The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-11

you IlaQG. asked ME. IdlleISOH.
Il have determined that the forma-
ton in the faults is nothing more than
attrition clay that has gathered up
dragged matter along the fault planes,
said Mr. King.
State whether or not there is any
eruptive porphyry or porphyry dykes
in the faults in any openings you saw"
There is no eruptive porphyry or
porphyry dykes so related to the faAlt
walls as to be regarded as part of them.
All of which indicates to me that nc
| porphyry has entered the fault assures
by injection"
Are you able to account for tho
dragged porphyry in the faults?''
Il cannot relate it to any particular
every instance. which has been de-
tached from the faulted porphyry dykes
at one point or another
Mr.. King described the crossing of
the north vein and the cross vein in
the ground east of the faults, and
stated that while the cross vein was
later than the other the naturalization
of both was primary.
when did the naturalization of the
east and west veins occur with relation
to the faulting?" asked Mr. Patterson.
"All of the naturalization occurred
prior to the faulting,' said the witness
He said that there is no evidence in
d
position of ore.
He described primary and secondary
deposition, and the conditions he found
in the disputed ground. giving his rea"
sons for believing that no secondary
deposition or re-enrichment took place
He said that he believed that when the
oxidation of the upper ore bodies oc-
Cured the minerals were carried off,
and there is no evidence of redeposition
that he could see
Mr.. King, you have gone into the
structure of the fault walls, the con-
tents of the interfault area and the
various features of the fault territory
What do you call the faulted ground?'
asked Mr.. Patterson.
Il consider it to be composite fault
lode, in the miners sense" said Mr..
| King.
why do you call it a lode?"
II once Thought that a geolosist
should say what lode is. In the Rich
mond mining case l was enlightened
once and forever that it is the province
of the courts to define a lode, and the
function of the geologist to examine
the facts and ascertain if they conform
to the definition of the courts"
The witness then read extracts from
judicial decisions defining lode. The
decisions defined a lode as "a body of
mineral or mineral bearing rock hav-
| ing uSlHeu Ill lIic VI
the mountain"
"As far as I can understand it, it is
only necessary that there be a body of
ore in the mountain, having defined
boundaries. This is a body of ore in
the mountain. It's boundaries are abso-
lutely defined, and I do not hesitate to
say that it is lode" said Mr.. King.
The cross examination began under
Mr.. Hughes.
Mr.. King, how long did you study
the decisions that resulted in the defin-
ition of lode you gave just now?'
asked Mr.. Hughes.
Il have read decisions for several
years." said the witness.
He stated that he formed his opinion
as to the nature of the north and south
lode before reading a certain decision.
THE Richmond said that the lode
was within boundary inside of which
was ore, while outside of them there
was no ore, did it not?"
Yes"
I'm this lode you have only a thin
clay sewage as a boundary and ore on
the outside at many places?"
Yes: but that is not all of the condi-
tons"
Mr.. King said that there might be
| an ore body that was not a lode.
What kind of a location would you
make on an ore deposit in the mountain
lnat Was not loue' ooheu Mi'
| Hughes.
I'D make the usual location, I sup
| pose" said the witness.
THAT would be lode location,
would it not?"
| Yes, l dare say
| What is geological vein, Mr..
King?"
Biologists have no rights in the
case
! hi in
well, as defined by this geologist, 1t
Is a geological lode
rs this geologist giving definition
that departs from the accepted rules
of his profession"
mo, sir. This lode differs in some
respects from all geological lodes yet
| defined in the books, so I'm not dis
agreeing with any authority"
You have called the ground between
| the faults a horse. Is a body Of ore
between walls a horse?"
1T may we'll be-
Mr.. King drew a diagram to show
| how this might be, and Mr.. Hughes
followed suit with two or three othel S
to illustrate suppositional cases.
The diagram of MIR. King showed
part of a faulted vein between the two
walls of a composite or double fdi!t
and some distance from the fault
planes.
| hllS COHleHueu tIidl IL liiCit " oh
a. mineralized vein between two fault
assures and the fault flsssures were 81
feet distant from the vein on both SIDES
the lode would reach from one fauF
assure to the other, and the granite
masses on both sides of the vein anc
inside the fault assures would not form
the walls of the vein.
The witness said that where there
are assures running one way arc
crossed by assures at right angles tla'
do not displace them, a lode can be TO-
Gated either way, and the first locator
will hold the veins located by him as G
lode.
He said that it is of no consequence
whether the veins within lode rul
crosswise of the area between tn
walls or parallel with the walls.
The dimensions of the north ant
south lode were discussed.
Il never heard of company aoan
doning a lode because it was TO-
large" said Mr.. King.
But you've heard of some na%in'
trouble in keeping it," responded MI