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THE MINING JOURNAL

NEVADA

West Mines Corporation, W. E. Sirbeck, President, Goldfield, Nevada, is planning to explore the 100-foot Level of its property, where some good ore has already been opened. In order to provide funds for this work, an assessment of 1 percent per share has been levied.
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The Nevada Pure Salt Company, Ltd., is shipping a supply of lumber from Boca, California, to its property at Saltco, near Fallon, Nevada, for the construction of a refinery plant, 70 x 300 feet, part of which is to be three stories high. Arrangements are being made for the incorporation of the Fallon and Saltco Railroad Company, and construction is to begin about November 1, after preliminary surveys have been checked. The charter of the corporation, has been amended to provide for 10,000 shares of 8 percent preferred stock, of a par value of $100 a share, and new officials have been chosen. Colonel William S. Thompson, president of the Star Salt Company of Lafayette, Louisiana, has been elected President, succeeding C. S. Boden. W. F. Travis, formerly salt production manager of the Mulkey Salt Company, Detroit, Michigan, is to be superintendent; R. C. Folger, general superintendent; D. P. Kernan, manager of the Reno office, and several other men from Lafayette, have arrived at Saltco.
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For the quarter ended June 20, 1930, the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, D. C. Jackling, President, 1800 Hobart Building, San Francisco, California, and subsidiaries, report a profit of $161,870, after ordinary taxes and depreciation, but before depletion and federal taxes, comparing with $2,224,425 in the preceding quarter, and $3,786,258 in the corresponding quarter of 1929. Profit for the first half of 1930, amounted to $2,886,295, before depletion and federal taxes, while in the first half of 1929, profit was $10,510,772.
During the second quarter of 1930, the company produced 35,740,442 pounds of copper, from its Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico properties, a monthly average of 11,913,481 pounds, compared with a monthly average of 13,238,254 pounds in the first quarter of this year. The company shipped 18,454 tons of direct smelting ore, milled at the Nevada plant, 2,014,480 tons of its own ore, and 292,413 tons of custom ore. Net cost per pound of copper produced, was 10.28 cents, compared with 9.76 cents for the first quarter.
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Tenabo Consolidated Mining Company has levied an assessment of .75 cents per share on outstanding capital stock of the company. Stock on which the assessment becomes delinquent, will be sold at public auction, on September 19, 1930.
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Two feet of good ore are said to have been opened on the 200-foot Level of the Mammoth Mine, by the Gilbert Mammoth Gold Mines Company, Fred O. Gilbert, President and general manager, Gilbert, Nevada, which is operating a lease on the property. Chris Hansen is also operating a lease on the Mammoth Mine.
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The Lost Spanish Mine, so called because of the fact that no one has been able to find it since the death of the Spaniard, who worked it about 30 years ago, is said to have been found by W. M. Anderson. The Spaniard’s pick and shovel, his workings, ore, and notice of location, in a tomato can, are claimed to have been found by Anderson, who owns other claims in the district, 23 miles northwest of Jungo, Nevada.
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A 25-horsepower engine has been installed by the Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Inc., Elmer F. Good, President, Arlemont, Nevada, to facilitate hoisting, and to operate the compressor. Several small engines furnish power for the furnace and other surface equipment, and at night, a generator furnishes light for the entire camp. At present, the deepest workings in the property are 100 feet deep, but a site has been chosen for an incline shaft, to be sunk to a greater depth. Harvey H. Wells is in charge of operations, and 14 men are employed.
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A lease has been taken on the Ophir gold croppings, near Virginia City, Nevada, by Frank Erno, who is employed at the Flowery Mine, at Six-Mile Canyon. He is doing some work to determine the extent and value of the ore, which will be milled at the Flowery Mill, if values and tonnage prove to be sufficient. Several months ago, Mr. Erno returned from Brazil, where he was placering for diamonds.
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Tailings of the old Keane Wonder Mill, are to be tested by G. R. McLean, who is licensed to use the Luchenbach process for recovery of gold and silver, in Nevada. The dump is said to contain 50,000 tons of tailings carrying from $2 to $3 per ton in gold. W. R. McCrea of Beatty, Nevada, owns the old tailings ponds.
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The 80-ton Huntington Mill was put into operation at the Nevada Gold Dome Mine on August 15, two weeks earlier than anticipated, as it was decided to start operation before putting in a cyanidation tank, in order to determine the extraction made by amalgamation alone. The mill will be operated as a custom plant, separate runs being made on consignments of ore, and cleanups made at the end of the run. Small lots are to be purchased outright on assayer’s controls, until a sampler is installed. Negotiations for cyanide tanks are under way.
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The Missouri Monarch Consolidated Mines Company, Fred W. Hanson, General superintendent, Black Forest, Nevada, has temporarily discontinued driving its long tunnel, to connect the Black Forest and Spruce Monarch properties, and is concentrating work on the development of ore in the Black Forest. The Broncho Tunnel has been driven 2,400 feet, and the Black Forest, 1,500 feet, leaving 2,100 feet of tunnel to be driven, before the two tunnels connect. A good grade of ore is being opened in the Black Forest, and a raise is being extended in a 300-foot ore body, to ascertain whether or not it makes into beds. Operations have been curtailed somewhat in view of the low prices of lead, zinc, and silver.
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The Castle Peak Quicksilver Company, H. E. Loufek, 806 First National Bank Building, Reno, Nevada, President, shipped 70 flasks of quicksilver, to H. W. Gould and Company, in San Francisco. A production of 100 flasks per month, results from the furnace treating 28 tons daily, of ore averaging 10 pounds of quicksilver per ton. Production from September 5, 1929, to June 30, 1930, was 869 flasks of quicksilver, containing 66,044 pounds.
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J. P. Sweeney, pioneer mine operator of Goldfleld, Nevada, and Harry McMillan, are said to be planning to equip and develop the Sweeney cinnabar property, 15 miles south of Goldfield. Water is to be secured from the Mt. Magruder pipeline, of the Goldfield Water Company, through a six-mile pipeline to be laid to the property. Mineralization of the deposit is said to be of the hot water type, similar to that of the B. and B. mine.
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Southern Mines, Inc., W. T. Childers, Superintendent, Mina, Nevada, produced 41 flasks of quicksilver, during the month of July. Development work is being continued in good ore.
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The Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, L. A. Friedman, General manager, Lovelock, Nevada, has made its first cleanup, since putting its new mill into operation. The shipment represented a 12-day run, and consisted of two large bars of gold and silver, weighing 8,600 troy ounces, said to be worth $7 per ounce. This is the first production since 1917, when the mines were closed down. Previous to that time the property produced for 11 years; the output amounting to about $6,000,000.
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The Nevada-Massachusetts Company, O. F. Heizer, Manager, Mill City, Nevada, has sunk the main shaft in the Humboldt Mine, from the 500 to the 600-foot level, and the ore body appears as good as in the upper levels. The Stank Shaft has been deepened from the 700, to the 800-foot level, where a station has been cut, in order that a drift may be run to the vein, 60 feet distant. A 40-foot sump has been sunk below the 800 Level. The payroll includes 84 men, more than usual, as the contract obtained by the company when prices were high, has several months to run. At the company’s Silver Dyke property, development work only is being continued under the supervision of W. G. Emminger, the mill having been closed down because no contract had been obtained for the output.
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Robert Wade and Thomas McCleave have purchased controlling interest in the “Stuttie” property, in the Ten Mile District, West of Winnemucca, Nevada, and have obtained a lease and option on the remainder. They are endeavoring to prove an ore body of sufficient size to justify installation of a mill. It is understood that the men are backed by Eastern capitalists.
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The Acme Mining Company has been organized by Great Falls, and Kalispell, Montana, capitalists, to operate the placer properties of the Land Owners’ Royalty Company, consisting of 4,600 acres, six and one-half miles southeast of Sulphur, Nevada. Two carloads of lumber have been ordered for construction of a camp, a small electric power plant, and a Frigidaire system are to be installed, and shower baths built. A 22-inch pipe line is to be run to the hot springs in the Black Rock Desert, 15 miles distant, to provide water for operation of the gold saving machine. A 3000-gallon tank has been ordered, and others are to be installed later. Mining is now being done on surface material, which averages from $2.25 to $2.50 per yard. N. B. Torrey, of Great Falls, is President of the company, and A. H. Kaplan is Superintendent.
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Eastern capital is said to have become interested in the Gold Hill Consolidated Mines Company, which was organized by L. J. Curran and associates, of Los Angeles, and San Francisco, California. The property consists of four claims, adjoining the property of the Gold Hill Development Company, on the north. A compressor and drills have been purchased, and sinking is to be started soon. A small crew is now trenching the surface.
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The new mill of the Gold Hill Development Company, at Gold Hill, four miles north of Round Mountain, started operating August 1, and is treating between 125 and 150 tons of ore a day, and making a recovery of better than 95 percent of the gold content in the ore. The mill heads average $20 a ton, and the estimated reserves are sufficient for at least a two years’ run, with 82 ore shoots on the 225 Level, alone. Horace A. Johnson is in charge of the mill, while John Dynan directs mine developments. All of the employees live at Round Mountain.
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On July 28, Judge J. Emmett Walsh of the District Court of Nye County, sitting at Tonopah, confirmed the sale of the Montana-Tonopah Company, Reorganized, for $80,000. Capt. Walter Rowson, Tonopah attorney, bid in the property, it is reported, for the Thomas F. Cole interests, on a foreclosure suit instituted some time ago by the Chatham Phoenix National Bank of New York, for a debt in excess of $400,000. The property is in the heart of the Tonopah District, and for many years, and until recently, had been operated on a leasing basis. A number of the lessees made independent fortunes.
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J. H. McCoy of Battle Mountain, Nevada, has made arrangements with a group of men, at Modesto, California, for the building of a cyanide mill, at the Gold Dome Mine in the McCoy District, in Nevada, which he is leasing from the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company. Foundations are laid, and most of the machinery is on the ground for a plant of 50-ton capacity. Completion date is set for September 1. A substantial tonnage of ore that assays from $18 to $25 a ton, has been opened up between the 150-foot Level, and the surface, and the ore, which has faulted below this level, has been picked up about a month ago on the 200, and 250 levels. On the lower level, an 80-foot raise has been put up, and a 15-foot crosscut failed to reach the limits of the deposit. The entire mass is said to average $81 a ton. The Nevada Gold Dome Company has let a number of leases in its ground, and some of them are installing
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The Kernick Divide Mining Company at Sodaville, Nevada, has the cement, and most of the machinery on the ground, for its mill, and construction will be started as soon as H. B. Skewes returns from Nevada City. Flotation machinery to treat 50 tons of ore daily, is being installed, and the machinery is to be operated by electricity. The plant is two miles from the mine, and the ore will be hauled in trucks. The new redwood tank has been filled with water, and the system is functioning satisfactorily.
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L. A. Friedman, and J. H. Causten, of Lovelock, Nevada have taken a bond and lease on a cinnabar deposit at Buckskin Mountain, in northern Humboldt County. Considerable ore is in sight, and six men are already engaged in further development. The purchase price is reported at $100,000, of which a substantial sum was cash. Their plans are to spend $10,000 this year, and $20,000 during each of the two succeeding years.
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The Searchlight Gold Mining Company at Searchlight, Nevada, has a crew of six men cleaning out the workings, and getting ready for development. Men will be added to this number shortly. This was formerly known as the Cyrus Noble ground.
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THE MINING JOURNAL

