions at the mine, are said to be good, and the shaft has reached a depth of 360 feet.
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Stock of the Golden Ace Mines Company of Las Vegas, Sol Camp, superintendent, Beatty, Nevada, which was recently listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, has been temporarily suspended from trading. This action was taken pending settlement of details concerning transfers of stock.
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C. M. Griffin and associates, leasing on the Shamrock Mine, near Ione, Nevada, recently equipped the mill with a new concentrator. They have shipped 21 tons of ore to the smelter and are preparing to mill a considerable tonnage of lower grade ore in the Shamrock Plant. Matt Doonan, another lessee, is operating a retort on high-grade ore, which he is taking from a
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The Pueblo Mountain Mining Company, R. W. Hallett, president, Winnemucca, Nevada, is said to have purchased the Buckaroo 20-stamp mill. It is reported that the mill is being moved from its location, 10 miles north of Quinn River Crossing, to the Yellowstone Mine, 30 miles south of Winnemnucca.
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Nevada-Massachusetts Company, O. F. Heizer, manager, Mill City, Nevada, is operating its mill, near Sodaville, on three shifts, and is treating 45 tons of ore daily. An ore body, from four to eight feet wide, has been developed by a 126-foot drift, from the crosscut tunnel, at a depth of about 400 feet, and a shoot in the old workings, which was formerly overlooked, is now being opened. Water is being saved, by using a conveyor to move the tailings, instead of sluicing them. The road, washed out in recent storms, has been rehabilitated.
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C. E. Moulton of Tuscarora, Nevada, has practically rebuilt the Independence Mill, owned by Dan Zuccone, and W. G. Foister, and will use it for treating free milling ore. The plant has a capacity of 25 tons daily, and although it has not been in use for two or three years, the machinery is in good condition.
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The Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Inc., Elmer F. Good, president, Arlemont, Nevada, recently shipped 41 flasks of quicksilver. Returns from the last shipment was $114 per flask. Since the furnaces were enlarged, from 110 to 115 flasks are being produced each month.
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Due to the decline in silver prices, the Northern Belle Mine of the Argentum Mining Company, F. G. Grube, general manager, 2401 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California, has been closed down. During the past year, the sulphide zone on the 1,900-foot Level, was opened 500 feet into virgin ground, four raises were driven, and crosscuts extended through the vein, at the top of the raises. A connection was driven to the 1,700-foot Level, and a considerable tonnage of ore opened. According to Art Nelson, superintendent, the construction of a flotation plant depends upon a better price for silver.
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The Raymond Van Ness Mining Company, Peter Buol, manager, 4845 Angeles Vista Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, has sunk its shaft 70 feet, where a ledge six feet wide, and assaying from 1 to 2 percent quicksilver, has been uncovered. The plant, which will treat about 15 tons daily, is expected to be in operation by July 10. Enough water for the furnace and camp, has been developed through two tunnels, although the company had applied to the state engineer for water, about a mile away, and had acquired enough pipe for carrying it.
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The Pittsburgh-Goldfield Mining Company, Corrin Barnes, manager, Goldfield, Nevada, has let a contract to sink the first 50 feet, of the three-compartment shaft, at night, so that it will not interfere with grading, and building work, of the day crew. A temporary plant, including compressor, has been installed for the night work, and for surface blasting. Lumber has been received for building and for timbering the shaft, which is now down 15 feet.
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During May, 12 standard carloads, averaging about 53 tons, and ranging in grade from 8.6 percent, to 14.75 percent copper, were shipped from Copper Canyon, and Copper Basin, leases. Huntley and Tibbs, who shipped the highest grade car, are operating the Henrietta Lease, at Copper Basin, and have opened another ore body, 50 or 60 feet north of the one they have been working. The Copper Canyon Mining Company, owner of the Copper Basin properties, has completed a new pipeline, which will convey pure spring water to the mine.
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Missouri Monarch Consolidated Mines Company, Fred W. Hanson, Black Forest, Nevada, has driven its Broncho Tunnel in 1,400 feet, with 2,300 feet containing seven fissure veins, yet remaining, before connection is made with the Black Forest Tunnel, now in 3,200 feet. The portals of these tunnels are so situated, that ore can be loaded, no matter on which side of the range the proposed railroad is built. A maximum depth of 800 feet, will be attained by the Broncho Tunnel and it is at an elevation of 8,501 feet, while the elevation of the Black Forest Tunnel is 8,487 feet. Work in the Old Monarch Tunnel has been halted temporarily, although on July 1, sinking of the winze on the Monarch Fissure, is to be continued from the 200 to the 400-foot Level. Shipments have been suspended pending construction of the railroad.
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The Ohio Mines Corporation, J. W. Dunfee, superintendent, Goldfield, Nevada, is said to be preparing to build a 100-ton cyanide plant at Hornsilver (NOW Goldpoint), 30 miles south of Goldfield. Albert Silver, mill designer of Tonopah, has looked over the old plant, and has estimated that $82,000 will include purchase and installation of necessary machinery, electric power, and construction of a water pipe line eight and one-half miles long. It is said that two estimates for power were given, one for construction of a 28-mile line from Goldfield, and purchase of power from the Nevada-California Power Company, and the other for installation of a Diesel engine and electric generator, the cost of both being about the same. The old cyanide mill on the Great Western Property, was purchased several months ago by Esmeralda County, at a tax sale. County Commissioners will be asked to put the property up for sale, and the Ohio company will bid it in. Foundations and mill buildings are in good condition, and cyanide tanks are intact and filled with water. Harry DeVotie, operating a lease on the Great Western, is endeavoring to raise capital to install a hoist. He plans to deepen an old shaft on the property, and drift to a shoot of gold ore, opened on the surface.
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The Caliente Cobalt Mining Company, George H. Wood, president, c/o Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, is installing additional machinery. Work in the mine, consists of sinking and drifting, 80 feet being the greatest depth yet attained- The property is located a bout 15 miles northwest, from Caliente, Nevada, in the Chief Mining District, and is said to have at one time produced about $10,000 in gold. Values in silver, lead and copper are also present.
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The Nevada Standard Mining Company, J. H. Goodman, president, P. 0. Box 57 Ely, Nevada, has opened the Gray Eagle Vein, 1,250 feet below the surface. The vein is six feet wide, and the ore is of good mill qrade. A 1,000-foot crosscut is now being driven to intersect Imperial and Exchequer Veins, at a depth of 1,000 feet. In the Star Vein, where 800 feet of backs are available, stoping is in progress on an ore shoot 900 feet long.
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James Whitcomb is reported to have opened ore containing 50 ounces silver, and 50 ounces lead, per ton, in his property, 40 miles south of Caliente, Nevada. The vein is 25 feet wide and 20 feet thick.
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Tonopah Hasbrouck Mining Company, S. A. McLaughlin, superintendent, has levied assessment No. 20, of 1 cent per share. Stock upon which the assessment is unpaid, will be sold at public auction,
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The Yellow Pine Mining Company, Charles K. Barnes, Goodsprings, Nevada, general manager, recently purchased a new locomotive, which is operating between Jean, the shipping point, and the mine. The new mill is of the flotation type, and is about three-fourths completed. According to the company’s report, there are now 50,000 tons of ore available. The payroll includes 34 men.
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The Cinnabar King Mining Company, C. S. Clack, manager, Carson City, Nevada, is planning to install a Newhall rotary furnace, to replace the old Scott furnace, now on the property. The plant is to be placed down the hill, below the shaft, and a 300-foot crosscut for transporting ore, is to be driven in order to do away with the aerial bucket tramway now in use. At the bottom of the 200-foot incline shaft, a face of ore, said to contain 40 pounds per ton, has been opened.
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Installation of new cast iron condensers, now under way by the Castle Peak Quicksilver Company, H. F. Loufek, First National Bank Building, Reno, Nevada, president, will increase the cooling space, 22 percent and allow treatment of greater tonnage. The plant is now treating 25 tons daily, and producing 110 flasks of quicksilver per month. A shipment of 70 tons was recently sent to H. W. Gould and Company at San Francisco, California. Two dividends, amounting to $80,500, have been paid by this company.
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The Humboldt Sulphur Company, Charles S. Haley, president, 618 Crocker Building, San Francisco, California, is making plans for refinancing and building a refining plant at Stockton, for the manufacture of dust sulphur, used by fruit growers. A valuable deposit of sulphur, at Sulphur, Nevada, is owned by this organization. The entire indebtedness of the company was recently paid, and the receiver, H. L. Hazen, was discharged.
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Steady production has been started by the Gold Metals Mining Company, A. Homer Black, Manhattan, Nevada, and 100 tons of ore are being sent daily to the War Eagle Mill. The company is planning to acquire the old Lemon Mill, provide additional equipment, and treat its own ore. Installation of hoist and compressor is progressing, and the electric power line has been completed. A ledge of good ore is said to be showing in the shaft.
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J. E. Amenda of Reno, Nevada, director of the Mammoth Quicksilver Mining Company, has taken over the Wurtzler Claims, joining the Mina Mercury Property, and consolidated them with his three claims into one property. Values have been exposed at the grass roots, making this a promising producer. Noble C. Smith, 138 Inez Street, Fresno, California, is president of the company; B. F. Baker, first vice-president; E. F. Stites, second vice-president; Ralph D. Vianello, secretary and treasurer, and B. F. Baker, of Mina, resident agent.
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Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., John G. Kirchen, Tonopah, Nevada, general manager, produced, during May, 131,940 ounces of silver-gold bullion, having a gross value of $73,200. During March, the best previous month, 119,450 ounces, valued at $70,200, were produced. In the McKane Section of the mine, ore assaying 21.92 ounces gold, and 1,386.40 ounces silver, has been opened.
The Desert Mill of the Tonopah Mining Company, H. A. Johnson, superintendent, Tonopah, produced $23,000 during the past month, 889 tons of ore having been received from the Tonopah Belmont leases, and 239 tons, from miscellaneous sources. Belmont leases were cancelled on May 15, and the new lease became effective June 1, although output for the first half of the month is expected to be small.
Tonopah Mining is prospecting a gold property in northern Humboldt County, owned by Guerney Gordon of Reno. Trenches are being extended across the vein to determine its extent. W. J. Pike is looking after the work, which is in charge of Ernest Rackliff of Mina.
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W. T. Moran and associates, of San Francisco, California, have taken over quicksilver claims in the Ivanhoe District, owned by Waddle Hunt, and Henry Ingalls, and have formed the Midas Quicksilver Mines, Inc. Development work is to begin immediately.
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The Gold Star Mining Company, George B. Wright, president, P. 0. Box 637, Reno. Nevada, has sold its property to the Indian Peak Corporation, of which Mr. Wright is also president. All debts of the Gold Star Company have been paid, 99 percent of its stock called in, and it is soon to be formally dissolved. The property comprises about 800 acres in the Rochester District, near Oreana, and carries values from $20 to $50 per ton in quartz porphyry. A camp has been erected, roads built, a water supply developed, and 1,000 feet of underground work completed.
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Wiring of the new mill of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, L. A. Friedman, Lovelock, Nevada, general manager, has been completed. The mill will have a capacity of 100 tons daily, and is to be operated by a 350-horsepower Diesel engine. Two 175-horsepower Diesel motors will furnish power for the mine. Fred Bradshaw and Albert Silver of Tonopah, designed the mill.
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George and William Brandt, and W. B. Bellinger received returns of $1,335.80 per ton, on a sample from their new strike. The sample was sent to the American Smelting and Refining Company of Salt Lake City, Utah, which stated that the ore contains 63.15 ounces of gold, 16.2 ounces silver, and 10 percent copper per ton. A drift has been extended 15 feet on the ore, with walls gradually widening, and a talc streak, which pans considerable free gold, has been encountered in the footwall. Several tons of the best ore are to be shipped in order to provide funds for development.
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The lower tunnel in the Urania Mine, east of Goldfield, Nevada, is now in about 1,200 feet, and is opening stringers of ore, similar to that opened in the old tunnel, 400 feet vertically above. According to Adolph Neher, who is developing the mine, the old tunnel provided 400 feet of backs, and it is expected that the new one will provide about 800 feet. The property is in the Cactus Peak Mining District.
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Thomas Nicely, and E. A. Mee, of Fresno, California, are said to have taken a bond and lease on the property of the Nevada Quicksilver Company at Ione, Nevada, and plans are being made to establish camp, and hire a crew. A Scott furnace is now on the property, and a Newhall furnace is to be installed later. The mine adjoins the Ione Quicksilver Mine, and is said to have produced 5,000 flasks of mercury.
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The Gilbert Standard Mining Company, George L. Harma, Tonopah, Nevada, manager, is to hold a stockholders meeting July 7, 1930. By-laws are to be amended, and the board of directors is to be elected and increased. The property is in the southern end of the Gilbert District.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 7 15 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, general manager, Kimberly, Nevada, has, since April, increased its porphyry ore reserves from 2,000,000 tons, to 82,000,000; a two years’ supply, at the current rate of extraction. Further additions to the reserves, are expected as churn drilling is still in progress, and ore has been opened in several isolated holes. High grade has been uncovered in several faces, from the Alpha Shaft, and drifts are being driven into the Richard Shaft territory. All porphyry ore is being hoisted through the new Emma-Nevada Shaft, and smelting ore, through the Alpha Shaft, while work in the Morris-Brooks, Old Glory, and Richard Shafts, has been suspended.
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The Premier Mines Company, Walter B. Cole, P. 0. Box 417, Ogden, Utah, has sunk its shaft to a depth of 120 feet, in the old Grand Prize Property, near Tuscarora, Nevada, and has encountered indications of an orebody. One carload of mine timber has been received on the property, and another is expected shortly. This will be a sufficient amount to timber the shaft to a depth of 800 feet. The work is being done by a crew of six men.
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W. A. Smith, P. 0. Box 778, Las Vegas, Nevada, is building a pilot mill at the old Kelly Mine, about 90 miles north of that town, in order to determine how to treat the ore profitably. The property is equipped with an Ingersoll-Rand air compressor, and air hoist. From the bottom of the shaft, which is down 260 feet, a drift has been run 140 feet on three and one-half feet of ore, carrying $30 in lead, silver, and gold. [Rehab notes: this mine is located about 9 miles south of the main Area 51 Groom Lake Camp.]
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The Uvada Copper Mines Company, C. H, Hill, superintendent, Contact, Nevada, has shipped a carload of ore, from a drift, about 270 feet from the upper tunnel portal, where a four-foot face of ore along the granite limestone contact, is being followed. A station has been timbered, and sinking on the vein, has been started. The proposed lower tunnel, which will intersect this shaft at a depth of 300 feet, and in a distance of about 800 feet, is not to be started until more ore is developed in the upper tunnel.
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The surface plant of the Lone Star Consolidated Mining Company, Gerald B. Hartley, 112 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, has recently been overhauled, and new motors and generators of larger Capacity, installed. While this work was going on, water has been held to the 350-foot level, and the shaft is now to be completely unwatered, lowered from the 425, to the 525 Level. Some exploration has been done beyond a faulted section, which it is believed, caused the cutting off of the orebody, and bunches of gold values have been discovered.
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At the recent special meeting of the Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada, no action was taken on the proposed plan of reorganization, and readjustment of the capital structure, and the meeting was adjourned until October 6, to provide time for further consideration. Arrangements are to be made for new subscription warrants to the Tonopah Corporation, and under the plan, the present warrants expire August 1. In answer to a stockholder’s question, President Haehnlen stated that none of the Tonopah Mining Company properties at present are earning a dividend.
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The White Bear Mining Company, George W. Young, manager, Mill City, Nevada, is installing a Swett Mill, to replace the ball mill that burned down over two years ago. This company is operating the Dun Glen Property, about 15 miles east of Mill City.
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Thomas “Dry Wash” Wilson has taken a lease on the old Thanksgiving Property, near Manhattan, Nevada, The property consists of two claims, and it is Mr. Wilson’s plan to keep a small block of 200 square feet, and divide the rest for sub-lessees. In 1910, the Hesperus Leasing Company worked the mine, and produced a considerable amount of milling ore, and some high grade. The name “Dry Wash” was given Mr. Wilson because of his successful placer operations near Round Mountain.
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The Security Mining Company, Noble H. Getchell, Betty O’Neal, Nevada, president and general manager, has pumped out the old shaft of the Eastern Star Mine, at Gold Circle. While the pump is now handling around 300 gallons per minute, a flow of about the same quantity is coming into the new vertical shaft, from another source. This is being handled with a bailer, and it is believed to be just a pocket. The old workings are to be sampled, and the new vertical shaft has reached a depth of 200 feet.
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The Interstate Mining and Development Company, C. J. Carpenter, Dayton, Nevada, manager, is to move a compressor, from a Western Nevada Property in the Lower Como Basin, to the May Day Property in the Upper Basin, where power drills are to be used in sinking a shaft. R. A. Fraser, consulting engineer, will be in charge of the work.
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Owing to lack of demand for tungsten, the Nevada-Massachusetts Company, O. F. Heizer, Mill City, Nevada, manager, has closed down its Silver Dyke Mine, and new 75-ton concentrator. Development work is to be continued by a crew of eight men, under the supervision of Alex Ranson. The company had recently invested over $100,000 in development, and new equipment, at the Silver Dyke, rebuilt the Wagner Mill, and put up a seven-mile electric power line. Charles C. Segerstrom of Sonora, California, is president of the company.
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Thomas F. Cole, 1280 South Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, California, and Associates, have six men employed, sinking a three-compartment shaft, on a group of claims, north of Round Mountain, Nevada, and also working on a road to the property. It is said that the gallows frame of the Amalgamated Mine, owned by the Nevada Coalition, will be moved to Gold Hill.
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The Tungsten Production Company, J. G. Clark, president, Box 296, Boulder, Colorado, is again operating its 200-ton mill at full capacity, following a 10-day shutdown, caused by broken pistons and cylinder, in one of the engines. In the recently completed Group No. 2 Tunnel, of the Nightingale Property, the vein is 35 feet wide, and carries 2.5 percent tungsten. Three stopes have been cut out at various places, and drifting is being done both north and south on the footwall. Ore is also being taken from the Star Group, located about six miles from the Nightingale Property and Plant. The ledge in the Star Property, can be traced for 4,000 feet, and it contains a vein from 1 to 60 feet wide, and carrying 1.1 percent tungsten. The company employs 25 men, the mine crew working two shifts, and the mill crew three. Stockholders have recently decided to place the company upon a dividend basis of 1 ½ cents per share, quarterly, the first dividend to be paid July 15.
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In the Murphy Lease, on the Star Vein, of the Nevada Standard Mining Company, at Cherry Creek, Nevada, ore assaying 100 ounces in gold, and 2,292 ounces in silver, and valued at $2,779 per ton, has recently been opened. This is the same type of ore which made the camp famous about 50 years ago. The stope is now in good ore for 150 feet, and the high-grade streaks appear to continue east into leased ground, and west into company unleased property. The new mill has been running for a short time on company ore, and is recovering about 95 percent of the values. It is said that the lessees have 1,500 tons ready for the mill, and that it is to begin operating soon, on ore from the Murphy Lease. The company has a reserve of 5,000 tons of mill ore, already broken, to supply any deficiency in tonnage, although it is believed that lessees will provide at least 50 tons daily.
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The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, J. C. Kinnear, general manager, McGill, Nevada, has laid off about 200 men from its mine at Ruth, and its smelter at McGill, on account of the depressed condition of the copper market. No reduction in production is contemplated, and with tonnage from the Consolidated Copper mines, 10,000 tons of ore are being treated daily. One of the three smelter units is being operated, and the others are ready to be blown in, as soon as the market justifies it. Development work is now well in advance of mining, and the remodeling program is practically completed.
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The New Alto Divide Mining Company, George Wardle, superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada, is operating two machine drills, stoping ore above the tunnel level, and has opened the vein for 200 feet, with 500 feet of backs, in its lease at Cherry Creek. The vein contains a streak of high-grade, which assays as high as $410 gold, and 55 ounces silver per ton. Although it is now treating 50 tons a day, the Nevada Standard Flotation Plant has a daily capacity of 85 tons, and makes a recovery of from 96 to 98 percent of the values. The New Alto Divide expects to have 700 tons of ore ready for the mill in a short time, and to furnish the same amount each month thereafter.
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According to E. S. Bumsted of Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, manager of the B. and B. Quicksilver Company, the new 84x40-foot Gould Rotary Furnace is producing five flasks of mercury daily, from about 70 tons of ore, and the other furnace is idle, awaiting a shipment of refractory brick, with which it is to be relined. When the two furnaces are operating, about eight flasks of quicksilver are to be produced daily.
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William Geffeney and Associates, 716 Spring Street, Los Angeles, California, who purchased the Van Ness Interests in seven claims of the Sentinel Group, have taken over the Barcelona Mercury Plant, near Manhattan, Nevada. C. E. Van Ness still holds an interest in the Sentinel Property, and Peter Buol retains his original holding. The mine has been opened to a depth of 70 feet, and ore the width of the shaft sets, is being broken. Within two or three weeks, the 20-ton furnace is to begin treating from 12 to 14 tons daily, of ore that carries from 1 to 3.5 percent mercury.
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The Como Consolidated Mines Company, William Joy, superintendent, Dayton, Nevada, has opened the old Boyle Tunnel, to the 1,800-foot point, where the adit connects by crosscut, with the Elgin Shaft, on the Oversight Claim. Arrangements have been made with George Elgin, of Dayton, and Judge Clark Guild, of Yerington, owners of the Elgin Shaft, to use it for ventilation, and a blower is to be installed. Three shifts are working, and a mechanical mucking machine is being used.
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The Roberts Mining and Milling Company, Belle McCord Roberts, 608 Heartwell Building, Long Beach, California, president, has a crew sampling a property, at the head of Troy Canyon, which is owned by Herman Hildebrand, and William Hohn. The vein is opened by a tunnel, and a considerable amount of good mill grade ore is said to be exposed.
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President Samuel Shannon, 155 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California, has notified stockholders of the Rescue Eula Mining Company, that the corporation has been dissolved, and that all assets have been reduced to cash, which is ready for distribution. Shareholders are to receive $0.0108 per share. Certificates should be presented, or mailed, to the president’s address, and persons holding stock in the names of others, should first have the stock transferred into their names.
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The Ohio Mines Corporation, S. W. Dunfee, superintendent, Goldfield, Nevada, recently received $80.87 per ton, from a 50-ton shipment of gold-silver ore, sent from the Townsite Mine, to the Desert Mill, of the Tonopah Mining Company. No other shipments are to be made, since the company is planning to build its own mill.
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According to B. S. Sears, part owner of the Imlay Mine, near Imlay, Nevada, rich ore is still showing at the bottom of the 40-foot shaft, and 45 sacks of ore carrying $200 per sack, have been extracted from the rich streak, in sinking. The shaft is to be continued to a depth of 100 feet, and thorough tests are to be made, to determine the best method of treating the ore.
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The Pittsburgh-Goldfield Mining Company, Corrin Barnes, manager, Goldfield, Nevada, recently received its new 150-horsepower hoist, skip-cages, sheave wheels, and hoisting equipment, together with machinery for the sawmill. The hoist is of the modern type, with structural steel base, 42x86-inch drum, a seven-inch drum shaft, 60x10-inch main gears, ring-oiled bearings, post brakes, and flexible coupling to the motor, and four-foot dial indicators. Excavations for buildings are being made, and a change room for employees, is being built. Work on the two-mile electric power line is progressing nicely. The company employs 12 men.
