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TIDBITS OF INFO- WYOMINGTHE MINING JOURNAL for APRIL 15, 1929
OLD MINING CAMPS IN SOUTHWEST WYOMING RESUME ACTIVITY
New interest is being taken in mining in southwestern Wyoming, especially around the old camps at Atlantic City, South Pass and Lewiston. This district was discovered in 1842, before gold was discovered in California, and is located about 25 miles south of Lander, the county seat of Fremont County. The ground was first worked as placer and some wonderfully rich pockets were opened in the gravels.
A report made in 1926 by a former state geologist after examining the district shows that about $1,125,000 has been taken from the placer ground. Of special importance in placer mining is the work carried on by the Titanic Gold Producing Company, backed by Casper and Denver capital, on 1,440 acres along the Sweetwater River southeast of Lewiston. The ground averaged fully $1 a yard.
In Big Atlantic Gulch, two and one-half miles east of Atlantic City, Dr. W. G. Burnett and associates of Casper have been carrying on tests for the past two years and report encouraging results, sluicing gravel from test pits. The property includes placer claims and leases on 1,610 acres.
The Platt River Sand and Gravel Company of Casper have a lease on a number of placer claims and are planning to bring in a steam shovel or dragline if tests justify. It is believed that the low-lying flats along the creek will ultimately be worked, as the early methods were crude and wasteful.
The lode claims were estimated to have produced $4,137,000, of which the Miners’ Delight produced $1,200,000 and the Carissa, $1,000,000.
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COPPER MTN PROSPECTS WY TMJ 4-15-1929THE MINING JOURNAL APRIL 15, 1929
MINING PROSPECTS NEAR COPPER MOUNTAIN, WYOMING
The Wyoming Gold and Copper Company, operating on Copper Mountain in Freemont county, Wyoming, practically suspended operations on account of the heavy snows and unprecedented cold weather. This company has several tons of concentrates ready for shipment as soon as the roads are passable. Assay tests have proved very satisfactory, the average of all samples of ore being over $40.
This district is located in the same county as Atlantic City, but in the extreme north end of the county and central part of the state. It embraces a section about 10 by 15 miles in extent; its highest altitude being about 9,000 feet. The structure lies in the mineral belt extending the length of the Shoshone Indian Reservation east and west, with Kerwin, in Park county, outside the reservation on the western end and Copper Mountain, in Fremont county, on the east. Granites and schists form the core of the general uplift, the limestone and other sedimentary formations showing on either side.
Iron in almost all its forms is a feature of the camp; all of the country rock is heavily mineralized and carries considerable iron. Almost all the forms- of copper are found, copper glance being plentiful at the depths reached. The sulphides are also plentiful, especially on the western end of the mountain, where also gold is found.
The district was worked quite extensively about 20 years ago and 100 claims located, but for one cause and another, most of them were abandoned. The Gold Nugget erected a mill and operated it a short time, but from lack of modern processes for saving the gold discontinued operations. A company on the east end sunk a shaft 800 feet on a copper property, but the manager and two miners lost their lives on account of foul air, and operations were suspended after they had expended half a million dollars in development.
It is believed the district is rich and abundant in minerals and no doubt will be quite thoroughly prospected this coming summer. Several prominent engineers have looked over the district during the past season and passed highly favorable opinions upon it.
The mountain breaks off abruptly to the south and a large desert area exists for a long distance. This district has vast deposits of aluminum sulphate, carrying also gold and quicksilver. A strong California company has options of several thousand acres and has been testing the ground the past season with drills and sinking holes by shaft work. The gold is said to extend to bedrock, values running $1.64 per yard, and dredging costs are estimated at 25 cents a yard. Selection of a reservoir site has been made.
The drill and shaft work has been done under the direction of George W. Croydon, a Los Angeles mining engineer. It is predicted large sums of money will be expended on the project next summer.
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HIST OF WY MINING- NON-METALS THE MINING JOURNAL 3 30 1929THE MINING JOURNAL
VOL. XII. No. 21
MARCH 30. 1929
History and Future of Mining in Wyoming
By JOHN G. MtIRZEL, State Geologist, Cheyenne, Wyoming. While Wyoming’s
production of copper, gold, silver, lead and zinc has been small, the state offers exceptional possibilities in the non-metallics.
The mining industry of the state dates to 1842, when gold was first discovered in the territory and it is still in its embryonic stage. Wyoming business men, as a rule, do not appreciate the value and extent of the mineral resources of their state and the effect that the development of these resources would have on their business, and for this reason have not furnished it with the backing which it merits.
Considering the tremendous mineral resources of the state, the development has been painfully slow. Wyoming stands at the foot of the list among its neighbors in the production of gold copper, silver, lead and zinc. In these five metals Montana produced in 1928, 56 million dollars, Colorado 16 millions, Utah 79 millions and Idaho 27 millions, while Wyoming’s production amounted to only $700. These figures are startling and present a picture of Wyoming lagging far behind in the advancement of the western part of the United States along mining lines; also its opportunity. The future mineral wealth of the state, however does not lie in these metallic ores, but will be found in a large degree in the non-metallics, with which we are so wonderfully blessed.
There is probably no Rocky Mountajn state that offers greater opportunities or “probabilities of success in mineral development than does Wyoming. Completely surrounded by mineral producing states, it is really difficult to understand why there has been no greater development here in Wyoming. Just why the man-made state line, dividing Wyoming from its neighboring states, should also be the line of delineation between mineral and non-mineral bearing formations in the continuation of the same uplifts or mountain ranges is difficult to understand and is, without a doubt, not a fact and in my opinion very improbable.
Rich deposits of these minerals are undoubtedly awaiting discovery, but until the population of our state becomes much greater and includes a class of prospectors, miners and capitalists that can be compared with those who discovered and developed the riches of Cripple Creek and many other mining camps of the west, these deposits will no doubt remain hidden.
Minerals are found in every section of the state, but with the exception of the coal mines and a single iron mine, there is not a large producing mine in the state today. For this reason the mining properties of Wyoming are the greatest field in the United States today for the prospector, investor and capitalist.
