The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-19
MINES And MINING News
WONDERFULLY
RICH ORE FROM
RED TOP MINE

Ore that runs from $500 to $1,000
a ton in gold, of uniform value, is be
ing taken from Wine 200 fee
north of the shaft on the 160-foo
level of the Red Top mine, forerun
ner of what may be expected wher
that one of the Consolidated mines /.
opened up to the deep. The WINE
was sunk on a narrow seam of yer,
rich quartz that appeared in the bot
tom of the drift, and from which
specimens were taken that carried
$4,000 ton. The Wine is forty
feet below the level, and has been In
this grade of ore all the way 1t will
be sunk to the 260 and there con.
nected with the main north drift.
An entirely new ledge or vein was
cut in the shaft at the 260, which
runs at right angles from the main
ledge, and from which good results
were expected. A station has been
cut and drifting started both east and
west from the shaft A fine shoot of
ore was opened in the old workings
west of the shaft, which was followed
to within a few feet of the surface,
and furnished the old management
with considerable of the money with
which the SIS, 900 dividend was paid.
A well-known mining man, who was
one of the owners of the Red Top in
the old days, had lease on the block
which contained this rich shoot and
sunk a hole about fifteen feet deep.
Five or ten feet farther would have
carried him into the ore and made
him a nice fortune, but he quit.
Three months will make a great
difference in the Red Top, Laguna
and Jumbo mines of the Consolidated
group The Red Top is now sending
about fifty tons a day to the reduc-
ton works, of grade ranging from
SIS to $50 per ton, OXidized ore from
the old slopes, of which there re-
mains big tonnage. The beginning
of the autumn months, however, will
see the mine In shape for regular
shipments of high-grade to the smelt-
ers, this output to be added to by any
amount of mill ore which the COM
pany is able to treat later on. The
Laguna, too, should be down into the
ore shoot by that time There is no
gamble here-the diamond drill
proved that section of the mine long
months ago, and the new shaft
which is being sunk will plum right
in to the high grade.
The Jumbo shaft is keeping pace
with the others, and will be connect
ed with the Red Top at each level.
This mine, prior to the leasers'
strikes in the Mohawk and the loca-
ton of the continuation of the rich
shoot in the Combination, was rated
as the best property in the district by
competent engineers. 1t has been
overshadowed by it's high-grade
neighbors, but will do its part when
it comes to feeding the big mill, as
will the January This mine is being
worked from the second and sixth
levels of the Combination, and fine
grade of ore is blocking out for the
future.
In the Combination the same con-
ditions exist, high grade in big bodies
of a regular value clear to the sixth
level, with all indications that the
shoot goes to the deep Two cars
shipped the last of the month will
bring in check for better than $780,
900, and the ore treated by the mill
in June averaged $21 a ton. 1t is es-
timated that the mill ore alone.
which is the foundation for the sue
cess of 80 per cent of the mines, the
Consolidated has $50,000,000 devel-
oped, with the deepest shaft less than
500 feet from the surface.-GOldfield
Chronicle.