NEVADA

H. A. Severinghaus, Manager of the United States Brucite Corporation, has let a contract to haul brucite from his property, 30 miles northeast of Luning, Nevada, to the railroad, for shipment to the Pacific Coast cities. The ore will be crushed before being shipped. Initial production will be limited, but will be increased as conditions improve. More than 100 diamond drill holes have been sunk in the deposit, to a maximum depth of 500 feet, and drilling will be continued until the entire ground is explored. Machinery is being assembled at the mine.
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The Seven Troughs Extension Mines Company at Lovelock, Nevada, G. W. Warmoth, General Manager, has shut down its flotation mill until amalgamating plates and concentrating tables are installed. A substantial tonnage of $15 ore is blocked out for milling, but the recovery of the gold by flotation alone, was not satisfactory.
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B. H. Rowland and G. W. Warmoth, Box 8, Lovelock, Nevada, intend to increase the water supply and bring additional power to the Auburn Gold Property. The new milling plant can treat about 25 tons of ore daily, and is working steadily. A larger crusher is to be installed, to increase its capacity. It is estimated that between 5,000 and 6,000 tons of $4 ore are on the dump.
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The Minerals and Metals Holding Corporation, J. E. Kerr, General Manager, 245 Monadnock Building, San Francisco, has acquired deed to 11 mining claims, adjoining its property in Humboldt County, Nevada, near Sulphur. They have already completed about 2,000 feet of tunnels and underground work. Further development plans include the sinking of a centrally located working shaft to mine, at depth, gold and silver found at the surface, and in the tunnel workings.
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Joe, and Baptista Minoletti, and John Nichols, all of Eureka, Nevada, are prospecting the Julius Minoletti mining claims, in the vicinity of Hamilton. Their outfit is a compressor, used by J. J. Minoletti and Nichols, at Ruby Hill, a 25-horsepower engine, and a 10-horsepower hoist. They have sunk a 180-foot shaft, and plan to sink it another 100 feet, before starting lateral development.
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The Searchlight Gold Corporation of Searchlight, Nevada, is putting in Denver Sub-A Fahrenwald flotation machines, in its plant, to treat its gold ores by flotation. This plant will be in operation about November 15.
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Owing to the condition of the silver market, the flotation mill of Piermont Mines, Inc., at Aurum. Nevada, closed, and will not resume operations until the market improves. The mine is in excellent physical condition, and development is being continued, according to General Manager E. W. Venable, of Ely, Nevada.
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The Basque Mining and Milling Company, F. S. Brereton, President and General Manager, has placed its 25-ton pilot mill, 17 miles north of Winnemucca, Nevada, in operation, on $12 ore. Its recovery is satisfactory, and everything at the mine is in good condition. A crew is drifting on a full face of eight feet of ore, which assays about $8.50 per ton. Eighteen men are employed. In the spring, Manager Brereton says, they intend to build a 100-ton cyanide mill.
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Carl W. Chilson, consulting geophysicist, has abandoned his options on the Rose, and Gold Bug Mines, in the vicinity of Tuscarora, Nevada, and has taken a lease and bond on the original Bell Isle, the North Bell Isle, and two adjoining properties. A geophysical survey will be started on the Bell Isle ground next week, and, subject to examinations, he hopes to start operations before mid-winter. These mines have a production record of about $7,000,000 in high-grade silver-gold ore.
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The Tehama Mines Syndicate at Imlay, Nevada, is now installing a 20-ton Rib Cone milling plant, together with Overstrom Universal tables, and Straub crushers. This plant is for the purpose of treating gold-copper ores.
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C. N. Schuette, 306 Call Building, San Francisco, is installing a small retort on Cinnabar Mountain, east of Mina, Nevada, for J. B. Towner, and Henry Ott, who are operating the Cardinal and Florine Mines. He has eliminated some of the objectionable features of the D Retort, in common use on small properties, and has devised a pan feed. The retort will be ready for work in two weeks, and will operate on ore that averages 240 pounds of quicksilver to the ton.
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A new discovery has been made at the surface, and near the shaft, in the Preiss Mine, at the head of Gold Canyon, near Mina, Nevada, operated by August and Harry Preiss. The ore was found while grading, and 82 tons of it shipped to the International Smelting Company, at Tooele have returned $8.50 a ton. This vein is about four and one-half feet wide, and development will be started to locate its extension, 50 feet below the strike.
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Acting on recommendations by two prominent mining engineers, preparations are being made to sink the main working shaft of the Reorganized Rosetta Divide Mining Company, to greater depth. This mine is near Virginia City, Nevada, and is in charge of President and General Manager, January Jones, Box 1021, Reno. Free milling gold ore, ranging from milling grade, to more than $200 a ton, has been opened by three shafts, and the drifts and the veins are from two to four feet wide. The engineers believe that the ore bodies will increase in size and value, with depth, and the construction of a mill is assured, if their expectations are right.
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The Pittsburgh-Goldfield Mining Company at Goldfield, Nevada, is sinking its three-compartment shaft, with two shifts of men working. The new plant of machinery recently installed, is running smoothly. Corrin Barnes is Manager of the company, and in charge of development.
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The Nevada Standard Mining Company, J. Henry Goodman, President, Box 57, Ely, Nevada, has installed another ball mill at Cherry Creek, which will effect a higher recovery through finer grinding, and allow 75 tons of ore to pass through the mill daily. About 50,000 tons of ore are on the dumps ready for treatment, and in addition, they have acquired approximately 15,000 tons at an old millsite down on the flat. A contract has been let to haul the latter supply to the mill. Tests have shown that about $2 a ton, net profit, can be made on the ore from each of the dumps. The money derived from milling the dumps, will be used to develop the Star, Exchequer, and other mines.
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Under the management of Ed. Sweetland, graphite is being mined and shipped from the Chedic Property, three miles west of Carson City, Nevada. Crude graphite had been mined for several years, but recently three carloads of the material were shipped, and orders have been placed for more.
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When the whistle sounded on the morning of October 3, it found 115 miners waiting to be lowered to the various levels of the Tonopah Mining Company, to start preliminary prospecting for lease blocks. This was the first time that all of the mines, including the Valley View, and The famous Mizpah, have been opened to leasers.
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Fred Maxwell and Alex. DeCosta of Basalt, Nevada, are hauling power and supplies to the Golden Eagle Group of 12 claims, in the Huntoon Valley, owned for a number of years by Maxwell. A small production has been made from the ground. This winter they will continue a 396-foot tunnel, driven several years ago by the Lee brothers, in an effort to cut the ledge at depth.
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The Nicholson Mining and Milling Company, H. C. Nicholson, Box 307, Ely, Nevada, has struck some rich ore in its property at Osceola. The ore is from 18 inches to 3 feet wide, and still going down strong. Five tons were shipped from the Baird Claim, to the Nevada Consolidated Smelter, returning around $118 per ton. The ore from development is being milled, and reserves are being accumulated at the rate of six tons for every ton milled. When Nicholson returned to Ely, from the mine, he brought with him a bar of bullion valued at $1,400.
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The Gold Metals Mining Company, A. Homer Black, Manager, Manhattan, Nevada, was forced to suspend sinking of its shaft to the 200-foot point as was originally planned, until a larger pump can be installed. For the present, they have turned their attention to drifting from the 150-foot point of the shaft.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, General Manager, Kimberly, Nevada, continues to produce about 3,000 tons of ore daily, from its Emma Nevada Shaft. This ore is milled and smelted under contract, at the McGill plant of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company. The Alpha Shaft had been producing about 300 tons of direct smelting ore daily, but this has been discontinued on account of the low price of copper. The Alpha Shaft is being kept dewatered, and some development is going on. Diamond drilling west of the Emma-Nevada Shaft has been going on for nearly two years, and it is estimated that between 30,000,000, and 35,000,000 tons of ore, will be available there.
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W. H. Bray, of Reno, mining engineer, has just returned from the East where he has met with success in financing the Crown Mine, south of Golconda, Nevada, which he controls under lease and option from L. Plater.
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A second crew is sampling the workings of the Mason Valley, and Bluestone Mines at Mason, Nevada, under the management of Joseph Rosenblatt of Salt Lake City, Utah. It is probable that a new plant will eventually be installed there.
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Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., John C. Kirchen, General Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, intends to unwater the 1,800-foot Level. A substantial body of ore has been located and opened on the 1,600 Level, and its extension will be sought on the lower level as soon as it is dry. The Tonopah Extension mill has shown a slight increase in bullion production from its own ore. The production for September was 128,150 ounces of gold and silver bullion, valued at $67,900, an increase of 1,210 ounces, and $2,700 over the August production.
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At a depth of 225 feet in the incline shaft, the Cinnabar King Mining Company, George S. Clack, manager, Carson City, Nevada, opened high-grade quicksilver ore, assaying as high as $2,000 per ton. The vein is from one to six inches wide, and the shaft was sunk 10 feet below the point where it entered the ore. A 20-ton Newhall Furnace has been ordered, and will be installed at the portal of the tunnel, which has been driven for transportation purposes, and will eliminate hoisting and tramming the ore to the mill. At the present time, four Hall-Scott stationary furnaces are operating, and turning out a flask of quicksilver a day. Timothy Connelly, of Lovelock, is Superintendent of the mine.
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Charles Smith, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has leased the property of the Tempiute Mutual Mining and Milling Company in the Delamar District, Nevada.