Statistics show, however, that Wyoming leads her neighboring states in the production of oil in about the same proportion that it lags in the production of other minerals. Since 1912 when the first important discoveries oil were made in the state, that industry has almost doubled our population and business. The increase in taxable value of the state since then has amounted to 800 million dollars, most of which can be credited to the development of the oil industry.
During the past few years the production of oil has been decreasing, and it is well to inquire as to the future. It is believed that the production of oil pools will probably never again reach its former maximum of 48 million barrels per year. It will probably decline slowly, but will be a dependable industry for many years to come. To continue to presume that all mineral values of Wyoming are derived from one product or even several is obviously a great mistake. In fact, each succeeding year discloses a more complete and varied range of products mined and recovered within the boundaries of our state. In all probability, many years will pass before another Section 86 will occupy the heart of an oil field as large and lasting as the Salt Creek pool and from which a princely royalty as high as 65 per cent can be exacted for the direct support of many of our state activities. To offset that declining revenue, other pools must be discovered elsewhere in the state. At the present time, the new Oregon Basin field offers more promise than any structure brought in since the discovery of Salt Creek.
The latest figures of the government disclose that the production of minerals is still the largest industry in Wyoming. This leading position is constantly being strengthened by new development. The completion of the new cement mill at Laramie last year will augment the future mineral production of the state by 2 million dollars annually. Other new developments in the way of brick works, gypsum and plaster mills will also swell the annual total to an appreciable extent. While the exploiting of these hitherto latent ceramic resources will allow no royalty tributes to the treasury of the state, nevertheless, localities in which such development is started are assured of greatly increased sources of revenue.
A new source for prospective revenue are the large leucite deposits situated near Rock Springs. Locked up in those deposits are virtually exhaustless tonnages of potash, an indispensable fertilizer for which America is still almost entirely dependent on foreign supplies for its requirements. Abroad, considerable progress has already been made towards the recovery of potash contained in precisely similar leucite deposits.
In the past, the public domain of Wyoming has paid 75 per cent of all mineral royalties received by the federal treasury. As a royalty holder of vast mineral resources, the latest statistics indicate that Wyoming will continue to lead all other states, separately and collectively, for many years to come. We are able to assert that the per capita mineral production of Wyoming is still the largest in America. Apparently the second position that our highly favored citizens enjoy in per capita wealth is likewise still secure.
Potassium is essential to plant life. Obviously, potassium salts taken from the soil by plants must be returned, if the original productiveness of the land is to be retained. Therefore, any Wyoming enterprise that will endeavor to break the stranglehold that a foreign monopoly has long exercised over a mineral product so vitally important to the welfare of the American people is entitled to all possible support that can be rendered by the extremely favored citizens of this state. Edward Atkinson a well known statistician from Boston, filed the following pertinent remark: “The man who finds a potash mine corresponding to the Stassfurt deposits of Germany will add more to the resources of this country than by the discovery of gold, silver, copper or iron.” In reply to this prophecy, Wyoming offers its leucite hills as the most promising potash supply for the future requirements of America, for in no other state do known potash reserves approach the magnitude and richness recorded for the leucite hills deposits.
In addition to the potash content, an extraction process perfected by the Italians also extracts the free alumina and silica values of the leucite. So far, America has never produced sufficient aluminum ore for its requirements. The mineral silica-gel has also passed out of the development stage and its commercial value has just recently been demonstrated as being an ideal substitute for ice in the refrigeration of railway cars. In the course of time the Italian process that recovers all of the values from the leucite should be tried out in the Rock Springs area, none of our mineral reserves offer more promise for early and wide development than these potash deposits.
Few states or nations contain extensive deposits of phosphate, potash and nitrogen compounds. So sparsely do the compounds of these chemical elements occur in nature, that heretofore the world production of potash and nitrogen salts have been internationally monopolized and controlled respectively by the German and Chilean governments. In only one locality so far known do all three of these mineral fertilizers occur side by side in inexhaustible quantities. This locality lies in southwestern Wyoming, between the railway stations of Wamnsutter and Cokeville.
At the present time the American farmer continues to purchase the bulk of hi~ mineral fertilizers from distant foreign nations. The big problem of Wyoming now is to devise ways and means to supply America and other nations with every variety of mineral fertilizers consumed by the agricultural industry of the world. In Lincoln, Teton, Sublette, Fremont and Hot Springs counties are located our largest deposits of phosphate rock. Other western states likewise contain large deposits of phosphate rock. But none of the latter deposits are situated as close to the great agricultural empire of America as the Wyoming reserves.
In the Green River Valley, where all chemical elements that enter into the new and complete fertilizer production exist in exhaustless quantities, there also awaits the development of electrical energy of sufficient potentiality to manufacture all mineral fertilizer requirements of the nation for many years to come. Some day, more than one of the giant chemical companies of America will sadly regret the failure of their technical staffs to conduct investigations of the unusual resources so favorably consolidated within this complete, self-contained mineral and industrial empire, and some billion dollar aggregation of capitalists will find it far more expedient to chemically combine phosphate, potash and nitrogen compounds direct in one Wyoming locality, rather than to import the several raw materials from distant and widely separated regions.
In the electro-thermal processes used at present at Niagara Falls, the element phosphorus is set free by mixing distantly transported phosphorus rock with sand and carbon in the electric furnace. Phosphorus is consumed by the metallurgical, warfare and other industries in such forms as poison gases, safety matches, phosphorus bronzes and smoke screens. In modern aerial and naval warfare maneuvers, electro-thermally manufactured calcium phosphide forms on ignition the dense white smoke screens used to conceal the movement of troops on land as well as battleship fleets at sea. If the war or navy departments should ever deem it expedient to manufacture their own requirements at a central point more removed from sea coasts and consequently more invulnerable to foreign attack, it is certain that the safely situated phosphate beds of Wyoming will be able to supply all of the many phosphorus compounds and camouflaging agencies of a gaseous consistency at the lowest possible costs from the enormously thick coal seams geologically overlying the phosphorus areas.
