The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-06-23
MANGANESE
AT NEIHART,
Another Valuable Resource in
and Around the Com
ing Butte.
A CHANGE IN MINING LAWS.
The Movements Of MOntana's
COxey Contingent in the
Eastern States.
A CHANGE IN MINING LAWS,
MANGANESE IN NEIHART.
1t is of Great Value to Smelters in the
Reduction Of Base Ores and Other

PURPOSES.
From the Tribune:
The advance sheets of oMineral
Resources of the United States for
1893" of the United States geologic
al survey are at hand.
On the production of manganese
Joseph d. Weeks has the following
regarding Neihart:
"The manganiferous silver ores
similar in character to those of Colo
RADIO are found in Montana, at Nei-
hart, Meagher county. They occur
in the form of black and brown OK
ides covering the sulphide ores of
silver. The ore is associated with
sulphate of baryta.
"But little account is taken of the
manganese, it being shipped to
Great Falls to assist in smelling the
silver ores. At Castle, Meagher
county, are some very large veins
of black oxide Of purer quality
than at Neihart. These carry small
amounts of lead. At present these
are not worked.
$50 far as has been ascertained
these are the only deposits of man
ganiferous silver ores in northern
Montana.
Through the courtesy of F. M.
Smith, superintendent of the United
Smelling and Refining company's
smelter, Montana, we have the fol-
lowing statement regarding the ship
ments of of silver-bearing manganif-
erous ores from Meagher county,
Mon tana:
"The shipments were practically
from one camp, Neihart, and the
greater bulk from one mine, the
Gait. This ore was all shipped to
the Union smelter so that it's receipts
really represent the total output.
The manganese contents are quite
small, usually running from 5 to 7
per cent. In lead smelling, man.
ganese is of value to the smelter as
hux and in practice is treated the
same as iron. 1t is also of value to
the miner in this way: Smaller
prices are charged in treatment ac-
cording as the percentages of iron
and manganese are higher and that
of silica lower. In other words, the
treatment charges increase with the
excess of silica, and therefore the
manganese contents are of import
ance in determining this excess.
"There were received in 1898
from the Gait Mining company g.
5O9,432 pounds, or sixty-fve car
loads, of ore, amounting therefore to
1,254.7 tons. The receipts or ore
from other mines, including the Ne
vada, Lizzie and others, which con-
tanned from 5 to 7 per cent of man
ganese, would probably bring the
total output of this character of ore
up to 1900 tons for 1893"
In addition to the foregoing mines
others might be mentioned which
last year were non-producers. The
manganese deposits of O'Brien creek
are we'll known as we'll as those of
lower Carpenter creek. In fact it is
not too much to say that the value
of the manganese deposits of Nei-
hart are not we'll understood, and
that they will yet form an important
part of the exported minerals of N Ell
hart. 1t will be observed that the
per cent of Gait ores went as high
as nine in manganese, and this too,
in high grade argentiferous ore; but
undoubtedly large amounts of man
ganese were dumped as their silver
value was so inferior the owners did
not care to pay the cost of shipping.
The time is now arriy ed when these
deposits will be thoroughly examin-
ed and their extent and value de-
termined for the erection of iron
furnaces at Great Falls in the near
future is moral certainty, and then
a home market will be furnished