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The Endowment Mining Company is considering installing a rotary, to replace the retorts now in use, in the recovery of quicksilver, according to L. W. Whiting, Box 111, Mina, Nevada. He has two quicksilver claims near Mina, in which the ore averages 1.5 percent. That there is some high grade too, was in evidence when he recovered 126 pounds of quicksilver, from 219 pounds of ore.
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Vivian Hughes and William Fanchini are about ready to place their milling plant at Silver Peak, Nevada, in operation. It is designed to treat the tailings from the Pittsburgh Silver Peak Mine, which comprise approximately 75,000 tons that are worth around $3 a ton. Hughes and Fanehini have been working on this mill during the past five months, and have spent in the neighborhood of $25,000.
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The Nevada Standard Mining Company, J. Henry Goodman, President, Box 57, Ely, Nevada, is driving a new tunnel, to drain all the workings of the Star Vein, above the Seventh Level. More than 100 feet of the distance has been completed and the objective will probably be reached at the 2,200-foot point in the tunnel, and about 250 feet east from the shaft, on the seventh level. According to the mine maps, approximately 80,000 tons of ore are under water, and at present metal prices, would be worth about $17 a ton. The 75-ton mill has been remodeled, and resumed operations from the dumps in the upper levels of the mine. An increase of about 25 tons in mill capacity is anticipated shortly.
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The cleanup of the Gold Hill Development Company, H. A. Johnson, General Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, for the first half of October, was $11,700, making a total production of $58,800 since the, mill started operating August 1. The mine is reported in excellent condition with around 5,000 tons broken down in the stopes, and the raises from the 400 to the 225 Level all in ore. The oreshoot on the 225 is said to be 1,000 feet long.
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The Alta Tiger Mining Company has reopened the old Jackson Mine, near Montello, Elko County, Nevada, and ore is being mined from the 160 and 280-foot levels, where replacement occurs in a crushed quartzite stratum, 50 to 60 feet thick. In the last 20 years, the mine has produced $180,000 from stopes, carrying all the way from 15, to 750 tons, of lead-silver carbonate ore. S. F. Hunt is Superintendent. Lester Rankin, 212 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is Secretary.
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The Sutro Tunnel Coalition, Inc., James M. Leonard, Manager, Virginia City, Nevada, is making tests on its ores by both cyanidation and flotation, with some good recoveries. J. Weinig, of Golden, Colorado, has been making tests by flotation for the Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Company of Denver, and Harry L. McNeill of the Stearns-Roger Company, has spent some time at the mine. Both the Middlemines, and the Crown Point Mines, are being developed, and a carload of gold-silver ore was shipped to the Desert Mill, from the Middlemines property, a week ago.
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D. L. Peters, 916 Hibernian Building, Los Angeles, California, has taken over the option of the Nevada Quicksilver Mine, near lone, Nevada, held by Thomas Nicely and E. A. Mee. A four-drill air compressor has been installed, and oil has replaced wood as fuel for the furnace. Ore is being drawn from the old glory hole in cars, drawn by a motor, and treated at the rate of 45 tons daily, in a Scott Furnace. M. P. Doonan, who held the original lease on the ground, is Superintendent for Peters.
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The Pioneer Mines Company, Charles H. Norcross, Manager, Reno, Nevada, has been refinanced. Development, which was suspended two months ago when funds were exhausted, has been resumed at a depth of 100 feet, following two productive veins, the Cromer, and East Twin.
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On October 22, the Raymond Van Ness Mining Company, Peter Buol, Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, shipped 22 flasks of mercury, making 198 flasks shipped, since operations were started. Of the present shipment, 10 flasks were consigned to Los Angeles, and 12 to San Francisco.
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The properties of the Sierra-Nevada, and of the Scorpion mining companies, near Virginia City, Nevada, were purchased at sheriff’s sale, by Arthur Thomas, 1118 Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. In the event they are not redeemed, it is understood that a company will be organized for their continued development.
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Homer A. Black, Mining Engineer of Los Angeles, now of Tonopah, Nevada, is actively engaged in development for the Gold Metals Mining Company at Manhattan, Nevada, where sensationally rich ore was opened just above water level. Assays of over $1,000 a ton have been taken from the shaft, and a test shipment has given satisfactory information. The shaft is 110 feet deep, equipped with a 25-horsepower electrically driven hoist, and a single-stage compressor, that can operate two drills. Gold Metals is considering taking over the War Eagle Mill and modernizing it to handle the ore.
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The Mercury Mining Syndicate, O. L. Cash, Superintendent, Box 667, Winnemucca, Nevada, has started furnacing some ore that carries from two to three pounds of quicksilver to the ton, and was considered too low of a grade to return profit a year ago, when the mine was said to have been worked out. Considerable ore of this grade was left standing in the mine, and is all above the transportation tunnel. The furnace has a capacity of 140 tons a day, and is equipped with an electric condensing system, which eliminates the dust.
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During September, the cyanide mill of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, at Lovelock, Nevada, produced $58,000 in gold-silver bullion, according to Assistant Manager B. J. Schrader. A recovery of 97.4 percent was made from 2,880 tons of ore; the loss in tailings was reduced from 61 cents to 50 cents a ton, and the actual cost of milling, reduced from $1.73 at the beginning of the month, to $1.58 at the close of September. The consumption of cyanide is 0.8 of one pound for each ton of ore milled.
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The Pan American, and the Forlorn Hope shafts, are going down about a mile and a half apart, in the Comet District, [near Pioche] in Nevada. The work is being financed by W. F. Snyder and Sons, of Salt Lake City, Utah, the International Smelting Company, and James Elwood Jones, a West Virginia coal operator. The Pan American is an incline shaft. It entered low-grade ore at 800 feet, and it has persisted for 500 feet. The Forlorn Hope has been sunk in One Wheel Canyon, to a depth of 600 feet, and the Combined Metals limestone horizon entered. A station is being cut, preliminary to crosscutting a number of ore-bearing fissures.
The first, a small one, will be cut in 100 feet, and the next at 800 feet. Electricity is used as motive power, and a five-mile aerial tramway will connect these shafts with the Prince Consolidated broad gauge railroad. George E. Coxe, of Caliente, is Superintendent of the Pan American, and William Franklin is Superintendent of the Forlorn Hope.
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J. H. Hooper, Superintendent for the Elkoro Mines Company, at Jarbidge, Nevada, has purchased pumping equipment of 5,000-gallon capacity, at Salt Lake City, and intends to do considerable prospecting this year. This equipment will be installed in units; the first installation to be of 1,000 tons daily capacity. One year’s supply of ore is in sight, and this is about the average reserve that has been maintained during the past six years.
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The American Development Company, V. H. Carter, Vice-President and General Manager, 1881 Sixth Street, Berkeley, California, has started developing the Josephine Group of barium claims, near Carlin, Nevada, owned by George Salzman, Stewart Erskine, and William J. Graven, of Winnemucca, and William Mahoney, of Dunphy. Five men are testing the ground with drills, and it is planned to drive a working tunnel, through which the ore can be removed by gravity. This company recently built a 280-ton plant at Berkeley, for handling barium.
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Tonopah and Goldfield mining men have taken over the Hornet, Hornet No. 2, and the Contact mining claims, in the vicinity of Manhattan, Nevada, owned by Prof. Clinton. Development is already planned, and will be carried on under the name, Gold Metals Bonanza Mining Company, which is being organized under the laws of Nevada. Frank Dumond, of Tonopah, is a director, and will have charge of development.
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The Portable Mill Company of Los Angeles, California, has optioned the Rip Van Winkle Mine, north of Elko, Nevada; from the Alaska Improvement Company, Frank M. Middleton, President and General Manager. Dan Zuccone operated this property last summer, and concentrated by tabling some of the sulphide ore from a crosscut tunnel, at a depth of 800 feet, but the ore had a tendency to slime and he could not make a good recovery.
J. C. Brumblay, of Winnemucca, Nevada, field representative for the International Smelting Company, has sent samples of the ore to Salt Lake City for tests by flotation, and, pending the result of the test, may build a small flotation plant at the mine.
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The Castle Peak Quicksilver Company expects to produce 100 flasks of quicksilver in its 8 x 40-foot Gould Rotary Furnace, this month, at its property 26 miles southeast of Reno, and six miles north of Virginia City, Nevada. The furnace was installed last year, and placed in operation on September 5. Until September 30, 1930, it operated 318½ days, and treated 8,791 tons of ore, which was an average of more than 27 tons daily.
The quicksilver produced from that tonnage was 1,028 flasks, and sold for $118,085.50. The company has paid three dividends, totaling $88,125. The ore is mined from an irregularly shaped open pit, 110 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 80 feet deep, with the bottom in ore. Ore reserves are estimated sufficient to supply the reduction plant for three years. H. E. Loufek, 806 First National Bank Building, Reno, is President of the organization.
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Pinney, Drake, and Toomey, who are operating a lease on the Spearhead Mine, near Silver City, Nevada, are milling 60 tons of ore, in the Trimble-Hardwick Mill. The ore will average $20 a ton in gold. This is the second shipment that the lessees have made.
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A deed, covering all the mining property, town, personal property, and machinery, of the Eureka Smelting Company, has been filed to E. C. Stuckless, J. Arnold Farrer, and John Sherburne, representing the bondholders. The property was sold at public auction for $840,665.15. This culminates a long-drawn controversy.
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THE MINING JOURNAL

Tin Deposit of Lander County, Nevada
By MARSHALL HANEY, Consulting Mining Engineer, Greer, Virginia.

A description of a little-known deposit in central Nevada.

Some years ago, tin ore was found in an unnamed range of hills in Lander County, Nevada, about 20 miles north of Battle Mountain, a town on the Southern Pacific Railroad. The region is mostly accessible by wagon roads.