In the future the Wyoming raw ingredients used in the manufacture of explosives that range in strength from weak blasting powders to the most powerful of trinito toluol compounds, may carry more esteem than the extremely distant and precariously situated natural nitrate deposits of Chile that served to make all of the powder that America consumed in all wars fought during the past one hundred years.
The manufacture of ferro phosphorus, which at the present time is being supplied from the Alabama, Tennessee region, and is selling from $90 to $125 per ton, as well as other non-fertilizing phosphatic products, will likewise be feasible in Wyoming. In addition to phosphorus and potash, nitrogenous compounds form the third and remaining group of mineral fertilizers of primary commercial importance. At the opening of the present century, civilization was greatly alarmed over the pending exhaustion of the world’s entire supply of nitrogen salts. At that time, the deposits of northern Chile were the only known supply. An eminent physicist and chemist gloomily calculated the early day when the reserves of natural nitrates would be completely exhausted. Since 80 years ago, when that often cited calculation was made, science has made such brilliant progress that the world is no longer dependent on the Chilean monopoly for its vital nitrate requirements. Today, all of the nitrogenous compounds that at least America will require for many centuries to come, can be far more cheaply obtained from the chemical and fuel resources that occur in southwestern Wyoming.
The vital necessity of a domestic nitrate supply was recognized as early as 1916, when Congress first appropriated 20 million dollars to have an investigation made of the best, cheapest and most available minerals for the production of nitrates and other products for munitions of war and in the manufacture of fertilizers. Later, when war was declared, a total sum of $115,000,000 was expended on huge hydroelectric development along the Tennessee and Ohio rivers for the sole object of making artificial nitrate, by the now archaic arc process.
Before those costly engineering structures were completed the war ended and for various reasons no nitrates were ever yielded from those colossal investments of the Government. One reason for suspending operations was that the designed arc process consumes too much costly power.
By the latest ammonia manufacturing process, unlimited quantities of nitrates could be produced from the cheap coals of the Green River Valley for one-fifth the cost of production at those expensive water power completions. Already many economists have reason to believe that the wartime nitrate plants of the government were badly located. Hydroelectric development of similar magnitude has been proposed on the channel of the Green River, and even if the direct arc process had not been superseded by later patents that consume far less power, the Green River valley would still be the only single site in the world in which is consolidated huge deposits of every natural chemical element consumed in the manufacture of explosive agents. The availability of a deposit of soluble ammonia mineral also located in this region will obviate the costly high temperature, high pressure, synthetic process now used for generating ammonia in modern nitrate plants.
Not locating their original nitrate works in regions that contained valuable chemical compounds used in the explosive industry, it is no wonder that the costly investments of the government were never utilized. Manifestly, if one of those huge plants had been strategically located directly within the giant chemical laboratory that naturally forms the Green River valley as a whole, its operations would never have suffered suspension as long ns the manufacture of explosives was vital for the defense of the nation.
At a point four miles southwest of Wamsutter, and within one mile of the Union Pacific Railroad, is a huge deposit of the exceedingly rare mineral tachermigite. The tachermigite impregnates a uniform seam of lignite coal between 5 and 9 feet in thickness, for a distance of 9 miles. So far, no government or state agency has reported on this discovery. Careful calculations indicate that the tachermigite content of this coal deposit is equal to more than two and one-hail million tons.
Outside of Chile, our office knows of no natural deposit of workable nitrogen compounds that approaches the magnitude of this deposit. Occurring as an easily soluble salt, the cheapest method of extracting the tachermigite from the lignite coal would appear to be a lixiviation process. Unfortunately, the deposit occurs in a region in which water is so scarce that it is probable that a distillation or even a combustion process must be evolved to extract both the ammonia and aluminum salts at the lowest practical cost. Should a fuel briquette, or semi-coke works be set up, there could also be recovered from each ton of coal, 5 to 10 thousand cubic feet of gas, one-third of which would consist of free hydrogen and the remainder largely of methane, hydrocarbon unsaturants, and also a small amount of hydrogen sulphide.
All told, the valuable by-products recoverable from this unique deposit are of a most remarkable order. As soon as full valuations are proven by actual tests, large corporations should no longer hesitate to develop the matchless chemical coal deposit located near Wamsutter.
Lately, an extremely prosperous domestic corporation known as the American Cyanamid Company, has been making its own line of nitrogenous products, but strange to relate, instead of locating their plant in the United States, the Canadian side of Niagara River had to be selected as the logical site for the exercise of their invaluable patent monopoly. To make cyanamid, all that is necessary to have is water, air, limestone and lots of power. All these are available in great abundance in the Green River basin and also in many other far less favored localities. However, in only our favored valley do two of the chemical elements of the molecule occur already combined, and due to that union, the future production cost of cyanamid to the American agriculturist will be cut in two by operations that Nature long ago fortuitously performed free of cost only in Wyoming.
When the 71,000 continuous horsepower hydro-electrical development in the Green River Valley is completed, manufacture of carbide from local materials can be easily accomplished, and as soon as the water-soluble ammonia of the Wamsutter coals is pumped into the manufactured carbides, calcium cyanamid will result. Manifestly, such a procedure would produce an industrial expansion that would vastly strengthen the economic independence of our nation.
Against our natural chemical laboratory, it would be hopeless for the pioneer Niagara Falls foreign contender to remain long in the battle, Obviously, to put a sudden quietus to the incongruity of America making all of her cyanamid on the Canadian shore line of the Niagara River, nothing would prove more disastrous than a sizable hydro-electrical completion in southwestern Wyoming.
The newly patented cyanamid product seems to be possessed with a most uncanny degree of selectivity. Its great value is not confined alone to its properties as an effective fertilizer, but also at the fact that it destroys weeds, as well as all kinds of vermin that injure growing crops and at the same time fertilizes the delicate grains, cotton and vegetables commercially raised by agricultural endeavors.
When the day arrives that the element nitrogen will serve as an index of civilization in the United States, then the great State of Wyoming will finally command its rightful leadership as the premier chemical mineral-producing state of the United Forty-eight.
Nearly all of our thousands of alkali lakes contain magnesium sulphate, which is easily separable from the other solubles by a simple re-crystallization process. Some lakes of Wyoming, however, contain epsomite almost exclusively in a remarkable state of chemical purity.
