The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-18

GOLD CIRCLE
SHOWS RICH ROCK
LeaSerS Recover One Dollar a
Pound With Aid of
Hand Muller.

After having spent some time INSTALL
ing machinery for the Rex Mines COM
pany at Gold Circle r. r. Huffman OF
the Kelly Filler Press company of Salt
Lake. has returned home.
The Gold Circle district embraces an
extensive area of rhyolite flows and
flow breccias. which are cut by dizes
OF andesite overlain here and there by
andesite flows The ore deposits in
these are classified by the United
States geological survey as belonging
10 those OF the tertiary period, which
deposits are typically developed in Ne
yada at the comstOck, at TonOpah, at
Goldfield, al TuscarOra. in California
az Bodle; in Idaho at Delamar; in Colo
RADIO at Cripple Creek.
The ore deposits in the main are re-
placement veins and sheeted zones in
rhNOllte, though in a few. and these
important instances. on the andesite-
rh%olite contacts have been opened
bodies of ore.
Development work since the camp
was discovered about two years ago,
which has amounted usually TO surface
scratching. has been scattered over
some eight or ten square miles, and at
only one or TWO points has any sys-
Iematlc and substantial mining been
done. At these places. as we'll as at
many whore the work has been limited,
the leads have responded literally
yet 70 be uncovered.
Find High Grade.
The properties are owned in the main
by poor men who must develop after
a chloriders fashion, crushing the
higher grades OF ore and anna gamating
by hand. noticeable and pleasing
instance OF this at the present time is
that of leasers on the Hardscrabble
vein, grinding so pounds per day with
a hand muller and recovering 81 per
pound
The recovery Of the values contained
/ IN the Gold Circle ores is extremely
simple. being free and amalgamating
readily there being no base or inter
fering elements. Stacking the ore bv a
short period of WeaIherinS. then roast
ing or sluicing il. is method popular
with those not capa bic OF more preUen-
LIOus ways OF reduction.
COmmendahle perseverance with some
of the less fortunate who are not able
To make their claims yield a grub
stake as they go on. is the fact that
almost without exception properties on
the core zone are protected with the
required amount of work each year. all
possessing that optimism which fore
tells a matter of only a short time until
the camp will come into its own and
when its merit and true worth will be
recognized in the mining world.
The Rex Group.
One modern milling plant has been
built in camp on the Rex property.
Some minor mechanical difficulties de-
! layed for time its operation, but these
difficulties have been mastered, shift
men have been trained to expert opera
Tors OF the presses, and the plant now
being easily capable of the designed
tonnage, a period of prosperity for the
property is commencing.
Developments on the ElkO Prince
group. along the andesite-rhyCiite con-
/ tact. have warranted its opening with
depth, and 10 this END a tunnel about
coo feet long. which Will cut the vein
400 feet deep, is now being driven
/ Three shifts OF miners are employed
( in driving IL.
other Properties.
The owners of the Esmeraldas, the
Midas. the Water Witches, the sleeping
+ Beauties. the Judge and numerous
B others have developed the past year
] commensurate with and curtalled only
/ bv limited resources.
Efforts 10 interest sufficient capita
/ for The installation of a combination
ANAL gamatiOn and cyauiding plant art
! being made and such a venture viii
alike be remunerative to the investor
and 10 the prOspectOr, who is pray
ing" for a way 10 turn his mill ore
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