The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-08-13
FLORENCE MINE STARTING
ERA OF DEEP DEVELOPMENT
Will Soon Have One Of the Finest Equipped Shafts in the Costly
Work Cleaning ou Old Lease Workings Practically Finished and
Management Now Turning Attention Virgin Ground Underneath

of ore has been taken, Reilly having
taken out million dollars worth of
ore in sixty days. This ore came from
300 feet depth upward The Florence
has opened this same Gre shoot from
the 350-foot level. and found an exten-
sion to the southwark, which is being
opened at $50 and at $50 feet, for a
length of more than 100 feet. The
stope will ultimately be more than 200
feet long. At $50 feet depth the shoot
is being opened 10 feet in width; at
$50 feet it is 16 to 90 feet wide, and
where Reilly took il to within so feet
of the surface, at the northern end of
the new stope that is being opened, it
widened out to 30 or so feet. Man
ager Lawrence is going to make this
an open stope to the surface, using no
timbers, and just y-holing the ore.
The entire break Of ore so far runs
better than $50 per ton. In places
there is some very rich ore, and were it
not the policy Of the management to
make a clean sweep of all ore that
could be milled, you would be hearing
a noise from this stope about the two
feet of $1,000 ore that had been opened.
1t IS there, all right. You can get any
kind of assays you want by going into
the rich streak. Figuring this body of
ore in this one block as being $50 feet
high, averaging 25 feet in thickness
and 100 feet long, there are 10000 tons
of ore right there, of an average value
of $50 per ton, or more than two mil
lion dollars, gross value. And the stope
will be much more than 100 feet in
length There are other slopes like
that in the upper levels of the Florence,
but the management is making no noise
about them. They are being mined. In
several dozen places through the old
lease workings pockets of milling ore
are being xtracted-cleaning-u work
after the leasers. And after lengthy
tour of the workings the wonder comes
that Manager Lawrence can practical
ly keep the mill going from these
pockets and draw so little upon his big
ore bodies. What snap it is going TO
be to keep that 150-ton mill going when
the lower levels are developed.
During the operation of enlarging
the main working shaft, the day time
is devoted in the main to the working
force in the shaft, and the aerial tram
wav from the Little Florence workings
brings some 100 tons of ore to the mill,
during that "shift.' At night the
main plant is kept busy hosting ore
and waste rock. The ore broken In the
slopes in the Little Florence and kept
for this very time is now being drawn
upon. When the shaft is completed the
Little Florence ore will be handled
from the main mine workings.
About 25 big power drills are being
kent busy in the Florence all the time,
the larger part of them on development
work and as the main working shaft IS
eomnleted and then sent deeper, the de-
velopment force will be steadily IN
creased.
The mill is making the finest saving
of any in the camp. Mill heads are be-
mo kept as low as SIS, and the total
tonnage costs are reckoned unonneiai'y
At about $s, thus setting precedent
that the big neighbor of the Florence
,ha Consolidated, with its 81 10 Sl4
tonnage cost, views with unbeliei ana
envy.