The metal magnesium has already been electrolyzed from chemical salts and made to do the work which aluminum formerly performed. In this age of aviation, magnesium has been found to possess qualities superior to aluminum. Both magnesium and aluminum are known for their lightness, but the former is fully 40 per cent lighter than the latter, and it is evident that future air travel will demand that all metallic parts of both planes and ships be constructed of lightweight magnesium alloys. During the past year, the American Magnesium Company made many aircraft and engine parts, as well as parts for innumerable articles of trade. For electrolytic reduction to the metallic form, crude magnesium salts had to be hauled long distances to the powerful hydroelectric plants that operate their Niagara Falls works. Some day an up-to-date expert is liable to expose the economic follies that are involved by such needless transportation costs.
In the meantime, constructive wisdom of a high order would be exercised if all the taxpayers of Wyoming would get behind our statesmen and insist upon early and immediate completion of the dual power and irrigation projects that are located particularly on the North Platte River at Alcova, Seminole Mountain, and other ideal box canyon sites still remaining undeveloped on that stream. Such development would immediately call for the reduction of the chemically pure magnesium salts located near Medicine Bow, Douglas and other points within the North Platte River basin. In other words, now is the time for Wyoming to get a secure foothold on the industrial end of the aircraft age yet to come.
At the present time, magnesium metal is selling close to $8,000 per ton. That price will allow ample margin to pay the freight from reduction works located in central Wyoming to the large plane factories already established on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
All must realize that early development of the powerful hydro-electrical resources still remaining dormant in our major river channels is a matter that cannot be stressed too strongly at this time. If local development is postponed much longer, more populous states that pay no mineral royalties to the federal treasury at all, may see fit to develop a hydro-electrical industry of their own with no more worthy object in view than to reduce the chemically pure magnesium ores of Wyoming. If such a catastrophic economic dislocation is permitted to happen, Wyoming would at the best merely play the proverbial part of “a drawer of water and a hewer of wood.”
As a matter of fact, our boggy saline lakes could be drained and their soluble solid content loaded aboard cars at an exceedingly low cost of operation. Between three dollars a ton for the crude salt, and three thousand dollars per ton for the reduced metal, a decided visible price differential does exist. To bridge that gap, it is now imperative that the powerful hydro-electrical resources of our streams be developed without further delay. Now or never is the time for Wyoming to obtain a secure foothold on the basically important magnesium metallurgical industry now rapidly advancing to the forefront in this strictly air-minded age.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1929THE MINING JOURNAL JUNE 30 1929
WYOMING
The Copper-Gold Mining and Milling Syndicate, B. B. Hartinan, manager, Tie Siding, Wyoming, is inaugurating a campaign of deep churn drilling. Eastern capital is behind the development of this property and if the ore is found as expected a mill of about 1,000 tons capacity will be erected this fall.
The ground has been opened by a 420-foot tunnel, 34 feet of that distance being across a vein carrying high-grade ore. Ore is being mined across this vein, and the 150-ton mill on the ground has been placed in commission. The first carload of concentrates will be shipped about July 1.
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The Wyoming Platinum and Gold Mining Syndicate expects to add flotation equipment to its mill and place the plant in operation shortly, according to General Manager Andrew J. Hull, Box 797, Laramie, Wyoming. Development during the past six months has been confined to tunneling and crosscutting. C. F. Critchfield has been made trustee to fill the office formerly held by F. H. Crawford.
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William Trethway of Douglas, Wyoming, and V. L. Snodgrass expect to have their smelter, near the old Michigan mine, at Glendo, Platte County, ready for firing within a few days. Mr. Snodgrass is the local superintendent.
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The Salt Creek Mining Company is doing preliminary work necessary in opening its marble quarry in Muskrat Canyon, about 40 miles northwest of Ft. Laramie, Wyoming. Clifford Wallace, Oscar Eyler, Jr., and his brother Clarence, have organized the Salt Creek Company.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 10 15 1929THE MINING JOURNAL for OCTOBER 15, 1929
WYOMING
A three-foot vein of copper ore, assaying from $50 to $156 per ton in that metal, has been opened in the property of the Snowy Range Developing Company, near Kings Canyon Station, on the L. N. P. & W. railroad, south of Centennial, Wyoming. A crew of nine men are at present on the payroll, taking out a carload shipment, which will probably go to the Garfield, Utah, smelter. A permanent road is being constructed from the mine to the railroad station, and other shipments are to follow through the winter. A. Schlotzer is manager, and L. A. Gregory is secretary-treasurer, with office at Centennial.
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The United States Mining and Milling Company expects to be treating ore from its mines at Atlantic City, Wyoming, within 30 days. An oil burner engine has just been installed in the new mill.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 10 30 1929THE MINING JOURNAL FOR OCTOBER 30 1929
WYOMING
The Mountain Development Company has ordered a 10-ton mill to supplement the machinery at its property on Copper Mountain, near Shoshoni, Wyoming. This plant will concentrate the ores by what is known as the “dry process.” E. F. Faley has become manager of the mine, following the death of George W. Grayson while on his way to the mine from California.
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The Copper Belt Mining and Smelting Company, George D. Block, president is putting the finishing touches on its smelter at Lusk, Niobrara County, Wyoming, and expects to have it in operation before the last of October. Its capacity is 40 tons daily. The present force is 20 men and will be nearly doubled when the plant goes into operation.
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It is understood that the Copper-Gold Mining and Milling Syndicate, R. E. Hartman manager, Tie Siding, Wyoming, has turned out a carload of concentrates from its new mill. The plant has a capacity of 50 tons daily. Copper, gold and silver, are the principal metals in the ore. According to Mr. Hartman, approximately $75,000 have been used in financing the work.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 11 30 1929for NOVEMBER 30, 1929
WYOMING
The Casper Creek Placer Mining syndicate, organized recently at Casper, Wyoming, has filed location notices for 98 mining claims west of that town. The officers of the company are: J. P. Welsh, president; A. Osborne, vice-president; C. M. Looney, D. B. Magill, H. I. Batchelor and J. O. Bergman.
