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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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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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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 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.
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MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS May 14, 1921

NEVADA

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.
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May 1, 1920 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS

NEVADA

TONOPAH MINERS STRIKE AGAIN.

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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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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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…”

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