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Streaks of ore, varying from 4 to 24 inches in width, and worth from $3 to $25 a ton, have been opened in a 12-foot quartz vein, in the property of the Gold Note Mining Company. Some picture rock, that assays as high as $2,500 per ton, in gold, has been found. This property is in the Velvet Mining District, 25 miles northwest of Lovelock, Nevada, and is owned by A. E. Worswick, 3065 South Seventh East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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It is understood that some drill prospecting has been planned for the Dexter Mine, just below the famous Grand Prize Mine, that is credited with a production of $5,000,000, to the 780-foot level. The Dexter is owned by Governor George H. Dern, of Utah, and the Milner Interests, with headquarters in the Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City. It is located in the vicinity of Tuscarora, Nevada.
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The Silver Butte Consolidated Mining Company’s shaft, in the Mud Springs District, Nevada, 28 miles from Curry, on the Nevada Northern Railroad, has reached a depth of 375 feet. At 355 feet, it entered a highly mineralized limestone, and is soft and full of vug holes. A depth of 600 feet is to be gained, to reach the sulphide zone indicated by a geophysical survey made by the Radiore Company of Los Angeles. D. A. Walton, 400 Atlas Building, Salt Lake City, is manager.
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On account of the low prices of lead, and silver ore, the Gold Gulch Mining and Milling Company at Marietta, Nevada, has suspended work. From four to eight men had been working; a 150-foot shaft had been sunk on ore that ran as high as $47.50 a ton, in a vein at the 100-foot point, and a 50-ton Denver mill installed. About 400 feet of tunnel work have been done in the various claims, numbering 14. Diesel power is available to a capacity of 25 horsepower, P. A. Whitaker, 102 Burns Street, Reno, is president of the organization, and is active manager, when the mine is working.
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The Champion Sillimanite Company is preparing for a resumption of operations at its dumortierite deposit, at Oreana, northeast of Lovelock, Nevada, under the management of C. H. Lawson. Water and air lines are being repaired, and equipment put in shape, for development. The ore mined will be shipped to the company’s plant in Detroit, Michigan, for use in the manufacture of spark plugs.
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Drillings from the churn drill hole in the Wedekind Mine, operated by the South-West Mines Corporation, J. E. Miller, president P. O. Box 990, Reno, Nevada, assayed from $7 to $15 per ton, in silver, gold, lead, and zinc, while some coarse pieces showed galena, and lead carbonate. The material was taken from between the 244, and 249-foot levels. At this time, the hole is about 80 feet below the deepest old workings.
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George Chrysler, Nevada quicksilver expert, has discovered a cinnabar deposit, in the Pilot Range, 22 miles east of Mina. He is planning to install a concentrator and retort, and to begin work within two or three weeks. Mr. Chrysler discovered the properties now being worked, by the B. and B., and the Red Rock, quicksilver companies.
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Work at the Majuba Hill Mine, near Imlay, Nevada, has been discontinued temporarily, on account of the almost impassable condition of the road, to the railroad station. Two carloads of ore have been shipped to a Utah smelter, the first car returning $1,642, while the second returned only $900, because copper prices dropped before it reached the smelter. Eight men have been employed for several weeks.
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The Argyle Mining Company, Gerald H. Hartley, 122 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, president, has built a new portal for the No. 3 Tunnel, in the Shang Mine, and is preparing the extension to a crosscut tunnel, 80 feet below No. 3 Tunnel, for work. The caved area is to be timbered, and the tunnel advanced, in order to get under a winze, sunk from No. 2 Tunnel, which was said to be in high-grade ore. The tunnel is in 75 feet, with about 50 feet to go. The tents, which are being used as temporary headquarters for the crew, are to be replaced by more substantial buildings.
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The recent assessment levied by the Tonopah Hasbrouck Mining Company, A. A. Codd, P. O. Box 5021, Reno, Nevada, is to cover the cost of additional development work. A shaft has already been sunk 60 feet in the company’s quicksilver property, near Mina, and a tunnel is to be driven into the mountain, to connect with the shaft.
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The Flowery Mines Company, Roy Hardy, superintendent, Virginia City, Nevada, is sinking its shaft from the 100-foot, to the 200-foot, level. Mr. Hardy, and Alex. Wise, at one time, owned this property, then Wise operated it alone, and is said to have made a good clean-up. Later, Homer Gibson, of Homer Gibson and Company, mining stock brokers of Toronto, Canada, became interested with Hardy, and reopened the property.
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Because the California Corporation Commission has increased the calling fee from $100 to $200 per year, and has ruled that foreign companies must maintain register and transfer offices in California, 23 Nevada mining companies have withdrawn from the San Francisco Mining Exchange. It is proposed to list stocks either in Salt Lake City, or to establish a mining exchange in Reno, Nevada.
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L. C. Newton, of Los Angeles, has leased the property of the Antelope Springs Mercury Mines, Inc, at Lovelock, Nevada, and with Montana, and Los Angeles Associates, is equipping the mine. A compressor and drills are being installed to facilitate driving a 200-foot tunnel, to develop two veins of ore, at an additional depth of 200 feet, according to Mr. Newton. A rotary furnace of 20-ton daily capacity, has been purchased, and the mill site is being prepared for its installation. J. W. Hall is in charge of operations at Lovelock.
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The Portable Mill Company is operating a 15-ton mill at Tuscarora, Nevada, prior to installing a plant that can handle between 75 and 100 tons of ore daily. Superintendent Moulton is in charge of the work. The Portable Mill Company has acquired dumps, estimated to contain from 200,000 to 400,000 tons of ore. Power for the mill is supplied by a Diesel engine, and the ratio of concentration is about 25 to 1.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 8 15 1930
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DIRECTORS OF SEVEN TROUGHS VISIT PROPERTY AUGUST 8
On August 8, the directors of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, including Messrs. E. W. Villeneuve, and Paul Galibert of Montreal, assembled at Lovelock, Nevada, and inspected the main development and extraction tunnel, which has reached a point, nearly 9,000 feet from its portal, and is being extended to intersect additional valuable ore bodies. They also inspected the development of ore that this tunnel heretofore encountered, and from which ore is being forwarded to the new cyanide mill, recently completed. In the afternoon they inspected the crushing plant and mill, and witnessed the pouring of bullion into bars, that will be shipped promptly to the United States Mint, at San Francisco. This shipment initiates production from a large mineralized area that shall supply ore for a profitable enterprise for several years. The directors are well pleased with conditions at the consolidated properties.
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THE MINING JOURNAL
NEVADA
The Wendell P. Hammon interests, 505 Balfour Building, San Francisco, California, are said to have taken over the Donald Placer Properties, near Manhattan, Nevada, and to be planning installation of dredging equipment. In order to sample the deposits, 28 holes, varying from 60 to 100 feet in depth, were drilled to bedrock, and results are said to have been satisfactory. The property consists of 1,000 acres.
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The B. and B. Quicksilver Company, B. J. Bumsted, Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, manager, is said to be developing a new deposit of cinnabar that samples from 10 to 30 pounds of mercury, per ton. This is one of the best ore bodies opened by the company. Since both furnaces were put into operation on July 29, production has been gradually increased and, within a short time, 200 flasks are to be produced monthly. A shipment of 20 flasks was made on July 26.
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Southwest Mines Investment Company, J. E. Miller, P. O. Box 995, Reno, Nevada, president, has sunk its third drill hole, to a depth of 153 feet, in the Wedekind Mine, exposing values in lead, rosin zinc, gold, and silver. The first hole was lost, because the casing came apart near the bottom of the hole, about 142 feet down, while the second hole was drilled to a depth of 317.5 feet, through ore from the 200-foot point on.
Assays showed 1.92 ounces gold, 49.6 ounces silver, 7.4 percent lead, and 10.8 percent zinc per ton. The second hole was abandoned because the casing could not be landed below a depth of 230 feet, and the material began to cave and bridge over tools, endangering their lives. The third drill hole may be sunk to a depth of 500 feet, in order to cross two veins of sulphide ore. The Arkell Orebody, which dips into Wedekind Ground, should be opened at about 500 feet.
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The Argyle Mining Company, Gerald B. Hartley, 122 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, president, is preparing to move the mill at Seven Troughs, owned by Mr. Hartley, to the Shang Mine, near Mt. Montgomery, recently taken over by the company. Foundations have been prepared for the machinery. Work of cleaning tunnels No. 2 and 3, and of driving No. 4 Tunnel, is being pushed under the direction of James L. Bryson. It is said that 60,000 tons of ore, with values principally in gold, are in sight.
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Production for June, of Bradshaw, Inc., Mark Bradshaw, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, was $34,165.40, compared with $37,296.83 for May, and $40,241.99 for April. While June production is below that of the previous two months, it is an increase of about $3,500 over the same month last year. A crew of 22 men is now employed.
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The Gold Metals Mining Company, A. Homer Black, manager, Manhattan, Nevada, is negotiating for a small mill to be installed on the Sullivan Property, which it is operating. Two 50-ton cars of gold ore, were shipped on July 29, to the Desert Mill at Millers. It is said that the cost of mining, hauling and milling amounts to about $7 per ton.
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Gross return on a shipment of 30.895 tons of ore, made to the Utah Plant of the United States Smelting, Refining and Milling Company, by the Gold Circle Consolidated Mines Company, George W. Sias, president, 68 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts, amounted to $3,224.61. Freight and smelting charges amounted to $331.16, leaving a net of $2,893.46. The ore carried $78.39 in gold, and $36.20 in silver, per ton. Gross production of this company from July 27, 1927, to June 14, 1930 was $590,685.26. Noble H. Getchell of Betty O’Neal, Nevada, is vice-president and general manager of the company.
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The Mammoth Quicksilver Mining Company, Noble C. Smith, president and general manager, Mina, Nevada, is installing a 100-ton mill on the Cornelius-Mace Property, in Dunlap Canyon, East of that town. Nine new outcroppings of cinnabar, ranging from .5 to 60 percent mercury, have been discovered. The output, at present, is confined to that from one small “D” retort. The highest returns received from ore on this property, was 119 pounds of mercury, valued at $164, from 262 pounds of ore. E. P. Stites is assistant general manager.
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Rails, and a new mine car, have recently been shipped to the property of the Caliente Cobalt Mining Company, George H. Wood, president, % Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. A cabin has been constructed, and other improvements made. At present, work is being centered on driving a tunnel, to open at depth, a blowout, occurring on the limestone-quartzite contact, about 110 feet distant. About September 1, an incline shaft is to be sunk on the Gold Vein, which in one place shows three feet of $20 gold ore. The property is about 15 miles northwest of Caliente, Nevada, and William Robinson is superintendent.
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The Uvada Copper Mines Company, C. H. Hill, Contact, Nevada, superintendent, is planning to install an air hoist and skip, in order to expedite sinking of the winze, from the Middle Tunnel. Another carload of ore is being mined for shipment. Development, rather than production, is being pushed, as the company wishes to ship only enough ore to pay expenses, while the mine is being prepared for capacity production. All ore shipped previously has contained copper, with some silver and gold, but values in lead are now being opened.
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According to L. Bacoccina of Tonopah, Nevada, who is leasing the Olympic Gold Mines at Omco, the Omco Mill was put into operation on August 1. A sufficient reserve of ore, averaging $15 per ton in gold, is in sight on the 150-foot Level, to keep the plant in continuous operation. Mr. Bacoccina has been developing on that level for the past two years, and has made a few shipments to the Desert Mill. The Omco Mill was designed by Fred Siebert, to treat 60 tons daily, but was destroyed by fire in 1918. It was then rebuilt, and operated for three years, when the company closed it down.
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The Eldorado Rand Mining Company, P. A. Keegel, general manager, P.O. Box 943, Las Vegas, Nevada, recently shipped 87 pounds of gold bullion, valued at more than $18,000, to the mint. This shipment represents a months’ run of two shifts daily.
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The Belmont Uncle Sam Mining Company, W. A. Powell, mine superintendent, Virginia City, Nevada, is taking ore, from a raise, from the 400 Level. A shipment of 50 tons is to be made soon. Plans are also being considered for the erection of a 50-ton mill.
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George Lerchen and John Berlin, who are leasing the Illinois Mine at Lode, south of Quartz Mountain, Nevada, are said to be planning to add some new equipment to the mill, and treat the ore on the property. At the present price of silver, the ore is not of high enough value to ship profitably.
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Harry W. Boyer, 111 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, California, and George Vickers are making arrangements to finance operations of the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company. Mr. Vickers has recently gone to New York City to obtain capital for the construction of a mill on the company’s property, south of Battle Mountain, Nevada. There is said to be a considerable amount of ore developed that will average $18 per ton. Until his death, a short time ago, Walter D. (Curly) Brown was financing the property.
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The Smoky Development Company, H. A. Baird, P. 0. Box 454, Ely, Nevada, has contracted to deliver 50 tons of ore daily to the McGill Smelter, of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company. Values average about $6.50 per ton in gold, and it is said that a considerable tonnage has been developed through a 400-foot tunnel, recently completed. The ore will be used as flux at the copper smelter, because of its silica content. Shipments will begin at once from the 60-ton ore bin at the portal of the tunnel, and a crew of six men are employed in breaking, and tramming ore. The property is at Lane City, via Ely, on the Nevada Northern Railroad.
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Operations of the Desert Custom Mill, idle since June 1, have been resumed by the Tonopah Mining Company, H. A. Johnson, superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada. About 700 tons of ore have accumulated, and the Tonopah Belmont leases were expected to produce 500 pounds during July.
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The American Development Company, Ed Benane, superintendent, Fallon, Nevada, has taken a lease and option on a barium property, near Carlin, from W. J. Mahoney, owner of the claims. According to Mahoney, a tramway is to be installed, to carry the ore down to Maggie Creek. Later, a tunnel is to be driven, to open the mine, near the floor of the canyon. In the Eagleville Property, a deposit 12 feet thick has recently been opened. Fourteen men are employed at the latter mine.
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A 400-ton mill run, on ore from the New Alto Divide Mining Company lease, has been completed by the Nevada Standard Mill, at Cherry Creek, Nevada, and ore from another lease, is now being milled. The yield from this run was 20 tons of concentrates, valued at $350 per ton, Values are about two-thirds gold, although some of the best ore runs high in silver. The New Alto Divide Company has more ore available, but will await its turn for another mill run.
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The new condensing equipment, made of special iron, is being operated successfully by the Castle Peak Quicksilver Company, H. E. Loufek, 306 First National Bank Building, Reno, Nevada, president, and has eliminated trouble resulting from generation of sulphuric acid, which ate holes in the light steel pipe formerly in use. Two or three tons of mud, obtained by cleaning the dust tanks and the old condenser, were put through the furnace with the ore and 15.5 flasks of mercury were recovered from the first two days’ run. The haulage tunnel, 810 feet north of the glory hole, has been advanced 80 feet, and has opened a mineralized zone, which may prove to be the main ore channel.
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The Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Inc., Elmer F. Good, Arlemont, Nevada, president, is operating its furnace again after having suspended work for a short time, on account of the condition of the quicksilver market. The 50x50 furnace is being relined, and will be put into operation shortly. A body of ore, averaging about 10 pounds per ton, has been opened.
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One carload of $100 ore was shipped for sampling, to the Desert Mill at Millers, Nevada, from the Galvin, Howler and Erickson Lease on the Tonopah Belmont Mine. The vein of ruby silver recently opened on the Morrison Lease, has pinched to four inches, but is as rich as ever. Production for June was 240 tons of $20 ore, and July output is expected to be about 500 tons of the same grade. Ore is being broken by 85 men.
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W. H. Swett is installing a 50-ton mill of his own patent and design, on the Black Hole Mine, 20 miles south of Mill City, Nevada. Mr. Swett conceived the idea of this mill, which he calls the “bucking board,” while grinding ore samples on the bucking board in the assay office. The mullers are of granite, weighing about 1,200 pounds each, and are driven by a gasoline engine. Cost of operating this plant is said to be only one-fourth as much as cost of operating a stamp mill.
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Balfour, Guthrie Investment Company has erected the walls of its plant, for washing glass sand on the Steamboat Springs Property, south of Reno, Nevada. Machinery is being placed as fast as it arrives and the plant is expected to be in operation by August 1. According to J. C. Harry, superintendent, the plant capacity is estimated at 800 tons daily. The company’s attempt to secure a supply of cold water was not successful, and both a churn drill and diamond drill are being used to secure hot water, which is known to lie under the deposits. The property contains a considerable deposit of kaolin, and it is said that a plant to handle this material is to be constructed later.
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The Goldfield Deep Mines Company, A. I. D’Arcy, president and manager, Goldfield, Nevada, has driven two crosscuts, for a total of 40 feet, on a 35-degree angle from the top of the new raise. This raise is being closely timbered, as it is in heavy, sluffing ground. It is said, however, that practically all the ore opened in this district has been in ground of this type.
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Concrete foundations, having set sufficiently for placement of machinery, the 17-ton double-drum hoist has been hauled to the property of the Pittsburgh-Goldfield Mining Company, Corrin Barnes, manager, Goldfield, Nevada, and is being assembled. Erection of the 60-foot steel headframe, will start next week. A meter house has been constructed for power company meters. A concrete floor is being built for the transformers, which consist of modern outdoor equipment, without housing, and will be enclosed by a high wire fence for public protection. A disconnecting switch and modern lightning arrestors are to be put in for the transformers.
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The Mercury Mining Syndicate, O. L. Cash, superintendent, P. O. Box 667, Winnemucca, Nevada, is said to be planning to double the capacity of its furnaces. It is believed that the entire hill can be worked profitably, if a steam shovel is used in mining, and the furnace capacity increased.
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Al Annett, Andy Smith, Jack Ingalls, and Graham, have taken a lease and bond on the old Drew quicksilver property, 12 miles east of Mina, Nevada. The new operators are re-timbering the shaft, which had caved, and they hope to begin production as soon as that work is finished.
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A 25-ton pilot mill has been installed at the Rip Van Winkle Mine, on the west slope of Lone Mountain, 80 miles north of Elko, Nevada, by Dan Zuccone of that town. Operations began on July 20. Concentration only is employed at present, although flotation equipment is to be installed later. Mr. Zuccone finances himself and works alone.
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George B. Bent of Skull Valley, Arizona, has purchased the Duplex Mine, near Searchlight, Nevada, from George R. Colton, son of the original locator, and is planning to build a 50-ton mill. A substantial cash payment is said to have been made on the purchase price of $200,000. The property is credited with a production of one and one-quarter million dollars, and the ore is of a complex nature, with gold values predominating. A. B. Peach of Prescott, and E. L. Sweeney of Phoenix, Arizona, have examined the mine.
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An eight-inch vein of free gold, estimated to be worth $450 per ton, has been discovered in the Lassie Jean Mine at Osceola, Nevada, by James Henry, and V. Miller, lessees. The vein has been opened for a depth of 80 feet, and values are not diminishing. The property is owned by Marion and Jasper Fox of Shoshone.
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The Southern Mines, Inc., W. T. Childers, superintendent, Mina, Nevada, has made another shipment of 15 flasks, which is the third during the past month. About 26 tons of ore are treated daily and the monthly production, when operations are stabilized, is said to be 45 to 50 flasks, valued at $5,200.
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Tom Morrison, who is operating on the Tonopah Belmont property, near Tonopah, Nevada, has opened 14 inches of ore, valued at from $1,000 to $1,500 per ton, at the present price of silver. The gold content of the ore makes up half of the value. Some of the ore is said to be almost pure metal, banded with one to two inches of ruby silver. The ore is being broken in the drifts and put into powder boxes, which will be hoisted by block and tackle. A small hoist is to be installed to facilitate handling waste and high grade, to the 1,000 Level. The ore must be shipped to the Selby Smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company, as the values are too great to be recovered by cyanidation. The discovery is believed to be a branch of the famous Old Favorite Vein. Harry Polin is backing the lease, and Ben Richardson is working with Morrison.
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The Nicholson Mining and Milling Company, H. C. Nicholson, P. 0. Box 807, Ely, Nevada, principal owner, has made a shipment of 94 ounces of gold, which is the product of 40 tons of ore. A recovery of about $47 per ton was made. This ore was taken from the deepest level, the bottom of the incline shaft.
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The Salt Lake Pioche Mining Company, C. S. Martin, president and general manager, 722 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, is sinking the 100-foot Apex Shaft on its property, near Pioche, Nevada, for another 100 feet, in order to intersect the Bowery Vein. A light hoist has been installed to facilitate sinking. This property has been held for 21 years by Martin and his associates. George Peterson of Milford, Utah, is directing the work, and W. A. Free is in charge of the mine.
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Clarence Perras and Charles A. Josephs have received $3,549 from the Desert Mill of the Tonopah Mining Company, as settlement for 80 tons of gold-silver ore from their lease on the Clifford Mine of Western Gold, Inc. The ore samples 4.48 ounces per ton gold, and 88.72 ounces silver. In taking out this ore about 800 pounds of high grade were sacked for shipment to California, to the Selby Smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company.
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The Interstate Mining and Development Company, C. J. Carpenter, manager, Dayton, Nevada, has completed installation of a gasoline hoist and headframe, at its May Day Property, near Como, and sinking has been resumed. The shaft is down 30 feet, and has been timbered. A sample taken 30 feet south of the new shaft, assayed 1.3 ounces of gold, and 1.24 ounces silver per ton.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 8 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
NEVADA
West Mines Corporation, W. E. Sirbeck, President, Goldfield, Nevada, is planning to explore the 100-foot Level of its property, where some good ore has already been opened. In order to provide funds for this work, an assessment of 1 percent per share has been levied.
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The Nevada Pure Salt Company, Ltd., is shipping a supply of lumber from Boca, California, to its property at Saltco, near Fallon, Nevada, for the construction of a refinery plant, 70 x 300 feet, part of which is to be three stories high. Arrangements are being made for the incorporation of the Fallon and Saltco Railroad Company, and construction is to begin about November 1, after preliminary surveys have been checked. The charter of the corporation, has been amended to provide for 10,000 shares of 8 percent preferred stock, of a par value of $100 a share, and new officials have been chosen. Colonel William S. Thompson, president of the Star Salt Company of Lafayette, Louisiana, has been elected President, succeeding C. S. Boden. W. F. Travis, formerly salt production manager of the Mulkey Salt Company, Detroit, Michigan, is to be superintendent; R. C. Folger, general superintendent; D. P. Kernan, manager of the Reno office, and several other men from Lafayette, have arrived at Saltco.
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For the quarter ended June 20, 1930, the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, D. C. Jackling, President, 1800 Hobart Building, San Francisco, California, and subsidiaries, report a profit of $161,870, after ordinary taxes and depreciation, but before depletion and federal taxes, comparing with $2,224,425 in the preceding quarter, and $3,786,258 in the corresponding quarter of 1929. Profit for the first half of 1930, amounted to $2,886,295, before depletion and federal taxes, while in the first half of 1929, profit was $10,510,772.
During the second quarter of 1930, the company produced 35,740,442 pounds of copper, from its Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico properties, a monthly average of 11,913,481 pounds, compared with a monthly average of 13,238,254 pounds in the first quarter of this year. The company shipped 18,454 tons of direct smelting ore, milled at the Nevada plant, 2,014,480 tons of its own ore, and 292,413 tons of custom ore. Net cost per pound of copper produced, was 10.28 cents, compared with 9.76 cents for the first quarter.
