The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-18
INTERVIEW WITH CLAIMING.
Increase in Copper Next Year Will Be
About 2oO,0c0,000 Pounds.

About 2o0,0oo,oo0 Pounds.
Spokane, Wash, sept. Isl. Parke
Charming. who inspected The Caledonia
mine at Wardner, Idaho, FOR New
York syndicate which contemplates
purchasing the property. said on re-
turning 10 Spokane from the Occur
dAlene district. that the increase in
the production of copper next year will
De about 2OO,OOOO0O pounds; but.
he added. "thls is only about 10 per
cent of the normal output"
Mr.. Claiming said that owing to the
exhaustion of the older mines there
soon will be a shortage in the worlds
supply of copper, unless, in the mean
time, great ore bodies are found. The
basis condition of the mineral indus
try. ne continued, IS that the world
supply Of sold, copper and lead is
short while there are ample supplies
of iron, zinc and silver already devel-
oped or known to exist
THE milling practice at the big IL
ver-lead mines In the Occur dAlenes
was a revelation 10 me- he said in
speaking of his first visit TO the dis
trict, "and l think that copper miners
can get some valuable pointers on
concentration from the operators in
northern Idaho. l think too, that they
could learn much of Importance to the
industry if they would study the prac-
tice OF the copper operators
Mr.. Claiming, who has been identi-
fed with the Miami since soon after
its discovery having bonded il when
there was not lO-foot hole in the
ground and before there was pound
of merchantablc copper i'm sight said
in discussing the events leading up TO
the acquisition of the property:
"The owners of the claim wanted
large cash payment, but ! soon con-
WINGED them that il was out of ques-
ton in view of the fact that no ore
showed. Finally, l was able TO get suf
ficient time for development work and
sunk 250-foot shaft which struck
the ore, and lucky as ii may appear
the shaft was sunk at the only point
whore the ore came to so near the sur
face.
Before seeing the property / had
been connected with some of the So
called porphyry coppers and it was the
similarity of the outcrop which inn
pressed me, although the Miami for
nation is a schist. on the surface
there was a big exposure of leached
vein matter containing not a particle
Of copper, but a good deal of iron. Be
low this formation we found the en-
riched zone. 1t has now been fully
developed on the Miami and consists of
an ore ody / 200 feet In length, 500 feet
in width and 400 feet In thickness. Be
low II is the unchanged rock Of the
same character. which originally cX-
tended TO and above the present sur
face II carries only tcnths Of /
per CEN copper while the enriched
zone averages 2.55 per cent in copper.
THE Miami is equipped with a con-
contractor, which is being enlarged
from its present capacity of $500 tons
20 5000 tons. We save all tailings
from, our mill in the hope that they !
may some day become valuable as has !
been the invariablc experience OF older !
mines of every description our tail !
ings contain an average value Of l.
pounds of copper 10 the ton.
The adjoining Inspiration mine, of
which w. II. Aldridge, formerly man
agcr Of the Canadian Consolidated !
Company is managing director, is ON |
the same ore zone, but has a longer |
though narrower. pay shoot than the !
Miami 70 has % 600 UOO tons Of ore I'm !
sight of an average value of per |
cent in copper. The company is about /
ready to erect J,OOO-ton plant on it's