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The Mineral Holding Company has spent approximately $10,000 in exploration of its property, 15 miles north of Shoshoni, Wyoming, since last February. The work reveals both lode and alluvial deposits. The latter carries values in gold, as high as $8.80 per ton, with a lesser value in quicksilver, aad are from 12 to 14 feet deep. The lode deposits are green sandstone into which shafts and test pits have been sunk, showing values from 20 cents to $5.27 per ton. Development will be started at an early date. Frank W. Livermont, 988 South David Street, Casper, is president.
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The three-foot width of ore opened several weeks ago by the Cliff Leasing Company, Alfred Daykin, president and manager, Centennial, Wyoming, has widened to four feet. A recent sampling averaged $156.60 in gold to the ton, as compared with an average of $81.23 per ton, where the ore was first discovered. Six men are preparing a shipment, and expect to continue work throughout the winter. Mr. Daykin is working under a five-year lease from the Cliff Gold Mining Company and intends to remodel the mill on the ground. E. A. Wuerth is mill superintendent.
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W. C. Clark of Los Angeles, California, has established a pilot mill at 887 North Wolcott Street, Casper, Wyoming, to test out ores being developed by the Mountain Development Company at Shoshoni, about 100 miles northwest of Casper. The location for the pilot mill was selected because of the availability of gas and electricity. It is equipped with complete amalgamation equipment, and wet and dry concentrating tables. More than $100,000 has been spent in developing the mine, where three shifts daily are pushing a tunnel, under the supervision of H. E. Dalton. The work has been greatly facilitated by the recent installation of an $8,000 ore drill and a 6,000-pound derrick. E. F. Faley, general manager of the company, is testing the ore in the new pilot plant and Roy E. Steffen is field superintendent at Shoshoni.
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GOLD HILL WYOMING WORD POST TMJ 6 30 1931
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WYOMING METAL PRODUCTION 1937 WORD POST TMJ 1 30 1938
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WYOMING MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 1 30 1930for JANUARY 30, 1930
WYOMING
Plans are being made for the development of a deposit of asbestos, near Atlantic City, Wyoming, according to O. F. Swenson, representative of an eastern company, that has taken over the property. It is said that about 40 men will be employed on the project, soon. The program will include the extension of an electric power line through the metal mining property, and the establishment of milling facilities.
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In line with its change from the open pit method to the caving system, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company laid off 188 men at its iron mines, at Sunrise, Wyoming, Thomas Tucker, superintendent. Under the new system, the same tonnage can be mined with a reduced force.
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Under the supervision of Grover Secrest, 20 men are said to be building a mill on the Gold Nugget Mine, of the Western Mines, Inc., on Copper Mountain, north of Bonneville, Wyoming. The average ore being blocked out in the No. 1 Stope, is said to be worth $70 a ton, and a tunnel is being driven about 200 feet lower on the mountain, to tap what is believed to be a larger body of ore. The latter tunnel will be continued, while ore blocked out in the initial tunnel, and two stopes is being mined and milled.
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WYOMING CORP. ORDERS $50,000 IN MACHINERY FOR GOLD NUGGET MINE
A million-dollar organization, known as the Western Mines, Inc., has acquired control of the Gold Nugget Mine, close to Birdseye Pass in Wyoming, and its portals command an inspiring view of the Wind River Range, where similar operations are being carried on at Atlantic City, and at South Pass.
Control was established through absorption of the Wyoming Gold and Copper, and the Treasury Mountain Mining and Milling Company. Development done at various times has been through a tunnel, shaft, and stopes, and totals 1,000 feet. An eight-foot vein of ore has been blocked out on three sides, and it is estimated that 10,000 tons are available. One of the best showings was made in a chamber at the top of the No. 2 Stope, 116 feet in length, where the ore ran $360 a ton. Development planned, includes the opening of a larger ore body under the present workings, and, accordingly, a second tunnel will be run from a point about 200 feet farther down the slope of the mountain.
The mine is equipped for economic operation. Ore cars transport the rock from the tunnel, to an aerial tram, that delivers it to the mill, about 200 feet farther down the gulch. Replacement of the power plant and rock crusher will not be necessary. The amalgamation and concentration processes will be installed in the mill, and it is planned to put in flotation machinery later. Tests show that this combination will permit the recovery of all but 2 per cent of the gold in the ore. The new equipment ordered, represents an investment of approximately $50,000, and as it arrives at Emery Siding, on the Burlington Railroad, above Bonneville, [it will be] taken up the canyon on sleds, to the mill.
During the last few weeks, the road to the mine has been repaired, and living accommodations for the employees completed. Between 15 and 20 men were working at last report. Those identified with the corporation are Roy E. Steffen, pioneer operator of the District, president; Attorney G. H. Hagens, vice-president, and W. S. Chamberlain, secretary and treasurer. Grover Secrest of Los Angeles has charge of remodeling the mill.
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Extensive use of rustproof copper, brass and bronze in the refineries assures complete freedom of the sugar products from rust particles or rust discoloration.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 6 15 1930THE MINING JOURNAL
WYOMING
The Big Creek Copper Company intends to build a reduction plant of about 50-ton daily capacity, at its property, near Parco, according to General Manager C. L. Forney of Encampment, Wyoming. The plant will embrace concentration and flotation machinery, designed to concentrate the copper, gold and silver values, found in the ore. A new road, one and one-quarter miles long, is being completed to connect with the Rocky Mountain Highway, which is a state road connecting with two other highways, about 40 miles apart. The Union Pacific Railway is within 21 miles of the mine.
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A complete change has been effected in the personnel of the Copper Belt Mining and Smelting Company, operating south of Lusk, Wyoming. The official roster bears the names of Ed. Klies, president; George Blood, vice-president; Henry Weintz, secretary and treasurer, and James
T. Norton, superintendent. H. W. Mann, Box 1125, Great Falls, Montana, is agent for the company.
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The Cliff Leasing Company, Alfred Daykin, president and general manager, Centennial, Wyoming, is making arrangements to complete a cyanide mill on the ground, and which will require an additional expenditure of about $5,000. Upon the completion of the mill, it is planned to start milling a four-foot vein of gold ore, said to assay $156 a ton, opened in a winze, sunk from a new shaft, and tunnel about 200 feet below the surface. Specimens of the ore have assayed as high as thousands of dollars to the ton.
