Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-17
"copper" KETTLE
Mining DISTRICT
NEWLY DISCOVERED CAMP HAS
LARGE MINERALIZED
ZONE.

A. G. Fralick, writing for the Love-
lock Tribune, says: l have recently
visited the Copper Kettle Mining
District and personally examined and
sampled number of properties in
this newly discovered camp. The
district, as now organized, comprises
about eight miles square, extending
four miles in each direction from a
point near the mouth of Grimes
Creek in the Silver Range of noun
tains, Churchill county, Nevada.
The principal mineral manifesto
lions and discoveries are located
along the base of the range and
where a spur of the Humboldt range
of mountains connects with the Sill
yer range and extend in an almost
unbroken chain along the entire /
range. 1t is about thirty miles east
of Lovelock and reached by good
wagon road.
The writer spent several days ia
the district and learns from Mr..
Robert Welsh Jr., district recorder,
that already there are some over 200
locations with representation work
completed.
The apex of the Silver range isl
very similar to Cottonwood range in
Humboldt county and is composed of
Muscovite granite and belongs to the
eocene period of the Tertiary era and
evidently intruded through the
Cambrian states and old sedimentar-
les. In the vicinity and on the prop
critics visited the prevailing forma-
ton is probably dolomite lime and
extensive porphyry bikes, which show
the action of dynamic force and the
agency producing the fractures for
the disposition of ore bodies is evil
denced by the igneous bikes follow
ing the line of contact.
The general course of the vein sys-
tenn is east and west, dipping to the
north The mineral belt is covered
by heavy cap of iron gossan. On
the properties of Bunch & Mcintyre,
Green G Company, and White &
j Spray, the mineral showing is very
i pronounced and the pathological con-
ditions almost identical with the
great copper mines at Bisbee, Ariz.,
and indicate permanency, continuity
and extremely high values in their
downward course.
The generic agency which precipi-
tated the ore is hydro-thermal action.
:, The general character of the ores
/ are copper sulphides and some sill
Gates, although in places red and
! black oxides, copper glance and cop
: per pyrites are plentiful. On the
: Copper Mountain group, owned by
: Bunch, Mcintyre and others, there
a are several lodges exposed, the ex.
! tent of which is unknown, but seems
! unlimited, as the whole mountain
contains ore wherever any depth is
. attained, which will make excellent
q concentrating propositions from pres
!, ent indications.
a In one place an average sample o.
i four feet in location hole gave al
d assay value of 43 per cent Gu. $3.50
s gold, s ounces silver. Another sam
pie, seven feet wide groupings, re
O turned per cent Gu. $500 gold
d ounces silver, and some selected
|. ore from this group returned II PEE
k cent copper, $11.2O gold and II
h ounces silver. There is considerable
IS lower grade ore on this property tina
J. runs from 2 per cent upwards il
Ie copper and also carries good value
10 in gold and silver, but for surfac
ores the general character is an eS
ceptionally high grade, some 0
which would pay to ship even at pres
N ent conditions.
r, On the Freen claims south O
al Grimes Creek, in one group natur
n has exposed a ledge fully so feet i
ut width for distance of over 100
ne feet, which shows in several place
of copper that assays over SO per cen
"a, He tells me that analysis of some c
IL his ore, made in Los Angeles by hi
at associates, gives high percentage c
We tungsten To the northeast abou
tie four miles, William White has
IL group of six claims upon which he
a. at present doing development wor
n in the way of shafts and open cut
elk Here is one of the most extensiv
er surface groupings to be found an!
Of where. Lying between two distin'
formations, lime and porphyry is
It's ledge fully 200 feet in width.
at sample taken 125 feet across tt
tn groupings assayed 12k per cent col
ng per, l ounce silver.
he A number of samples from all II