Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-05
RICH GOLD ORE
DISCOVERED IN
CLERMONT MINE
GOLDFIELD CONSOLIDATED
MINES FIND BONANZA
SAMPLES ARE SAID TO TEST AS
HIGH AS $24oo
Maunificent Shoot of Yellow Metal Is
Found at 720 Feet and Runs
to Vertical Depth of
1000 Feet

Developments through the Clermont
shaft of the Goldfeld Consolidated
Mines company during the past week
have disclosed, to a vertical depth OF
1000 feet, a magnificent shoot of rich
gold ore which is second only to the
Hampton stope in the same company's
Combination mine.
To one unaccustomed to the intense
enrichment of the ore laden assures of
this camp the figures given out by the
superintendent of the property are
amazing and. coming from less au-
thoritative source, would be disbe-
lieved.
The ore body is known in camp as
the Macmillan, or Mohawk-Jumbo
shoot, from the fact that it was first
opened and mined by Macmillan in
the Mohawk-Jumbo lease, where the
high grade extended to within few
feet of the surface.
A month ago a cross-cut, which was
being driven west from the Clermont
shaft to connect with the Mohawk
mine workings, encountered the ore
body at a depth of 730 feet 1t is eyi-
d
course of the vein from east of north
to almost east-west, and in conse-
uuence the cross-cut Travelled for 300
feet through the ore, holding its course,
before it passed out.
Marvellous Values
Assays taken daily from each shift
showed a high grade of milling ore,
generally averaging about $50 ton,
along the hanging wall of the vein,
A few days since a cross-cut was
started for the foot wall of the vein
and it Immediately broke into picture
rock.
All through the face of the big drift
appeared seams of native gold and
black sulphides intermingled and the
assay sheet has run up from 500 to
s2400 per ton.
These are not selected samples, but
are grabs from the cars and the muck
from each round of holes
Superintendent Henderson of the
Consolidated mines is authority for
the statement that for twenty-five feet
these samples had shown values eX-
ceeding $1,000 a ton, and the driving
of this cross-cut and a raise Whlcf
is to make connection with a knowr
shoot Of high grade a few feet below
the 6O0-foot level is yielding the com
pany a revenue of 100000 day
As yet the cross-cut has found nj
far it is between the walls Of this
treasure vault.
400 Feet of Backs
The same ore shoot has been opened
on both the $50 and 1000foot levels
and with the exception of the develop
ment work described presents an un-
broken expanse of backs from the 500
to the 1O00-foot level. Work on the
lower levels has not progressed as
yet to a point under which the high
values exposed on the 730-foot level
but there is no question in the minds
of the men familiar with the enrich
ment of the dacite of that section OF
the district of the high grade values
extending down.
Reaching Lucky Boy
North and west the CIermont is send
ing out a long crOss-cut toward the
Red Top mine to intercept the Lucky
Boy vein, and the face was recently
reported to be in mneralized ground
This is regarded as one of the best
known mineraliZed zones of the dis
trict, being a part and parcel of the
Red Top ore channel and has never
been worked. The crOss-cut, where
it enters the vein, gives the company
600 feet of virgin ground to the sur
face.
More Stamps for Mill
ready begun the work of preparation
for the forty additional stamps which
are to be added to the 100-stamp mill
These stamps, with their thirty con-
centrating tables and three tube mills
will add 240 tons daily capacity of the
reduction works, bringing it up to S4C
tons per day of an average value OF
$40 per ton.
Quits Plate Amagamation
The mill superintendent, Mr. Hutch.
inson, has discontinued plate amalga-
nation, and the gold contents of the
ore now reach the refining department
in the form Of concentrates alone Mr.
Hutchinson is the discoVerer Of E
process by which the aurferous val
ues are extracted from the concen'
trates without smelling, and the entire
output of the mill goes direct to the
mint at San Francisco.
To Gory-HoIe Slope
Operations at the Combination mine
where the Hampton stope caved, have
been confined since the accident to the
recovery of the bodies of the three
unfortunate men who were killed by
the accident. Two of the trio were
carried down by the cave of rock, ant
1t was necessary to sink a winZt
through the loose material to the leve
below to reach the bodies.
It is the intention of the company
to glory hole this big stope, or at leas
that portion of it which has caved
clear to the top of the big deposit o
gold. Pending the arrangement fo
this work, the tonnage for the mil
will be hoisted through the Mohawl
and Clermont shafts from the tw,
overlapping Mohawk veins.
Leasers Sink Deep
Developments in the Mohawk ant
Clermont shafts and laterals have dem
onstrated more clearly the course ant
dip of the big ore channels and tn
shoots contained therein. In conse
quence, leasing companies with ampl
capital have undertaken to seek tn
ore on the dip of the veins to the eas
and south of the Clermont A power
full company of New York operator
is sinking a 1000-foot shaft on tn
Grizzly Bear claim of the Jumbo grou
with the expectation Of getting int
a mammoth body of gold quartz; an
east of the Clermont Philadelphia op
orators are driving for the Lucky Bo
vein, which they expect to enter With