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Tenabo Consolidated Mining Company has levied an assessment of .75 cents per share on outstanding capital stock of the company. Stock on which the assessment becomes delinquent, will be sold at public auction, on September 19, 1930.
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Two feet of good ore are said to have been opened on the 200-foot Level of the Mammoth Mine, by the Gilbert Mammoth Gold Mines Company, Fred O. Gilbert, President and general manager, Gilbert, Nevada, which is operating a lease on the property. Chris Hansen is also operating a lease on the Mammoth Mine.
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The Lost Spanish Mine, so called because of the fact that no one has been able to find it since the death of the Spaniard, who worked it about 30 years ago, is said to have been found by W. M. Anderson. The Spaniard’s pick and shovel, his workings, ore, and notice of location, in a tomato can, are claimed to have been found by Anderson, who owns other claims in the district, 23 miles northwest of Jungo, Nevada.
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A 25-horsepower engine has been installed by the Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Inc., Elmer F. Good, President, Arlemont, Nevada, to facilitate hoisting, and to operate the compressor. Several small engines furnish power for the furnace and other surface equipment, and at night, a generator furnishes light for the entire camp. At present, the deepest workings in the property are 100 feet deep, but a site has been chosen for an incline shaft, to be sunk to a greater depth. Harvey H. Wells is in charge of operations, and 14 men are employed.
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A lease has been taken on the Ophir gold croppings, near Virginia City, Nevada, by Frank Erno, who is employed at the Flowery Mine, at Six-Mile Canyon. He is doing some work to determine the extent and value of the ore, which will be milled at the Flowery Mill, if values and tonnage prove to be sufficient. Several months ago, Mr. Erno returned from Brazil, where he was placering for diamonds.
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Tailings of the old Keane Wonder Mill, are to be tested by G. R. McLean, who is licensed to use the Luchenbach process for recovery of gold and silver, in Nevada. The dump is said to contain 50,000 tons of tailings carrying from $2 to $3 per ton in gold. W. R. McCrea of Beatty, Nevada, owns the old tailings ponds.
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The 80-ton Huntington Mill was put into operation at the Nevada Gold Dome Mine on August 15, two weeks earlier than anticipated, as it was decided to start operation before putting in a cyanidation tank, in order to determine the extraction made by amalgamation alone. The mill will be operated as a custom plant, separate runs being made on consignments of ore, and cleanups made at the end of the run. Small lots are to be purchased outright on assayer’s controls, until a sampler is installed. Negotiations for cyanide tanks are under way.
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The Missouri Monarch Consolidated Mines Company, Fred W. Hanson, General superintendent, Black Forest, Nevada, has temporarily discontinued driving its long tunnel, to connect the Black Forest and Spruce Monarch properties, and is concentrating work on the development of ore in the Black Forest. The Broncho Tunnel has been driven 2,400 feet, and the Black Forest, 1,500 feet, leaving 2,100 feet of tunnel to be driven, before the two tunnels connect. A good grade of ore is being opened in the Black Forest, and a raise is being extended in a 300-foot ore body, to ascertain whether or not it makes into beds. Operations have been curtailed somewhat in view of the low prices of lead, zinc, and silver.
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The Castle Peak Quicksilver Company, H. E. Loufek, 806 First National Bank Building, Reno, Nevada, President, shipped 70 flasks of quicksilver, to H. W. Gould and Company, in San Francisco. A production of 100 flasks per month, results from the furnace treating 28 tons daily, of ore averaging 10 pounds of quicksilver per ton. Production from September 5, 1929, to June 30, 1930, was 869 flasks of quicksilver, containing 66,044 pounds.
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J. P. Sweeney, pioneer mine operator of Goldfleld, Nevada, and Harry McMillan, are said to be planning to equip and develop the Sweeney cinnabar property, 15 miles south of Goldfield. Water is to be secured from the Mt. Magruder pipeline, of the Goldfield Water Company, through a six-mile pipeline to be laid to the property. Mineralization of the deposit is said to be of the hot water type, similar to that of the B. and B. mine.
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Southern Mines, Inc., W. T. Childers, Superintendent, Mina, Nevada, produced 41 flasks of quicksilver, during the month of July. Development work is being continued in good ore.
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The Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, L. A. Friedman, General manager, Lovelock, Nevada, has made its first cleanup, since putting its new mill into operation. The shipment represented a 12-day run, and consisted of two large bars of gold and silver, weighing 8,600 troy ounces, said to be worth $7 per ounce. This is the first production since 1917, when the mines were closed down. Previous to that time the property produced for 11 years; the output amounting to about $6,000,000.
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The Nevada-Massachusetts Company, O. F. Heizer, Manager, Mill City, Nevada, has sunk the main shaft in the Humboldt Mine, from the 500 to the 600-foot level, and the ore body appears as good as in the upper levels. The Stank Shaft has been deepened from the 700, to the 800-foot level, where a station has been cut, in order that a drift may be run to the vein, 60 feet distant. A 40-foot sump has been sunk below the 800 Level. The payroll includes 84 men, more than usual, as the contract obtained by the company when prices were high, has several months to run. At the company’s Silver Dyke property, development work only is being continued under the supervision of W. G. Emminger, the mill having been closed down because no contract had been obtained for the output.
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Robert Wade and Thomas McCleave have purchased controlling interest in the “Stuttie” property, in the Ten Mile District, West of Winnemucca, Nevada, and have obtained a lease and option on the remainder. They are endeavoring to prove an ore body of sufficient size to justify installation of a mill. It is understood that the men are backed by Eastern capitalists.
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The Acme Mining Company has been organized by Great Falls, and Kalispell, Montana, capitalists, to operate the placer properties of the Land Owners’ Royalty Company, consisting of 4,600 acres, six and one-half miles southeast of Sulphur, Nevada. Two carloads of lumber have been ordered for construction of a camp, a small electric power plant, and a Frigidaire system are to be installed, and shower baths built. A 22-inch pipe line is to be run to the hot springs in the Black Rock Desert, 15 miles distant, to provide water for operation of the gold saving machine. A 3000-gallon tank has been ordered, and others are to be installed later. Mining is now being done on surface material, which averages from $2.25 to $2.50 per yard. N. B. Torrey, of Great Falls, is President of the company, and A. H. Kaplan is Superintendent.
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Eastern capital is said to have become interested in the Gold Hill Consolidated Mines Company, which was organized by L. J. Curran and associates, of Los Angeles, and San Francisco, California. The property consists of four claims, adjoining the property of the Gold Hill Development Company, on the north. A compressor and drills have been purchased, and sinking is to be started soon. A small crew is now trenching the surface.
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The new mill of the Gold Hill Development Company, at Gold Hill, four miles north of Round Mountain, started operating August 1, and is treating between 125 and 150 tons of ore a day, and making a recovery of better than 95 percent of the gold content in the ore. The mill heads average $20 a ton, and the estimated reserves are sufficient for at least a two years’ run, with 82 ore shoots on the 225 Level, alone. Horace A. Johnson is in charge of the mill, while John Dynan directs mine developments. All of the employees live at Round Mountain.
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On July 28, Judge J. Emmett Walsh of the District Court of Nye County, sitting at Tonopah, confirmed the sale of the Montana-Tonopah Company, Reorganized, for $80,000. Capt. Walter Rowson, Tonopah attorney, bid in the property, it is reported, for the Thomas F. Cole interests, on a foreclosure suit instituted some time ago by the Chatham Phoenix National Bank of New York, for a debt in excess of $400,000. The property is in the heart of the Tonopah District, and for many years, and until recently, had been operated on a leasing basis. A number of the lessees made independent fortunes.
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J. H. McCoy of Battle Mountain, Nevada, has made arrangements with a group of men, at Modesto, California, for the building of a cyanide mill, at the Gold Dome Mine in the McCoy District, in Nevada, which he is leasing from the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company. Foundations are laid, and most of the machinery is on the ground for a plant of 50-ton capacity. Completion date is set for September 1. A substantial tonnage of ore that assays from $18 to $25 a ton, has been opened up between the 150-foot Level, and the surface, and the ore, which has faulted below this level, has been picked up about a month ago on the 200, and 250 levels. On the lower level, an 80-foot raise has been put up, and a 15-foot crosscut failed to reach the limits of the deposit. The entire mass is said to average $81 a ton. The Nevada Gold Dome Company has let a number of leases in its ground, and some of them are installing
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The Kernick Divide Mining Company at Sodaville, Nevada, has the cement, and most of the machinery on the ground, for its mill, and construction will be started as soon as H. B. Skewes returns from Nevada City. Flotation machinery to treat 50 tons of ore daily, is being installed, and the machinery is to be operated by electricity. The plant is two miles from the mine, and the ore will be hauled in trucks. The new redwood tank has been filled with water, and the system is functioning satisfactorily.
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L. A. Friedman, and J. H. Causten, of Lovelock, Nevada have taken a bond and lease on a cinnabar deposit at Buckskin Mountain, in northern Humboldt County. Considerable ore is in sight, and six men are already engaged in further development. The purchase price is reported at $100,000, of which a substantial sum was cash. Their plans are to spend $10,000 this year, and $20,000 during each of the two succeeding years.
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The Searchlight Gold Mining Company at Searchlight, Nevada, has a crew of six men cleaning out the workings, and getting ready for development. Men will be added to this number shortly. This was formerly known as the Cyrus Noble ground.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 10 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
NEVADA
H. A. Severinghaus, Manager of the United States Brucite Corporation, has let a contract to haul brucite from his property, 30 miles northeast of Luning, Nevada, to the railroad, for shipment to the Pacific Coast cities. The ore will be crushed before being shipped. Initial production will be limited, but will be increased as conditions improve. More than 100 diamond drill holes have been sunk in the deposit, to a maximum depth of 500 feet, and drilling will be continued until the entire ground is explored. Machinery is being assembled at the mine.
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The Seven Troughs Extension Mines Company at Lovelock, Nevada, G. W. Warmoth, General Manager, has shut down its flotation mill until amalgamating plates and concentrating tables are installed. A substantial tonnage of $15 ore is blocked out for milling, but the recovery of the gold by flotation alone, was not satisfactory.
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B. H. Rowland and G. W. Warmoth, Box 8, Lovelock, Nevada, intend to increase the water supply and bring additional power to the Auburn Gold Property. The new milling plant can treat about 25 tons of ore daily, and is working steadily. A larger crusher is to be installed, to increase its capacity. It is estimated that between 5,000 and 6,000 tons of $4 ore are on the dump.
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The Minerals and Metals Holding Corporation, J. E. Kerr, General Manager, 245 Monadnock Building, San Francisco, has acquired deed to 11 mining claims, adjoining its property in Humboldt County, Nevada, near Sulphur. They have already completed about 2,000 feet of tunnels and underground work. Further development plans include the sinking of a centrally located working shaft to mine, at depth, gold and silver found at the surface, and in the tunnel workings.
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Joe, and Baptista Minoletti, and John Nichols, all of Eureka, Nevada, are prospecting the Julius Minoletti mining claims, in the vicinity of Hamilton. Their outfit is a compressor, used by J. J. Minoletti and Nichols, at Ruby Hill, a 25-horsepower engine, and a 10-horsepower hoist. They have sunk a 180-foot shaft, and plan to sink it another 100 feet, before starting lateral development.
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The Searchlight Gold Corporation of Searchlight, Nevada, is putting in Denver Sub-A Fahrenwald flotation machines, in its plant, to treat its gold ores by flotation. This plant will be in operation about November 15.
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Owing to the condition of the silver market, the flotation mill of Piermont Mines, Inc., at Aurum. Nevada, closed, and will not resume operations until the market improves. The mine is in excellent physical condition, and development is being continued, according to General Manager E. W. Venable, of Ely, Nevada.
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The Basque Mining and Milling Company, F. S. Brereton, President and General Manager, has placed its 25-ton pilot mill, 17 miles north of Winnemucca, Nevada, in operation, on $12 ore. Its recovery is satisfactory, and everything at the mine is in good condition. A crew is drifting on a full face of eight feet of ore, which assays about $8.50 per ton. Eighteen men are employed. In the spring, Manager Brereton says, they intend to build a 100-ton cyanide mill.
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Carl W. Chilson, consulting geophysicist, has abandoned his options on the Rose, and Gold Bug Mines, in the vicinity of Tuscarora, Nevada, and has taken a lease and bond on the original Bell Isle, the North Bell Isle, and two adjoining properties. A geophysical survey will be started on the Bell Isle ground next week, and, subject to examinations, he hopes to start operations before mid-winter. These mines have a production record of about $7,000,000 in high-grade silver-gold ore.
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The Tehama Mines Syndicate at Imlay, Nevada, is now installing a 20-ton Rib Cone milling plant, together with Overstrom Universal tables, and Straub crushers. This plant is for the purpose of treating gold-copper ores.
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C. N. Schuette, 306 Call Building, San Francisco, is installing a small retort on Cinnabar Mountain, east of Mina, Nevada, for J. B. Towner, and Henry Ott, who are operating the Cardinal and Florine Mines. He has eliminated some of the objectionable features of the D Retort, in common use on small properties, and has devised a pan feed. The retort will be ready for work in two weeks, and will operate on ore that averages 240 pounds of quicksilver to the ton.
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A new discovery has been made at the surface, and near the shaft, in the Preiss Mine, at the head of Gold Canyon, near Mina, Nevada, operated by August and Harry Preiss. The ore was found while grading, and 82 tons of it shipped to the International Smelting Company, at Tooele have returned $8.50 a ton. This vein is about four and one-half feet wide, and development will be started to locate its extension, 50 feet below the strike.
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Acting on recommendations by two prominent mining engineers, preparations are being made to sink the main working shaft of the Reorganized Rosetta Divide Mining Company, to greater depth. This mine is near Virginia City, Nevada, and is in charge of President and General Manager, January Jones, Box 1021, Reno. Free milling gold ore, ranging from milling grade, to more than $200 a ton, has been opened by three shafts, and the drifts and the veins are from two to four feet wide. The engineers believe that the ore bodies will increase in size and value, with depth, and the construction of a mill is assured, if their expectations are right.
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The Pittsburgh-Goldfield Mining Company at Goldfield, Nevada, is sinking its three-compartment shaft, with two shifts of men working. The new plant of machinery recently installed, is running smoothly. Corrin Barnes is Manager of the company, and in charge of development.
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The Nevada Standard Mining Company, J. Henry Goodman, President, Box 57, Ely, Nevada, has installed another ball mill at Cherry Creek, which will effect a higher recovery through finer grinding, and allow 75 tons of ore to pass through the mill daily. About 50,000 tons of ore are on the dumps ready for treatment, and in addition, they have acquired approximately 15,000 tons at an old millsite down on the flat. A contract has been let to haul the latter supply to the mill. Tests have shown that about $2 a ton, net profit, can be made on the ore from each of the dumps. The money derived from milling the dumps, will be used to develop the Star, Exchequer, and other mines.
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Under the management of Ed. Sweetland, graphite is being mined and shipped from the Chedic Property, three miles west of Carson City, Nevada. Crude graphite had been mined for several years, but recently three carloads of the material were shipped, and orders have been placed for more.
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When the whistle sounded on the morning of October 3, it found 115 miners waiting to be lowered to the various levels of the Tonopah Mining Company, to start preliminary prospecting for lease blocks. This was the first time that all of the mines, including the Valley View, and The famous Mizpah, have been opened to leasers.
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Fred Maxwell and Alex. DeCosta of Basalt, Nevada, are hauling power and supplies to the Golden Eagle Group of 12 claims, in the Huntoon Valley, owned for a number of years by Maxwell. A small production has been made from the ground. This winter they will continue a 396-foot tunnel, driven several years ago by the Lee brothers, in an effort to cut the ledge at depth.
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The Nicholson Mining and Milling Company, H. C. Nicholson, Box 307, Ely, Nevada, has struck some rich ore in its property at Osceola. The ore is from 18 inches to 3 feet wide, and still going down strong. Five tons were shipped from the Baird Claim, to the Nevada Consolidated Smelter, returning around $118 per ton. The ore from development is being milled, and reserves are being accumulated at the rate of six tons for every ton milled. When Nicholson returned to Ely, from the mine, he brought with him a bar of bullion valued at $1,400.
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The Gold Metals Mining Company, A. Homer Black, Manager, Manhattan, Nevada, was forced to suspend sinking of its shaft to the 200-foot point as was originally planned, until a larger pump can be installed. For the present, they have turned their attention to drifting from the 150-foot point of the shaft.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, General Manager, Kimberly, Nevada, continues to produce about 3,000 tons of ore daily, from its Emma Nevada Shaft. This ore is milled and smelted under contract, at the McGill plant of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company. The Alpha Shaft had been producing about 300 tons of direct smelting ore daily, but this has been discontinued on account of the low price of copper. The Alpha Shaft is being kept dewatered, and some development is going on. Diamond drilling west of the Emma-Nevada Shaft has been going on for nearly two years, and it is estimated that between 30,000,000, and 35,000,000 tons of ore, will be available there.
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W. H. Bray, of Reno, mining engineer, has just returned from the East where he has met with success in financing the Crown Mine, south of Golconda, Nevada, which he controls under lease and option from L. Plater.
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A second crew is sampling the workings of the Mason Valley, and Bluestone Mines at Mason, Nevada, under the management of Joseph Rosenblatt of Salt Lake City, Utah. It is probable that a new plant will eventually be installed there.
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Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., John C. Kirchen, General Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, intends to unwater the 1,800-foot Level. A substantial body of ore has been located and opened on the 1,600 Level, and its extension will be sought on the lower level as soon as it is dry. The Tonopah Extension mill has shown a slight increase in bullion production from its own ore. The production for September was 128,150 ounces of gold and silver bullion, valued at $67,900, an increase of 1,210 ounces, and $2,700 over the August production.
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At a depth of 225 feet in the incline shaft, the Cinnabar King Mining Company, George S. Clack, manager, Carson City, Nevada, opened high-grade quicksilver ore, assaying as high as $2,000 per ton. The vein is from one to six inches wide, and the shaft was sunk 10 feet below the point where it entered the ore. A 20-ton Newhall Furnace has been ordered, and will be installed at the portal of the tunnel, which has been driven for transportation purposes, and will eliminate hoisting and tramming the ore to the mill. At the present time, four Hall-Scott stationary furnaces are operating, and turning out a flask of quicksilver a day. Timothy Connelly, of Lovelock, is Superintendent of the mine.
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Charles Smith, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has leased the property of the Tempiute Mutual Mining and Milling Company in the Delamar District, Nevada.
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The Endowment Mining Company is considering installing a rotary, to replace the retorts now in use, in the recovery of quicksilver, according to L. W. Whiting, Box 111, Mina, Nevada. He has two quicksilver claims near Mina, in which the ore averages 1.5 percent. That there is some high grade too, was in evidence when he recovered 126 pounds of quicksilver, from 219 pounds of ore.
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Vivian Hughes and William Fanchini are about ready to place their milling plant at Silver Peak, Nevada, in operation. It is designed to treat the tailings from the Pittsburgh Silver Peak Mine, which comprise approximately 75,000 tons that are worth around $3 a ton. Hughes and Fanehini have been working on this mill during the past five months, and have spent in the neighborhood of $25,000.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 11 15 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
NEVADA
The Nevada Standard Mining Company, J. Henry Goodman, President, Box 57, Ely, Nevada, is driving a new tunnel, to drain all the workings of the Star Vein, above the Seventh Level. More than 100 feet of the distance has been completed and the objective will probably be reached at the 2,200-foot point in the tunnel, and about 250 feet east from the shaft, on the seventh level. According to the mine maps, approximately 80,000 tons of ore are under water, and at present metal prices, would be worth about $17 a ton. The 75-ton mill has been remodeled, and resumed operations from the dumps in the upper levels of the mine. An increase of about 25 tons in mill capacity is anticipated shortly.
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The cleanup of the Gold Hill Development Company, H. A. Johnson, General Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, for the first half of October, was $11,700, making a total production of $58,800 since the, mill started operating August 1. The mine is reported in excellent condition with around 5,000 tons broken down in the stopes, and the raises from the 400 to the 225 Level all in ore. The oreshoot on the 225 is said to be 1,000 feet long.
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The Alta Tiger Mining Company has reopened the old Jackson Mine, near Montello, Elko County, Nevada, and ore is being mined from the 160 and 280-foot levels, where replacement occurs in a crushed quartzite stratum, 50 to 60 feet thick. In the last 20 years, the mine has produced $180,000 from stopes, carrying all the way from 15, to 750 tons, of lead-silver carbonate ore. S. F. Hunt is Superintendent. Lester Rankin, 212 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is Secretary.
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The Sutro Tunnel Coalition, Inc., James M. Leonard, Manager, Virginia City, Nevada, is making tests on its ores by both cyanidation and flotation, with some good recoveries. J. Weinig, of Golden, Colorado, has been making tests by flotation for the Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Company of Denver, and Harry L. McNeill of the Stearns-Roger Company, has spent some time at the mine. Both the Middlemines, and the Crown Point Mines, are being developed, and a carload of gold-silver ore was shipped to the Desert Mill, from the Middlemines property, a week ago.
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D. L. Peters, 916 Hibernian Building, Los Angeles, California, has taken over the option of the Nevada Quicksilver Mine, near lone, Nevada, held by Thomas Nicely and E. A. Mee. A four-drill air compressor has been installed, and oil has replaced wood as fuel for the furnace. Ore is being drawn from the old glory hole in cars, drawn by a motor, and treated at the rate of 45 tons daily, in a Scott Furnace. M. P. Doonan, who held the original lease on the ground, is Superintendent for Peters.
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The Pioneer Mines Company, Charles H. Norcross, Manager, Reno, Nevada, has been refinanced. Development, which was suspended two months ago when funds were exhausted, has been resumed at a depth of 100 feet, following two productive veins, the Cromer, and East Twin.
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On October 22, the Raymond Van Ness Mining Company, Peter Buol, Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, shipped 22 flasks of mercury, making 198 flasks shipped, since operations were started. Of the present shipment, 10 flasks were consigned to Los Angeles, and 12 to San Francisco.
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The properties of the Sierra-Nevada, and of the Scorpion mining companies, near Virginia City, Nevada, were purchased at sheriff’s sale, by Arthur Thomas, 1118 Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. In the event they are not redeemed, it is understood that a company will be organized for their continued development.
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Homer A. Black, Mining Engineer of Los Angeles, now of Tonopah, Nevada, is actively engaged in development for the Gold Metals Mining Company at Manhattan, Nevada, where sensationally rich ore was opened just above water level. Assays of over $1,000 a ton have been taken from the shaft, and a test shipment has given satisfactory information. The shaft is 110 feet deep, equipped with a 25-horsepower electrically driven hoist, and a single-stage compressor, that can operate two drills. Gold Metals is considering taking over the War Eagle Mill and modernizing it to handle the ore.
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The Mercury Mining Syndicate, O. L. Cash, Superintendent, Box 667, Winnemucca, Nevada, has started furnacing some ore that carries from two to three pounds of quicksilver to the ton, and was considered too low of a grade to return profit a year ago, when the mine was said to have been worked out. Considerable ore of this grade was left standing in the mine, and is all above the transportation tunnel. The furnace has a capacity of 140 tons a day, and is equipped with an electric condensing system, which eliminates the dust.
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During September, the cyanide mill of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, at Lovelock, Nevada, produced $58,000 in gold-silver bullion, according to Assistant Manager B. J. Schrader. A recovery of 97.4 percent was made from 2,880 tons of ore; the loss in tailings was reduced from 61 cents to 50 cents a ton, and the actual cost of milling, reduced from $1.73 at the beginning of the month, to $1.58 at the close of September. The consumption of cyanide is 0.8 of one pound for each ton of ore milled.
