The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-19
RICH TUNGSTEN
DEPOSITS FOUND
NEAR TONOPAH
lTonnnah Snn.l

DIR. Carl Goblin passed through To-
nopah today on his way from San
Francisco to Round Mountain. While
down on the coast he was making ar.
rangements for the flotation of three
more companies to work his tungsten
properties at Round Mountain. They
will I've called the Round Mountain
Pride Mining company. the Round
Mountain Venture Mining comDanv
and the Round Mountain Highland
Mining company, and will have four
claims each. DR.. Goblin has alto
gether twenty-six claims at Round
Mountain, and it was on four of these
that the Round Mountain Monster
was Incorporated. On this company s
property 150-foot tunnel has been
driven When eighty-five feet In the
first tungsten vein was cut, and the
tunnel has been cutting them for The
last sixty-five feet. The veins are
found in assures in the granite and
are from two to twelve inches broad,
with from ten to twenty inches OF
granite in between. The veins run
along a steep hillside and the tunnel
will give 125 feet of backs. In add'-
ton to this main tunnel, there Is q
tunnel in fifty feet on higher level.
What makes this strike of such
importance is that it is the highest
grade of tungsten that has ever been
struck in the history of mining. The
tungsten ore on the Monster averages
so per cent. pure tungsten, and in
some cases runs as high as 751s per
cent The highest grade tungsten ore
ever found previously went so per
cent, and 20 per cent. Is considered
very good average grade of tung-
sten. This metal, which has come to
be in such demand for toughening
and hardening steel, particularly
such steel as Is used for armor plate
and heavy artillery, has not yet been
found in sufficient quantities to sup
ply the demand. which, already enor-
nous, is growing rapidly. Conse-
quently the price is high, $3.50 being
paid per unit of five pounds. This
works out at $50 per pound. The
Round Mountain tungsten, however,
containing as 1t does no less than
76.5 per cent. of tungstic acid,
brought an even higher price, and a
trial shipment of one ton melted the
company $50 after paying all ex-
penses of mining and shipping to Ger
many, where 1t was sold to the
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stitute the tungsten trust. 1t is OBJ
vious, therefore, that with facilities
for treating the ore right on the spot
or after short railway haul, the
profits would be enormously in
creased.
The story of DR.. Goblin, who Is
now reaping the golden harvest of his
discovery, and of how he first came to
find tungsten at Round Mountain, is
an interesting one. There was no
picking up chunk of rock to throw
at a burro and finding it plastered
with free gold. The strike was made
by a student. mineralogist, metal
lurgist, who had made special study
of the rarer metals and was the meet
reward of long hours and days spent
in the classroom and the laboratory
Carl Goblin is a Swede, and after
graduating as doctor of medicine
i'm the famous Swedish university of
Upsala, went to South Africa, where
he engaged in mining. After the
Boer oligarchy had been crushed by
Roberts and his gentlemen In
khaki" he came to this country and
practiced medicine for short while
in New York He then took the min
ticular attention to rare metals, and
graduated with the highest hOnOrs.
Short afterward he came West and
after spending a little time at Man
haitian, he went to Round Mountain.
when that now fourishing camp con-
sisted of just four tents 1t was
day of fierce rain and fiercer wind,
but DR.. Goblin was not to be daunted.
Under a quiet and unassuming ex-
terror, the little be-spectacled scien-
fist with the trim sandy beard con-
ceals bulldog tenacity and resolu-
ton. He stayed with the camp and
prospected the adjacent hills, for
gold, of course, for there was then no
word of tungsten at Round Mountain.
and Goblin himself was probably the
only man in camp who knew just
what tungsten was. One day, while
out on the hills, he came across some
ore that he recognized at once as
wolframite, one of the three tung-
stem ores. There was no assay office
at Round Mountain then. so, to make
assurance doubly sure, he took the
ore in to Manhattan and gave 1t to
Percy Train, the assayer who knows
everything. Train tested it and as
sayed and found that the ore went
high in tungsten. Goblin got busy
forthwith, developed his claims, in
corporated the Monster Mining COM
pamy and started to drive tunnel to
tap the veins at depth. What that
tunnel struck is history now and DR..
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