The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-11-24

the rapidity with Wnlch tine tohhdSe IL
accommodating it can be stated that suf-
fcient to fill 100 sacks was mined Fri
day.
roQuIMA COPPER
The management of the Toquima
Copper company is sacking ore at a
depth of 100 feet and the incline shaft
which is following the dip of the big
copper yielding fissure is in ore from
surface to bottom. For a depth of about
20 feet from the 40-foot level values de-
preciated. indicating that the shaft was
in the leached zone which in copper car
rying lodges invariably precedes water
level. The present copper grade is a
tri1e better than 10 per cent to the ton,
an increase from 6 per cent a few feet
below surface. Sinking is to continue
until water level is reached where it is
expected that the ledge will carry an
even higher per cent of the red metal.
At various points in the shaft cross
cuts have been run through the ore for
a distance of IL feet without disclosing
either wall, and from present indications
the entire mountain is a solid mass of
copper carrying matrix. Wherever
crosscut below the leached zone the de-
post returns an average copper grade
of Is per cent and likewise carries gold
and silver values of $40 the ton. ore
is being sacked and a small trial ship
ment is to ge out shortly.
When water level is reached 1t is the
intention to intersect the ore body with
a series of crosscuts and to drift along
it's strike. The work of blocking out ore
will then begin and this in turn will be
followed by stopping and the sending out
of regular consignments. The property
passed the speculative value period some
time since as careful tests. made by
competent engineers, have proven the
deposit to be very rich in copper the
metal accruing largely in cha~lcopyrites
and the ore being readily treated.
DESERT QUEEN
The average break Of the ledge show
ing in the Desert Queen company's
ground is in the neighborhood of s25 in
gold the ton, the vein matter resembling
in appearance that showing on the Pay
master estate, located to the north, and
as the Paymaster ledge has been traced
to within a short distance of the Desert
Queen estate there is little question but
what the management has caught its
continuation. Near surface the quartz
is decomposed, highly oxidized and
heavily stained with iron, and shows
some gold in the free. At depth the
rock is becoming harder and the vein
more compact. with an increase in pre-
cious metal values.
Desert Queen acreage is traversed by
a series of lodges, most of which pan
and assay fairly we'll, and in one in
stance the ledge is 20 feet wide at sur
face, this being the lead which is be-
Iieved to be a continuation of the one
showing on Paymaster ground. As
says at grassroots and at nominal depth
range as high as $175 in gold the ton,
and the break of the vein, both at sur
face and where cut from the bottom of
the shaft, Indicate that the entire de-
post can be treated at profit under the
stamps. The quartz appears to be free
milling and of a nature which will make
it amenable to battery treatment. A
few tons of the product have been saved
and are to go to mill as a test shipment
as soon as provision can be made for
handling.
MANHATTAN MOHAWK
Surface prospecting of the estate of
the Manhattan Mohawk Mining COM
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