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The Pan American, and the Forlorn Hope shafts, are going down about a mile and a half apart, in the Comet District, [near Pioche] in Nevada. The work is being financed by W. F. Snyder and Sons, of Salt Lake City, Utah, the International Smelting Company, and James Elwood Jones, a West Virginia coal operator. The Pan American is an incline shaft. It entered low-grade ore at 800 feet, and it has persisted for 500 feet. The Forlorn Hope has been sunk in One Wheel Canyon, to a depth of 600 feet, and the Combined Metals limestone horizon entered. A station is being cut, preliminary to crosscutting a number of ore-bearing fissures.
The first, a small one, will be cut in 100 feet, and the next at 800 feet. Electricity is used as motive power, and a five-mile aerial tramway will connect these shafts with the Prince Consolidated broad gauge railroad. George E. Coxe, of Caliente, is Superintendent of the Pan American, and William Franklin is Superintendent of the Forlorn Hope.
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J. H. Hooper, Superintendent for the Elkoro Mines Company, at Jarbidge, Nevada, has purchased pumping equipment of 5,000-gallon capacity, at Salt Lake City, and intends to do considerable prospecting this year. This equipment will be installed in units; the first installation to be of 1,000 tons daily capacity. One year’s supply of ore is in sight, and this is about the average reserve that has been maintained during the past six years.
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The American Development Company, V. H. Carter, Vice-President and General Manager, 1881 Sixth Street, Berkeley, California, has started developing the Josephine Group of barium claims, near Carlin, Nevada, owned by George Salzman, Stewart Erskine, and William J. Graven, of Winnemucca, and William Mahoney, of Dunphy. Five men are testing the ground with drills, and it is planned to drive a working tunnel, through which the ore can be removed by gravity. This company recently built a 280-ton plant at Berkeley, for handling barium.
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Tonopah and Goldfield mining men have taken over the Hornet, Hornet No. 2, and the Contact mining claims, in the vicinity of Manhattan, Nevada, owned by Prof. Clinton. Development is already planned, and will be carried on under the name, Gold Metals Bonanza Mining Company, which is being organized under the laws of Nevada. Frank Dumond, of Tonopah, is a director, and will have charge of development.
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The Portable Mill Company of Los Angeles, California, has optioned the Rip Van Winkle Mine, north of Elko, Nevada; from the Alaska Improvement Company, Frank M. Middleton, President and General Manager. Dan Zuccone operated this property last summer, and concentrated by tabling some of the sulphide ore from a crosscut tunnel, at a depth of 800 feet, but the ore had a tendency to slime and he could not make a good recovery.
J. C. Brumblay, of Winnemucca, Nevada, field representative for the International Smelting Company, has sent samples of the ore to Salt Lake City for tests by flotation, and, pending the result of the test, may build a small flotation plant at the mine.
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The Castle Peak Quicksilver Company expects to produce 100 flasks of quicksilver in its 8 x 40-foot Gould Rotary Furnace, this month, at its property 26 miles southeast of Reno, and six miles north of Virginia City, Nevada. The furnace was installed last year, and placed in operation on September 5. Until September 30, 1930, it operated 318½ days, and treated 8,791 tons of ore, which was an average of more than 27 tons daily.
The quicksilver produced from that tonnage was 1,028 flasks, and sold for $118,085.50. The company has paid three dividends, totaling $88,125. The ore is mined from an irregularly shaped open pit, 110 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 80 feet deep, with the bottom in ore. Ore reserves are estimated sufficient to supply the reduction plant for three years. H. E. Loufek, 806 First National Bank Building, Reno, is President of the organization.
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Pinney, Drake, and Toomey, who are operating a lease on the Spearhead Mine, near Silver City, Nevada, are milling 60 tons of ore, in the Trimble-Hardwick Mill. The ore will average $20 a ton in gold. This is the second shipment that the lessees have made.
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A deed, covering all the mining property, town, personal property, and machinery, of the Eureka Smelting Company, has been filed to E. C. Stuckless, J. Arnold Farrer, and John Sherburne, representing the bondholders. The property was sold at public auction for $840,665.15. This culminates a long-drawn controversy.
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TIN DEPOSIT IN LANDER COUNTY, NV MINING JOURNAL 12 15 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
Tin Deposit of Lander County, Nevada
By MARSHALL HANEY, Consulting Mining Engineer, Greer, Virginia.
A description of a little-known deposit in central Nevada.
Some years ago, tin ore was found in an unnamed range of hills in Lander County, Nevada, about 20 miles north of Battle Mountain, a town on the Southern Pacific Railroad. The region is mostly accessible by wagon roads.
Geology
A series of rhyolite lava flows is the main rock of the tin bearing area. Basalt is found in small quantities at the west end of the belt, and increases in prominence farther west. Alluvial washes are found along the base of the range. These rhyolites are the oldest Tertiary lavas in this part of Nevada, and their eruption evidently began early in Miocene time. As a general rule, the rhyolites are massive, and crowded with phenocrysts of quartz, and of glossy feldspar. The phenocrysts make up one-half of the bulk of the rock.
Occurrence and Character of the Tin
The known bearing veins veins are at an elevation, between 5,500 and 5,700 feet, and in a belt 10,000 feet long, and 2,000 feet wide. These veins are enclosed in rhyolite, and are narrow, ranging in width from 1 to 18 inches. They occur as stringers an inch or so wide, carrying wood tin, and specular hematite, in a gangue of chalcedony. In places, enough of the veinlets are found, to make up stringer lodes eight feet thick. Generally the stringers are widely spaced in these lodes, and the barren rock between the stringers materially reduces the tin content of such ore bodies.
Very little is known concerning the linear extent and persistence of the lodes and this point largely determines the possibilities of this deposit. The limestone development work shows the ore in many places ranging from a few inches to eight feet, and a tin content of over one percent. On the whole, the result of the limited development work is encouraging.
Origin of the Veins
The fissures in which the wood tin occurs, were opened by stresses that were accompanied by enough movement to brecciate the adjoining rhyolite, and a close examination proves that the veins occupying such fissures, are not merely filling of joints, or shrinkage cracks, and the veins were evidently formed by ascending hot water, soon after the eruption of the rhyolites.
It is reasonable to presume, and to expect, that along the more strongly fissured zones, the ore will persist with depth. Similar deposits occur in Mexico, and they have been worked to a depth of over 200 feet.
Suggestions
It is necessary to concentrate the development work at a few of the most promising outcrops. The present prospecting proves that the tin occurs in many places, but does not prove the depth or extent of the deposit.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 12 15 1930
NEVADA
Arthur H. Anthony, owner of the Carmel Rock quarries near Monterey, California, has leased the Pine Nut Gold Quartz Mine, and is installing a small mill, hoist, and compressor. The shaft is 85 feet deep, and the pay shoot dips north, with a two-foot ledge running high in values. C. H. Weldon, of Carson City, Nevada, is in charge during the absence of Anthony.
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The Portable Mill Company of Los Angeles, California, is installing a 30-ton flotation mill at the Rip Van Winkle Mine, north of Elko, Nevada, and expects to make a test run early this month. The mill heads average 6 percent lead, 12 ounces silver, a little gold and copper, and a heavy iron content in the form of marcasite. Tests made on this ore at the International Flotation Mill, in Utah, have produced a concentrate assaying .62 ounces gold, 96 ounces silver, 54.7 percent lead, and .72 percent copper. The iron content must be dropped. The grinding department of the mill is complete with primary crusher, Mack impact mill, Lane ball mill, coarse and fine ore bins. A dragline classifier is being installed. The flotation unit will include five Kraut cells, three roughers, and two cleaners.
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Southern Mines, Inc., east of Mina, Nevada, has suspended operations, pending refinancing. The crew of 14 men were laid off, Manager Hartley and one man remaining on the job. This property was formerly owned by the Mina Mercury Company, and was taken over by Los Angeles interests, about a year ago. Its past production is around $30,000.
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Before leaving for Washington, Congressman Samuel S. Arentz took a lease and bond on mining property, five miles southwest of Mountain City, Humboldt County, Nevada, owned by John Escalon. About 200 feet of shallow tunnel have been driven on an ore body, which is six feet wide. Average samples of ore from the vein assayed 17 ounces silver, and $1 in gold. Further development is anticipated next spring.
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Walter J. Bracking, mine operator, Box 158, Reno, Nevada, has taken a lease and option on the Lost Mine, in the Shoshone Mountains, south of Ione, Nevada, from Congressman Samuel S. Arentz. The mine is high up in the mountains, with an abundance of wood and water. Bracking is making arrangements for development, and as a preliminary step, has hired three men to continue the tunnel, through the winter. This adit is in five feet of solid ore, of average grade. About two carloads of sorted ore on the dump, assay 25 percent lead, 26 ounces silver, 6 percent copper, and 6 percent zinc.
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The production for October, of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, at Lovelock, Nevada, was $48,935 from 2,785 tons of gold-silver ore, as compared with $53,000 from 2,830 tons of ore, during September. The ore milled last month, carried slightly higher silver values, and not much change was noticed in the cost of milling. The principal development was that of the footwall of the flat 5,100 Vein. A crosscut driven from the 4,400-foot point, in the long tunnel, reached the vein at a length of 450 feet, and thus reduced the distance of tramming from 1,560 feet, according to E. J. Schrader, Assistant Manager. The footwall work required no timbering, which was an important economical feature in drifting.
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Notwithstanding the expiration of its contract with Pennsylvania steel manufacturers, the Nevada-Massachusetts Company, at Mill City, Nevada, O. F. Heizer, Manager, will continue to operate its mines and concentrator, and will store the concentrates, until there is a demand for them. Just now the mill is idle and only a small force employed in development, but the average output is 30 tons a month, and requires a force of 80 men. Living accommodations are excellent—the single men living in the dormitories, and the married men in cottages. Recreational advantages are provided.
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The long drift tunnel of the National Consolidated Mining Company, at National, Nevada, has opened a fissure, several inches wide, in the footwall of the vein. This fissure strikes toward a rich deposit opened several years ago, in the Blume and Walker workings, and carries values in silver, lead, gold, and copper. The tunnel has reached a length of 3,600 feet, and will reach a depth of about 360 feet below the old Blume Shaft, which is 240 feet deep. Some ore has been taken out while driving the tunnel, and milled in a small flotation plant on the ground. Frank W. Stall, 2530 N. Street, Sacramento, California, is President of the company.
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According to President J. E. Miller, Box 995, Reno, Nevada, the Denison Shaft, in the Wedekind Mines, of the Southwest Mines Investment Company, will be sunk 70 feet below the 150-foot Level, to explore an ore body determined by churn drills. At the 225-foot Level, a crosscut will be run 140 feet to the No. 2 Drill Hole, and thence, 240 feet northeast to the No. 3 Hole.
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Control of the Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company, is said to have passed from the Zadig interests in San Francisco, to Roy J. King of Grass Valley, California, and associates. Silver Pick has not operated for several months, but has done considerable development in the vicinity of Goldfleld, Nevada. Negotiations are said to be under way to take over a gold property near Grass Valley.
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The incline shaft of Dispo Lead Mining Company, Roger Scofleld, Superintendent, Mina, Nevada, is nearing the 200-foot depth, where a station is being cut, and a crosscut will be run to the vein. A comfortable camp has been established, and supplies laid in for winter. Finances are sufficient to carry the development program to completion. Sodaville, or Tonopah Junction, are shipping points. E. H. Brooks, 756 South Broadway, Los Angeles, is General Manager of the company.
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The application of John F. Coleman, 50 Broad Street, New York City, receiver for
Consolidated Cortez Silver Mines Company, at Cortez, Nevada, for authority to issue receiver’s certificates to the amount of $15,537, has been granted by the District Court of Washoe County, Nevada. The money obtained from this source will pay current obligations, and carry on some new work.
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The Gilbert Mammoth Gold Mines Company, Fred O. Gilbert, President and General Manager, Gilbert, Nevada, has mined a 110-pound boulder, banded with ribbons of almost pure gold, from the 300 Level of its lease. The rock is estimated to contain $4,000 in gold.
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The new 50-ton flotation mill of the Kernick Divide Mining Company, J. A. McLaughlin, Superintendent, Fallon, Nevada, is scheduled to go into operation early in December. It is located near Sodaville, and will treat custom ores from the district.
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Some rich gold ore is reported from the Landmark group of mines, in the Tolicha District, eight miles from Beatty, Nevada, by John Weaver. This mine has been quiet for about five years. [Rehab Notes: out of reach. Now part of the USAF/NV Test Site Range. ]
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William A. Ingoldsby, 130 South Broadway, Los Angeles, and associates, are said to have acquired the Wilson Gold Mines, in the Pine Grove District, 20 miles south of Yerington, Nevada. The ground has been opened through a series of tunnels, said to contain a substantial tonnage of ore, and it is estimated that 400,000 tons of low-grade ore are stored on the dumps. The new owners are preparing for extensive operations, ultimately to include a 250-ton reduction plant, and the extension of an electric power line from the Bluestone Substation.
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Electric blasting is being carried on in the three-compartment shaft of the Pittsburgh-GoldfieId Mining Company, Corrin Barnes, Manager, Goldfield, Nevada, and is more satisfactory than the fuse and cap system of blasting. The shaft is down 420 feet. It is dry, and stringers of quartz and alunite, carrying a small value in gold, are being opened in the bottom. Prospecting will be started at the 500 Level to ascertain the position of the vein system at this elevation. A station and pocket will be cut here, for use of skips, which will be put on at that time.
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H. A. Johnson of Tonopah, Nevada, Manager for the Tonopah Mining Company, announces a change in the method of settling with its lessees. They are now paid 100 percent of the sampling value, after regular deductions for treatment. Formerly but 80 percent was paid. Mizpah mine lessees’ output for October was 600 tons of ore, ranging from $30 to $35 a ton, and it is estimated that the November output will double that figure.
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The Tuscarora Premier Mining Company has passed through the top of a mineralized zone, while crosscutting, about 200 feet from the bottom of its 172-foot shaft. This zone is from 10 to 20 feet in width, and carries considerable wire silver, and ruby silver, although not of commercial value. Geophysical prospecting indicated the existence of a large deposit of ore at a depth of 250 feet; accordingly commercial values were not anticipated at the 172 level. The crosscut was run only as a check. Operations are carried on under the direction of Frank E. Porter, President and General Manager. P. J. Devine is Superintendent.
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The Panama-Nevada Consolidated Mines Company, Ltd., located at Carrara, Nevada, has completed the 630-foot tunnel from the shaft to the surface for the efficient handling of ore. An ore body 12 feet wide, and assaying $30 a ton, was discovered in this undertaking. A new compressor, handling eight drills, is being installed to rush development. Approximately 50,000 tons of ore have been blocked out, or are on the dump. Arrangements are being made to erect a 75-ton cyanide mill to reduce this ore. Tests have recovered 97.5 percent of the ore, which is gold except for a slight trace of silver. Sol Camp is Superintendent. [Rehab Notes: mine is on the eastern side of the range, facing towards Yucca Mountain.]
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Sanford Galvin and George Bowler, who took a lease on the Mizpah Mine, of the Tonopah Mining Company, six weeks ago, have switched back to the Tonopah Belmont. They had opened rich ore on the 1,000-foot Level of the Belmont, and in a short time, mined $1,100 each, but when the leasing syndicate relinquished its lease on September 15, they had to quit.
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It is understood that the Gold Hill Development Company, H. A. Johnson, General Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has laid off 20 men, and discontinued further development at Round Mountain. A new piece of exploration will be started. Owing to the inadequate capacity of the old shaft in hoisting ore and waste, and lowering timbers and men, a new vertical three-compartment shaft will be raised to the surface from the 400-foot Level. The ore body on the 225-foot Level has been followed 1,200 feet without a break, and is said to be the longest continuous body of gold ore opened in the state in recent years. The stopes above this level are said to hold three months’ reserve for milling. Since the mill was placed in operation August 1, it has been treating from 100 to 105 tons of ore every 24 hours, with a production of approximately $25,000 a month.
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David Findlay, of San Francisco, California, and associates, have nearly completed the construction of a 50-ton mill at the old Tramps Gold Mine, in the Rhyolite District, near Beatty, Nevada. The old workings are said to contain sufficient commercial ore to keep the plant running steadily for a year, with indications favorable for the extensions of the known veins, into virgin ground.
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The Seven Troughs Extension Mines Company, G. W. Warmoth, General Manager, Lovelock, Nevada, resumed the operation of its flotation mill November 20. It has a capacity of from 30 to 40 tons, and concentrating tables have been added. A substantial tonnage of milling ore has been developed.
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Ed. Lacey and his brother, Will, of the Lacey Brothers Iron Foundry, at Los Angeles, are said to have taken a bond and option on the Wild Goose Gold Mines, in the Farrel District, two and one-half miles north of Lovelock, Nevada. Dave and John Murphy, brothers, have carried on small developments since 1915, and virgin ground will be explored. Plans are to concentrate the ore that is mined, in the mill of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company.
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It is expected that the Searchlight Gold Corporation, at Searchlight, Nevada, will soon proceed with the building and development program, outlined last summer, for its Duplex Mine, but which has been delayed on account of the death of George E. Bent. The ownership of the corporation now rests with the Bent estate (in the hands of Attorney Patterson at Prescott, Arizona), and Dr. Wilton McCarthy, of Searchlight. The original program included a 100-ton flotation mill to be built by E. L. Sweeney, Consulting Metallurgist, 1410 North Second Street, Phoenix, Arizona. The ore carries lead, silver, copper, and gold, the latter predominating.
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The Shamrock Mines Company, L. E. Elggren, President, 218 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is preparing to re-treat some tailings accumulated at its property, at lone, Nevada, during former operations. These tailings carry gold and silver. As soon as cold weather forces the mill to shut down, the tunnel will be driven another 100 feet to connect with the Indianapolis Shaft, through which considerable good ore was hoisted during early operations.
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General Metals Merger, 1247 Dexter Horton Building, Seattle, Washington, is making provisions to increase its personnel from 6, to 31 individuals. E. A. Gabryel is President; W. J. Galbraith, Forbes Richard, A. H. Dougall, Jr., and Melville G. Henry, Vice-Presidents; and Paul C. Dubuar, Secretary and Treasurer. After the examination of many properties, five were selected and are either conditionally controlled or owned by the merger. They are: the Silver Cord Mine, Point Ashley, Alaska; the Lawrence property in Yavapai County, Arizona; the Alto property in Custer County, Idaho; the Boston American, and the Silver Creek Mines in Snohomish County, Washington; and the Bethania Mines in Mineral County, Nevada.
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PROSPECTORS RETAIN MINERAL RIGHTS IN DEATH VALLEY AREA
E. S. Giles of Goldfield, Nevada, Consulting Engineer, and Surveyor, has been advised by the United States Land Ddepartment, that the recent withdrawal of lands in the Death Valley area, will not affect the mineral rights of prospectors. Under the provision of the act, the lands shall at all times, be open to exploration, discovery, occupation and purchase, under the United States mineral laws.
The, area withdrawn for a new national park development, which includes a large part of Death Valley, extends from Death Valley Scotty’s famous ranch in Grapevine Canyon, to within three miles of Trona, California. It includes the old mining towns of Ballarat, Panamint, Skidoo, and Greenwater.
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COMBINED METALS PIOCHE NV TMJ 12 30 30
DECEMBER 30, 1930
Combined Metals Making Good at Pioche
By GAIL MARTIN, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Underground development is in progress at Pioche, where the Combined Metals has opened extensive mineralization in the limestone bed.
The mill at Bauer, Utah, was rehabilitated for treatment of Pioche ores.
The story of the camp of Pioche, today, is the story of the faith, vision, and enterprise, of two brothers, E. H. Snyder, and George W. Snyder, of Salt Lake City. Faith, according to the Scriptures, will move mountains. At Pioche, if it has not moved mountains, it has worked wonders in the way of moving ore from the mine, to the smelter, of devising processes to make this ore amenable to reduction by fire on an economic basis, and of raising money to develop ground that others thought had no ore, or declared long ago, worked out.
Not only has the old Nevada camp emerged from the class of a famous ghost city, and become a substantial producer of zinc-lead-silver ores, largely as a result of that highly desirable, but illusive quality mentioned so significantly in the Holy Writ, and supplied without fail, by the Snyder boys, but it has the chance of developing into one of the world’s largest mining centers. Without a doubt, when this once-famous bonanza camp attains the stature of a Butte, a Joplin, or a Cripple Creek, local historians will trace back the beginning of its second and more permanent cycle of prosperity, to the beginning of the Combined Metals, Inc., enterprise, fostered by the two Snyder boys, and their father, the veteran operator and promoter, Willard F. Snyder.
Sixty years ago, Pioche was one of the most famous camps in the West. With Virginia City, Hamilton, Eureka, Tuscarora, and other Nevada strongholds of mining, Pioche had a world-wide reputation for rich ore, and sudden wealth. The product of the Pioche mines contained such high values in silver, gold, and lead, that it could be freighted a hundred miles or more over the desert to the nearest railroad, and return a handsome profit to the fortunate shipper. Yet, hardly a decade later, the camp of Pioche, once boasting a population of several thousand souls, had come unto sad days. The rich ores of the Raymond-Ely, and Meadow Valley, had been stripped from the quartzite. The vein system, productive of $20,000,000, or more, along a strike of but 3,000 feet, and a depth of 1,200 feet vertically, had been looted of its wealth. Working and surface plants, that not so far back had been hives of industry, were taken over by rats and bats, and other denizens of the desert.
Although large deposits of lead-zinc-silver ores had been found in the limestone surrounding the richly productive quartzite area, Pioche, as a mining center, seemed definitely ended for all time. The zinc-lead ores could not be handled at a profit. Heavy penalties for the zinc content were imposed by the smelters. Aside from some mining at nearby camps, and the operations of leasers, Pioche dragged out a hopeless existence for many a long year.
This was the state of affairs when E. H. Snyder, a young graduate mining engineer, became interested, through his father, in the old camp. A study of conditions, convinced Mr. Snyder that Pioche still had much to show the world in the way of mineral production. Money and skill could make the complex lead-zinc ores pay big profits. Having sized up the situation, he at once started to supply its needs.
A large territory was acquired by the Combined Metals, Inc., organized by W. F. Snyder and Sons. E. H. Snyder hired a staff of metallurgists, and with them, started to work out the metallurgy of the ores. In the meantime, he supervised development at the mine, where one of the most massive sulphide ore bodies ever found in the West, was being opened up rapidly.
When tests convinced Mr. Snyder that a selective flotation process, suitable for the complex Combined Metals ores, had been worked out, he boarded a train, and invaded the East, on a search for capital to back his project. After a long period of further experimentation, examination, and parleying, the National Lead Company was induced to finance operations; the old Honerine Mine and Mill at Bauer, Utah, was purchased and rehabilitated, and the plant equipped for treatment of the Pioche ores. This project has grown and flourished in such a manner that several additions have had to be made to the Bauer plant, in order to take care of the growing custom business developed by the Combined Metals Reduction Company.
At Pioche, activity fostered by the Snyder interests, has grown by leaps and bounds. While E. H. Snyder was mustering the technical resources of his organizations, George W. Snyder was centering his attention on supplying funds. The Bristol Mine was taken over and opened up. A deserted mine, not so long ago, this property has its own 17-mile railroad, aerial tramway, and electric power plant, and is producing 4,000 tons of ore monthly.
