The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-11-24
GOLD Is IMMENSE
Fully 800 1000 Tons of High Grade Free Milling Ore EXP
Above 15O-Foot Level

(Rhyolite Herald.)


Gold Bar is in the ascendencyi
The Gold Bar today shows a bigger
continues free milling ore deposit
than any other property in the Bullfrog
district, and from indications which are
decidedly assuring, this property prom
Uses to become one of the largest prod
ucers in the state of Nevada.
And development has only been som
menced. With fully $4,000 tons Of ore
in sight on the 150-foot level, the devel-
opment Of the Gold Bar is too en-
bryonic to venture a fair prediction for
ITS future.
Out upon the surface, a milling grade
of ore has been exposed over a width of
200 feet and a length Of 1000 feet, tho
ledge finally passing out Of the Gold
Bar group into the Homestake on the
north. Not a trench, shaft, crosscut ar
drift has been made in this area that
does not show q milling grade Of ore.
Not a foot Of dead work has been done
within this m~ineralized area. Even
the dirt uncovered in making the
wagon road across the 200 feet pans
free gold. Ore has been present every
where.
The surface exploration and the un-
foreground development present a prop
osition that is simply astonishing to be-
shaft, every foot Of which is in ore,
the deposit has been partially demon
strated and yet without reaching the
full extent, the dimensions of the ore
equal that of the famous Montgomery
Shoshone, which has often been termed
the wonder of the state.
The shaft was sunk so feet vertical
and 100 feet on an incline, following
the hanging wall of the ledge. Drifts
on the hanging wall are being run
north and south, the north drift being
14S feet and the south drift LIZA, and }
crosscut is being made east at right
angles to the hanging wall, the crosscut
having penetrated the ore for 10S feet
with no sign of the end. The shaft,
drifts and crosscut are in ore through
put. This work has blocked out the
ore for $50 feet of depth, 108 feet in
width and 322 feet in length. A block
of ore ~150x10sx322 feet contains $685.
400 cubic feet, or 347, 76O tons, figuring
ID cubic feet to the ton. Every foot Of
the ore exposed is of a high grade mill
ing quality, while in three places shoots
Of ore are present that will sort to IN
excellent shipping grade. In visiting
this property, one may see the continu-
GUS deposit of quartz in every foot cf
the underground workings exposed IN
and from the main shaft.
The Gold Bar footwall has not been
exposed either upon the surface or un-
der ground. The hanging wall, how
ever, is well defined in the shaft and
drifts, the wall keeping almost \
straight course in a no~rtheasterly and
southwesterly direction, presenting a
clean cut surface so far as prospected.
Returning to the surface exploration,
one will find convincing evidence of the
great width and continuity of the ore
body. On the extreme south end of the
proven zone, a 31-foot crosscut shows
solid quartz with average values Of
1880. This would indicate a mine in
itself. Between that point and the
main shaft is a small pen cut in which
two feet of $72 ore is exposed. North
of the main shaft, and lis feet east
which is at right angles to the trend OF
the ledge-is a 50-foot shaft, from the
bottom of which are crosscuts, 40 feet
west and 80 feet east, the shaft and
crosscuts being in a good grade of mill
ing ore all the way. At this point-the
center shaft-the ore deposit has been
proven to a depth of fifty feet and over
a width Of seventy feet with no end to
the ore in either direction.
The work from the center shaft adds
81 feet to the proven width of the ore
body, which has been exposed in total
for las feet. 1t may be mentioned
here that eight feet of the ore exposed
in the west crosscut averages $44. The
north shaft, which is 1000 feet from
the 31-foot crosscut on the extreme
south, is so feet deep, showing four feet
of ore that will average $50 in the bot
tom of the shaft. The north shaft is
near the hanging wall, and but a few
feet from the sideline of the Gold Bar
ground. There is other surface work
here and there from which paintings
may be obtained.