Geology
A series of rhyolite lava flows is the main rock of the tin bearing area. Basalt is found in small quantities at the west end of the belt, and increases in prominence farther west. Alluvial washes are found along the base of the range. These rhyolites are the oldest Tertiary lavas in this part of Nevada, and their eruption evidently began early in Miocene time. As a general rule, the rhyolites are massive, and crowded with phenocrysts of quartz, and of glossy feldspar. The phenocrysts make up one-half of the bulk of the rock.

Occurrence and Character of the Tin
The known bearing veins veins are at an elevation, between 5,500 and 5,700 feet, and in a belt 10,000 feet long, and 2,000 feet wide. These veins are enclosed in rhyolite, and are narrow, ranging in width from 1 to 18 inches. They occur as stringers an inch or so wide, carrying wood tin, and specular hematite, in a gangue of chalcedony. In places, enough of the veinlets are found, to make up stringer lodes eight feet thick. Generally the stringers are widely spaced in these lodes, and the barren rock between the stringers materially reduces the tin content of such ore bodies.

Very little is known concerning the linear extent and persistence of the lodes and this point largely determines the possibilities of this deposit. The limestone development work shows the ore in many places ranging from a few inches to eight feet, and a tin content of over one percent. On the whole, the result of the limited development work is encouraging.

Origin of the Veins
The fissures in which the wood tin occurs, were opened by stresses that were accompanied by enough movement to brecciate the adjoining rhyolite, and a close examination proves that the veins occupying such fissures, are not merely filling of joints, or shrinkage cracks, and the veins were evidently formed by ascending hot water, soon after the eruption of the rhyolites.

It is reasonable to presume, and to expect, that along the more strongly fissured zones, the ore will persist with depth. Similar deposits occur in Mexico, and they have been worked to a depth of over 200 feet.

Suggestions
It is necessary to concentrate the development work at a few of the most promising outcrops. The present prospecting proves that the tin occurs in many places, but does not prove the depth or extent of the deposit.
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Arthur H. Anthony, owner of the Carmel Rock quarries near Monterey, California, has leased the Pine Nut Gold Quartz Mine, and is installing a small mill, hoist, and compressor. The shaft is 85 feet deep, and the pay shoot dips north, with a two-foot ledge running high in values. C. H. Weldon, of Carson City, Nevada, is in charge during the absence of Anthony.
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The Portable Mill Company of Los Angeles, California, is installing a 30-ton flotation mill at the Rip Van Winkle Mine, north of Elko, Nevada, and expects to make a test run early this month. The mill heads average 6 percent lead, 12 ounces silver, a little gold and copper, and a heavy iron content in the form of marcasite. Tests made on this ore at the International Flotation Mill, in Utah, have produced a concentrate assaying .62 ounces gold, 96 ounces silver, 54.7 percent lead, and .72 percent copper. The iron content must be dropped. The grinding department of the mill is complete with primary crusher, Mack impact mill, Lane ball mill, coarse and fine ore bins. A dragline classifier is being installed. The flotation unit will include five Kraut cells, three roughers, and two cleaners.
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Southern Mines, Inc., east of Mina, Nevada, has suspended operations, pending refinancing. The crew of 14 men were laid off, Manager Hartley and one man remaining on the job. This property was formerly owned by the Mina Mercury Company, and was taken over by Los Angeles interests, about a year ago. Its past production is around $30,000.
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Before leaving for Washington, Congressman Samuel S. Arentz took a lease and bond on mining property, five miles southwest of Mountain City, Humboldt County, Nevada, owned by John Escalon. About 200 feet of shallow tunnel have been driven on an ore body, which is six feet wide. Average samples of ore from the vein assayed 17 ounces silver, and $1 in gold. Further development is anticipated next spring.
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Walter J. Bracking, mine operator, Box 158, Reno, Nevada, has taken a lease and option on the Lost Mine, in the Shoshone Mountains, south of Ione, Nevada, from Congressman Samuel S. Arentz. The mine is high up in the mountains, with an abundance of wood and water. Bracking is making arrangements for development, and as a preliminary step, has hired three men to continue the tunnel, through the winter. This adit is in five feet of solid ore, of average grade. About two carloads of sorted ore on the dump, assay 25 percent lead, 26 ounces silver, 6 percent copper, and 6 percent zinc.
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The production for October, of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, at Lovelock, Nevada, was $48,935 from 2,785 tons of gold-silver ore, as compared with $53,000 from 2,830 tons of ore, during September. The ore milled last month, carried slightly higher silver values, and not much change was noticed in the cost of milling. The principal development was that of the footwall of the flat 5,100 Vein. A crosscut driven from the 4,400-foot point, in the long tunnel, reached the vein at a length of 450 feet, and thus reduced the distance of tramming from 1,560 feet, according to E. J. Schrader, Assistant Manager. The footwall work required no timbering, which was an important economical feature in drifting.
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Notwithstanding the expiration of its contract with Pennsylvania steel manufacturers, the Nevada-Massachusetts Company, at Mill City, Nevada, O. F. Heizer, Manager, will continue to operate its mines and concentrator, and will store the concentrates, until there is a demand for them. Just now the mill is idle and only a small force employed in development, but the average output is 30 tons a month, and requires a force of 80 men. Living accommodations are excellent—the single men living in the dormitories, and the married men in cottages. Recreational advantages are provided.
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The long drift tunnel of the National Consolidated Mining Company, at National, Nevada, has opened a fissure, several inches wide, in the footwall of the vein. This fissure strikes toward a rich deposit opened several years ago, in the Blume and Walker workings, and carries values in silver, lead, gold, and copper. The tunnel has reached a length of 3,600 feet, and will reach a depth of about 360 feet below the old Blume Shaft, which is 240 feet deep. Some ore has been taken out while driving the tunnel, and milled in a small flotation plant on the ground. Frank W. Stall, 2530 N. Street, Sacramento, California, is President of the company.
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According to President J. E. Miller, Box 995, Reno, Nevada, the Denison Shaft, in the Wedekind Mines, of the Southwest Mines Investment Company, will be sunk 70 feet below the 150-foot Level, to explore an ore body determined by churn drills. At the 225-foot Level, a crosscut will be run 140 feet to the No. 2 Drill Hole, and thence, 240 feet northeast to the No. 3 Hole.
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Control of the Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Company, is said to have passed from the Zadig interests in San Francisco, to Roy J. King of Grass Valley, California, and associates. Silver Pick has not operated for several months, but has done considerable development in the vicinity of Goldfleld, Nevada. Negotiations are said to be under way to take over a gold property near Grass Valley.
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The incline shaft of Dispo Lead Mining Company, Roger Scofleld, Superintendent, Mina, Nevada, is nearing the 200-foot depth, where a station is being cut, and a crosscut will be run to the vein. A comfortable camp has been established, and supplies laid in for winter. Finances are sufficient to carry the development program to completion. Sodaville, or Tonopah Junction, are shipping points. E. H. Brooks, 756 South Broadway, Los Angeles, is General Manager of the company.
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The application of John F. Coleman, 50 Broad Street, New York City, receiver for
Consolidated Cortez Silver Mines Company, at Cortez, Nevada, for authority to issue receiver’s certificates to the amount of $15,537, has been granted by the District Court of Washoe County, Nevada. The money obtained from this source will pay current obligations, and carry on some new work.
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The Gilbert Mammoth Gold Mines Company, Fred O. Gilbert, President and General Manager, Gilbert, Nevada, has mined a 110-pound boulder, banded with ribbons of almost pure gold, from the 300 Level of its lease. The rock is estimated to contain $4,000 in gold.
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The new 50-ton flotation mill of the Kernick Divide Mining Company, J. A. McLaughlin, Superintendent, Fallon, Nevada, is scheduled to go into operation early in December. It is located near Sodaville, and will treat custom ores from the district.
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Some rich gold ore is reported from the Landmark group of mines, in the Tolicha District, eight miles from Beatty, Nevada, by John Weaver. This mine has been quiet for about five years. [Rehab Notes: out of reach. Now part of the USAF/NV Test Site Range. ]
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William A. Ingoldsby, 130 South Broadway, Los Angeles, and associates, are said to have acquired the Wilson Gold Mines, in the Pine Grove District, 20 miles south of Yerington, Nevada. The ground has been opened through a series of tunnels, said to contain a substantial tonnage of ore, and it is estimated that 400,000 tons of low-grade ore are stored on the dumps. The new owners are preparing for extensive operations, ultimately to include a 250-ton reduction plant, and the extension of an electric power line from the Bluestone Substation.
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Electric blasting is being carried on in the three-compartment shaft of the Pittsburgh-GoldfieId Mining Company, Corrin Barnes, Manager, Goldfield, Nevada, and is more satisfactory than the fuse and cap system of blasting. The shaft is down 420 feet. It is dry, and stringers of quartz and alunite, carrying a small value in gold, are being opened in the bottom. Prospecting will be started at the 500 Level to ascertain the position of the vein system at this elevation. A station and pocket will be cut here, for use of skips, which will be put on at that time.
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H. A. Johnson of Tonopah, Nevada, Manager for the Tonopah Mining Company, announces a change in the method of settling with its lessees. They are now paid 100 percent of the sampling value, after regular deductions for treatment. Formerly but 80 percent was paid. Mizpah mine lessees’ output for October was 600 tons of ore, ranging from $30 to $35 a ton, and it is estimated that the November output will double that figure.
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The Tuscarora Premier Mining Company has passed through the top of a mineralized zone, while crosscutting, about 200 feet from the bottom of its 172-foot shaft. This zone is from 10 to 20 feet in width, and carries considerable wire silver, and ruby silver, although not of commercial value. Geophysical prospecting indicated the existence of a large deposit of ore at a depth of 250 feet; accordingly commercial values were not anticipated at the 172 level. The crosscut was run only as a check. Operations are carried on under the direction of Frank E. Porter, President and General Manager. P. J. Devine is Superintendent.
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The Panama-Nevada Consolidated Mines Company, Ltd., located at Carrara, Nevada, has completed the 630-foot tunnel from the shaft to the surface for the efficient handling of ore. An ore body 12 feet wide, and assaying $30 a ton, was discovered in this undertaking. A new compressor, handling eight drills, is being installed to rush development. Approximately 50,000 tons of ore have been blocked out, or are on the dump. Arrangements are being made to erect a 75-ton cyanide mill to reduce this ore. Tests have recovered 97.5 percent of the ore, which is gold except for a slight trace of silver. Sol Camp is Superintendent. [Rehab Notes: mine is on the eastern side of the range, facing towards Yucca Mountain.]
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Sanford Galvin and George Bowler, who took a lease on the Mizpah Mine, of the Tonopah Mining Company, six weeks ago, have switched back to the Tonopah Belmont. They had opened rich ore on the 1,000-foot Level of the Belmont, and in a short time, mined $1,100 each, but when the leasing syndicate relinquished its lease on September 15, they had to quit.
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It is understood that the Gold Hill Development Company, H. A. Johnson, General Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has laid off 20 men, and discontinued further development at Round Mountain. A new piece of exploration will be started. Owing to the inadequate capacity of the old shaft in hoisting ore and waste, and lowering timbers and men, a new vertical three-compartment shaft will be raised to the surface from the 400-foot Level. The ore body on the 225-foot Level has been followed 1,200 feet without a break, and is said to be the longest continuous body of gold ore opened in the state in recent years. The stopes above this level are said to hold three months’ reserve for milling. Since the mill was placed in operation August 1, it has been treating from 100 to 105 tons of ore every 24 hours, with a production of approximately $25,000 a month.
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David Findlay, of San Francisco, California, and associates, have nearly completed the construction of a 50-ton mill at the old Tramps Gold Mine, in the Rhyolite District, near Beatty, Nevada. The old workings are said to contain sufficient commercial ore to keep the plant running steadily for a year, with indications favorable for the extensions of the known veins, into virgin ground.
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The Seven Troughs Extension Mines Company, G. W. Warmoth, General Manager, Lovelock, Nevada, resumed the operation of its flotation mill November 20. It has a capacity of from 30 to 40 tons, and concentrating tables have been added. A substantial tonnage of milling ore has been developed.
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Ed. Lacey and his brother, Will, of the Lacey Brothers Iron Foundry, at Los Angeles, are said to have taken a bond and option on the Wild Goose Gold Mines, in the Farrel District, two and one-half miles north of Lovelock, Nevada. Dave and John Murphy, brothers, have carried on small developments since 1915, and virgin ground will be explored. Plans are to concentrate the ore that is mined, in the mill of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company.
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It is expected that the Searchlight Gold Corporation, at Searchlight, Nevada, will soon proceed with the building and development program, outlined last summer, for its Duplex Mine, but which has been delayed on account of the death of George E. Bent. The ownership of the corporation now rests with the Bent estate (in the hands of Attorney Patterson at Prescott, Arizona), and Dr. Wilton McCarthy, of Searchlight. The original program included a 100-ton flotation mill to be built by E. L. Sweeney, Consulting Metallurgist, 1410 North Second Street, Phoenix, Arizona. The ore carries lead, silver, copper, and gold, the latter predominating.
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The Shamrock Mines Company, L. E. Elggren, President, 218 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is preparing to re-treat some tailings accumulated at its property, at lone, Nevada, during former operations. These tailings carry gold and silver. As soon as cold weather forces the mill to shut down, the tunnel will be driven another 100 feet to connect with the Indianapolis Shaft, through which considerable good ore was hoisted during early operations.
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General Metals Merger, 1247 Dexter Horton Building, Seattle, Washington, is making provisions to increase its personnel from 6, to 31 individuals. E. A. Gabryel is President; W. J. Galbraith, Forbes Richard, A. H. Dougall, Jr., and Melville G. Henry, Vice-Presidents; and Paul C. Dubuar, Secretary and Treasurer. After the examination of many properties, five were selected and are either conditionally controlled or owned by the merger. They are: the Silver Cord Mine, Point Ashley, Alaska; the Lawrence property in Yavapai County, Arizona; the Alto property in Custer County, Idaho; the Boston American, and the Silver Creek Mines in Snohomish County, Washington; and the Bethania Mines in Mineral County, Nevada.
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PROSPECTORS RETAIN MINERAL RIGHTS IN DEATH VALLEY AREA