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The Metal Foundation Trust of America has leased the mining claims in Muskrat Canyon, near Torrington, Wyoming, formerly held by M. Aronstein. Mr. Aronstein worked the ground nearly 25 years, and the Metal Foundation Trust is a new concern. This is a gold proposition, and a portable mill has been ordered to recover the mineral.
NOTE: I DON'T HAVE ANY ISSUES BETWEEN 2-1-1930 AND 6-1-1930
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BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS IN WYOMING TMJ 6 30 1930STATE GEOLOGIST ANNOUNCES DISCOVERIES OF RARE METAL
The increasing use of air travel har brought new demands upon metals, that are light in weight, but strong, and no one is more eagerly searching new sources of supply, than is John G. Marzel, geologist for the State of Wyoming.
Until recently, the Black Hills deposits of beryl were said to be the largest in America, and the beryllium mined from them, was considered especially precious. Today, Wyoming claims deposits that rival those of the Black Hills, and good-sized deposits have been found in the Hartville Uplift, and in the country south of Glendo, Platte County, and in the vicinity of Lander, Fremont County. A similar mineral, lepidolite, said to be the lightest of all known metals, has been located near Lander.
Mr. Marzel was born in Euclid, Ohio, in 1883, and is an alumnus of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, from which he received a B.S. in Mining Engineering, in 1905. The following year, he joined the force of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, at Trinidad, Colorado, and has been in the West ever since. From 1906 to 1919, he was with the United States Reclamation Service in Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas; until 1927 he was engaged in private practice as civil engineer, and geologist, at Torrington, Wyoming, and gave up his office there for the field which he is serving so well.
He is the father of three girls, Hermina, Kathryn and Dona; a member of the Torrington Lions Club; and an active worker in the Wyoming Society of Civil Engineers and in the Cheyenne Engineers Club.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1930for JUNE 30, 1930
WYOMING
The Golden Crown Mining Syndicate, Charles T. Dillon, Box 916, Laramie, Wyoming, secretary-treasurer, has ordered $5,300 worth of machinery, which is to arrive at the mine within 30 days. The order is made up of a 40-horsepower Diesel engine, and drill machinery, and a small milling plant is to be erected within the next two or three months.
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Underground development planned by the Western Mines, Inc., B. E. Steffen, president and general manager, 203 Con~olidated Royalty Building, Casper, Wyoming, includes driving a new tunnel 386 feet below the old workings. A ball mill, and flotation equipment are being installed in the mill. Besides Mr. Steffen, the official roster bears the names of O. R. Hagens, vice-president; W. J. Chamberlin, treasurer, and J. F. Marshall, secretary.
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A deposit of scheelite. located in 1929 at the head of Little Deer Creek, nine miles south of Glenrock, Wyoming, is being prospected by a series of open cuts and trenches, most of which are showing ore. Assays on the ore, show a little higher than 1 percent tungsten oxide, to as high as 5 percent. The property includes five lode claims, at an altitude of 7,000 feet, and is owned by Charles Wells, prospector, and Otto J. Bruns, both of Glenrock, and H. D. McCoun of Lander. The vein matter is largely an altered schist, with streaks of quartz a few inches in thickness, many of which are colored blue and green by copper stain, and are said to carry silver values.
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The Riverton Mining and Engineering Company has been organized to operate a block of 4,000 acres of placer ground, about six miles northwest of Riverton, Wyoming. The project is headed by C. H. Brandon of Casper, who has thoroughly tested the Riverton holdings. He is understood to have found free gold in the gravel beds, which assays from 90 cents, to higher than $2 per ton, and also has found some platinum. A new type machine is to be used in recovering these metals, and for a time will be operated on a small scale to prove the value of the invention.
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The Kaycee Placer Syndicate is making preparations to prospect with drills, an old river channel about 600 feet underground, near Kaycee, Johnson County, Wyoming. The financial end of the enterprise is being taken care of by a group of Basin business men. Joel Johnson is promoting the concern.
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Discoveries of beryllium have been reported from the Hartville Uplift, and from the country south of Glendo, in Platte County and in the vicinity of Lander, in Fremont County. Beryllium is becoming more important as the manufacture of airplanes increases, and considerable of the demand is supplied from the Black Hills. Lepidolite, a similar mineral, but said to be the lightest of all known metals, has been found south of Lander.
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WILLIAM BENTON OF INDIANA, NOW IN WYOMING TMJ 7 15 1930for JULY 15, 1930
WM. BENTON, ALBANY, WYOMING, A MINER OF 32 YRS. EXPERIENCE
William Benton is one of the early miners in the state of Wyoming and has experienced 32 years of activity as assayer, shift boss, superintendent, manager, and owner of claims.
He is a Hoosier, born in Indiana in 1868, and after attending various institutions of learning, came to Wyoming. As time passed he became the owner of mining claims, and for several years, his name
has been closely associated with the Iron Blossom Mining Company, the Moore’s Gulch Mining Company, and the United States Mica Company.
The latter ships considerable mica, and is operating under the management of Oscar Hammond, who is succeeding Mr. Benton in charge of operations. The Rambler Mine is the principal mine in the four groups owned by the Iron Blossom Company, and has held an important place in the history of mining within the state. It is now involved in litigation to quiet title.
We must not overlook the point that Mr. Benton is somewhat of an inventor, and has given considerable time during the last few years to the perfection of Benton’s rotary engine. This engine employs a new principle of internal combustion, with steam as its motive power. He has also had a hand in writing, although for the last five years, he has given that up. Most of his articles were confined to the occurrence, assaying, and separation of platinum metals, from the copper ores in the Rambler, and surrounding mines.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 7 15 1930for JULY 15, 1930
WYOMING
Eastern capital, represented by Attorney M. L. Bishop of Casper, Wyoming, is said to have purchased the property of the Miami Copper Company, in Converse County, near Douglas, Wyoming, for the sum of $125,000. Immediate development is planned, and the copper company is to receive a percentage of the gross output of the mine, until full payment is made. At this time, 10 men are working, and this number will be increased shortly.
