White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-30
Steam Shovel Pit Is Working
to It's Fullest Capacity, Send
ing Rock to Concentrat0r
-FOUR SHOvtLS IN THE ORE
NOT LESS THAN TEN THOUSAND
TONS OF ORE GO DOWN THE
HIGH LINE EVERY TWENTY
FOUR HOURS.

The steam shovel pit of Nevada
Consolidated at Copper Flat contin-
ues its outpouring of ore, and APP
parently every nerve Is being
strained to keep up the production
to the highest point. No time is
wasted in any part OF the big eyca-
walton. Six steam shoyels are kept
constantly busy. ehurn drills are GO
ing in the bottom OF the pit and on
the hills high above; blasts bring
down tons OF ore, and no sooner is
there a big slide than a steam shovel
moves in and begins to load the diyi-
dend paying material into the cars.
They are going down in the big
hole, while getting into new ore on
the terraces above. They are work
ing very near to the top of the hill on
the west. and this week will probably
see the removal of the tank houses
which has stood there for the past
three years. To handle the ore at
the lower depths in the pit, they are
now running an adverse right in the
ore. There Is no waste TO this for
the material taken out Is put into the
cars and started on its way TO the
concentration as fast as IL can be
handled. One track of the adverse
goes down into the pit on the extreme
west side. and the second track is be-
ing laid only a few feet 10 the east
of IT,
Not less than 10 900 tons a day is
the amount of ore which goes down
the high line, and this is exceeded
on more days In the week than one.
The eoneentrator Is kept going at
ful blast. Several sections are al
ways In operation. one being general
ly down for repairs But there Is a
big repair gang at work in the mill.
and the needed repairs are rushed
through in record time. Al the
smelter, one of the reyerbatories is
down for the purpose of fitting IL
with an oil equipment, and the four
eonverters are being changed so as
to adopt the basic liner system. This
sometimes shuts down the four con
yerters all day. the work of refining
being done at night. During the
week however, 1t has been found
necessary To work all four pots In the
daytime for the reason that the matte
was coming along from the smelter
in too great quantities.
In the pit on the highest poine. In
the southwest cornor they are driv-
Ing In the direction OF the ground
about the Liberty pit, and II would
seem that the plan of operation
would include the connecting OF both
excavations. In the Liberty the.
are still working in the overburden,
making ready for the time when they
will start in on production. That
time, however, does not seem 10 be
in the immediate future for the rea-
son that tehy are taking. ap-
parantly, all the ore they can
handle out of the Copper Fiat
pit. The appearance of the original
excavation is changing all the time,
and new wonders are presented to
the visitor who remains away only
for week. Three of the steam
shovels yesterday were working in
the SulDHlut ore anu pht III NV ~
Donates which latter are sued to con-
siderable extent in the eonverters,
and from which all the values are
saved.
They are creating new dumps all
the while in the vicinity OF Copper
Flat, and from there to Siepetown to
the north and west and to Ruth on
the east and south. The wonder
would seem to be as TO where they
put all the overburden removed from
the pitt but they do put II some
where and go right on taking IL out
without interruption, stripping new
ore each day. and making the pos
session of the Nevada Consolidated
more valuable.