The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-23

has neyer.seen n pick. Since our report
last week two strikes Of more than or
dinarv importance have been made in
the Montana ground, which has been
the cause of much satisfaction to Super
intendent Collins. We say of more
than ordinary Importance, because of
the fact that both finds were made in
the rhyolite daeite formation, which
has been generally looked upon with
disfavor, but which of late has proven
20 be ore-bearing by the work done In
several of the properties of Tonopah.
The first new find occurred on the 465-
foot level. when a continuation of the
Triangle vein on it's dip was eneoun-
tered bv the south crosseut from the
east drift on the east drift on the South
vein. at a point 800 feet west of the
shaft and IS feet south of the South
vein. The ore body at present is about
80 feet wide and carries good milling
values, being about the same grade AMI
character as shown in the vein on the
level above.
The other-the greater of the two
strikes-occurred on the 5l5-foot level,
in the erosscut southwest from the
Martha vein. This is, presumably, a
continuation of the Triangle vein on its
dip, but shows much greater strength
thar on the levels above. The full
width of the vein has not yet been de-
termined, but the crosscut thus far ex-
poses 8 feet of oxidized milling ore,
carrying good values, with the same
grade of rock continuing in the face.
In both instances the new finds were
made in rhyolite daeite, thus proving
that these veins continue through this
formation.
Belmont Improves
From time to time during the past
few months we have been predicting
through these columns that the Belmont
was working Oil a body of ore on the
1.1O0-foot level that would prove to be
The largest ore body yet found in the
mine. We are now in a position to
state that our predictions have become
facts. and to state positively that they
have opened up the best showing of ore
yet encountered on the property, and
which at once stamps the Belmont a
big mine.
For some time the slow and tedins
work of developing the find has been
in progress, and the result of this work
is most gratifying to the management,
and should be a source of great pleas
ure to the stockholders.
In making preparations to begin stop
ing on the vein proved up by the raise
from the west drift from the 1,100-foot
level, a face of ore seldom seen has
been exposed. The vein shows 10 feet
of excellent ore, with wide streaks and
punches of very high grade stuff.
Nearly 100 feet east of this showing,
No. 3 raise, which was sent up from the
drift on the same level and on the
same ~..sA mas exposed over 5 feet Of
high grade milling ore, with more ore
showing on the footwall side of the
raise. AS this ore body has been proven
to be continuous to the 1,000-foot level,
the tonnage which the block of ground
already proven up is capable of yield
ing is hard to calculate, but that it is
enormous goes without saying. Still
another point of interest is found IN
the east drift from the 125-foot point
of the winze sent down on the ledge en-
countered by the west drift along the
north side of the Mizpah fault on the
]. 1000 foot level, which shows 5 feet Of
good ore. The face of this drift is
fully 275 feet distant from the body
of ore exposed in the raise from the
west drift from the winze on the HOO
foot level. Whether these ore bodies
occur in the same vein or not remains
to be proven, but enough is already
known to ensure a large tonnage for
some time to come. The usual work is
going on in other parts of the mine,
most of which is development work, a
total of 207 feet of new ground having
been broken during the past week.
Tonopah Mining
The usual good progress in develop