In the vicinity of Pioche, the Combined Metals, Inc., is putting down a new four-compartment shaft to furnish an outlet for the Combined Metals bed, one mile to the West of the Combined Metals No. 1 Shaft. Six miles to the west of the new shaft, two more big shafts are being sunk to explore the Combined Metals bed in the Comet District. This work is being financed by W. F. Snyder and Sons, the International Smelting Company, and James Elwood Jones, West Virginia coal operator.
Mining men, who have visited the Combined Metals mine at Pioche, and have seen the extent of the mineralization in the Combined Metals limestone bed, say that the replacement in its extent, uniformity, and intensity, is astounding. For over 4,000 feet on its dip, the Combined Metals bed has been continually productive. In places, the ore has been 250 feet wide, and 40 feet thick. Average thickness is eight feet. In the last block opened up, the company estimates that there is one-quarter million tons available for shipment. Value of the ore averages, it is said, 8 ounces of silver to the ton, 8 percent lead, and 18 percent zinc, with low values in gold.
The kind of operator E. H. Snyder is, can best be judged from the following incident: Last December, sinking of the big Caselton Shaft, one mile west of the Combined Metals No. 1 shaft, was started. Ordinarily, a piece of work as important as this and involving as large an expenditure would have received some publicity.
Most managements would have announced their plans. But not E. H. Snyder. He is of the type that works, and lets the world find out about him later. When the information was finally pried out of him by a newspaper man, the Caselton Shaft had been sunk 975 feet, and passed through a thick zone of heavy mineralization containing low-grade ore.
Cutting of a station had been started at the 840 Level to prospect this showing in the Combined Metals bed, the shaft was being continued to the 1,400-foot level, and the Union Pacific Railroad had completed surveys preliminary to extending the Prince Consolidated Railroad one mile and a quarter, to the Caselton Shaft.
This shaft has been equipped with a 76-foot headframe, a compressor with a capacity of 1,500 feet of free air per minute, and a 200-horsepower Nordberg hoist. Sinking will be continued to the 1400 level, so that raises from this horizon can economically exploit, the Combined Metals bed, which between Caselton, and No. 1 shafts, has been faulted in several blocks to a depth of 1,200 or 1,300 feet.
In the Comet District, the Snyder-International Smelting-Jones group is sinking two shafts, the Pan American, and the Forlorn Hope, about a mile and a half apart, The Forlorn Hope Shaft, in One-Wheel Canyon, has been sunk to the 600-foot level, and the Combined Metals limestone horizon entered. A station is being cut, preliminary to crosscutting a number of ore-bearing fissures. The first, a small one, will be cut in 100 feet, and the next at 300 feet.
The Pan American Shaft is now being sunk to the 1,300-foot mark, with a depth of 2,400 feet as its probable bottom. At 800 feet, the shaft cut low-grade ore, which persisted for 500 feet. A power line supplies electricity for operations at both mines. A five-mile aerial tramway will connect these shafts with the Prince Consolidated broad gauge railroad.
PICS Left: No. 1 Shaft and surface buildings of the Combined Metals Reduction Company at Pioche, Nevada. Right: New Caselton Shaft at Pioche, Nevada. This is a four-compartment shaft, down 1,000 feet and is to be sunk to the 1,500 level. It will later be connected with the No. 1 Shaft. Equipment consists of a 76-foot headframe, 200-horsepower Nordberg hoist, and 1,500-foot compressor.
Flotation plant of the Combined Metals Reduction Company at Bauer, Utah.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 12 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
NEVADA
The F. W. Bradley interests of San Francisco, have contracted the driving of a tunnel below the No. 4 Level of the Independence Mine, at Battle Mountain, Nevada, to Charles Birum, formerly Superintendent for the Imperial Gold Mines Corporation. Roy H. Clarke of San Francisco is Manager of the ground. A further acquisition has been made by the Bradleys, in the Tomboy Group, which lies close to the Independence.
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That the Valley View Mine of the Tonopah Mining Company is proving a keen rival of the old Mizpah Mine, finds further proof in some of its recent discoveries. Tom Kendall and associates, leasing in the Valley View, sunk a 37-foot shaft, and in drifting to the east, cut through a fault exposing two feet of ore. Their first assay ran $148.03 in gold and silver, and the second assay returned $47.99. Silver is the predominating metal.
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Peter Buol of Tonopah, Nevada, Manager of the Raymond Van Ness Mining Company at Spanish Springs, east of Manhattan, reports that $25,000 worth of mercury has been recovered from ore mined above the 50-foot level. Crosscuts are being run both east and west. The plant is treating about 18 tons a day, that nets six to eight pounds of mercury per ton. Production is on a basis of an average of 60 tons a month.
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The first carload of ore shipped from the Jackson Mine, at Montello, Nevada, S. F. Hunt, Superintendent, assayed 29.2 percent lead, 6.8 ounces silver, and 14 percent iron. The ore is being mined at the 170 Level, and work is to start on the 220 Level shortly. The development is being carried on by the AIta Tiger Mining Company, Lester Rankin, General Manager, 212 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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More than a dozen residents of Lovelock, Nevada, were inspired to further prospecting in the Rabbit Hole District, 45 miles from town, when Charles and James Scossa, brothers, returned to Lovelock with 12 sacks of rich gold ore. Some of it assayed $5 a pound, and three prize sacks showed a value of $46,276 a ton.
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John Weaver of Tonopah, who has been intermittently developing the Landmark group of claims, in the Tolicha District, in Nevada the past 13 years, has opened up 18 feet of gold ore that assays from $16 to $25. As soon as the mill being installed at Beatty, eight miles from the mine, is completed, Weaver expects to start hauling his ore.
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During November, Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., produced gold and silver bullion to the value of $69,000. During the same period, the Gold Hill Development Company’s output was $21,150.
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The 20-ton rotary furnace of the Antelope Mercury Mines, Inc., at Lovelock, Nevada, J. W. Hall, Superintendent, has been placed in operation. This plant was built by L. C. Newton of Los Angeles, California, and was designed by C. N. Schuette, 306 Call Building, Los Angeles. Tests indicate that it will make a high recovery, The company has been engaged in development two years and has a substantial tonnage of cinnabar ore to its credit.
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The Nevada Pure Salt Company, Ltd., expects to complete its refining plant at Saltco, near Fallon, Nevada, by March first, according to President William Thomson. Its deposits are among the largest known in the West, and it is planned to produce about 300 tons of salt daily. W. F. Travis is General Superintendent.
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At the first of the year, drifting and sinking will give place to long drill prospecting at the Container Mine, in the Mt. Montgomery District, Nevada. The objective of the drills is to determine the downward projection of a cropping that has been traced 1,200 feet at the surface. The drills will operate at various angles to between 200 and 300 feet. In the lower workings, the ore runs between $15 and $20 a ton, and there are 200 feet of backs from the lower tunnel. J. L. McKinney, of Arlemont, Nevada, has a one-half interest in the property.
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The Southgold Nevada Mines Company, C. R. Terrell, General Manager, Box 1017, Tonopah, Nevada, is installing a Rose gold concentrator of 75 tons daily capacity, on Eden Creek. It will be used in treating approximately 250,000 tons of surface material, which carries as high as $5 in gold to the cubic yard. Ore will also be brought to the plant by tram, from the Crucible Property on the opposite side of the creek, which is controlled by Terrell. In the Crucible ground, five feet of $18 free-milling gold ore has been exposed, and only one wall is in sight. If present plans mature, a crusher and rod mill will be added later, to handle the vein material. The lower tunnel in the Southgold ground is in 140 feet, and in another 30 feet will cut a rich streak of ore, that at a depth of 20 feet, assayed as high as $500 a ton in gold.
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A. Whittaker is said to have leased the Rockland Gold Mine, in the Pine Grove District, 26 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, from the Vignos Family of Canton, Ohio. This mine has been a rich producer, but was closed on account of litigation. L. B. Spencer of Tonopah is sampling the ore bodies, and mapping the workings, and will be associated with Whittaker, in the development of the property.
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The Gold Coast Mines Company is said to have acquired the Mt. Lincoln group of seven gold-silver claims, in the Como District, near Virginia City, Nevada, and will make arrangements for its development. The vein system is said to resemble that of the Comstock Lode. The officers of the Gold Coast are: W. W. Charles; President; L. Darbyshire, Vice-president; and C. C. Ashley, Secretary and Treasurer. The main office is 209 Van Nuys Building, Los Angeles, California.
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The Bowen-Ely Mining Company, William N. Bowen, President and General Manager, plans the resumption of development of the Elgin Claims, in Egan Canyon, near Cherry Creek, Nevada. The lower tunnel has been advanced 700 feet, and in 600 feet, will cut the first of three veins with backs of 800 feet. The upper tunnel has been driven 320 feet, following a cross fracture that contains a good grade of ore, and is within 20 feet of the vein. Both tunnels will be operated. At a point 250 feet from the portal of the lower adit, a flow of water has been opened that is sufficient for all purposes, and to supply a mill. Bowen-Ely also owns and operates the Surprise group of three claims, northeast: of Ely. Here a shaft has been sunk 140 feet, and 500 feet of. drifting done. Gold is the principal mineral in both properties.
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The Gold Circle Consolidated Mines Company at Midas, Nevada, is said to have leased its Elko Prince Mine, to Victor Jacobsen, Oscar Berg, and Charles Lyons, former employees of the company.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 1 15 1931
THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 15, 1931
NEVADA MINING NEWS
Judge George A. Bartlett, of the District Court, has terminated the receivership of the Nevada Packard Mines Company, at Lower Rochester, Nevada, which began ten years ago. The claims of supply houses, with interest, totaled $1,721.34; $1,000 was paid to Frank Margrave, who had been receiver for the company; and Hawkins, Mayotte, and Hawkins, attorneys, were paid $3,500. The balance of the company’s funds, if there be any left, will go to the company.
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The Dispo Lead Mining Company, Roger Scofield, Superintendent, Mina, Nevada, has opened 12 inches of silver-lead ore, at a depth of 185 feet, in its incline shaft. This shaft goes down on an incline of 35 degrees, from a point near the portal of the tunnel, and at a depth of 180 feet, turns to a nearly vertical position. In the tunnel the vein is in limestone, and averaged four feet in width. Shipments have averaged 20 percent lead, 20 ounces silver, and 6 to 7 percent copper. According to L. B. Spencer, of Mina, from whom Dispo Lead is leasing, the largest ore bodies are found at the junction of the vein, with cross-fractures, and they are from six to seven feet wide.
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The Gold Metals Bonanza Mining Company, H. G. Clinton, President, Manhattan, Nevada, has given an option on its property, to Joseph E. Shale, A. Homer Black, A. G. Raycraft, Roger Dougherty, and Martin Hartman. Further examination of the ground is in progress. Specimens of sensationally rich gold ore have been mined from the North Drift, on the 120-foot Level by the Gold Metals Mining Company, A. Homer Black, Manager, Tonopah, Nevada. The ore is four and one-half feet wide, across the face of the drift, and the high-grade is being mined separately, sacked and stored underground. A carload of ore from the North Drift has been consigned to the Selby Smelter, and another carload to the International Smelter, at Tooele, Utah.
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The Missouri Monarch Consolidated Mines Company has suspended operations at the Spruce Monarch, and at the Black Forest Mines, at Black Forest, Nevada, until March 1. Foreman George A. Shaw will remain at the mines during the winter and make examinations of the ground.
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The first cleanup from the Desert Mill, of the Tonopah Mining Company, during the month of December, was made on the twenty-first. It was 15 bars of bullion, containing 368 ounces gold, and 27,939 ounces of silver, or $16,450 gross value. The mill is not working at capacity, and cleanups are irregular. During November, the Desert Mill received 1,302 dry tons of ore, of which 1,058 were from leasing operations in the company’s mines; 59 tons from the Belmont Mine, and 185 tons from other shippers. H. A. Johnson, of Tonopah, Nevada, is Manager of the Tonopah Mining Company.
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The American Development Company, Ed. Benane, Superintendent, has hauled 16 carloads of barium, from its Eagleville Mines, to Fallon, Nevada, for shipment to the plant at Oakland, California. According to Superintendent Benane, there has been a great demand for barium. The company is also developing a barium mine, north of Carlin, and a tungsten mine, near the Eagleville mines.
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The first deal reported from the new Scossa camp, north of Lovelock, Nevada, is the option taken by J. J. Gamier, of Reno, on the Extension Fraction, and the North Star Extension 2, and 3, from Thomas R. Devaga, H. P. Meadows, and M. O. Herwig. This ground adjoins the Wild Animal, and the Anaconda claims, of the Scossa Brothers.
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The Pan Nevada Consolidated Mines Company, at Carrara, Nevada, is slated for considerable development and construction. It has leased 25 claims located and first developed by John Biddlecome, veteran Tintic miner; the Post Ranch; and the American Carrara Marble Company’s quarry, and $200,000 power plant, which will furnish electric power for operations. Biddlecome has mined considerable gold from surface workings.
Examinations of the ground by Walter Gordon Clark, and C. C. Jones, of Los Angeles, consulting geologists, reveal a formation favorable for large size replacement ore deposits. The limestone, of Ordovician age, which is overlain by quartzite, is cut by seven northwest-southeast veins, and a quartz monzonite dike, that outcrops for a length of 2,500 feet. Well equipped buildings, and some machinery, are on the ground.
A new eight-drill compressor is to be installed at the North Shaft and the one there, moved to the South Shaft, about a mile away. Cyanide tests have recovered 97 percent of the gold in the ore, and it is planned to build a mill to treat the ore already developed. John S. Cooper, of Los Angeles, is President of the company; W. D. Plowden is Vice-President; and R. K. Garrett is Secretary-Treasurer. Sal Camp is Superintendent at Carrara.
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Plans are being made for water devlopment for the mill of the Indian Mines Corporation, at Silver Peak, Nevada, Fred Vollmar, Jr., General Manager. In connection with this installation, they will require six to eight miles, of four to six-inch pipe, and a variable-speed electric pump, designed for a head of 2,000 feet.
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The Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Inc., Harvey H. Wells, Superintendent, Arlemont, Nevada, has resumed the operation of one of its furnaces. A carload of fuel oil arrived at Coaldale, on the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, and was hauled to the mine. Red Rock has been a large producer of quicksilver, from high-grade ore.
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Carl W. Chilson has completed a geophysical survey of the Bell Isle and North Bell Isle Mines, near Tuscarora Nevada, which he holds under bond and lease. Two virgin fissures that seem to have possibilities, have been located, and above the 100-foot sub-level in the mine, it is estimated that there are 20,000 tons of ore that run from $2.50 to $10 a ton in silver and gold. During the winter, Chilson is considering operating a 25-ton mill on the ore in the mine, and on some ores from the Tuscarora District.
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J. B. Haley, of Reno, Nevada, former manager of the Ramsey Comstock Mine, has taken a lease and option on the Keystone Mine, at Olinghouse, near Wadsworth, Nevada, and is making preparations to develop the ground. A hoist and compressor are being installed. Leasers have mined some high-grade ore from this property.
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The Basque Mining and Milling Company, F. S. Brereton, President and General Manager, has placed its 100-ton mill, 17 miles north of Winnemucca, Nevada, in operation. Of special significance is the rich ore that is being mined from a 10-inch vein, in the No. 3 Stope, in the No. 1 Tunnel. It is said to be worth from $7.50 to $10 a pound, and is being sacked. The ore that is being run through the mill is worth from $10 to $15 a ton.
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Bart McCoy, Manager of the McCoy Lease, from the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company, at Battle Mountain, Nevada, and his brother, Melvin, have taken over a small mill that was built on the ground last summer, and will operate it on lessees’ ores. Tom Wilkerson will have charge of the plant. The ore runs from $10 to $25 a ton in gold.
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Encouraged by developments at the 100-foot Level of its Murphy-Byers Lease, the Pioneer Mines Company is reconditioning the McTigue Mill at Silver City, Nevada, according to Charles A. Norcross of Reno, President and General Manager. It is a 30 to 35-stamp mill. The ore will be crushed to 40-mesh, and a recovery of 85 percent has been made by simple amalgamation tests. The tailings will be saved for cyanidation later. The north drift is following the Cramer Vein, but its width has not been determined yet. It is of milling grade and streaks as wide as two feet, and worth as high as $25 a ton, have been opened in it.
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The Kernick Divide Mining Company, J. A. McLaughlin, Superintendent, Fallon, Nevada, has completed its ore bins, and is putting the finishing touches on its 50-ton flotation mill. A test run of the mill will be made within a few days, and its regular operation is planned for next month.
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The Bowen-Ely Mining Company, William N. Bowen, President and General Manager, has opened between four and six feet of ore, that carries $318 per ton, in its Elgin Group, near Cherry Creek, Nevada. A chunk of ore has been mined from the vein that has a ribbon of pure gold running through it, and on either side of the streak, is flecked with gold. This ore is in one of the three parallel north-south veins that have been explored by shallow cuts over a length of 2,500 feet.
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A thorough examination has been made of the Original Gilbert mining claims, in the Gilbert District, in Nevada, now being operated by the Gilbert Standard Mining Company, and arrangements are being made to start work on company account. Lessees are sacking ore from a 12-inch vein, in the drift, from the bottom of the 46-foot shaft, that assays higher than $40 a ton. The sacked ore is shipped to the Desert Mill, at Millers. F. L. Rigsby is President and General Manager of the Gilbert Standard.
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Bradshaw, Inc., treating the tailings of the Goldfield Consolidated, at Goldfield, Nevada, closed down for the season, on December 15. In spite of a shortage of water at times, Manager Mark Bradshaw reports a very successful season. “During the winter,” he said, “we will string a pipe line to the old Sandstorm Shaft, and there will be plenty of water available when we resume operations some time next April.” He also stated that another dividend will be distributed after January 1. All indebtedness has been cleared up this season, and in addition, $80,000 has been paid to the stockholders.
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The Castle Peak Quicksilver Company, H. E. Loufek, President and General Manager, 306 First National Bank Building, Reno, Nevada, is confining its production near Virginia City, to three flasks of quicksilver a day. The furnace is a 25-ton Gould rotary, electrically operated, and is treating low-grade ore, 78 feet above the mill level. Operating costs are low. Eleven men are on the payroll, and six of them are engaged in development, confined largely to crosscutting from the mill tunnel, below the stope. The furnace is operated three shifts, and one man can handle each shift. The last shipment was consigned to San Francisco on December 2. It consisted of 100 flasks, and will remain there until the Eastern market improves.
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S. K. Atkinson, 615 First National Bank Building, Boise, Idaho, has asked for an option on 540 acres of placer deposits, four and one-third miles down the canyon, to the flat below Rawhide, Nevada, owned by B. G. Hood, and Frank J. Channing, of Reno, Nevada, and R. G. Hart, of Rawhide. Atkinson is President and General Manager of the Idaho Gold Dredging Corporation, with properties, and a dredge in operation, in the Boise Basin, Idaho. The company contemplates extending its operations into other dredging fields.
He has made an extensive survey of the Rawhide placers, and proposes to churn drill the ground. A dredge will be installed pending the results of drilling. It is estimated that there are 50,000,000 yards of 50-cent gravel. The basin below the town, holds an inexhaustible supply of water.
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The court has granted title to the Lucky Strike, and other claims, at Ellendale, to A. T. Wilkerson, Mrs. Wilkerson, and Arthur Raycraft, of Tonopah. The title was contested by James and Bert Murphy, and the heirs of Thomas Clifford who claimed the ground, by reason of prior location. Decision was rendered after it had been proven that assessment work had not been kept up.
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The citizens of Austin have secured a lease and option on the Austin Manhattan property, which has constantly been extended until it comprises nearly 100 patented mining claims, including some unpatented locations, mill, buildings, some equipment, and water rights. Many of Austin’s famous producers, such as the Curtis, King Alfred, and Lander Mines, are included in the consolidation. Its production runs close to $50,000,000 in silver and gold. None of the mines has been worked below 800 feet, and most of them not below 400 and 500 feet.
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The Flowery Mines Company, Roy Hardy, Superintendent, Virginia City, Nevada, intends to resume milling soon. The plant has a capacity of 200 to 250 tons daily, and will also handle custom ore from the Erno Lease, of the Ophir Mining Company, and from the Belmont Uncle Sam Mining Company.
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Shipments from the Combined Metals Reduction Company’s mines, at Pioche, Nevada, L. G. Thomas, Mine Superintendent, have been temporarily slowed up on account of the freezing of ores in its mill, at Bauer, Utah. A large reserve of ore is available. Extensive development is in progress, confined largely to sinking a four-compartment shaft to provide an outlet for the Combined Metals No. 1 Shaft. Six miles to the west of the new shaft, two other shafts are being sunk to explore the same bed in the Comet District. The development is financed by W. F. Snyder, and Sons, of Salt Lake City, Utah; the International Smelting Company; and James Elwood Jones, coal operator of West Virginia.
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The Salt Lake Pioche Mining Company, at Pioche, Nevada, expects to start shipments soon. It has opened a 14-inch vein of gold ore, at a depth of 102 feet. C. S. Martin, 722 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, is President and General Manager.
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The Tem-Piute Mining and Milling Company, W. R. McKenzie, Manager, Caliente, Nevada, is shipping selected ore and concentrates to the Utah smelters. The product runs high in silverM and is returning a fair profit, despite the low price of the white metal.
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The Roberts Mining and Milling Company, G. A. Smith, General Manager, 603 Heartwell Building, Long Beach, California, has installed a compressor and other equipment at its Hildebrand group of mines, in Troy Canyon, near Mill City, Nevada, and is mining and developing. This is a gold-silver proposition. A substantial tonnage of milling ore is exposed. Belle McCord Roberts of Long Beach is President of the company.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 1 30 1931
THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 30, 1931
NEVADA
Due to the prolonged depression in the lead and zinc market, the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., at Tybo, Nevada, on January 14, gave notice of a wage cut of 50 cents a day. Superintendent George I. Barnett stated that present rate of production will be continued, and the zinc concentrates will be stored until a better market prevails.
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The Scossa Gold Belt Company, holding location title to five claims, a half mile east of the original strike, intends to start work as soon as the weather permits. This is the first corporation formed on property in the district, and it has recently taken over additional ground belonging to the Southern Pacific Railroad. Col. W. S. Prosky, and F. J. DeLongchamps, both of Reno, Nevada, are officials of the company.
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L. R. Robins, former Superintendent of the Tonopah Belmont Mine, and W. I. Hupp, California mining man, have examined the Olympic and Warrior Mines, near Simon, Nevada, and may join L. J. Bacoccina, in his lease operations on those mines. Gold is the principal metal in both mines, and, if an agreement can be reached, the ore from both mines, will be treated at the Olympic Mill.
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The Como Consolidated Mines Company, at Dayton, Nevada, is making preparations to drive the old Boyle Tunnel, another 1,000 feet, to connect with the Como and North Rapidan Veins, which have recently been examined by William Sharp, Mining Engineer, of Reno, and Oscar Monrad, of Detroit, Michigan. The Como Consolidated, of which Charles Oster, 111 Broadway, New York City, is President, acquired the ground in 1929, and late last summer, finished cleaning out, enlarging, and timbering this tunnel, to a length of nearly 3,500 feet. This is a gold-silver property.
