White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-30
All indications of One of the
Greatest Copper Mines Ever
Known In the West
EIGHTY FEET SIS PER CENT
COPPER GLANCE ABOUNDS AT
THE FIVE HUNDRED LEVEL,
WITH SULPHIDEs RIyALLING
RUN OF THE PIT.

Ely Consolidated has the prospect
of being one of the greatest copper
mines in the west, and Superinten-
dent James Quinn is confident that
it will be. The Zack shaft looks like
a mine, and the ore which is being
hoisted out of that working from the
5O0-foot level is of the highest grade
which has been opened up anywhere
in the district. Never has there been
so much copper exhibited in ana
around Ruth in the history of that
town. The Zack dump bristles with
the stuff, from porphyry ore to the
pure Quill Bornite, cuprite, mala-
chite and azurite are in abundance;
the gray copper of the high grade
mines, the copper glance which is al
most matte.
The stores of Ruth contain speci-
mems of the great looking stun;
beautiful jewelry specimens; every
other man has a piece OF ore in his
pocket, and there is a great chunk OF
carbonate ore in front of the store of
the Nevada Meat company's market.
1t gives Ruth the appearance of
great copper center in itself.
In the Zack shaft, at the 500-foot
level, there is ore at every turn AID
angle. They have gone through SO
feet of high grade which will aver
age 65 per cent copper, and the
width of this cannot be determined.
And this is only a part of what they
have in the 500. In the No. l west
shaft, they went out through sulphide
ore, averaging per cent copper, for
distance of 100 feet wnere they
came up against heavy flow or
water. Coin back in THIS working TO
within 20 feet of the shaft, drift to
the north was started which carried
them past the shaft. being now 30
feet to the north of the shaft. They
are still drifting in this working, the
ore being 2 per cent.
In the south drift they are out $50
feet, and the ore averages per cent
copper and $3.50 in silver and gold.
They broke into from 20 to 25 feet
of oxide ore, which goes ~ per
cent copper. and in turning to the
west they followed ore of the same
value for 81 feet IL is only natural
to assume that the ground between
is entirely of ore. The 81 feet is be-
tween two walls of limestone. Drift
ing to the west was continued, and
the working was in the limestone for
distance of 1S feet
1t was at this point that they
broke through the limestone and got
into the high grade &C " per cent?
ore which lasted for 80 feet Here
another wall of limestone was en-
countered, and turning again TO the
south the limestone was cutout in ten
feet the ore breaking to the west, out
in the direction of the Tiptop claim
of Ely Central, Drifting to the south
was continued, and this work is now
going on, the quality of the ore inn
proving as distance is made.
1t is the intention of the manage
ment to sink to the 600-foot level,
and it does not seem possible that
anything else but the same con-
dtions will be found as exist on the
500-foot level This will give
depth of 200 feet of ore. the width
of the body yet to be determined.
The Ely Consolidated bears the ear
marks of being one of the greatest
mines in the district: or as Superin-
tendent Quinn declares, one of the
greatest in the entire west.