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The Tensleep Mines, Inc., has taken lumber and supplies to its placers, 10 miles from Lysite, Wyoming, and intends to start the construction, at once, of buildings, to accommodate 25 men, an assay office, a tool house, and a blacksmith shop. The placers carry both gold, and quicksilver, and a crew of miners, under the supervision of Walter Dean, are sinking shafts to explore the ground. A canal one mile long, is being dug under contract, to Dave Schoening, of Lysite, and is to supply water for the pilot mill. As soon as living quarters are provided, an assayer, a chemist, and a mill man, will be employed to determine the most economical method of dressing the ore. William H. Tolhurst, 4 Leader Building, Casper, Wyoming, is president and general manager.
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The Gold Nugget Mill, of the Western Mines, Inc., on Copper Mountain, northeast of Shoshoni, Wyoming, has been placed in operation again, and the newly installed flotation machinery is functioning satisfactorily. A. E. Colburn, flotation man of Denver, Colorado, installed the machinery, and it is under his direction, that the plant is functioning. The high and lower grades of ore, are being mixed to produce an even run of values. In a second stope, opened from the 400-foot main tunnel, a vein of higher values than former discoveries, has been opened, and a second tunnel has been started to tap the downward extension of the ore. Twenty-seven men are working in two shifts, and before long, it is believed that development will require a third shift. R. E. Steffen, 208 Consolidated Royalty Building, Casper, Wyoming, is president and general manager, and has spent most of his time at the mine, recently.
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According to John G. Marzel, State Geologist of Wyoming, there are six companies in the state, actively engaged in the production of bentonite. They are:
The American Colloid Company, and the WyoDak Chemical Company, at Upton;
the Wyoming Bentonite Company, and the Silica Products Company, at Osage;
the Owyhee Chemical Company, at Cheyenne,
and the American Bentonite Corporation, at Newcastle.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 8 15 1930WYOMING
A. H. Maxwell of Lander, Wyoming, attorney, and his associates are said to have opened a pegmatite dike, near Bonneville, on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. Crystals of beryl, lepidolite, garnet, tourmaline ores, and manganese and feldspar are found in this dike. It is said to be a vertical formation and covering a width of 50 feet.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 8 30 1930THE MINING JOURNAL
WYOMING
The Medicine Bow Development Company, Anthony Schlotzer, Centennial, Wyoming, Manager, has installed modern drilling machinery, consisting of a Gardner-Denver Waugh jackhammer, compressor, engine, and other accessories. A road from King’s Canyon, to the mine, has been completed, and the lower tunnel is in 88 feet, with 150 feet to go before the vein is reached.
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Mining operations are under way again at South Pass City, and Atlantic, one mile north of Rock Springs, Wyoming, and it is said that about 100 men will be employed there. Although 65 men were working in this district during the winter, most of them were laid off on March 1, owing to a shortage of fuel oil, which could not be hauled from the railroad, 50 miles distant, on account of muddy roads. Roads are now in better condition, and many of the smaller concerns are resuming work.
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A stamp mill has been installed by the Divide Mining and Milling Company, on its property in the Sierras, west of Saratoga, Wyoming. Several favorable reports have recently been made on this property.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 10 30 1930WYOMING
The Great Divide Mining and Milling Company, 28 miles from Saratoga, Wyoming, is drifting on a vein of free gold ore, that averages $89 a ton, and is from five to eight feet wide. F. E. Walberg, former Colorado mining man, is in charge of the mine. They hope to open enough ore to justify the expenditure of putting in flotation machinery.
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The Sunrise Mines in Wyoming, and the Orient Mine, at Mineral Hot Springs, Colorado, will resume shipments to the mills at Pueblo, Colorado, starting November 1, according to C. H. Rupp, general superintendent of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, at Pueblo. The Sunrise was closed down in July of this year.
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Salt Lake City capital has become interested in 640 acres of phosphate land, about eight miles northeast of Sublet, Wyoming. Located 26 years ago, by David Boyce of Kemerer, some development has been done on a six-foot vein of phosphate, but further work will be necessary to bring the mine into production. One of the most expensive requirements is a mixing plant, which will probably be located in Salt Lake City. It is estimated that the fertilizer can be manufactured at a gross cost of $11 a ton, and on the market, it brings from $40 to $50 a ton. Boyce already has an order for 250 tons of fertilizer, for delivery in February.
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The Medicine Bow Development Company, Anthony Sehlotzer, Manager, Centennial, Wyoming, has engaged seven men developing a copper-molybdenum prospect, on Pinkham Creek, in the northeast corner of North Park. The quartz vein is a hornblende-granite formation. The mine is equipped with a bunkhouse, boarding house, blacksmith shop, garage, and a building at the portal of the tunnel, which houses a gasoline-driven air compressor, air drills, etc.
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WYOMING PLATINUM & GOLD REFINERY TMJ 12 15 1930THE MINING JOURNAL
WYOMING COMPANY WILL OPERATE ITS OWN REFINERY
The Wyoming Platinum and Gold Syndicate expects to place its refinery at Platinum City in operation this month, according to Andrew J. Hull of Laramie, Wyoming, General Manager of the organization.
The occasion for this plant arose through the nature of the concentrates, which contain high values in gold and platinum. There was no place in the United States where these concentrates could be marketed, so the company built its own plant. A light roast and wet method, similar to that being carried on in South Africa, has been adopted. By this process, the concentrates are roasted, the metals converted into solution, and recovered from it by the Merrill-Crowe process, of the Merrill Company at San Francisco, which has granted the license for its use. A complete precipitating plant recovers the minerals out of solution.
The Wyoming group has accumulated more than $100,000 worth of concentrates for refining, and has spent more than $350,000 in purchasing its property, developing it, establishing a power house and lines, and building its mill and refinery.