E. S. Giles of Goldfield, Nevada, Consulting Engineer, and Surveyor, has been advised by the United States Land Ddepartment, that the recent withdrawal of lands in the Death Valley area, will not affect the mineral rights of prospectors. Under the provision of the act, the lands shall at all times, be open to exploration, discovery, occupation and purchase, under the United States mineral laws.

The, area withdrawn for a new national park development, which includes a large part of Death Valley, extends from Death Valley Scotty’s famous ranch in Grapevine Canyon, to within three miles of Trona, California. It includes the old mining towns of Ballarat, Panamint, Skidoo, and Greenwater.
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DECEMBER 30, 1930

Combined Metals Making Good at Pioche

By GAIL MARTIN, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Underground development is in progress at Pioche, where the Combined Metals has opened extensive mineralization in the limestone bed.

The mill at Bauer, Utah, was rehabilitated for treatment of Pioche ores.

The story of the camp of Pioche, today, is the story of the faith, vision, and enterprise, of two brothers, E. H. Snyder, and George W. Snyder, of Salt Lake City. Faith, according to the Scriptures, will move mountains. At Pioche, if it has not moved mountains, it has worked wonders in the way of moving ore from the mine, to the smelter, of devising processes to make this ore amenable to reduction by fire on an economic basis, and of raising money to develop ground that others thought had no ore, or declared long ago, worked out.

Not only has the old Nevada camp emerged from the class of a famous ghost city, and become a substantial producer of zinc-lead-silver ores, largely as a result of that highly desirable, but illusive quality mentioned so significantly in the Holy Writ, and supplied without fail, by the Snyder boys, but it has the chance of developing into one of the world’s largest mining centers. Without a doubt, when this once-famous bonanza camp attains the stature of a Butte, a Joplin, or a Cripple Creek, local historians will trace back the beginning of its second and more permanent cycle of prosperity, to the beginning of the Combined Metals, Inc., enterprise, fostered by the two Snyder boys, and their father, the veteran operator and promoter, Willard F. Snyder.

Sixty years ago, Pioche was one of the most famous camps in the West. With Virginia City, Hamilton, Eureka, Tuscarora, and other Nevada strongholds of mining, Pioche had a world-wide reputation for rich ore, and sudden wealth. The product of the Pioche mines contained such high values in silver, gold, and lead, that it could be freighted a hundred miles or more over the desert to the nearest railroad, and return a handsome profit to the fortunate shipper. Yet, hardly a decade later, the camp of Pioche, once boasting a population of several thousand souls, had come unto sad days. The rich ores of the Raymond-Ely, and Meadow Valley, had been stripped from the quartzite. The vein system, productive of $20,000,000, or more, along a strike of but 3,000 feet, and a depth of 1,200 feet vertically, had been looted of its wealth. Working and surface plants, that not so far back had been hives of industry, were taken over by rats and bats, and other denizens of the desert.

Although large deposits of lead-zinc-silver ores had been found in the limestone surrounding the richly productive quartzite area, Pioche, as a mining center, seemed definitely ended for all time. The zinc-lead ores could not be handled at a profit. Heavy penalties for the zinc content were imposed by the smelters. Aside from some mining at nearby camps, and the operations of leasers, Pioche dragged out a hopeless existence for many a long year.

This was the state of affairs when E. H. Snyder, a young graduate mining engineer, became interested, through his father, in the old camp. A study of conditions, convinced Mr. Snyder that Pioche still had much to show the world in the way of mineral production. Money and skill could make the complex lead-zinc ores pay big profits. Having sized up the situation, he at once started to supply its needs.

A large territory was acquired by the Combined Metals, Inc., organized by W. F. Snyder and Sons. E. H. Snyder hired a staff of metallurgists, and with them, started to work out the metallurgy of the ores. In the meantime, he supervised development at the mine, where one of the most massive sulphide ore bodies ever found in the West, was being opened up rapidly.

When tests convinced Mr. Snyder that a selective flotation process, suitable for the complex Combined Metals ores, had been worked out, he boarded a train, and invaded the East, on a search for capital to back his project. After a long period of further experimentation, examination, and parleying, the National Lead Company was induced to finance operations; the old Honerine Mine and Mill at Bauer, Utah, was purchased and rehabilitated, and the plant equipped for treatment of the Pioche ores. This project has grown and flourished in such a manner that several additions have had to be made to the Bauer plant, in order to take care of the growing custom business developed by the Combined Metals Reduction Company.

At Pioche, activity fostered by the Snyder interests, has grown by leaps and bounds. While E. H. Snyder was mustering the technical resources of his organizations, George W. Snyder was centering his attention on supplying funds. The Bristol Mine was taken over and opened up. A deserted mine, not so long ago, this property has its own 17-mile railroad, aerial tramway, and electric power plant, and is producing 4,000 tons of ore monthly.

In the vicinity of Pioche, the Combined Metals, Inc., is putting down a new four-compartment shaft to furnish an outlet for the Combined Metals bed, one mile to the West of the Combined Metals No. 1 Shaft. Six miles to the west of the new shaft, two more big shafts are being sunk to explore the Combined Metals bed in the Comet District. This work is being financed by W. F. Snyder and Sons, the International Smelting Company, and James Elwood Jones, West Virginia coal operator.

Mining men, who have visited the Combined Metals mine at Pioche, and have seen the extent of the mineralization in the Combined Metals limestone bed, say that the replacement in its extent, uniformity, and intensity, is astounding. For over 4,000 feet on its dip, the Combined Metals bed has been continually productive. In places, the ore has been 250 feet wide, and 40 feet thick. Average thickness is eight feet. In the last block opened up, the company estimates that there is one-quarter million tons available for shipment. Value of the ore averages, it is said, 8 ounces of silver to the ton, 8 percent lead, and 18 percent zinc, with low values in gold.

The kind of operator E. H. Snyder is, can best be judged from the following incident: Last December, sinking of the big Caselton Shaft, one mile west of the Combined Metals No. 1 shaft, was started. Ordinarily, a piece of work as important as this and involving as large an expenditure would have received some publicity.

Most managements would have announced their plans. But not E. H. Snyder. He is of the type that works, and lets the world find out about him later. When the information was finally pried out of him by a newspaper man, the Caselton Shaft had been sunk 975 feet, and passed through a thick zone of heavy mineralization containing low-grade ore.