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The Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., has suspended shipments of zinc concentrates from its Tybo Plant, to the refinery at Kellogg, Idaho. The concentrates will be stored at Tybo until a better market for the metal prevails. The Tybo plant produces about 25 tons of zinc concentrates.
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The three-compartment shaft of the Goldfield Deep Mines Company, at Goldfield, Nevada, has reached a depth of 2,250 feet, according to Superintendent Elmer Burt. No extra flow of water has been encountered. While the formation is all that could be desired, it is being well timbered.
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The Queen City Mining and Milling Company, Joe McFadden, Superintendent, is sacking high-grade ore, 17 miles from Goldfield, Nevada, and storing the remaining ore for milling. The ore is a 20-inch vein opened in the East Drift, from the 265-foot incline shaft. Three of the richest samples assayed 123, 328, and 358, ounces silver, and carried some gold, lead, and copper. This ground was at one time, worked by the Marinette Mining Company.
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Eric Schliff, Mining Engineer of Los Angeles, has purchased mining property in the Olinghouse District, near Wadsworth, Nevada, adjoining the Hilda Property, which he purchased last fall, following two months’ examinations in the district. The newly acquired property is the Bluebird, and No. 2 Claims, purchased from Charles Peffley of Reno, and the John D. Property, purchased from A. Richards.
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The Tehama Mines Syndicate was forced to suspend the operation of its 25-ton ball mill in Tehama Canyon, near Imlay, Nevada, on account of frozen pipes and attendant water troubles. At the 150-foot point in the 550-foot tunnel, high-grade copper ore, with some values in silver and gold, was cut. It has a width of from four to seven feet, and the ore is being blocked out as the drift advances. Three shifts will be employed as soon as the weather permits moving the ore to the bins. Boston capital is financing the work, and Charles Green is in charge of the mine.
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The Standard Gypsum Company, located at Ludwig, Nevada, is shipping an average of 75 carloads a month, and has the distinction of being the heaviest shipper over the Copper Belt Railway. Three products are shipped, consisting of plaster, crushed gypsum for fertilizer, and nut-size gypsum for the cement mills. Engineers conducted a diamond drill survey of the property in 1924, and estimated that two and a half million tons of gypsum are available.
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The Premier Mines Corporation, of Nevada, plans to resume operations, and will drive its 330-foot tunnel, north of the mill, to crosscut a series of veins. Ore will be mined from all the present workings of the Lower Mine, including the Main Glory Hole, South Tunnel and Main Lower Tunnel workings, according to Walter J. Bracking, President and General Manager, 129 North Center Street, Reno, Nevada. This company has been working since its organization in 1926, except for a brief shut down during the metal depression.
Its holdings comprise more than 300 acres in Ormsby County, three miles West of Carson City, where there are five known deposits of copper-gold-silver ore. Water and timber are sufficient, and the railroad and supply base is close. All equipment, including a 150-ton flotation mill, are closely consolidated to afford economical operation, and the addition of another unit to the mill is planned.
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The Gray Copper Corporation, at Contact, Nevada, plans to do considerable development next Spring, and ship some copper ore. This organization was formerly known as the Gray Mining Company. E. F. Gray, the original discoverer and promoter of the copper deposits, is President and Manager of the new organization.
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J. Irving Crowell, Jr., has opened up the Third Level, in the Fluorspar Mine at Beatty, Nevada, and is mining the entire production through that level. Some development is scheduled for the lower level. At the railroad, storage space has been doubled, thus permitting the loading of two cars at the same time.
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The production of the Tonopah Mining Company’s Desert Mill, at Millers, Nevada, for December, was 724 ounces of gold, and 54,875 ounces of silver, or a total value of $31,200. H. A. Johnson, at Tonopah, is General Manager of the company.
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On January 1, the Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Ltd., at Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, Harvey H. Wells, Superintendent, shipped 17 flasks of mercury. The B. and B. Quicksilver Company, W. T. Childers, Manager, also working at Mt. Montgomery, shipped 20 flasks of quicksilver on January 7. The Raymond Van Ness Mining Company, Peter Buol, Manager, operating at Spanish Springs, shipped 20 flasks on January 5.
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Nine patented mining claims at Golden Arrow, 50 miles northeast of Tonopah, Nevada, have been purchased by Capt. G. W. Cotter, who is now engaged in cleaning up the property, and putting it in shape, for a resumption of operations. The ground was owned by the Stokes Estate, and formerly managed by Cotter. It was at one time, a good producer of gold ore, ranging in value from $20 to $100 a ton.
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The Searchlight Gold Corporation, W. J. Loring, Managing Director, has assembled most of its machinery in the 100-ton milling plant, at Searchlight, and intends to begin production soon. It includes a heavy distillate engine, ball mill, flotation machines, and amalgamation machinery, operating on a sodium process owned largely by the McCarthy interests in the Searchlight Gold Corporation.
The Duplex, which is the principal mine, has been cleaned out to the 800-foot Level, and development is outlined covering that depth, the 700, sub-600, 600, and 500-foot levels. It is estimated that 35,000 tons of ore are in sight in the mine, and about 25,000 tons on the tailings’ dump. Gold, silver, and copper, are the principal minerals in the ore, and it is planned to use the sodium process of the McCarthy’s, incorporated as the Nascent Amalgam Corporation, in treating these tailings. A new hoist and gallows frame have been installed. The concentrates will be trucked over a good road to Nipton, California, 20 miles west of Searchlight. Albert H. McCarthy is Superintending operations under Loring’s guidance.
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The Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., John G. Kirchen, General Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has shut down. The company employed between 180 and 200 men, and was treating 300 tons of ore daily. Its production averaged $65,000 a month. According to Engineer Homer Williams, instructions were to leave the property in such condition that operation could be resumed with a minimum of trouble and expense, should conditions warrant the resumption of work.
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The crosscut at the 100-foot Level of the Gold Zone Mining Company, at Round Mountain, Nevada, is out 46 feet, and is penetrating the vein, which assayed $11, in the shaft. No assays have been made at the lower level. Albert Silver of Tonopah, Nevada, is General Manager.
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Frank A. Cassidy is exhibiting samples of gold picture rock, from his lease on the property of the Willow Creek Mining Company, in the Willow Creek District. These samples were taken from a stope, above the 200-foot Level of the mine, and a winze sunk to a depth of about 70 feet, showed the ore to be 12 feet wide. On account of trouble with water, development will be confined for the time being to the 200 Level. Arrangements are to be made for the installation of a 20-ton mill next spring.
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The United States Brucite Corporation has reached the point in development where it will install a steam shovel, and other equipment, for the economic production of brucite. Another indication that the mine is nearing production, is that H. A. Severinghaus, Manager of the organization, has changed his residence from Phoenix, Arizona, to Reno, Nevada. R. F. Smith has been Superintendent at the mine, for several months.
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The Original Bullfrog Mines, and new 100-ton mill at Beatty, Nevada, have been idle since December, because of labor liens against the Douglass-Faulk Finance Company of Los Angeles. The finance company leased the mines, and built the mill. When the mill was ready to crush ore the workmen asked for a part, at least, of their wages, and when payment was not forthcoming, filed liens against the property and quit work. John Burmeister is in charge of the mine.
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On January 5, the Gold Hill Development Company, H. A. Johnson, General Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, shipped two bars of gold bullion, valued at $12,000. This makes a total production of $24,847.98 for the month of December.
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Through recent communication with George B. Wright, Box 637, Reno, Nevada, we learn that the Indian Peak Corporation, of which he is President, will confine the early future to the installation of machinery. Air drills, machinery for ventilation, and for a steam power plant, will be the principal purchases. The company controls 320 acres in the Rochester District, about six miles north of the original discovery that yielded about $12,000,000 within a decade. The vein system has been followed 9,000 feet, and opened by about 1,300 feet of workings. A large tonnage of ore, that will average $18 a ton in gold, has been proven, and further development is scheduled for next Spring.
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The 110-pound chunk of ore that was mined from the 300-foot Level of the Mammoth Mine, by the Gilbert Mammoth Gold Mines Company, ran even higher in gold than was anticipated, and yielded $4,850. It was so rich, that it had seams and spots of the pure yellow metal through it.
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The Southwest Mines Investment Company intends to install a gallows frame, hoisting plant, and such other equipment as may be needed, to continue its 165-foot shaft in the Wedekind Mines, to a further depth of 75 feet, and do lateral work. J. E. Miller, Box 995, Reno, Nevada, is President and General Manager of the organization.
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All of the assets of the Humboldt Sulphur Company, at Sulphur, Nevada, have been turned over to the Sierra Sulphur Corporation, Ltd., a Nevada corporation, which will be the operating company, according to Charles S. Haley, 318 Crocker Building, San Francisco, California, who is the President of the new concern. The remaining officers in the new organization are: W. D. Patterson, Vice-President; E. A. Nickerson, Secretary, and E. D. Nickerson, Treasurer. Further details of the organization, will appear later.
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The new mill of the Pueblo Mountain Mining Company, R. W. Hallett, President, Winnemucca, Nevada, has gone into operation. A substantial tonnage of $25 gold ore is blocked out, and about 15 tons are being run through the mill, daily. Development is prosecuted in three tunnels, and through a series of raises and winzes.
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The Basque Mining and Milling Company, F. S. Brereton, President and General Manager, Winnemucca, Nevada, has shipped 11 sacks of bonanza ore, to the Murray, Utah, sampler. This ore has been mined from a 10-inch streak, opened 500 feet from the portal of the Main Tunnel, and is estimated to average $10 a pound. The rich streak occurs in a vein 20 feet wide. The new 100-ton mill is operating on ore that assays between $12 and $15 a ton.
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The Commonwealth Mining Company, E. Baume, President, 317 National Bank Building, Santa Monica, California, is said to be equipping the old Keystone Gold Mine, in the Yellow Pine District, near Goodsprings, Nevada, with grinding and cyanide machinery. Vigorous development has been in progress for several months, and a substantial tonnage of ore is in sight. The remodeled plant is planned to treat about 50 tons of ore a day.
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On account of the high cost of getting fuel to its camp during the winter months, the Rip Van Winkle Mine, north of Elko, Nevada, has been closed until the Spring. As an example of this, it has cost $50 a ton to bring a ton of coal to the mine, since the heavy snowfall of November 13. Reagents for the new 30-ton flotation mill reached the camp before the snow fell, and will be held over, until the plant resumes operation. Full capacity mill treatment is planned, according to Manager C. A. Porter of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The Pan American Mining Company, George E. Coxe, Superintendent, Caliente, Nevada, has sunk its incline shaft in the Comet District, to a depth of 1,650 feet, on the dip of the Combined Metals limestone bed, and mineralization is improving with depth. The last 1,200 feet of the shaft have been through silver-lead-zinc ore, which, under normal conditions, would be a good milling ore. Where crosscut, the channel is mineralized for 500 feet, and raises of 55 and 58 feet, respectively, are in ore. The mine development is such that a remarkably low cost in mining the ore is anticipated.
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A promising showing is reported from the Navajo Mine, in the Tuscarora District, in Nevada, owned by Roy Roseberry. After a geophysical survey was completed by Carl W. Chilson, a shaft was started on the Dexter Dike. At a depth of 10 feet, hornsilver was opened, and at 20 feet, the ore changed to gold ore of milling grade across the entire bottom of the shaft, with a streak in the footwall of the vein, that assays several thousand dollars to the ton. The Dexter dike is an altered andesite with an east-west strike, and dip to the north of 45 degrees.
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NEW ORE IN DIAMOND QUEEN RUNS $365 A TON IN GOLD
(East side of Bare Mountain, west of Yucca Mountain, about 15 miles south of Beatty, NV)
The new findings in the old Diamond Queen, now known as the Panama-Nevada Consolidated Mines, are attracting wide attention. Walled in between two great porphyry dikes, longitudinal fissures that start off at knife-edge, ranging for some 8,000 feet in line, have been opened up, revealing one of the most unusual and remarkable metallic depositions found since the old Mercury Mine, in Colorado, attracted national attention.
The gold values have remained constant from the surface, ranging from $50 to $365 per ton, over the entire length of this property, while no free gold can be panned. The values are in the form of a mercuric chloride, wherein the precipitating element seems to have been ferric hydrate and ferric oxide, making a friable, red-brown brecciated replacement, in the well-defined, almost vertical, fissures, and water courses. At regular intervals of about 25 feet, cross-fissuring occurs, and as is to be expected, considerable enrichment takes place at the junctures of such fissuring.
Sinking to the 200-foot Level, has permitted of crosscutting on the 100, and the 200-foot levels. Crosscutting over the main fissure on the 100-foot Level, broke into fissures that are turning out to be bonanzas, ranging from $90 to $265 per ton, with occasional lenses of phenomenally rich ore.
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BASQUE MINING AND MILLING, NEVADA TMJ 2 15 1931
THE MINING JOURNAL 2-15-1931
BASQUE COMPANY DEVELOPED OVER 100,000 TONS FOR MILLING
Steady development for over three years has put the Basque Mine, situated 25 miles north of Winnemucca, Nevada, in a position where production can be maintained for an indefinite period, according to a report of officials. A Diesel engine and compressor furnish power and electric light for mine and mill, living accommodations have been improved, and new water and fuel tanks installed.
The main tunnel has been advanced a distance of 700 feet, to cut the gold quartz zone opened in the upper workings. Main enrichment is found in a hard diorite dyke, which cuts across steeply inclined dark slates, and strikes toward large granite intrusions lying a mile or more to the north, and to the south. This dyke is shattered, and largely replaced with ore-bearing quartz across the whole width, as shown by a number of crosscuts and for the full length of the tunnel.
An official report states that careful sampling every five feet in tunnel and crosscuts shows the dyke to have a minimum average value of about $12 a ton. Excluding fissures that carry ore as high as $70 a ton, the company estimates that it has developed 100,000 tons of milling ore. Four stopes have been opened up. Just before Christmas, the company shipped 1,000 pounds of picture rock that is said to have returned $1.50 a pound in gold.
The company will concentrate on treating its best ore until such a time as the mill can be added to, and the whole mass put through the plant. The ore being stoped now for treatment, is said to average $40 a ton in gold.
Although development has been confined to one dyke, which can be traced for two full claim lengths, there are two other dykes, lying parallel, and a few hundred feet to the east and west, which look equally as promising on the surface and in shallow test pits. In addition, there are several other promising outcrops on the property, comprising 1,000 acres. Fifteen men are employed. Franc Brereton is Manager of the Basque Mining and Milling Company, 803 Kearns Building, Salt Lake City; F. H. Stewart is superintendent; and T. H. Perleywits, secretary-treasurer.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 2 15 1931
for FEBRUARY 15, 1931
NEVADA
The Searchlight Gold Corporation placed its 100-ton flotation plant in operation February 4, and the results of its operation will be watched with keen interest. Motive power is furnished by Diesel engines, and mine operations will be conducted through the 600-foot vertical shaft.
The veins in the Duplex mine are in monzonite, and the ore bodies vary from two and one-half, to five feet in width. A few years ago, when the Duplex Mining Company was operating the ground, the ore mined and milled, averaged 9 ounces gold, 4.9 ounces silver, 8.6 percent lead, 2.3 percent copper, and 1.3 percent zinc. The first copper ore mined in Searchlight in commercial quantities was shipped from the Duplex Mine, and this metal increases, and the lead content decreases, as depth is gained. W. J. Loring is vice-president and managing director. Dr. Albert H. MacCarthy, of Des Moines, Iowa, president of the company, is at the mine, and is in charge during Loring’s absence.
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The Wittenberg and Mannington trucks have hauled 40 tons of ore from the Landmark Mine, in the Tolicha District, south of Tonopah, to the Desert Mill, at Millers. A former shipment returned $28.68 a ton and J. W. Weaver, who is operating the ground, expects this ore to go higher, probably to $30 a ton on the average.
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The Flowery Mines Company, Roy Hardy, superintendent, Virginia City, Nevada, is milling at full capacity in Six Mile Canyon. It is equipped to treat from 200 to 250 tons of ore a day, which is being drawn from the Flowery Mine property, and from the Berry croppings. Thirty men are on the payroll. The mill had been idle two years.
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Frank Maloney and Sam H. Amigo of Reno, Nevada, and W. B. Monroe, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, have purchased the Big Jim and the Big Jim No. 1 claims in the Scossa District, in Pershing County, Nevada, and will operate the ground as the Nevada Scossa Gold Mines Company. Its capitalization is $200,000, divided into 2,000,000 shares of stock. Monroe is president of the concern, Amigo is vice-president, and Maloney is secretary-treasurer.
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E. J. Turner, a Montana man, has opened the Iron Hat mining claims in the vicinity of Winnemucca, Nevada, comprising four claims, and is having them surveyed. Some good values in gold, silver and lead have been mined.
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Larry J. Barton, metallurgist and inventor, has taken action to restrain the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company from using a process patented by him for making abrasive resisting metals at McGill, Nevada, and to secure an accounting, and damages, for the use of the process since March 13, 1928.
In its answer, Nevada Consolidated says that Barton had been employed by it as a steel metallurgist for many years, prior to the filing of his applicatlon for patent, and that the terms of his contract stipulated he was to devote his entire time to improving the company’s furnace operations, and to developing a process for making abrasive resisting castings, and to use his inventive faculties therefor. Nevada Consolidated also states that Barton, for valuable considerations, licensed the use of the process, and even before the patent was applied for, the necessary plant was constructed so that the newly discovered invention and process might be utilized by the mining company.
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The Black Mammoth Consolidated Mines Company reports a gross production of bullion and concentrates from its mill at Silver Peak, Nevada, amounting to $3,200 for the month of December. The company has a long lease on the famous Mary Mine, where a new vein, averaging $20 in gold across six feet, has recently been opened. Jim Morris is in charge of the mill.
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The Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, at Lovelock, Nevada, reports a net profit of $80,694 for the year 1930, according to L. A. Friedman, vice-president and general manager. The company placed its 100-ton mill in commission last August, and in less than six months, produced gold-silver bullion valued at $226,624. Most of the ore was drawn from the 5,100 Vein, but arrangements are being completed for mining a large tonnage from the 5,400 Level. Drill holes have apparently tapped the Mazuma Hills ore channel, but the extension of the tunnel into that ground is being held up until a heavy flow of water subsides. P. C. Eisenhauer is general superintendent.
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The Lincoln Gold Corporation, F. A. Cassady, president, Nyala, Nevada, has made test runs on some ore, which it plans to mill as soon as it can build a 20-ton mill. Without sorting, the recovery ran from $20 to $89.80. Another test was made on 22 tons of ore gathered from several holes, over a distance of 100 feet at the surface, and not deeper than 80 feet, and ran $80.50 a ton. Bunches of phenomenally rich gold ore have been opened in a winze sunk to a depth of 70 feet below the 200-foot Level, but on account of trouble with water, development will for a time, be confined to the 200-foot Level.
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The mine and mill of the Nevada Massachusetts Company, Inc., at Mill City, Nevada, are running on the usual basis, and storing the concentrates, according to General Manager Ott F. Heizer. Only development work is being carried on at the company’s Silver Dyke Mine, near Mina. Negotiations are under way for a portion of the water at Sodaville, 12 miles from the Silver Dyke Mine.
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The Nev.-Mont. Mining Corporation, Ira Stanley, general manager, Lovelock, Nevada, is sluicing gravel deposits estimated to run $2.00 per cubic yard, at Placeritos, 47 miles north of Lovelock, and a few miles from the new Scossa camp. Water is being piped from a spring six miles away. A series of storage tanks will be erected, and the gravel handled with the aid of a dragline scraper. The fine gravel and sand will be run through sluice boxes, as in ordinary placer mining.
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The gold mining property in Jefferson Canyon, 75 miles from Tonopah, Nevada, formerly operated by the Elsa Mining Company, has been taken over by the Bright Star Gold Mining Corporation. More than $850,000 has been spent on this property, and it is estimated that 250,000 tons of ore, that carry from $8 to $20 a ton, are in sight. Development will be resumed under the management of Ernest Held, 552 Brannan Street, San Francisco, California, who had been active in the Elsa organization, and the 75-ton mill on the ground, will be overhauled for operation at capacity.
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Harry H. Handshaw, Box 681, McGill, Nevada, has purchased an interest in the Lead Carbonate Mine, from Williams and Jackson. The partners have built living quarters to accommodate 10 to 14 men, and are pushing the tunnel to connect with the shaft, where some exploration and mining is in progress at the present time. Larger operations are scheduled for 1931.
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Sam McLachlan of McGill, Nevada, has opened a body of high-grade galena, on his property east of that place. Three years ago, he shipped ore from this ground, which assayed better than 82 percent lead, and some silver, but the oreshoot was lost through faulting, and work was discontinued until recently. The faulted ore has been located, and exposed a considerable distance.
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The Cinnabar King Mining Company expects to have its 20-ton Newhall furnace, in American Canyon, 42 miles from Lovelock, Nevada, installed and in operation, in three weeks, according to George S. Clack, of Carson City, Nevada, manager of the enterprise. Initial operations will be on dump ore that will average 10 pounds of quicksilver to the ton. The mill is at the portal of a tunnel that is being driven to cut the fissure, 30 feet below the 250-foot shaft. The tunnel is 300 feet long, and has 190 feet to go, to reach its objective, but the formation is soft and rapid progress will be made. The shaft has gone down on an incline and the bottom is in 15 feet of excellent furnace material. Pipe has been laid to a spring a mile away, that has an abundance of water, and as soon as the ground thaws, the water will flow by gravity to the reduction plant. Two storage tanks have been built at the furnace, and are full of water; an adequate supply for some time.
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Bradshaw, Inc., at Goldfield, Nevada, disbursed dividend No. 7, amounting to $10,000, making a total of $90,000 for the year. The season opened in March, and closed in December, 279 days, or 14 days longer than the 1929 season. The gross production was $288,460.08 from 277,000 tons milled. Mark Bradshaw, president of the concern, has secured a supply of water from the shaft in the Jupiter Mine nearby, and pipe will be laid connecting it with the main line from the Sandstorm Shaft, in anticipation of another year of profitable operation.
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January 20, the Gold Metals Mining Company, A. Homer Black, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, shipped another carload of ore, from its Sullivan Mine at Manhattan. The ore averages $50 a ton in gold, and is trucked to Tonopah, 45 miles, for shipment by rail, to the International Smelter at Tooele. Three carloads were shipped during December.
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Two sets of lessees working on the 50 and 150 levels of the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company’s property at Battle Mountain, Nevada, have struck a body of high-grade, on the 150 Level, and expect to make a shipment by February 1. The McCoy Estate, Mrs. J. H. McCoy, administratrix, is still operating a lease on the Nevada Gold Dome property.
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A. S. McMath has opened 8 or 10 inches of ore in the north end of a shaft on Homestake Hill, near Gilbert, Nevada, that pan more than $200. On the south end of the shaft, the vein is from 16 to 18 inches wide, and assays between $18 and $22 a ton. These showings are not more than eight feet deep, but further development is delayed, as he is busy at his lease on the Homestake Extension, where surface assays ran from $4 to $22. Shafts have been sunk and, although shallow, an increase in the value of the ore is found in the north end workings.
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The Pittsburgh-Goldfield Mining Company, Corrin Barnes, manager, Goldfield, Nevada, has sunk its three-compartment shaft, to a depth of 540 feet, and at the 500-foot level, cut a station 16x25 feet, and 15 feet high. The 50-foot steel head-frame carries three five-foot sheaves. All-steel Ajax cages are used, and they have upper decks with high sides, and perforated steel doors, for carrying men.
