The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-02-19
Greater and More Prosperous Gold6eld

y yOTHING has created 50 much interest throughout the east as the
~ facts as published in The News that copper is appearing in the
\ ' lower workings of the deepest mines in the Goldfeld district.
kilograms arr coming in from everywhere asking if it is really true
and wanting fullest particulars. There is a disposition on some sides
to try to minimize the fact, fearing that it may hurt the stock prices
of the highest grade gold producers, but in light of the tremendous
importance the appearance of copper is to the perpetuity of the dis
trict, especially with gold values holding up, to scout at the develop
ment is a very shortsighted and superficial policy and will only re-
act upon those who are trying to disguise the fact. When it becomes
generally known and fully realized that copper is the base of all
Goldfeld ores as stated by Ransome in his Professional Paper No. &c,
investors will pour into Godfed as never before. Mr.. Ransome, on
page 16 OF his report, says that on his second visit to Goldfeld he
secured specimens of 1.-The dark tenurium and gold-bearing ma
terial from the Mohawk mine for the purpose of determining its
ARCHAEOLOGICAL and chemical character and he found 1874 per cent
copper therein. With a careful study of this report the mining world
will become more familiar with the geology and mineralogy of Gold
field and Goldfeld stocks will come into greater demand among in
teligent investors; for with high-grade gold with copper base, moth
ing in the world can beat Goldfeld.
Independent mining men throughout the Goldfeld district are
without exception expressing their friendly feeling toward The Gold
field News for summing up the mining situation in the camp so thor
oughly, and making such an exhaustive examination upon its own
initiative as to be able to assure the mining world that the predictions
Of II. Mackenzie, W. A. Clark, VIM Parrish and others as to Gold
field developing into a deep mining camp are to be realized.
They claim that The News was on the right track when, working
ON the well known fact that the three principal and in a large way
distinctive ores of the Goldfeld Observation-Disclosures, enargite and
famanitte-contain a comparatively large percentage of copper, and
have maintained such content since the camp was discovered, it
showed that with depth the copper content of the ores is increasing.
This condition points to the fact that Goldfeld is to be a per-
manent deepmlning camp. There are few, very few, pure gold camps,
that compare with the great copper camps. And the godsilvercop-
per camps are the best of all. Indications throughout the district, as
shown by mine samping and careful assaying, indicate that the cop
per content OF the Goldfeld ores. as a rule, is steadily increasing,
while the gold content is showing no diminihon. Mining experts
and biologists alike hold that the dache, andesite and latte flows of
the Goldfeld district lie over Cambrian shales or lime, and rhyolite or
granite, and it is the lime and granite formations that have the
world over been the most closely associated with the great copper
deposits That the copper deposits of the upper strata in the Gold
field district contain gold, and that the gold, in value so far over
shadows the actual copper value as to have rendered it in many in