Cutting of a station had been started at the 840 Level to prospect this showing in the Combined Metals bed, the shaft was being continued to the 1,400-foot level, and the Union Pacific Railroad had completed surveys preliminary to extending the Prince Consolidated Railroad one mile and a quarter, to the Caselton Shaft.

This shaft has been equipped with a 76-foot headframe, a compressor with a capacity of 1,500 feet of free air per minute, and a 200-horsepower Nordberg hoist. Sinking will be continued to the 1400 level, so that raises from this horizon can economically exploit, the Combined Metals bed, which between Caselton, and No. 1 shafts, has been faulted in several blocks to a depth of 1,200 or 1,300 feet.

In the Comet District, the Snyder-International Smelting-Jones group is sinking two shafts, the Pan American, and the Forlorn Hope, about a mile and a half apart, The Forlorn Hope Shaft, in One-Wheel Canyon, has been sunk to the 600-foot level, and the Combined Metals limestone horizon entered. A station is being cut, preliminary to crosscutting a number of ore-bearing fissures. The first, a small one, will be cut in 100 feet, and the next at 300 feet.

The Pan American Shaft is now being sunk to the 1,300-foot mark, with a depth of 2,400 feet as its probable bottom. At 800 feet, the shaft cut low-grade ore, which persisted for 500 feet. A power line supplies electricity for operations at both mines. A five-mile aerial tramway will connect these shafts with the Prince Consolidated broad gauge railroad.

PICS Left: No. 1 Shaft and surface buildings of the Combined Metals Reduction Company at Pioche, Nevada. Right: New Caselton Shaft at Pioche, Nevada. This is a four-compartment shaft, down 1,000 feet and is to be sunk to the 1,500 level. It will later be connected with the No. 1 Shaft. Equipment consists of a 76-foot headframe, 200-horsepower Nordberg hoist, and 1,500-foot compressor.
Flotation plant of the Combined Metals Reduction Company at Bauer, Utah.

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THE MINING JOURNAL

NEVADA

The F. W. Bradley interests of San Francisco, have contracted the driving of a tunnel below the No. 4 Level of the Independence Mine, at Battle Mountain, Nevada, to Charles Birum, formerly Superintendent for the Imperial Gold Mines Corporation. Roy H. Clarke of San Francisco is Manager of the ground. A further acquisition has been made by the Bradleys, in the Tomboy Group, which lies close to the Independence.
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That the Valley View Mine of the Tonopah Mining Company is proving a keen rival of the old Mizpah Mine, finds further proof in some of its recent discoveries. Tom Kendall and associates, leasing in the Valley View, sunk a 37-foot shaft, and in drifting to the east, cut through a fault exposing two feet of ore. Their first assay ran $148.03 in gold and silver, and the second assay returned $47.99. Silver is the predominating metal.
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Peter Buol of Tonopah, Nevada, Manager of the Raymond Van Ness Mining Company at Spanish Springs, east of Manhattan, reports that $25,000 worth of mercury has been recovered from ore mined above the 50-foot level. Crosscuts are being run both east and west. The plant is treating about 18 tons a day, that nets six to eight pounds of mercury per ton. Production is on a basis of an average of 60 tons a month.
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The first carload of ore shipped from the Jackson Mine, at Montello, Nevada, S. F. Hunt, Superintendent, assayed 29.2 percent lead, 6.8 ounces silver, and 14 percent iron. The ore is being mined at the 170 Level, and work is to start on the 220 Level shortly. The development is being carried on by the AIta Tiger Mining Company, Lester Rankin, General Manager, 212 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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More than a dozen residents of Lovelock, Nevada, were inspired to further prospecting in the Rabbit Hole District, 45 miles from town, when Charles and James Scossa, brothers, returned to Lovelock with 12 sacks of rich gold ore. Some of it assayed $5 a pound, and three prize sacks showed a value of $46,276 a ton.
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John Weaver of Tonopah, who has been intermittently developing the Landmark group of claims, in the Tolicha District, in Nevada the past 13 years, has opened up 18 feet of gold ore that assays from $16 to $25. As soon as the mill being installed at Beatty, eight miles from the mine, is completed, Weaver expects to start hauling his ore.
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During November, Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., produced gold and silver bullion to the value of $69,000. During the same period, the Gold Hill Development Company’s output was $21,150.
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The 20-ton rotary furnace of the Antelope Mercury Mines, Inc., at Lovelock, Nevada, J. W. Hall, Superintendent, has been placed in operation. This plant was built by L. C. Newton of Los Angeles, California, and was designed by C. N. Schuette, 306 Call Building, Los Angeles. Tests indicate that it will make a high recovery, The company has been engaged in development two years and has a substantial tonnage of cinnabar ore to its credit.
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The Nevada Pure Salt Company, Ltd., expects to complete its refining plant at Saltco, near Fallon, Nevada, by March first, according to President William Thomson. Its deposits are among the largest known in the West, and it is planned to produce about 300 tons of salt daily. W. F. Travis is General Superintendent.
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At the first of the year, drifting and sinking will give place to long drill prospecting at the Container Mine, in the Mt. Montgomery District, Nevada. The objective of the drills is to determine the downward projection of a cropping that has been traced 1,200 feet at the surface. The drills will operate at various angles to between 200 and 300 feet. In the lower workings, the ore runs between $15 and $20 a ton, and there are 200 feet of backs from the lower tunnel. J. L. McKinney, of Arlemont, Nevada, has a one-half interest in the property.
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The Southgold Nevada Mines Company, C. R. Terrell, General Manager, Box 1017, Tonopah, Nevada, is installing a Rose gold concentrator of 75 tons daily capacity, on Eden Creek. It will be used in treating approximately 250,000 tons of surface material, which carries as high as $5 in gold to the cubic yard. Ore will also be brought to the plant by tram, from the Crucible Property on the opposite side of the creek, which is controlled by Terrell. In the Crucible ground, five feet of $18 free-milling gold ore has been exposed, and only one wall is in sight. If present plans mature, a crusher and rod mill will be added later, to handle the vein material. The lower tunnel in the Southgold ground is in 140 feet, and in another 30 feet will cut a rich streak of ore, that at a depth of 20 feet, assayed as high as $500 a ton in gold.
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A. Whittaker is said to have leased the Rockland Gold Mine, in the Pine Grove District, 26 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, from the Vignos Family of Canton, Ohio. This mine has been a rich producer, but was closed on account of litigation. L. B. Spencer of Tonopah is sampling the ore bodies, and mapping the workings, and will be associated with Whittaker, in the development of the property.
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The Gold Coast Mines Company is said to have acquired the Mt. Lincoln group of seven gold-silver claims, in the Como District, near Virginia City, Nevada, and will make arrangements for its development. The vein system is said to resemble that of the Comstock Lode. The officers of the Gold Coast are: W. W. Charles; President; L. Darbyshire, Vice-president; and C. C. Ashley, Secretary and Treasurer. The main office is 209 Van Nuys Building, Los Angeles, California.
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The Bowen-Ely Mining Company, William N. Bowen, President and General Manager, plans the resumption of development of the Elgin Claims, in Egan Canyon, near Cherry Creek, Nevada. The lower tunnel has been advanced 700 feet, and in 600 feet, will cut the first of three veins with backs of 800 feet. The upper tunnel has been driven 320 feet, following a cross fracture that contains a good grade of ore, and is within 20 feet of the vein. Both tunnels will be operated. At a point 250 feet from the portal of the lower adit, a flow of water has been opened that is sufficient for all purposes, and to supply a mill. Bowen-Ely also owns and operates the Surprise group of three claims, northeast: of Ely. Here a shaft has been sunk 140 feet, and 500 feet of. drifting done. Gold is the principal mineral in both properties.
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The Gold Circle Consolidated Mines Company at Midas, Nevada, is said to have leased its Elko Prince Mine, to Victor Jacobsen, Oscar Berg, and Charles Lyons, former employees of the company.
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THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 15, 1931

