The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-11
Colorado,

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COPPER .................sl2.1zG12.25
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Colorado.
A rich strike is reported at the
Silver Tip mine. Cripple Creek.
The Little Giant mine on Red Ele.
phant mountain, Georgetown, is max
ing occasional shipments of 400-ounce
silver ore.
The Maine mine, under the manage
ment OF l.. II. Leber, is in a fair way
to become one of the large producers
OF Gilpin county.
The next dividend to be paid Modoc
Mining Company, Cripple Creek, con-
trolled by Pueblo parties. will be paid
Christmas. according to semi-official
announcement.
That there is enough ore in sight in
the fifth level of the Forest Queen
mine on Ironclad hill, Cripple Creek,
to continue the present output for a
year is the belief Of the chief owners
OF that property.
Another important mineral find in
the Meeker section has been made by
J. l.. Tagert, county treasurer. 1t is
an unusually large bed of gypsum, or
selinite, and is situated almost with
in the limits of the city. In Mr.. Tag
ert's opinion the vein is practically in
exhaustible. He has submitted sam
pies to the state geologist.
Quite an increase, both in tonnage
and valuation. has been made during
the present month and October closes
with an output of gold ore from the
Cripple Creek district amounting to H..
72S tons of a gross bullion value of ST.
31S.199. This production is 1000 tons
in advance of that of September with
an excess valuation of $21,500.
The Ruby Mine & Leasing Com
pany. operating the property of that
name at Cripple Creek, has resumed
work since the shaft has been re-
timbered and within week or so regu-
lar shipments will be resumed. The
Ruby Company is subsidiary to the
Humphries-T thompson syndicate. The
work outlined includes a heavy plan
OF development.
The big mineralized dyke. whose
foot-wall was cut in the Lucania tun-
mel, Idaho Springs, on September 10th,
has been crosscut and found to be
23S feet in width. 1t is said to be the
widest body of mineral SO far ex-
posed in the counties of Clear Creek
and Gilpin. The hanging wall was
encountered October 4th and the drills
are now in a white gness of granite
that shows extreme metamorphosis.
There are twenty-six leasers work
ing on the Gunnell mine, through the
Grand Army shaft, in Gilpin county.
and the number is being added to
weekly. They are taking out ore
from the 500, 1000 and LOO foot
levels, and a recent shipment of
eight cords of mill ore returned two
and one-half ounces gold to the cord,
with the tailings carrying good values.
Two lots of smelling ore shipped to
the sampler gave values Of from $50
| to $50 per ton.
The total gold production Of the
Breckenridge district is estimated at
somewhat less than $20000.0O0, de-
rived mostly from placers. Brecken-
ridge in the past has yielded ores of
varied kinds and richness, from the
native gold of Farncomb Hill on the
one hand to the zinc ores Of the Coun-
try Boy mine on the other. Much of
the output has been partly oxidized
argentiferous lead ores, which, like
the other ores and concentrates of the
district, averages about $25 a ton in
value. The deposits are principally
narrow fissure Filings laid down
through the agency of thermal waters
and gases either given off or made eff
fective by slowly cooling masses of
deeply buried igneous rock.
Potvin & Bergeron, leasing the
Christmas mine, Cripple Creek, are
making regular production OF me-
dunn grade ore from an old stope.
About ten cars a month are being
shipped.
Capitalists from Baltimore, Md, are
| reopening the famous old B. II. Hill
mine near Alma in Park county, which
was at one time one of the largest
silver-lead producers in the state.
The mine is located on the north slope
of Mount Lincoln, in a region which
is showing greatly increased mining
activity. In the middle '70s this prop
erty was one of the largest silver-lead
producers in the state. With half
dozen other lodes in the same locality
it produced between s7,000,000 and $s,-
100000. The ore was rich in silver.
Smelter returns showed silver con-
tent of anywhere from 25 to 700
ounces silver. and usually with high
percentages in lead, with some gold.
The product was shipped to the Argo
smelter in Denver and the freight and
smelter charges were usually about
half the entire value of the ore. Prac-