For several months the payroll has averaged 22 men, with Philip A. Clemens as Superintendent of the mine and mill. A. O. Dersham is President.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS TMJ 12 15 1930THE MINING JOURNAL
WYOMING
The Owyhee Chemical Products Company is treating about 50 tons of bentonite daily, in its dry pulverizing plant at Cheyenne, Wyoming, according to A. G. Van Eman, General Manager, Box 1184, Cheyenne. The clay is being mined from an open pit near Medicine Bow, that is about 30 feet deep, at its lowest point. G. W. Plummer of Cheyenne is President, Albert Cronberg is Mine Superintendent, and Paul R. Peterson is Mill Superintendent. Nineteen men are on the payroll.
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The famous Carissa Mine at South Pass, Wyoming, has passed into receivership. Marshall Graham, well-known mining engineer in the western part of the state, has been named as receiver. This mine has turned out millions in gold and, with the return of capital, will probably contribute a substantial increase to its record. The property had been under the development of F. W. Thorne and associates.
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Bernard Holtum, Manager of the Commercial Gold Mining Company, at Centennial, Wyoming, has located a vein of ore, about 500 feet south of the old mine workings, which he believes has been the object of search for 37 years. He has driven more than 1,300 feet of tunnels and crosscuts, in an effort to locate the famous old vein that yielded specimens as rich as $200,000 per ton, in gold, and which took the first prize as the richest exhibition at the Paris Exposition, in 1880. The discovery carries moderate values in gold, across five feet. The crew of miners from the Utopia, are engaged at the new discovery, and will continue the main crosscut, now in 165 feet from the main tunnel, to reach the vein.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS TMJ 12 30 1930THE MINING JOURNAL
WYOMING
The party that has lately become interested in the Boyce phosphate deposit, eight and one-half miles northwest of Sublet, Wyoming, has organized the Wyoming Super-Phosphate Company, and is making arrangements to place the product on the market. Before the rock can be mined, a 300-foot tunnel will have to be driven. Later, a plant will be set up to crush and pulverize the rock to about the fineness of flour, and treat it with sulphuric acid. The official roster of the new enterprise bears the names of W. D. Newlon, of Kemmerer, President and General Manager; Lester G. Baker, Vice-president; and H. C. Noonan, Secretary-Treasurer.
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Jack Barry and his associates have started developing the Frederick and Lake mica properties in the Haystack Hills, east of Guernsey, Wyoming. Barry has been promoting mica operations in the eastern part of the state for several years.
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All of the buildings and machinery at the Seminoe Gold Mine, about 40 miles north of Rawlins, Wyoming, destroyed by fire last summer, have been repaired, with the exception of the mill. In the spring, it is planned to replace it with a modern mill. The ore is running between $10 and $15, and the 10 men employed are expected to be carry on work all winter. The incline shaft is down 150 feet, and the crosscut lacks only a few feet of reaching the vein. Arthur Seabury of Bedford, Massachusetts, and Superintendent George Hemphill undertook the development of this mine a year ago. They have spent close to $40,000 in putting the mines and machinery in order.
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Considerable interest has been taken in the property of the Independence Mining Company, on Middle Fork, near Centennial Wyoming, where a ledge can be traced across a width of 72 feet, and for a length of more than 3,000 feet, at the surface. Some high grade has been picked up, but the general average is expected to be between $5 and $10 per ton. A depth of between 700 and 800 feet on the ore can be gained by tunneling into the hill. One tunnel has been driven to cut the 72-foot vein. Timber and water are sufficient to supply every requirement. This company is incorporated for $250,000 under the laws of Wyoming. Its officers are: Cris M. Dixon, President; E. K. Burhaus, Vice-president, and Alvin M. Burhaus, Secretary-Treasurer.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS TMJ 1 15 1931THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 15, 1931
WYOMING
The Metal Foundation Trust of America is considering building a milling plant of about 600-ton daily capacity, at its mining claims in Muskrat Canyon, near Torrington, Wyoming, next summer. These claims are valuable for their gold, silver, copper, and lead, and are being bought by the Metal Foundation Trust. M. P. Benshoof, of Torrington, is Trustee and General Manager, and F. C. Bowman, 1412 Franklin Street, Denver, Colorado, is Consulting Engineer.
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Additional mining equipment is being installed by the Platinum Metals Corporation, R. N. Black, General Manager, Albany, Wyoming, and deep development will be carried on, all winter. It is planned to store the ore developed this winter, and haul it from the mine, when the roads open up next spring. The official roster is: E. J. Stoll, President; J. .H. Mayne, Vice-president; W. H. Dorrance, Secretary; and F. B. Vierling, Treasurer. The home office is 103 Pearl Street, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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The Sunrise Iron Mines in Wyoming are both producing and developing, with a force of 120 men. The caving system, similar to the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, and the open pit system, with small steam shovel and mill holes, are practiced. The daily tonnage runs close to 2,000 tons. Arthur Roeder, of Denver, Colorado, and G. H. Rupp, of Pueblo, Colorado, are President, and General Manager of mining, respectively. The operating personnel includes: Harry A. Wright, Mine Superintendent; H. B. Lynch, Mine Engineer; M. L. Sisson, Extraction Engineer; and William E. Johnson, Mine Foreman.
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WYOMING MINING NEWS TMJ 1 30 1931THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 30, 1931
WYOMING
The production of the Sunrise Iron Mines in Wyoming, Harry A. Wright, Superintendent, has been increased another five carloads, or, to 35 carloads a day.
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According to Superintendent Ira Cline of the Western Mines, Inc., Shoshoni, Wyoming, six feet of high-grade ore have been opened in Chute No. 3, in the Golden Nugget Mine. The ore blocked out, is estimated to be 22,000 tons that will average $12.80 a ton. Cline says that it will be necessary to establish another unit in the mill, to grind the increased output.
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A group of capitalists at Omaha, Nebraska, have leased mica properties in the Haystack Hills, east of Guernsey, Wyoming, from George Frederick, William S. Blake, and John Brown. The new operators, known as the Western Mineral Products Company, are installing heavy machinery, building a mill, and bunk and cook houses. Fourteen men are on the payroll. Frederick is a Guernsey man, and Blake and Brown are owners of the Globe Hotel, at Wheatland, Wyoming.
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