NEVADA MINING NEWS

Judge George A. Bartlett, of the District Court, has terminated the receivership of the Nevada Packard Mines Company, at Lower Rochester, Nevada, which began ten years ago. The claims of supply houses, with interest, totaled $1,721.34; $1,000 was paid to Frank Margrave, who had been receiver for the company; and Hawkins, Mayotte, and Hawkins, attorneys, were paid $3,500. The balance of the company’s funds, if there be any left, will go to the company.
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The Dispo Lead Mining Company, Roger Scofield, Superintendent, Mina, Nevada, has opened 12 inches of silver-lead ore, at a depth of 185 feet, in its incline shaft. This shaft goes down on an incline of 35 degrees, from a point near the portal of the tunnel, and at a depth of 180 feet, turns to a nearly vertical position. In the tunnel the vein is in limestone, and averaged four feet in width. Shipments have averaged 20 percent lead, 20 ounces silver, and 6 to 7 percent copper. According to L. B. Spencer, of Mina, from whom Dispo Lead is leasing, the largest ore bodies are found at the junction of the vein, with cross-fractures, and they are from six to seven feet wide.
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The Gold Metals Bonanza Mining Company, H. G. Clinton, President, Manhattan, Nevada, has given an option on its property, to Joseph E. Shale, A. Homer Black, A. G. Raycraft, Roger Dougherty, and Martin Hartman. Further examination of the ground is in progress. Specimens of sensationally rich gold ore have been mined from the North Drift, on the 120-foot Level by the Gold Metals Mining Company, A. Homer Black, Manager, Tonopah, Nevada. The ore is four and one-half feet wide, across the face of the drift, and the high-grade is being mined separately, sacked and stored underground. A carload of ore from the North Drift has been consigned to the Selby Smelter, and another carload to the International Smelter, at Tooele, Utah.
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The Missouri Monarch Consolidated Mines Company has suspended operations at the Spruce Monarch, and at the Black Forest Mines, at Black Forest, Nevada, until March 1. Foreman George A. Shaw will remain at the mines during the winter and make examinations of the ground.
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The first cleanup from the Desert Mill, of the Tonopah Mining Company, during the month of December, was made on the twenty-first. It was 15 bars of bullion, containing 368 ounces gold, and 27,939 ounces of silver, or $16,450 gross value. The mill is not working at capacity, and cleanups are irregular. During November, the Desert Mill received 1,302 dry tons of ore, of which 1,058 were from leasing operations in the company’s mines; 59 tons from the Belmont Mine, and 185 tons from other shippers. H. A. Johnson, of Tonopah, Nevada, is Manager of the Tonopah Mining Company.
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The American Development Company, Ed. Benane, Superintendent, has hauled 16 carloads of barium, from its Eagleville Mines, to Fallon, Nevada, for shipment to the plant at Oakland, California. According to Superintendent Benane, there has been a great demand for barium. The company is also developing a barium mine, north of Carlin, and a tungsten mine, near the Eagleville mines.
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The first deal reported from the new Scossa camp, north of Lovelock, Nevada, is the option taken by J. J. Gamier, of Reno, on the Extension Fraction, and the North Star Extension 2, and 3, from Thomas R. Devaga, H. P. Meadows, and M. O. Herwig. This ground adjoins the Wild Animal, and the Anaconda claims, of the Scossa Brothers.
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The Pan Nevada Consolidated Mines Company, at Carrara, Nevada, is slated for considerable development and construction. It has leased 25 claims located and first developed by John Biddlecome, veteran Tintic miner; the Post Ranch; and the American Carrara Marble Company’s quarry, and $200,000 power plant, which will furnish electric power for operations. Biddlecome has mined considerable gold from surface workings.
Examinations of the ground by Walter Gordon Clark, and C. C. Jones, of Los Angeles, consulting geologists, reveal a formation favorable for large size replacement ore deposits. The limestone, of Ordovician age, which is overlain by quartzite, is cut by seven northwest-southeast veins, and a quartz monzonite dike, that outcrops for a length of 2,500 feet. Well equipped buildings, and some machinery, are on the ground.
A new eight-drill compressor is to be installed at the North Shaft and the one there, moved to the South Shaft, about a mile away. Cyanide tests have recovered 97 percent of the gold in the ore, and it is planned to build a mill to treat the ore already developed. John S. Cooper, of Los Angeles, is President of the company; W. D. Plowden is Vice-President; and R. K. Garrett is Secretary-Treasurer. Sal Camp is Superintendent at Carrara.
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Plans are being made for water devlopment for the mill of the Indian Mines Corporation, at Silver Peak, Nevada, Fred Vollmar, Jr., General Manager. In connection with this installation, they will require six to eight miles, of four to six-inch pipe, and a variable-speed electric pump, designed for a head of 2,000 feet.
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The Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Inc., Harvey H. Wells, Superintendent, Arlemont, Nevada, has resumed the operation of one of its furnaces. A carload of fuel oil arrived at Coaldale, on the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, and was hauled to the mine. Red Rock has been a large producer of quicksilver, from high-grade ore.
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Carl W. Chilson has completed a geophysical survey of the Bell Isle and North Bell Isle Mines, near Tuscarora Nevada, which he holds under bond and lease. Two virgin fissures that seem to have possibilities, have been located, and above the 100-foot sub-level in the mine, it is estimated that there are 20,000 tons of ore that run from $2.50 to $10 a ton in silver and gold. During the winter, Chilson is considering operating a 25-ton mill on the ore in the mine, and on some ores from the Tuscarora District.
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J. B. Haley, of Reno, Nevada, former manager of the Ramsey Comstock Mine, has taken a lease and option on the Keystone Mine, at Olinghouse, near Wadsworth, Nevada, and is making preparations to develop the ground. A hoist and compressor are being installed. Leasers have mined some high-grade ore from this property.
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The Basque Mining and Milling Company, F. S. Brereton, President and General Manager, has placed its 100-ton mill, 17 miles north of Winnemucca, Nevada, in operation. Of special significance is the rich ore that is being mined from a 10-inch vein, in the No. 3 Stope, in the No. 1 Tunnel. It is said to be worth from $7.50 to $10 a pound, and is being sacked. The ore that is being run through the mill is worth from $10 to $15 a ton.
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Bart McCoy, Manager of the McCoy Lease, from the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company, at Battle Mountain, Nevada, and his brother, Melvin, have taken over a small mill that was built on the ground last summer, and will operate it on lessees’ ores. Tom Wilkerson will have charge of the plant. The ore runs from $10 to $25 a ton in gold.
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Encouraged by developments at the 100-foot Level of its Murphy-Byers Lease, the Pioneer Mines Company is reconditioning the McTigue Mill at Silver City, Nevada, according to Charles A. Norcross of Reno, President and General Manager. It is a 30 to 35-stamp mill. The ore will be crushed to 40-mesh, and a recovery of 85 percent has been made by simple amalgamation tests. The tailings will be saved for cyanidation later. The north drift is following the Cramer Vein, but its width has not been determined yet. It is of milling grade and streaks as wide as two feet, and worth as high as $25 a ton, have been opened in it.
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The Kernick Divide Mining Company, J. A. McLaughlin, Superintendent, Fallon, Nevada, has completed its ore bins, and is putting the finishing touches on its 50-ton flotation mill. A test run of the mill will be made within a few days, and its regular operation is planned for next month.
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The Bowen-Ely Mining Company, William N. Bowen, President and General Manager, has opened between four and six feet of ore, that carries $318 per ton, in its Elgin Group, near Cherry Creek, Nevada. A chunk of ore has been mined from the vein that has a ribbon of pure gold running through it, and on either side of the streak, is flecked with gold. This ore is in one of the three parallel north-south veins that have been explored by shallow cuts over a length of 2,500 feet.
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A thorough examination has been made of the Original Gilbert mining claims, in the Gilbert District, in Nevada, now being operated by the Gilbert Standard Mining Company, and arrangements are being made to start work on company account. Lessees are sacking ore from a 12-inch vein, in the drift, from the bottom of the 46-foot shaft, that assays higher than $40 a ton. The sacked ore is shipped to the Desert Mill, at Millers. F. L. Rigsby is President and General Manager of the Gilbert Standard.
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Bradshaw, Inc., treating the tailings of the Goldfield Consolidated, at Goldfield, Nevada, closed down for the season, on December 15. In spite of a shortage of water at times, Manager Mark Bradshaw reports a very successful season. “During the winter,” he said, “we will string a pipe line to the old Sandstorm Shaft, and there will be plenty of water available when we resume operations some time next April.” He also stated that another dividend will be distributed after January 1. All indebtedness has been cleared up this season, and in addition, $80,000 has been paid to the stockholders.
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The Castle Peak Quicksilver Company, H. E. Loufek, President and General Manager, 306 First National Bank Building, Reno, Nevada, is confining its production near Virginia City, to three flasks of quicksilver a day. The furnace is a 25-ton Gould rotary, electrically operated, and is treating low-grade ore, 78 feet above the mill level. Operating costs are low. Eleven men are on the payroll, and six of them are engaged in development, confined largely to crosscutting from the mill tunnel, below the stope. The furnace is operated three shifts, and one man can handle each shift. The last shipment was consigned to San Francisco on December 2. It consisted of 100 flasks, and will remain there until the Eastern market improves.
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S. K. Atkinson, 615 First National Bank Building, Boise, Idaho, has asked for an option on 540 acres of placer deposits, four and one-third miles down the canyon, to the flat below Rawhide, Nevada, owned by B. G. Hood, and Frank J. Channing, of Reno, Nevada, and R. G. Hart, of Rawhide. Atkinson is President and General Manager of the Idaho Gold Dredging Corporation, with properties, and a dredge in operation, in the Boise Basin, Idaho. The company contemplates extending its operations into other dredging fields.
He has made an extensive survey of the Rawhide placers, and proposes to churn drill the ground. A dredge will be installed pending the results of drilling. It is estimated that there are 50,000,000 yards of 50-cent gravel. The basin below the town, holds an inexhaustible supply of water.
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The court has granted title to the Lucky Strike, and other claims, at Ellendale, to A. T. Wilkerson, Mrs. Wilkerson, and Arthur Raycraft, of Tonopah. The title was contested by James and Bert Murphy, and the heirs of Thomas Clifford who claimed the ground, by reason of prior location. Decision was rendered after it had been proven that assessment work had not been kept up.
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The citizens of Austin have secured a lease and option on the Austin Manhattan property, which has constantly been extended until it comprises nearly 100 patented mining claims, including some unpatented locations, mill, buildings, some equipment, and water rights. Many of Austin’s famous producers, such as the Curtis, King Alfred, and Lander Mines, are included in the consolidation. Its production runs close to $50,000,000 in silver and gold. None of the mines has been worked below 800 feet, and most of them not below 400 and 500 feet.
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The Flowery Mines Company, Roy Hardy, Superintendent, Virginia City, Nevada, intends to resume milling soon. The plant has a capacity of 200 to 250 tons daily, and will also handle custom ore from the Erno Lease, of the Ophir Mining Company, and from the Belmont Uncle Sam Mining Company.
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Shipments from the Combined Metals Reduction Company’s mines, at Pioche, Nevada, L. G. Thomas, Mine Superintendent, have been temporarily slowed up on account of the freezing of ores in its mill, at Bauer, Utah. A large reserve of ore is available. Extensive development is in progress, confined largely to sinking a four-compartment shaft to provide an outlet for the Combined Metals No. 1 Shaft. Six miles to the west of the new shaft, two other shafts are being sunk to explore the same bed in the Comet District. The development is financed by W. F. Snyder, and Sons, of Salt Lake City, Utah; the International Smelting Company; and James Elwood Jones, coal operator of West Virginia.
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The Salt Lake Pioche Mining Company, at Pioche, Nevada, expects to start shipments soon. It has opened a 14-inch vein of gold ore, at a depth of 102 feet. C. S. Martin, 722 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, is President and General Manager.
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The Tem-Piute Mining and Milling Company, W. R. McKenzie, Manager, Caliente, Nevada, is shipping selected ore and concentrates to the Utah smelters. The product runs high in silverM and is returning a fair profit, despite the low price of the white metal.
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The Roberts Mining and Milling Company, G. A. Smith, General Manager, 603 Heartwell Building, Long Beach, California, has installed a compressor and other equipment at its Hildebrand group of mines, in Troy Canyon, near Mill City, Nevada, and is mining and developing. This is a gold-silver proposition. A substantial tonnage of milling ore is exposed. Belle McCord Roberts of Long Beach is President of the company.
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THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 30, 1931

