Mohave County miner., 1902-05-31
Two Great Mines.

4 opening up bigger aud richer ore bod
4 les in the G. 0. ID. and Golden Gem
mines, On the 80 level of the c. O.
/ ID. the breast of the west drift is in an
ore body five feet wide, twenty seven
inches Of which gives an average value
of ~ ounces gold and l6J ounces sill.
yer. The drift is now in on this ore
body about sixty feet. 100 feel above
this drift the ore body is 319 feet
thick, bat is not as high in gold as be.
low, but one foot of the vein runs 500
ounces in silver. This ground is being
blocked out and the lower drift will be
continued west 500 feet farther. At
that point an upraise will be made to
the surface, a distance of 400 feet
This upraise will be used as the main
working shaft of the mine aud the
other openings will be abandoned, ex-
cept for ventilation purposes. All the
big ore bodies in the mine lie west of
the shaft aud will soon be directly un.
der the new working shaft. For every
one hundred feet of new ground opened
mp by the drift on the 80 level 10000
tons of ore will be blocked ont that
has an average value OF exceeding sos
as il comes out This estimate is based
on the vein averaging less than it has
so far been shown to be. Owing to
"a faat that hn hrtast,r, = 10,
adequate to handle the large amount
of material now being sent to the sur
face from the drifts below no stopping
will be done and the mill will soon be
shut down.
So far the tests Of the ores from the
Golden Gem mine have been very sat
iefactory and plant at that property
is in contemplation. In the drifts
from the bottom of the 21O and 300
levels running south large fault has
been cut through and splendid body
OF high grade gold ore cut into. This
opens up an entire new territory ard
shows that the vein carries ore far out.
side of the territory exploited by the
former owner. Ia the old works there
are thousands of tons of milling ore in
sight. A plant for the reduction of
ores from this property will soon be
erected at the mine. 1t will EN- brace
concentration, chlorination aud eva.
hiding. This will be the first plant of
the kind in the county, although the
same method is in use at Congress,
where the same character of ore is
handled to great advantage
General Manager Mackay is about to
put the two mines on basis that will
make them two of he greatest pro-
ducing properties in the territory. 1t
is not contended that any Of the mines
IN the Gold Road country or, for that
matter elsewhere in the territory, carry
gold values in excess Of either the G..
o. d. or Golden Gem mines, nor are
there any of them better situated for
economical working, which fact i'm
presses us with the belief that they are
mines far aud away above all the 9TH
ers in value and give better promise
for the future. The c. O. ID. was al
ways considered silver mine, but the
new work in that property proves con-
clusively that with depth the mines of
the Wallapai district run to gold In
the territory embraced in space
about 100 feet east and west from the
old shaft and to a depth of 800 feet
there has been taken from the G. O. ID. /
mine one million ounces in silver and /
hundreds Of tons of lead, besides some
gold Large pillars of ore too low TO /
ship were left in the mine and have /
not yet been taken out. Every bit of
this ore will pay TO handle in the mill /
Crosscuts in the old works show up
other veins of well mineralized ores
that will pay to mine. Nowhere that .
a crosscut or drift has been run has /
barren ground been found 10 this prop I
erty. The Golden Gem has also been .
prolific of goCd ores aud the amount I
now in sight is estimated, so we are in.
formed, at several hundred thousand /
dollars, besides which there are thou.
sands of tons of ounce gold ore on the .
dumps.
San Francisco Mine.
The new hoist on the San Francisco