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On January 22, the Tonopah Mining Company, H. A. Johnson, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, shipped 12 bars of bullion, weighing 28,550 ounces, including 811 ounces of gold, all valued at $18,290. The shipment represents the production of lessees in the Tonopah Belmont and Mizpah mines, for the first half of January.
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The Johnson Leasing Company, organized last summer by a group of men at Salt Lake City, Utah, who had operated the Georgia Lynn Mine several years, but which was forced to close down by the decline in the metal market, is sinking a well about two miles from its placers at Beowawe, Nevada. It is hoped to develop enough water to operate another gold-saving machine. W. H. Kone, 1112 Continental Bank Building, Salt Lake City, and H. D. Gardner, 401 Clift Building, are president and general manager, respectively.
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C. O. Haskell, and a group of Los Angeles associates, have taken a lease and bond on 800 acres of gold placers in Barber Canyon, 18 miles southeast of Mill City, Nevada. During the early development of the mines, these placers were worked by white and Chinese, but trouble with water prevented them from being worked to bedrock. The gravel samples between $1 and $2 a yard, and a placer machine of 150-ton daily capacity and other equipment have been shipped to Mill City. Additional washing plants will be established as development justifies.
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A vein of cinnabar that samples $3 to $40 a ton is being opened in the Mt. Montgomery Mine of Nevada Quicksilver Mines, Inc., in the Antelope Springs District, in Nevada. The ledge is 14 inches wide, and is growing larger, as drifts near the shale contact. L. A. Friedman of Lovelock is president and general manager.
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Sam Cole and E. D. Scott, formerly operating mines at Cripple Creek, Colorado, have leased the west end of the old Mayflower Mine, at Pioneer, Nevada. They are remodeling the old mill, and within 10 days, will be ready to start treating ore from two ledges exposed in the old workings.
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The Castle Peak Quicksilver Company, H. H. Loufek, president and general manager, 806 First National Hank Building, Reno, will soon resume the operation of its 25-ton Gould rotary furnace, which has been idle since Christmas, on account of storms and a frozen pipe line. Last year, the company produced 762 flasks of quicksilver, from 7,098 tons of ore, which gave a gross income of $88,467.50. An operating profit of $34,896.89 remained after deducting all operating expenses. During the year, a dividend of $1.50 a share, or $22,000, was disbursed.
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The lower tunnel in the Advance Claim of the Caliente Cobalt Mining Company, William Robinson, superintendent, Box 247, Caliente, Nevada, has opened 18 inches of gold ore. For six months, this adit has been pushed toward the downward continuation of 16 inches of $30 ore, opened in a 14-foot winze, sunk from the upper tunnel.
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William J. Walker has returned to Ely, Nevada, to assume the management of the Revenue Mines in Robinson Canyon, for the Goodman Brothers of Ely, who have a lease on the ground. About 30,000 tons of gold ore have been blocked out, and an electric hoist is to be installed, that will allow the mining of about 100 tons daily. A modified caving system will be practiced, and the ore will be treated at the McGill plant, of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company.
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The Goldfield Yellow Cat Mining Company intends to resume work by February 1, according to J. W. Van Winkle, Box 1226, Tonopah, Nevada, president and general manager of the company. Development will be centered principally on crosscutting the Yellow Cat ledge on the 200-foot level. A blacksmith shop is to be built and a house built over the compressor.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, at Kimberly, Nevada, is preparing plans for the construction of a concentrator, smelter, and power plant, according to J. B. Haffner, general manager, but the construction has not yet been authorized. The average production through the Emma-Nevada Shaft is 8,000 tons daily, which is delivered at the McGill plant of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, for milling. It is estimated that nearly 35,000,000 tons of ore have been located west of this shaft, by diamond drill prospecting.
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LYNN BIG SIX MILL WILL BEGIN OPERATIONS AT AN EARLY DATE
With the coming of warmer weather, the recently installed mill, on the Big Six property on Lynn Creek, in Nevada, will be started on the extraction of gold from the thousands of tons of ore already blocked out, and broken by the Trinity Gold Mining Company, according to President and General Manager H. M. Gilbert, of Beowawe.
The Swett mill, which is an up-to-date variation of the old arrastra method used for hundreds of years, has been installed. The use of this mill makes possible a better than 95 percent extraction by amalgamation. Twenty years ago, this mine was in production, but was closed because, by the methods then in use, an extraction of only 45 percent was possible.
The same mill will be used on the Algonquin property, and on the Lang Syne, in the Winnemucca District, the former belonging to the Grey Eagle Mining Company, and the latter to the Nevada-Mexico Mining Corporation, both under the management of Gilbert.
A large tonnage of low-grade gold ore, assaying $6 per ton, with richer deposits running up in the $thousands, is in sight. This is free-milling ore and has been thoroughly tested by the process to be used.
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SOUTHGOLD CONIPANY HOPES TO BE SHIPPING BULLION BY JUNE
The new tunnel, No. 4, on the Southgold property, 60 miles east of Tonopah, Nevada, is in more than 150 feet, with less than eight feet to go to reach a point directly beneath a 20-foot shaft near the top of the hill, where a streak of phenomenally rich ore has been opened. When this ore is opened, a drift will be extended on it, 50 feet west, where a crosscut will be driven south, to intersect a 18-foot vein, which shows fair mill values in gold on the surface, and which is likely to show increased values at depth. This crosscut is also expected to cut one or two veins of high-grade ore.
A raise has been started back 10 feet, from the present face of tunnel 4, and will be carried up to connect on an incline with the bottom of the shaft where the rich ore is exposed. This raise will be used as a chute, down which the entire top of the hill is to be dropped, to be screened and trammed to the foot of the hill, where a Rose gold concentrator, of 50 to 75 tons’ daily capacity, is being installed.
The raise or chute will give access to an estimated 100,000 tons of material, mostly surface overburden, which is expected to yield values of $1.50 to $5 in free gold, per ton. By extending a second raise to the surface, 50 feet east of the first raise, 50,000 to 75,000 tons of additional material, much of it better grade, can be taken out the tunnel and sent down to the concentrator. General Manager C. Terrell expects to add a crusher and rod mill later, to handle vein material.
On the Crucible property, adjoining the Southgold, and which is also controlled by Terrell, five feet of $19 gold ore, with only one wall exposed, has been opened, and this ore will also be milled after the larger plant is installed.
It is believed that the Southgold property will be forwarding gold bullion to the mint, not later than June this year. Representatives of two of the biggest mining concerns on the coast, have examined and sampled both Southgold and Crucible gold properties last summer, and have offered to take them over on bond and lease.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 2 28 1931
THE MINING JOURNAL 2 28 1931
NEVADA
Nearly $50,000 has been mined from the Bass Lease, on the Silver Top Mine, of the Tonopah Mining Company, in the last two months. Bass had worked the same rich vein 30 years ago, but it is stated that the company failed to find the ore when it was exploring the ground.
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The Gold Circle Consolidated Mines Company, Noble H. Getchell, General Manager, has resumed mill operations at Midas, Nevada. The plant had been idle several months. A small crew has been working, and some good ore developed, and more extensive operations are scheduled for the near future.
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The early resumption of the development of the American Flat extension of the famous Comstock lode, near Virginia City, Nevada, is planned by the Chollar, Savage, and Gould and Curry mining companies, according to H. L. Slosson, Jr., 333 Kearny Street, San Francisco, California, who is the President of the three mining companies. The work will be conducted jointly by the three companies, through the Overman Shaft, according to a plan outlined by D. O. Mills in 1894, but never undertaken.
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On January 11, the Raymond Van Ness Mining Company fired a blast at the 100-foot Level, [that brought in a flood of ground water]. In turn, that involved the pumping of nearly 4,000,000 gallons of water, according to Peter Buol of Tonopah, General Manager. The mine was not equipped for this emergency, so a Fairbanks-Morse duplex pump, with a capacity to pump 140 gallons a minute was secured, and worked for 20 days to clear out the water. This explains why no shipments of quicksilver were made last month, after January 5.
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Salt Lake City Utah men, with S. J. Lindsay as President and F. J. Sylvester as Secretary, have taken over the old Bartholomew Gold Mine in Lappan Canyon, northwest of Hawthorne, Nevada. The new organization is known as the Mineral County Gold Mines Company. Twenty-eight samples are said to have been taken by the American Smelting and Refining Company, and have averaged $9.75 a ton. Two tunnels have been run into the hill, and it is planned to continue the lower adit between 400 and 600 feet, to get under a ledge on which work has already been done. Six other ledges will probably be cut.
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The Flowery Mines Company, B. A. Hardy, Superintendent, is operating its 200-ton mill in Six Mile Canyon, near Virginia City, Nevada, and intends to install a sampler, and build a road to the Crushing Department of the plant, so that it can handle custom ores. The company’s ores are conveyed by surface tramway to the mill.
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A drift has been started southeast from the 600-foot Level of the shaft of the Silver Butte Consolidated Mining Company, in the Mud Springs District, in Elko County, Nevada, to prospect four parallel fissures that have been located by geophysical tests last summer. A diorite sill intruded into the soluble limestone at the 600-foot point in the shaft, and through it is an eight-inch streak that assays 60 percent lead and 60 ounces silver.
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Simon Silver Lead Mines, inc., has reduced its force at Simon, Nevada, from 18 to 4 men, and has discontinued development work. George C. Whitney is General Superintendent.
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Twelve feet of sulphide ore, carrying milling values in silver, lead and zinc, have been opened in drifting from the 700-foot Level of the Forlorn Hope Shaft, in the Pioche District in Nevada. The ore is believed to be a bedded replacement ore body in the Combined Metals limestone, which has been highly productive in the Combined Metals Reduction Company ground, six miles east. A mile and a half from this shaft, the Pan American Shaft is going down on an incline to prospect the same limestone, and by the same operators. Considerable water has been released at its 1,600-foot depth, which necessitated the installation of electric pumps, and sinking is being continued to the 2,000-foot point. The work is financed by W. F. Snyder and Sons, of Salt Lake City, Utah; the International Smelting Company, and James Elwood Jones, coal operator of West Virginia. William Franklin is Superintendent at the Forlorn Hope and George E. Cox, of Caliente, is Superintendent at the Pan American.
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Financial arrangements have been made for reopening the Goldfield Yellow Cat Mining Company’s property, about three miles southeast of Goldfield. J. W. Van Winkle, Box 1226, Tonopah, Nevada, is President of the organization, and has taken a compressor, blacksmith, and other supplies, to the mine. At a cost of about $15,000, the shaft has been sunk 200 feet, and more than 1,000 feet of lateral development performed. When the work ceased last August, after an arduous campaign using only hand steel, the face was in a promising formation near the junction of four veins.
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The well-known Edgemont Mine, in the Centennial Mining District, 80 miles north of Elko, Nevada, has been acquired by a group of mining men in Los Angeles, California, including C. C. Randall, Room 786, 215 West Seventh Street; H. L. Sears, Consulting Engineer, 707 North Los Angeles Street; J. F. Worman and J. George McGuire. The mine has a credible production record in gold, but has been idle the greater part of the time since 1908, when it became involved in litigation. Sears will superintend the new development, and Joe McCarthy, mining engineer of Virginia City, Nevada, will be in charge on the ground.
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The Gold Hill Development Company, H. A. Johnson, General Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, reports a decreased production of $18,500 for January, as compared with a normal production of $23,000 to $25,000. This decrease is due to a loss of several days, while repairs and adjustments were made in the mill.
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E. M. Dawes, President of the Chalk Mountain Silver Lead Mining Company, and associates, at Minneapolis, have purchased three claims, and a fraction, in the new Scossa Camp, covering the original discovery. The claims are the Star No. 1, Star No. 2, Anaconda, and Cornucopia Fraction. Three payments are said to have been made within intervals of a few days. Immediate development is planned. Under the supervision of Sam Watkins of Fallon, a tunnel will be driven to crosscut the discovery vein, at a depth of 75 feet, and a shaft will be sunk on the lower vein. No work is to be done in the discovery shaft just now.
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The Gold Coast Mines Company, which acquired the Mt. Lincoln property at Como, Nevada, last December, has taken a 20-year lease on the Pony Meadows Gold Mine, mill, and water rights, not more than 8,000 feet from the Mt. Lincoln. Company Engineer R. L. Johnson has examined the Pony Meadows ground, and says that 25 to 30 feet of the vein will run from $5 to $15 a ton. Within this width, two and one-half to three feet will run as high as 2 ounces gold. Extensive development is planned, both mines to be worked from a common camp and plant, at the Pony Meadows. Tentative plans have been made with the Sierra Pacific Power Company to build an electric transmission line to the property. A gyratory crusher and a ball mill will be added to the 85-ton flotation plant, and will provide capacity to mill 125 tons of ore a day. The Gold Coast Company maintains its headquarters at 209 Van Nuys Building, Los Angeles, California.
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In spite of the low price of metals, lessees in the Tonopah Belmont Mine are making profit, due to the high-grade ore that they are mining. During January, they shipped 10 carloads to the mill at Millers, Nevada; four carloads to the smelter at Garfield, Utah, and one lot of high-grade sacked ore to the smelter at Selby, California.
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H. H. Peel has recently obtained a lease on approximately 400,000 tons of tailings at Buckhorn, Nevada, owned by George Wingfield. A thorough sampling has been made of the dump, and returns average $8 to $5 a ton. Plans are to build a cyanide plant, and start working the tailings as soon as its construction is completed.
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HAMLET-DEXTER CORP. BUYS GOLD KING MINE AT CRIPPLE CREEK
The news that the Hamlet-Dexter Mining Corporation has just acquired the Gold King Mine, at Cripple Creek, Colorado, and intends to place this old and celebrated producer in the dividend paying class again, proves that the eastern capitalists are becoming more fully aware of the value and promise of gold mining. The purchase of the Gold King Mine is probably the most important deal that has been consummated in the Cripple Creek District, during the last ten years.
The Gold King Mine has the honor of being the original gold discovery in the Cripple Creek District. It has produced over five million dollars, taken above the 1,000-foot Level. There is a large amount of low grade ore left in the old stopes, which will be available for shipments to the Golden Cycle Mill, with only a little sorting. The Gold King Mine has several important veins, with a trend from north to northeast. The Gold King, Discovery, and Grieve, are the main ones; it has also several cross veins, and the largest ore bodies are usually found at the points of crossing of these two systems of veins.
It has also an important basalt dyke, or rather two basalt dykes, running parallel to one another, and some of the richest ore of the district has come from them. There is yet a vertical height of nearly 800 feet of ground, which has been drained by the Roosevelt drainage tunnel, since the mine was closed down; this territory will allow the economical exploitation of the extension of the known ore bodies at depth. More than half of the ground owned by the Hamlet-Dexter now, through its purchase of the Gold King Mine is yet un-prospected territory; on some of it, some very rich float has been found, and the extension of one of the main veins has been traced through it. The possibilities of this virgin territory makes it a choice area for future developments.
About a year ago, Leon F. Le Brun, one of the most successful operators of the Cripple Creek District, who has brought back into heavy production the Pinnacle Mine, and W. H. Webber, who brought the Nevada Hills Mine, at Fairview, Nevada, from a grassroots prospect, into a ten million dollar producer, took an option on the property from its former owner, the Gold King Mines Company. Last summer, Etienne A. Ritter, the well-known Denver mining engineer and geologist, who had been closely connected professionally for many years with the Hamlet-Dexter Mining Corporation, accompanied to the Cripple Creek District, C. E. Reynolds of Binghampton, New York, who has been the leading spirit of the Hamlet-Dexter, through all of its career.
In this trip to the Cripple Creek District, Reynolds was accompanied by Henri C. Morand, head of the New York banking house of Morand and Company, Inc., and as a result they became interested in the acquisition of the Gold King.
A program of rejuvenation of the property and the extensive development work contemplated by the new owners of the Gold King Mine will help increase the production of the Cripple Creek District, and the State of Colorado.
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GOLDEN EAGLE OPENS RICH ORE IN OLD DULUTH WORKINGS
The Golden Eagle Mining and Milling Company has opened five feet of ore, that assays between $10 and $16, on the opposite side of the dike from the old Fife and Bills workings, at Duluth, in northern Nye County, Nevada. The discovery was made in the lower tunnel, at a vertical depth of 245 feet, and has been followed over a continuous length of more than 68 feet.
The early operators, when mining was booming in the district, found rich ore on the west side of a wide fault, on the south side of Duluth Mountain, one and one-half miles south of the Paymaster property of the Golden Eagle company. The property has since come under the Golden Eagle management, who, last summer, asked the Mackay School of Mines for geological help in prospecting, and developing the ground.
Accordingly, J. C. Jones, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, and R. M. Oliver, Curator, were assigned to the field. Their first recommendation was to crosscut from the tunnel through the fault, at a vertical depth of 100 feet, where on the east side of the dike, a deposit of ore, that assayed between $10 and $60, largely in gold, was opened. Later, Oliver took charge of the property, and recommended the deeper development, which has been carried out by Kay H. Beach of Fallon, Manager of the company.
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TONOPAH EXTENSION MAKES FINAL SHIPMENT OF CONCENTRATES
On February 6, the Tonopah Extension made its last shipment of bullion, to be followed by a small shipment of precipitates, preparatory to shutting down indefinitely. The day the shipment went out, it was valued at $16,700, according to Homer Williams, who has been in charge of the property for the past two months, due to the serious illness of John C. Kirchen.
The production of this old property since January 1, 1930, has been approximately $905,000. Unlike the Tonopah Belmont, and the Tonopah Mining properties, the Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., is a wet mine, and the heavy expense of keeping the mine clear of water, and the low price of silver, even with its ore carrying a good gold content, made it impossible to continue operations except at a loss.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 3 15 1931
THE MINING JOURNAL MARCH 15, 1931
NEVADA
To facilitate the development of four known veins located in its shaft, the Copperfield Mining Company, H. J. Jefferson, P. O. Box 195, Reno, Nevada, will purchase additional machinery. A drift has followed the No. 4 vein more than 60 feet, and has proven its width to be as much as four feet. The ore, which is being mined, averages $60 a ton in copper.
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Pending its success in financing, the Gold Metals Mining Company at Manhattan, Nevada, A. Homer Black, president and general manager, will sink its shaft to the 500-foot point, and explore the formations that have been opened on the 70 and 120-foot levels. More than a year ago, the Sullivan brothers mined $100 ore from the higher level. Under its present management, electric power has been brought in, some machinery installed, and the shaft enlarged to water level at 180 feet. Four or five carloads of ore that ran between $40 and $60 a ton in gold, were shipped, and due to the high cost of getting the ore to Tonopah, 45 miles, the War Eagle mill was purchased, and cyaniding added to the amalgamation process.
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The Tehama Mines Syndicate, Charles A. Green, general manager, expects to begin shipping concentrates to the Salt Lake smelters, the middle of next month. The 20-ton Rib-Cone mill is running off ore that averages 8.2 percent copper, 7 ounces silver, and .08 ounces gold, and the resultant averages 12 percent copper, 159 ounces silver, and 80 ounces gold per ton. The mine is equipped with modern machinery, and is opened to a depth of 206 feet, by a shaft, with a 100-foot crosscut at the 200 level. On the 115 level, an 11-foot width of shipping grade ore that assays 6.2 percent copper, 1.62 ounces gold, and 5.6 ounces silver, has been developed.
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E. M. Dawes of Fallon, Nevada, is organizing the Dawes Gold Mines, Inc., which is to operate the ground recently purchased at the new Scossa camp. The sum of $10,000 has already been paid on the purchase price of $60,000, and the new organization will be represented by a capitalization of $500,000, divided into 1,000,000 shares. The discovery vein has been opened 800 feet, and pannings made at intervals. The best showing was at a point 70 feet south of the discovery shaft. Minneapolis men are associated with Dawes in the organization.
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R. Bennett leased the Great Western Mine at Lower Rochester, Nevada, from the surface, to a depth of 50 feet below the DeLorme Tunnel, from Thomas F. Cole of Pasadena, California, and L. D. Gordon of Round Mountain, Nevada, who purchased the property a couple of years ago. Cole and Gordon transferred the property to the Unity Mines Company, which originally held adjoining ground, and which made the lease to Bennett. He will work through the old DeLorme Tunnel, using the Unity compressor, which is operated from the Nevada Valleys Power Company’s lines. He has the privilege of using the old Rochester mill, to which amalgamation may be added. Its primary and secondary crushing units are still useable.
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The Simon Silver Lead Mines, Inc., George C. Whitney, general superintendent, Simon, Nevada, has sunk a winze from the 800-foot level, to the 1,000-foot point, and is developing at the rate of three feet a day, at the lower level. This piece of exploration is for the purpose of exploring the downward extension of a body of high-grade ore, containing some copper, located on the 800 level, in January, 1930. The ore has been found all the way down the shaft, and one shift of six men will be employed in development, until such time as the metal market improves. Owing to an excessive amount of water encountered, nine additional men were employed while the winze was being sunk. The 250-ton flotation mill has not been in operation for some time.
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John Weaver, Tonopah mining man, is preparing his fourth carload shipment from the Landmark strike, in the Tolicha district (now part of Tonopah Test Range), 90 miles north of Tonopah, Nevada, and expects it to run higher than the last shipment of $85 a ton ore. It will go out via Beatty, and Ludlow, to the Salt Lake smelters, thereby eliminating the long haul to Tonopah. The vein is said to have widened to 22 feet, and the entire width is breaking down $85 and higher.
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The Scossa Gold Mines, Inc., has let three leases on its Wild Animal claim, to Phil Y. Gilson, and associates, to Joseph Vernan and Al Collyer, and to Drs. Caples and Wright of Reno, respectively. The leases cover 200x800 feet on the south of the claim, and run for nine months. Gilson is driving a crosscut to tap the vein at a depth of 100 feet, which will require about 150 feet of work.
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The Goldfield Deep Mines Company, A. I. D’Arcy, president and general manager, Goldfield, Nevada, has issued new permits, and the lessees are busy. The Koocher lease in Florence ground is preparing its second shipment of mill ore. At a depth of 2,310 feet, the company’s deep shaft passed out of dacite and latite, into andesite, and has been in that formation for 15 feet. According to the core of the drill hole, the shaft is following, the hanging wall of the vein should be reached in another 40 feet.
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The drills of the United States Brucite Corporation used in prospecting a brucite deposit east of Luning, Nevada, have passed into magnesite, which gives promise of being as valuable to the company as its brucite. Two deposits of brucite and magnesite, running parallel, and about 1,000 feet apart, have been traced 1,200 feet at the surface. Only one of the two drills installed is being operated on account of a shortage of water, according to R. F. Smith, engineer in charge.
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Six lessees are working at the Copper Canyon and Copper Basin properties, near Battle Mountain, Nevada, of the Copper Canyon Mining Company, and shipping to the Utah plants. Despite the fact that the ore runs between 16 and 19 percent copper, profits are small. J. C. Brumblay of Winnemucca, Nevada, field representative of the International Smelting Company, is manager of the company.
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The Tonopah Belmont Mining Company has optioned a group of gold claims in northern Nye County, Nevada, near Duluth, owned and worked for a number of years by Silvernos Peñales, who passed away a few days after the transaction was recorded. The deal is said to have been accompanied by a substantial cash payment and calls for the payment of $75,000 in the event the mines are purchased by the Belmont Company. Lessees in the Belmont Mine at Tonopah are shipping to Millers, Garfield and Selby, and making a profit.
