Mohave County miner., 1900-01-13
The Rare Minerals Of the Hills,


metal and mineral in the kingdom is
found in some part of the Black Hills.
1t would seem that old Dame Nature
had lot Of odds and ends left over af
ter she had planted the world with
minerals, and she dumped everything
that she had left in the Black Hills.
DIR. Herman Reinbold of Omaha has
discovered that a spodumene, which is
found in few places in the Black
Hills, contains sufficient lithia to make
the mining of it profitable. He has
shipped in the past year $50 tons of
the spodumene to Hanover, Germany,
where it is treated in specially pre-
pared plant and the lithia values are
extracted. Lithia Is worth about l.75s
per pound and the rock that is mined
from DIR. Reinbold's mine contains
about 6 per cent of it. 1t is grayish
crystal and appears in the mine in the
form of large chimney. Spodumene
had never been used for the extraction
of lithia until the past year, when DR..
Reinbold discovered that lithia could
be extracted from the rock at a small
cost. The lithia is manufactured into
tablets and lithia waters, used for
medicinal purposes. The company in
Germany formerly used another sub
stance found in Saxony from which the
lithia was extracted. This company
! now proposes to erect large plant at
Omaha in which the spodumene from
the Black Hills will be treated.
Another very rare mineral that DR..
Reinbold has been mining is beryl,
which he has discovered in a few
places in the Black Hills. This rare
substance is worth 35s per pound and
it is used in the manufacture of incan-
! descent gas jets. The principal mar
ket for it is in France.
Wolfram ore is another product that
this man has been making a fortune
on. This ore contains tungsten acid,
which is used in hardening steel. 1t
~
cred by Dr. Reinbold, and it has been
found in so many places in the Black
Hills now that the market has almost
, been glutted and the high price has
been reduced considerably. For the
best wolfram ore in the Black Hills,
certain Philadelphia companies will
| .,tt 70
per ton at the mine. The ore is much
heavier than gold or silver bearing
rock The wolfram ore that is now
being mined north of Lead, accor ding
to DR.. Reinbold, contains too much
niobium. This is a very heavy min
eral which remains with the wolfram
when the latter is concentrated and AS
it is practically worthless, it lessons
the value of the wolfram ore.
DR.. Reinbold states that the Black
Hills has a wonderful future in the
utilizing of the millions of tons of iron
ore which is found in nearly every
camp in the country. Some iron ore
and there are natural advantages, such
as coal, water and railway facilities,
which would make the smelling of the
ore heap process.
DR.. Reinbold has also been shipping
some manganese, which he has found
in different mining camps. There is
| Il f,,t, In, ha Of
northern Black Hills. In the Bear
Gulch mining district there are great
many tin-bearing veins, which carry
from to 30 per cent tin, together with
a fair value in gold. Along all of the
creeks there are great quantities of
stream tin, or cassiterite, which is prac-
tically pure tin. A general average of
the tin has been taken from this cas-
siterite and it has been found to be
" per cent. Some of the veins that
carry the metal are 30 feet wide. The
camp is about % miles northwest of
Deadwood and it is comparatively
new district. Since the great failure
of the Harney Peak Tin Company to
make success in extracting tin val
ues in paying quantities from the tin
ore in the Central Hills, it has been
practically impossible to get capital
interested in any other tin prospect
The district has been examined by a
numbe of the best mining experts Of
the Black Hills and two well known
mining men of New York City have
also passed their opinions upon the tin