Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1901-06-08


of silver and paid dividends amounting
to million and half under its for
mer management. 1t Is now being
equipped with chloridiZing plant
similar to the one at the Granite Noun
tain Bimetallic. This was a bonanza
mine when silver was above dollar
but its operations was suspended, be
cause of the lack of modern facilities
in the mill and economy in manage
ment. The Longmaids, the present
owners OF this property, estimate that
they have in sight in the mine and on
the dumps upwards of two million
ounces of silver that can be extracted
at profit. AS earnest of their faith
in the property, they are building a
plant complete, costing about 6O,eOOs.
After careful sampling and figuring,
they estimate that they can make just
as much profit out Of a given grade OF
ore with silver at its present price as
was made ten years ago out of the
same grade of ore, by the former man
agement. In the first place, they figure
that with more careful supervision OF
the miners and insisting upon better
extraction and more careful sorting Of
the ore, they will not have to treat near
as much waste as did the former man.
agement, nor will they allow the pay
ore to go to the dumps with the waste,
as was formerly done. This is no re.
Election on the former management,
because the methods pursued at that
time in this mine were the same as In
all others. The ore was so very rich
and the companies we're making enor-
NOUS dividends, so economy in man
agement was not insisted upon, as is
now customary. The new plant in
stalled at the Elkhorn will be equipped
with every possible labor.saving and
waste preventing device, The large
amount of values which with the old
mill could not be prevented from going
with the tailings to the dump, will with
the new machinery, be saved.
A prominent mining expert, who
lately spent several days in the Granite
Mountain Bimetallc mill, and in the
mine, said, "that he was satisfied, from
what he saw, that this company was
making just as much money out of the
same grade Of ore with silver at sixty
cents as they formerly did when it was
a dollar an ounce. He went on to say
that when silver was high and seeming
ly the amount of high grade ore in this
mine was inexhsustible, the mills we're
crowded and the ore rushed through so
as to make dividends for the stock
holders with q consequent loss in the
tailings of from fifteen to twenty
ounces of silver to the ton of ore"
The Granite Mountain Bimetallic mill !
was at that time run by steam with
very expensive fuel. This is now
changed, and the plant is run by cleo |
trio power, generated from Flint Greek |
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transport the ore from the mine to the
M II, and In every way economy in
treatment and in handling the raw
material is exercised. Gas is used for |
drying and cbloridizing the ore
through two Stedefeldt furnaces, hay- /
ing capacity of 10 tons each every
twenty four hours.
This rehabilitation of old mines is
regular business 10 Montana, until the
saying that any mine is worked out is
now no longer used.
The East Pacific mine at Winston is
another illustration of an abandoned
mine. When r. A. Bell purchased this
mine four years ago, it was supposed to
be worked out, or nearly SO. Since
then he has taken over 750,000S from it,
and it is still producing at the rate of
fifteen to thirty cars per month of high
grade ore. He applied the leasing sys-
tenn in the old workings and day labor
in new development. 1t is a narrow
vein, but high grade. Mr.. Bell seems
to have faculty of securing miners
capable Of working economically in
narrow veins. which is one reason for
his astonishing success with the prop.
erty. Last year he run tunnel over
2,OOJ feet long to tap the mine at 200
feet additional depth. He is now sink
ing winze in the tunnel on a rich ore
shoot. This winze will be sunk to
depth of 400 feet below the present
tunnel level. The mine is now 1908
feet In depth. 1t has the longest ore