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A group of New York capitalists, including Craig R. Guerin, Archibald Little, Raymond S. Wile, Alexander P. Rogers, Richard B. McGinnis and M. M. Mayo, have acquired the Dexter and other gold-silver mines in the vicinity of Tuscarora, Nevada. Approximately 400 acres of mineral ground changed hands in the deal, and will be operated as the Tuscarora Gold Mines, Inc. Some commercial ore is said to be exposed in the old workings, and mining is scheduled to start soon. Guerin, a Morristown, New Jersey, resident, is president of the concern; Little, a mining engineer, is vice-president; and Wiley is secretary-treasurer.
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M. A. Tanner, superintendent for Bradshaw, Inc., treating the tailings of the Goldfield Consolidated mill, at Goldfield, Nevada, has announced that the plant will start its fifth season of operation on March 9. The installation of new filters and other improvements will increase the daily tonnage from 1,000 to between 1,100 and 1,200 tons a day.
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The production of the Gold Hill Development Company, H. A. Johnson, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, for the first two weeks in February was $9,000 in gold bullion, containing a small quantity of silver. A higher production is expected from now on, owing to better mine conditions and to the installation of a secondary crusher, which will deliver a finer product to the ball mill. A belt conveyor 20 feet long runs from the coarse crusher at the shaft bin to the secondary crusher and will be used as a sorting belt. The ball mill crushes to 10 mesh and the tube mill turns out a product of 80 per cent 200 mesh. Ore for milling is coming from shrinkage stopes on the 225-foot level, where the ore body has been followed 1,200 feet, with the east drift in ore assaying $8 a ton when work was discontinued. Drifting has not been started at the 400-foot level of the shaft, where a heavy flow of water was encountered 415 feet from the shalt more than a year ago.
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The Interstate Mining and Development Company, which owns mining property at Como, Nevada, has taken a five-year lease on the Rockland gold mine, 25 miles south of Yerington. A force is placing the new property in condition for operation, and is preparing foundations for two 200-horsepower Diesel engines, and electric generators, which have been ordered from Franklin, Pennsylvania. E. C. Short, 815 Nevada State Life Building, Reno, is president of the Interstate company, and C. J. Carpenter is secretary and manager. The Rockland mine has been idle since 1918, and under the management of the Rockland Mining Company of Canton, Ohio, operated a 50-ton all-sliming cyanide mill, with ball and tube mills for grinding. The tunnel opens the ground to a depth of 900 feet, and a 200-foot winze has been sunk below that depth.
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R. G. Hart and A. Di. Plummer of FalIon, Nevada, are installing a dry washing plant that can handle 100 tons a day at the Nugget placer claim, near Rawhide, and expect to have it in operation by April 1. The plant was designed by Hart. A 60-foot headframe and building to house the machinery have been completed and the gravel opened in a drift from the bottom of the 90-foot shaft is said to average $5 in gold, to the yard.
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The Black Mammoth Consolidated Mine, Company, F. A. Vollmar, Jr., general manager, Silver Peak, Nevada, has opened 10 feet of sulphide ore, 30 feet above the Wasson Level, that assays $26 a ton. This level is above the long Mary Tunnel, through which the Pittsburgh-Silver Peak Company operated, and the discovery proves the continuance of high values in the sulphide zone. It has already been proven that the ore goes down. The Black Mammoth is operating a 50-ton flotation mill, under the supervision of Jim Morris, and its operation is highly satisfactory. In December, they got seven tons of concentrates, worth $345 a ton, from the milling of 250 tons of ore.
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The trial of the counter claims of the Consolidated Coppermines Corp., against the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, has been set for March 10, by Judge Frank H. Norcross. The suit was originally brought into court in 1929 by Nevada Consolidated, to interpret a contract between the two mining companies, which own adjoining properties, relative to mining ore.
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Walter Scott Stratton, J. H. Stratton and Joe McFadden, representing Chicago interests now in control of the old Mannette Mine at Klondyke, 11 miles south of Tonopah, Nevada, are in Tonopah preparing to resume operations. The development will be carried out under the name of the Queen City Mining and Milling Company, which is a reorganization of the former Marinette Mining and Milling Company of Marinette, Wisconsin. The property consists of 10 patented claims. Several shipments were made by the original company, but development was suspended eight years ago when the ore-shoot was lost. Last July, some prospecting was done in a quiet way, and a three-foot face of ore exposed, from which samples have been taken returning as high as 425 ounces silver. The ore carries some gold.
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Charles Irwin, Henry Redman and Ernest Billery of Reno, are operating the Fireball mine, eight miles northwest of the Hot Springs in Washoe County, Nevada, under lease from Frank Ackley. Shafts have reached depths of 80 and 100 feet, and when development has progressed a little farther, a small mill will be built at the mine. The lower shaft is in 18 inches of ore that are said to assay $26 per ton in gold, and drifts are being driven from the other shaft in ore that is said to be worth $20 a ton.
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The rich cinnabar deposit in the Montgomery Mine of Nevada Quicksilver Mines, Inc., in the Antelope Springs district in Nevada, has been proven over a length of 200 feet. According to L. A. Friedman of Lovelock, president and general manager, retorts have been placed in commission at the Juniper mine, several miles distant, and the Montgomery ore is being hauled there for reduction. This company is an outstanding quicksilver producer in the state.
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JACKSON ORES YIELD 50 TO 60 PERCENT PRODUCT FROM TESTS
Mill tests have been made on the ores from the Jackson mine, of the Alta Tiger Mining Company, near Montello, Nevada, and have resulted in a product carrying from 50 to 60 percent lead and 12 ounces silver to the ton, according to S. F. Hunt, superintendent of the property. This is a recovery of about 90 percent of the assay value of the ore.
The Jackson property of six claims was leased September 1, 1930, for three years, with 60 days following allowed for examination and approval. The first trial car of ore was shipped in November, but the general plan of development work was not commenced until after the first of this year. The holdings have since been increased by six other claims owned outright by the Alta Tiger company.
The ore forms in shoots and chambers in a 50-foot formation of massive, white quartzite, lying above a lime shale foot and under a heavy bedded dolomitic lime hanging. The outcrop is on the crest or pinnacle of a fold or dome, and the replacement channels and chambers of ore appear to follow down on all sides and flanks of the dome. This formation is the Middle Ordovician Eureka quartzite of the survey of the fortieth parallel, usually about 200 feet thick, but only 50 to 60 feet thick on Jackson Mountain.
Until 1907 the Jackson group produced 100 carloads, or nearly 4,000 tons of lead ore that ran between 25 and 40 percent, and yielded a gross value of nearly $200,000. Only one carload of 30 percent ore has been shipped from the Leadstone claim of the Alta Tiger’s own group.
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NEVADA MINING NEWS EMJ 10 28 1922
NEVADA MINING NEWS EMJ 10 28 1922
NEVADA E&MJ OCTOBER 28, 1922
Tonopah Divide Produced 1,600 Tons of $30 Ore in September
Royston—The shipment recently made by the Canadian Leasing Co., present owners of the original Belts lease, amounted to 26 tons, of an average value of $197 per ton, and a gross value of $5,122.
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Divide—Production of the Tonopah Divide mine, for September, was 1,608 tons, averaging in value $29.79 per ton, and having a gross value of $47,145. This is much lower in value than the production for August, when the output was $71,917 from 1,645 tons. It has been officially stated that shipments will be kept at about $25 per ton. The mine is in splendid condition, and there is 1,500 tons of $75 ore broken in the stopes. The crosscut on the 1,400 level is out 500 ft. from the shaft, but no vein has been encountered.
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Pioche—The Godbe interests remain in control of the Prince Consolidated Mining Co. as a result of the election of officers held at the recent annual meetixng. Machinery has been ordered to hasten un-watering and the development of the property at depth. Four important objectives will be sought: The beds found to the east of the shaft; Fissures number One and Two; Sections of the upper bedded deposits to the west of the shaft; and the No. 3 or new fissure, discovered just before the water drove the miners from the headings.
Leasing has increased in the Pioche district. Among the properties recently leased is the Mendha mine, in the Highland district, from which steady shipments have been going forward for the past two years. The ore carries $8 in gold, 8 oz. in silver, and 10 per cent lead. The Bristol Mines continues to send out a large tonnage, the ore recently handled being a higher-grade product.
Shipments from the Pioche district included the usual tonnage of tailings from Bullionville and Dry Valley, ore from the Bristol Silver mine, a small lot of ore from the Geer mine, at Irish Mountain, and a car from the Lyndon mine, at Comet.
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750 Engineering and Mining Journal-Press
Vol. 114, No. 18 OCTOBER 28, 1922
A New Nevada Enterprise
A FEATURE of the recent visit of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, to San Francisco, was the opportunity afforded to the members to visit Gold Hill and Comstock, a new mining village upon the historic American Flat, in the Virginia City district. Bulkeley Wells and his associates received the members of the Institute and many Nevadans, upon the occasion of the initiation of milling operations by the United Comstock Mines Co. This company acquired the Gold Hill group of mines upon the southern portion of the Comstock Lode, and systematically developed the property.
A milling plant, the largest ever constructed in western mining districts for gold and silver recovery, had just been completed and was ready for operation for the first time.
The occasion was a significant one. There was enthusiasm on the part of the Nevadans. There was a quiet determination on the part of the members of the company’s staff of engineers. The workmen finishing up parts of the plant scarcely missed a stroke as the visitors wended their way in groups through the plant. Not a detail was overlooked. Signs with arrows pointed the way, and runways, protected with ropes where necessary, prevented accidents. Courteous guides answered innumerable questions. A special train was arranged to ‘Take a hundred or more through the adit; and into the mine workings.
William Sproule, president of the Southern Pacific R.R. Co., summed up the psychology of the moment when he said that the pathetic city of the past, had become the prophetic city of the present. Virginia City has been dead for many a year. Hydro-electric power, the hydraulic elevator, and the Riedler pumps revived it for a while. Charles Butters gave the game a whirl, but lost $500,000 and retired to less difficult fields.
Ore discoveries in the Northend resulted in the construction of the Mexican mill, a small 100-ton plant. Leasers worked here and there. Several companies tried the Yellow Jacket, but eventually retired, although a 200-ton concentrating mill worked for a long time upon the old waste dumps. Many of the efforts made since 1898, were upon a small scale, excepting only the drainage work and the attempt to reopen the Ward shaft. The Ward shaft was lost. Deep drainage was stopped. It would be difficult to find a similar series of efforts resulting in such scanty success, but in spite of this the various operations, sent out a modest stream of bullion, year by year.
In the light of the many failures, it required real courage and nerve to investigate the traditions of the existence of large bodies of low-grade ores. Nevertheless, be it said to the credit of the mining industry, men were found who had the nerve, and who had the confidence of financiers, and were therefore able to command the capital to first investigate, and finally to put a princely sum into the necessary development and plant, to mine and mill over 2,000 tons of low-grade ore per day.
Men like Bulkeley Wells and the financiers who have entrusted their wealth to him, are important sinews and nerves of the mining industry. Without them, an enterprise like this could never have been started. We extend our cordial well wishes for the success of the new Comstock enterprise, and congratulate Bulkeley Wells, his staff of engineers, and—yes-—even his boardinghouse managers, upon the work that they have so ably begun.
Ely.—The Nevada Consolidated recently fired seven 6-in. 100-ft. holes loaded with two tons of black powder, and one-quarter ton of dynamite. The holes were drilled over a surface 230 by 10 ft. Another blast in which an equal quantity of powder will be used, will be fired in a short time. This work is being done to consume the powder on hand.
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Goldfield.—Consolidated lessees during April shipped seven carloads of ore of medium grade. An important find has been made by Simpson, Grimm, and Mclntee, 30 ft. below the surface, at a point 800 ft. north-west of the Combination shaft. They are working in a seam of high-grade ore, that is thought to be in the top of the old stopes. They have saved 35 tons of ore assaying more than $100, and there is enough ore in sight to make a 50-ton shipment of this grade. Poffinberger and Dunn shipped three carloads last mouth, from near the Combination shaft, and they are still in ore. One carload was shipped from the Miller lease on the January vein, near the surface. Marcotte and Petrucci, on the fourth level of the Mohawk, shipped two carloads, and are still in ore. The number of lessees continues to increase, and the success of Simpson, Grimm, and McIntee has encouraged the holders of the various blocks.
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Grantsville.—Elmer M. Bray and Jay A. Carpenter have taken a three-year lease on the Alexander or Webster mine, and have started remodeling the cyanide plant to treat 40 tons of ore daily. The Alexander mine supplied ore for a 40-stamp mill for several years in the 1870’s and ‘80’s, yielding $2,000,000 in silver bullion. The ore was crushed dry in the batteries, given a chloridizing roast, and then amalgamated. At water-level, the ore became a base lead, zinc, and iron sulphide ore, and with the steady drop in the price of silver, the mine was abandoned in 1890.
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Ploche.—The first ore-bed found by drilling has been passed through by the Pioche Shaft. This bed contains low-grade ore, and the shaft, now more than 700 ft. deep, is being continued to the second bed, which is richer. This second bed will be reached in 100 to 150 feet.
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Rawhlde.—Owners and lessees who have been in Rawhide since the ‘boom’ days 12 years ago, George Trost, Giles Hard, Joseph Feretta, Adolph Miller, Joseph Kelly, H. L. Spencer, John Curley, John Haines, and others, now see an opportunity to make money from low-grade ore, when the mill is built by the California-Nevada Milling Co.
The Western Machinery & Engineering Co., of Reno, has the contract for building the mill, and machinery is being hauled from Fallon by 12-horse teams. The capacity of the plant will be 25 to 50 tons daily, according to the grade of ore treated, and the milling charge will be $8.50 to $20 per ton. At present, $60 material is not ore because of the costly 45-mile haul to Fallon, and the high railroad freight-charge, together with high treatment cost at the smelters. Trost has in sight 500 tons of medium-grade ore, in the Grutt Morning Star Fraction.
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Thomas Wilson, working 1 ½ miles from the Black Eagle, has stripped for 120 ft., a vein of rich ore that is 2 ft. wide. He has sunk a 40-ft. shaft on the vein and is now drifting. About 25 tons of ore in a dump at this shaft averages $112.
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Rochester.—A wage cut of 50c. from the former Tonopah scale, has resulted in a strike of the 115 men employed by the Rochester Silver Mines Corporation, and the mine and mill are closed. The Nevada Packard also has announced a reduction of 50c. from the former Tonopah scale. The Packard mine and mill will be started soon, with two shifts, and 125 to 150 tons will be handled daily.
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Sweetwater.—A mill and cyanide plant, with a capacity of 150 tons, is planned for the Silverado mine. For two years the property has been undergoing development, and, according to A. C. Anderson of Chicago, president of the Nevada Progressive Mining Co., which owns the property, the construction of a mill is justified. E. F. Hall will superintend the work.
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Tonopah.—Frank W. Ingram, State Labor Commissioner, is at Tonopah, reviewing the labor situation, in which there has been no change. It is thought that, although Ingram is not at Tonopah to mediate, his visit will have a good effect, and he may be able to bring the opposing factions closer together than they are at present. The present attitude of the operators is that they will make no concessions.
The history of the causes leading to the present trouble in Tonopah, dates from August 17, 1919, when the men struck for a $1 increase in wages. On October 3, they returned to work without an increase in wages. This trouble was finally settled on November 7, when the operators granted a 50c. bonus in wages and other concessions. It was agreed that when it had been shown to the satisfaction of a Federal mediator that a store to be started by the operators was giving a saving of 50c. per day in living costs, the 50c. bonus should be eliminated.
February 8, 1920, after the mediator had reported that this saving was being provided by the store, the bonus was withdrawn, according to agreement, and a strike followed. This strike resulted in a 50c. wage increase being granted. This increase had the effect of making permanent the sum paid under the bonus system. In addition to this, the operators agreed to continue the commissary. The new scale was $8 for machine-men and $5.50 for shovelers, trammers, and topmen. It is the removal of this 50c. increase and an additional 25c. that is the cause of the present strike.
It is pointed out by the operators that, even under the new scale, wages would be equal to, or higher at Tonopah, than in other Nevada districts, or districts in other States, and that the scale is only 25c. under what it would have been, had the miners abided by the agreement of November 7. It is said that the mines have been making little profit, even with $1 silver, and that they are being exhausted with inadequate profit to the owners, and little revenue to the State. The hoisting-engineers and mechanics will be proportionately harder hit by the new scale, than the other workers, and it is reported that they are the only ones now standing in the way of a settlement, almost completely on the terms of the operators.
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Tule Canyon.—The Silver Hills mill started May 10, treating 30 tons, every 16 hours. Three shifts are employed. The drift on the bottom level continues in low-grade material that is not ore.
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Virginia City.—Walter Reid, metallurgist for the United Comstock, is at Virginia City completing plans for the cyaniding part of the 1000-ton mill, to be built by the company. Plans for the other parts have been finished, and it is expected that the flow-sheet will be completed in a short time. The Overland group and 10-stamp mill has been taken over by the Comstock Silver.
TONOPAH—Labor trouble has broken out again, following persistent rumors of radical activities, which have continued since the settlement of the strike, last fall. The trouble has spread to the Divide district, after practically closing the Tonopah mines. The radicals in control of the situation have presented a list of demands, that is in some respects, humorous. They ask the immediate release of all industrial and political prisoners, a 6-hour day from collar to collar, with a minimum wage of $7; two men on all machines, clean sheets, twice every week, in the bunkhouses, “with springs and mattresses, and plenty of blankets”; one man to a room, his bed to be “made up each day, and his room to be cleaned of all dust, and other things, which may accumulate”. After reading the demands, a mine operator said: “I knew it was coming to this. If we give them their demands now, within three months we shall have a strike based on a demand for valets, one for each miner.”
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YERINGT0N —The Rockland Mining Co., the principal interest in which, is held at Canton; Ohio, has been declared bankrupt, with an indebtedness of $55,000, and the trustee has been ordered to sell the mine and equipment on the claims, 25 miles south of Mason Valley. Dissension ‘all among the stockholders, resulting in their refusal to complete payments on $125,000 worth of machinery, is given as the reason for the company being bankrupt. The vein, of an average width of 2 ½ ft., has been opened to a depth of 1300 ft. The principal content of the ore is gold, with silver associated with antimony and arsenic, in sufficient quantity to make the ore refractory. The reduction plant is an all-sliming cyanide mill of 75 tons capacity. The mine is reported to have produced $350,000 gross, but lack of development work in recent months leaves little in sight.
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ELY—A 100-ton cyanide mill has been completed, and will soon start operating at the old Argus Mine, at Taylor, 16 miles south of here. The mine is opened to a depth of 300 ft., and it is said to have produced 2,000,000 oz. of silver ore in the early days. It is estimated that ore in surface dumps is ample to keep the mill supplied for more than a year. The mine dump is estimated to contain 265,000 oz. of silver, and 18,000 tons of tailing gives an average assay return of over 6 oz. Silver, and 80 cents in gold.
The estimated silver content, per ton, of the mine dump is 14 oz. The mine and mill are owned by the ‘Wyoming Mining & Milling Co., of which E. P. Bowman, of Cody, is manager. The claims are across Steptoe ValIey from the Ward lead-silver mine. [rehab notes- Taylor is also adjacent to a popular state park named Cave Lake.]
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Wonder—It is reported that George A. Manning, of New York, has financed a company to take over and operate the Vulture, Bald Eagle, Spider Wasp, Golconda, and Dickey V. groups. The affairs of companies formed’ by Henry Weber, to develop these groups over 10 years ago, led to two noted cases in the criminal court in Goldfield, in which Weber, promoter of the Atlanta Mines Co. in Goldfield, was the defendant. The rise in the price of silver led to the formation of the new company, as the ores of the district contain four parts silver, to one of gold.
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BELMONT—The Consolidated Spanish Belt company, 7 miles southwest of here, has started the erection of a 10-stamp mill, to treat silver ore, assaying from $10 to $30, opened since work was started by the company in December, 1916. The Spanish Belt owns the old Barcelona and San Pedro mines, which produced rich ore many years ago. The San Pedro shaft was reopened by the present management, and the Ernst tunnel workings, from which a production of $500,000, is said to have been made in the early days before the miners were driven out by water, were drained by a 1300-ft. tunnel. Since then, thousands of feet of work has been done, and for several
Months, regular shipments of high-grade ore have been made.
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DIVIDE—A 9-ft. width of ore, estimated to have an average value of more than $100 per ton, has been located at a depth of 310 ft. in the Victory Mine, and shipments have been started. The 9-ft. width, includes 1 ft. of the richest ore ever found in the district, and 5 ft. of $139 ore. The ore was found in a drift, in a 110-ft. winze on the 200-ft. level. The winze will be sunk an additional 50 ft., and another cross-cut will be driven to the vein at this depth.
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QUARTZ MOUNTAIN —The Bell group of claims on Quartz Mountain, 12 miles east of Goldfield, has been optioned by M. J. Conroy, of Los Angeles, for a price reported to have been $80,000. The group consists of eight claims on the eastern edge of the Goldfield Hills. The vein is 110 ft. wide, and assays were done, by Corrin Barnes, a Goldfield engineer who made the report on which the option was taken. The gold is entirely in flakes, embedded in the quartz, and in some cases, embedded in the quartz phenocrysts of the original rock. The best assays were secured over a width of 60 ft.
The vein, which has a general northerly strike, and dips 70° E., has been traced on the surface for 1500 ft.
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COPPER CANY0N —George B. Thatcher, former Attorney General of Nevada, and associates, have been notified that the United States Supreme Court has denied a motion for a re-hearing in their case against Joseph Ralph, which involves ownership of the Copper canyon gold placer deposits, in Humboldt county. Thatcher and his partners now expect to secure clear title to the claims, which cover what is said, to be one of the richest placers in the country. The average width of the main tunnel is 150 ft., and the claims cover it for 2300 ft. There is little water available for washing the gravel.
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May 1, 1920 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS
NEVADA
Goodsprlngs.—The downward extension of the ore body, which has produced so well for the Yellow Pine Mining Co., has been cut on the 1000-ft. level, 600 ft. north of the shaft, at a point near where the dip and rake of the shoot on the level above indicated it would be found.
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At the Yellow Pine mill, the U. S. Bureau of Mines men have been carrying on volatilization tests, with the idea of driving off silver and lead, and precipitating the same from the fumes by the Cottrell process. The tests were made in a calcining furnace, 60 ft. long, and 5 ft. diameter, which is used for driving off moisture and carbon dioxide, and thus decreasing the weight of the ore, in proportion to the amount of these elements present. This is believed to be the first time that the Bureau of Mines men have had the opportunity to work on this kind of experiment on a commercial scale. The results obtained are said to have been highly satisfactory, after some changes were made in pressure employed in the fuel burner.
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TMJ JUNE 15 1931 TONOPAH NV AREA HIGH GRADE ORE
A little tidbit:
The Mining Journal (Phoenix, AZ); June 15, 1931:
“One of the richest shipments of ore ever to go out of Tonopah went out by truck on May 23 to the Selby Smelter. It comprised four tons of high grade, packed in 90 sacks, from the Anderson-Williams lease on the Tonopah Divide Mine at Gold Mountain, six miles from Tonopah. The ore was mined from a 14-inch width of phenomenally rich stuff at a depth pf 40 and 50 feet. Samples ran 14 to 18 ounces of gold, and 1700 to 2900 ounces of silver per ton…”