NEVADA

Due to the prolonged depression in the lead and zinc market, the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., at Tybo, Nevada, on January 14, gave notice of a wage cut of 50 cents a day. Superintendent George I. Barnett stated that present rate of production will be continued, and the zinc concentrates will be stored until a better market prevails.
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The Scossa Gold Belt Company, holding location title to five claims, a half mile east of the original strike, intends to start work as soon as the weather permits. This is the first corporation formed on property in the district, and it has recently taken over additional ground belonging to the Southern Pacific Railroad. Col. W. S. Prosky, and F. J. DeLongchamps, both of Reno, Nevada, are officials of the company.
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L. R. Robins, former Superintendent of the Tonopah Belmont Mine, and W. I. Hupp, California mining man, have examined the Olympic and Warrior Mines, near Simon, Nevada, and may join L. J. Bacoccina, in his lease operations on those mines. Gold is the principal metal in both mines, and, if an agreement can be reached, the ore from both mines, will be treated at the Olympic Mill.
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The Como Consolidated Mines Company, at Dayton, Nevada, is making preparations to drive the old Boyle Tunnel, another 1,000 feet, to connect with the Como and North Rapidan Veins, which have recently been examined by William Sharp, Mining Engineer, of Reno, and Oscar Monrad, of Detroit, Michigan. The Como Consolidated, of which Charles Oster, 111 Broadway, New York City, is President, acquired the ground in 1929, and late last summer, finished cleaning out, enlarging, and timbering this tunnel, to a length of nearly 3,500 feet. This is a gold-silver property.
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The Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., has suspended shipments of zinc concentrates from its Tybo Plant, to the refinery at Kellogg, Idaho. The concentrates will be stored at Tybo until a better market for the metal prevails. The Tybo plant produces about 25 tons of zinc concentrates.
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The three-compartment shaft of the Goldfield Deep Mines Company, at Goldfield, Nevada, has reached a depth of 2,250 feet, according to Superintendent Elmer Burt. No extra flow of water has been encountered. While the formation is all that could be desired, it is being well timbered.
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The Queen City Mining and Milling Company, Joe McFadden, Superintendent, is sacking high-grade ore, 17 miles from Goldfield, Nevada, and storing the remaining ore for milling. The ore is a 20-inch vein opened in the East Drift, from the 265-foot incline shaft. Three of the richest samples assayed 123, 328, and 358, ounces silver, and carried some gold, lead, and copper. This ground was at one time, worked by the Marinette Mining Company.
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Eric Schliff, Mining Engineer of Los Angeles, has purchased mining property in the Olinghouse District, near Wadsworth, Nevada, adjoining the Hilda Property, which he purchased last fall, following two months’ examinations in the district. The newly acquired property is the Bluebird, and No. 2 Claims, purchased from Charles Peffley of Reno, and the John D. Property, purchased from A. Richards.
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The Tehama Mines Syndicate was forced to suspend the operation of its 25-ton ball mill in Tehama Canyon, near Imlay, Nevada, on account of frozen pipes and attendant water troubles. At the 150-foot point in the 550-foot tunnel, high-grade copper ore, with some values in silver and gold, was cut. It has a width of from four to seven feet, and the ore is being blocked out as the drift advances. Three shifts will be employed as soon as the weather permits moving the ore to the bins. Boston capital is financing the work, and Charles Green is in charge of the mine.
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The Standard Gypsum Company, located at Ludwig, Nevada, is shipping an average of 75 carloads a month, and has the distinction of being the heaviest shipper over the Copper Belt Railway. Three products are shipped, consisting of plaster, crushed gypsum for fertilizer, and nut-size gypsum for the cement mills. Engineers conducted a diamond drill survey of the property in 1924, and estimated that two and a half million tons of gypsum are available.
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The Premier Mines Corporation, of Nevada, plans to resume operations, and will drive its 330-foot tunnel, north of the mill, to crosscut a series of veins. Ore will be mined from all the present workings of the Lower Mine, including the Main Glory Hole, South Tunnel and Main Lower Tunnel workings, according to Walter J. Bracking, President and General Manager, 129 North Center Street, Reno, Nevada. This company has been working since its organization in 1926, except for a brief shut down during the metal depression.

Its holdings comprise more than 300 acres in Ormsby County, three miles West of Carson City, where there are five known deposits of copper-gold-silver ore. Water and timber are sufficient, and the railroad and supply base is close. All equipment, including a 150-ton flotation mill, are closely consolidated to afford economical operation, and the addition of another unit to the mill is planned.
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The Gray Copper Corporation, at Contact, Nevada, plans to do considerable development next Spring, and ship some copper ore. This organization was formerly known as the Gray Mining Company. E. F. Gray, the original discoverer and promoter of the copper deposits, is President and Manager of the new organization.
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J. Irving Crowell, Jr., has opened up the Third Level, in the Fluorspar Mine at Beatty, Nevada, and is mining the entire production through that level. Some development is scheduled for the lower level. At the railroad, storage space has been doubled, thus permitting the loading of two cars at the same time.
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The production of the Tonopah Mining Company’s Desert Mill, at Millers, Nevada, for December, was 724 ounces of gold, and 54,875 ounces of silver, or a total value of $31,200. H. A. Johnson, at Tonopah, is General Manager of the company.
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On January 1, the Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Ltd., at Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, Harvey H. Wells, Superintendent, shipped 17 flasks of mercury. The B. and B. Quicksilver Company, W. T. Childers, Manager, also working at Mt. Montgomery, shipped 20 flasks of quicksilver on January 7. The Raymond Van Ness Mining Company, Peter Buol, Manager, operating at Spanish Springs, shipped 20 flasks on January 5.
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Nine patented mining claims at Golden Arrow, 50 miles northeast of Tonopah, Nevada, have been purchased by Capt. G. W. Cotter, who is now engaged in cleaning up the property, and putting it in shape, for a resumption of operations. The ground was owned by the Stokes Estate, and formerly managed by Cotter. It was at one time, a good producer of gold ore, ranging in value from $20 to $100 a ton.
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The Searchlight Gold Corporation, W. J. Loring, Managing Director, has assembled most of its machinery in the 100-ton milling plant, at Searchlight, and intends to begin production soon. It includes a heavy distillate engine, ball mill, flotation machines, and amalgamation machinery, operating on a sodium process owned largely by the McCarthy interests in the Searchlight Gold Corporation.

The Duplex, which is the principal mine, has been cleaned out to the 800-foot Level, and development is outlined covering that depth, the 700, sub-600, 600, and 500-foot levels. It is estimated that 35,000 tons of ore are in sight in the mine, and about 25,000 tons on the tailings’ dump. Gold, silver, and copper, are the principal minerals in the ore, and it is planned to use the sodium process of the McCarthy’s, incorporated as the Nascent Amalgam Corporation, in treating these tailings. A new hoist and gallows frame have been installed. The concentrates will be trucked over a good road to Nipton, California, 20 miles west of Searchlight. Albert H. McCarthy is Superintending operations under Loring’s guidance.
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The Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., John G. Kirchen, General Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has shut down. The company employed between 180 and 200 men, and was treating 300 tons of ore daily. Its production averaged $65,000 a month. According to Engineer Homer Williams, instructions were to leave the property in such condition that operation could be resumed with a minimum of trouble and expense, should conditions warrant the resumption of work.
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The crosscut at the 100-foot Level of the Gold Zone Mining Company, at Round Mountain, Nevada, is out 46 feet, and is penetrating the vein, which assayed $11, in the shaft. No assays have been made at the lower level. Albert Silver of Tonopah, Nevada, is General Manager.
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Frank A. Cassidy is exhibiting samples of gold picture rock, from his lease on the property of the Willow Creek Mining Company, in the Willow Creek District. These samples were taken from a stope, above the 200-foot Level of the mine, and a winze sunk to a depth of about 70 feet, showed the ore to be 12 feet wide. On account of trouble with water, development will be confined for the time being to the 200 Level. Arrangements are to be made for the installation of a 20-ton mill next spring.
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The United States Brucite Corporation has reached the point in development where it will install a steam shovel, and other equipment, for the economic production of brucite. Another indication that the mine is nearing production, is that H. A. Severinghaus, Manager of the organization, has changed his residence from Phoenix, Arizona, to Reno, Nevada. R. F. Smith has been Superintendent at the mine, for several months.
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The Original Bullfrog Mines, and new 100-ton mill at Beatty, Nevada, have been idle since December, because of labor liens against the Douglass-Faulk Finance Company of Los Angeles. The finance company leased the mines, and built the mill. When the mill was ready to crush ore the workmen asked for a part, at least, of their wages, and when payment was not forthcoming, filed liens against the property and quit work. John Burmeister is in charge of the mine.
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On January 5, the Gold Hill Development Company, H. A. Johnson, General Manager, Tonopah, Nevada, shipped two bars of gold bullion, valued at $12,000. This makes a total production of $24,847.98 for the month of December.
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Through recent communication with George B. Wright, Box 637, Reno, Nevada, we learn that the Indian Peak Corporation, of which he is President, will confine the early future to the installation of machinery. Air drills, machinery for ventilation, and for a steam power plant, will be the principal purchases. The company controls 320 acres in the Rochester District, about six miles north of the original discovery that yielded about $12,000,000 within a decade. The vein system has been followed 9,000 feet, and opened by about 1,300 feet of workings. A large tonnage of ore, that will average $18 a ton in gold, has been proven, and further development is scheduled for next Spring.
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The 110-pound chunk of ore that was mined from the 300-foot Level of the Mammoth Mine, by the Gilbert Mammoth Gold Mines Company, ran even higher in gold than was anticipated, and yielded $4,850. It was so rich, that it had seams and spots of the pure yellow metal through it.
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The Southwest Mines Investment Company intends to install a gallows frame, hoisting plant, and such other equipment as may be needed, to continue its 165-foot shaft in the Wedekind Mines, to a further depth of 75 feet, and do lateral work. J. E. Miller, Box 995, Reno, Nevada, is President and General Manager of the organization.
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All of the assets of the Humboldt Sulphur Company, at Sulphur, Nevada, have been turned over to the Sierra Sulphur Corporation, Ltd., a Nevada corporation, which will be the operating company, according to Charles S. Haley, 318 Crocker Building, San Francis