Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-05-23
HUNToON. VALLEY
A Technical Description of the
Great Wonder Mine.


Lee Brothers, in Huntoon valley,
may be Of interest to your mining
readers. Having made critical ex-
animation OF their hill during three
days careful work, I report the ex.
isting facts
The mineral bill is clay, slate, tai
cose, old silurian, much folded. por-
phyritic and blocky, with vertical
strata Oh northeast end northwest
half much stratified and dipping 40
deg. northwest. This section is high
ly mineralized and full of intermina
bic orc streaks, carrying pay for 200
x6OO feet. The hill is broken on three
planes, showing the lateral action of
the southwest aud northeast dykes.
Three dykes OF augfte porphyry abut
the hill-one on northeast, several
hundred feet across, the others on
south southwest and southwest sides,
the latter being half mile through
it, and 800 feet above the desert
floor, the main one on the northeast
Eextendings southeast half mile,
changing from acid porphyry to lip
idalite and andalusite, forming four
cones between which a belt of clay
extends 300 feet wide by quarter
mile east, carrying high grade gold
and silver ores.
The dykes surrounding the hill
form six distinct and separate erup-
tions, although undoubtedly origi-
mating from one volcanic center,
which will probably reveal something
wonderful with depth
Fracturing on a grand scale must
have occurred. At present the visi-
bic ore bodies are much folded, but
hold general strike southwest, dip
ping southeast 80 to 60 deg, but so
broken as to suggest local displace-
nent, their true course being yet un-
known. The main ore center will
probably be found midway between
the dykes in the region of dynamic
action, 400 feet west of northeast
dykes and from 500 feet below apex
downward to unknown depths. In
tdications point to one main body,
where the surface lodges will con-
verge with fractures below, radiating
in many objections.
About 500 feet west OF the east
dyke commences the strata belt, sew
eral hundred feet north and south,
600 east and west, dipping 40 deg
northwest, full Of stratas, feeders to
hidden bodies, which may all be quar-
ried out and milled. These stratafied
auriferous bodies extend southwest
to smaller dyke and end in large
high grade ledge, dipping 20 south
southeast which abut into the main
porphyry hill, of silicious augite for
nation. estimate the average grade
of all rock exposed at $40 per ton
(much will mill 5000, with streaks
under the hanging running into the
thousands, gold, and carrying many
bases, as iron and lead in spots, sill
yer sulphides, otherwise free, but no
com bined elements,as zinc, antimony,
ETC.; rich and beautiful specimens of
silver ore Of several thousand ounces
value, in which the quartz fairly
sparkles with silver sulphides, chlor-
ides and bromide-the latter cover
ing all a sharp azure blue.
The main body of rock is hematite
oxide, uniformly auriferous. A semi
barren cone seems to run through
through the center of the lodges,
carrying low values, like iron. Con
centrates from the arrastra average
rs cents a polnd in gold and silver
On the northeast end OF hill is drift
float which shows ledge matter to be
at least 80 inches wide. Here it is
straight gold, very rich, which cheers
the gold miners heart to see-none
of your barren, vtreous stuff. The
exact locus of the hill is on the north
west side OF ahe southwest end OF
Huntoon valley, one mile northeast
erly from its extreme corner, being
the lowest hill facing southeast ut
valley floor, volcanic crest OF range
being distant northwest II miles in
air line, 80 miles. southwest from.
Hawthorne, 30 miles west of Bell
Vile and 33 miles north of Benton;
altitude OF valley floor, COLO feet,
Grave errors have been committed
in present work, the Lee Brothers
running $50 foot tunnel southwest,