The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
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MINING NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.
THE TREND OF METAL PRICES
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A new gold strike on Sand Creek
in the Sangre de Christie range about
thirty miles northeast of Alamosa, is
reported.
The Cripple Creek mineral output
for the month of July gives the July
tonnage as 1851, with a gross bull
lion value of 1891 .64o.40.
| After having resisted ten years of
pleading, Thos. A. Edison has con-
sented to give his mind for a time to
an effort at solving the treatment of
low grade ores.
Summers & Co., operating the Dead
wood of the United Gold Mines estate.
Cripple Creek, are shipping about four
teen cars a month of ore that will run
better than average grade.
The Little Giant mill in Pony gulch,
Cripple Creek, is in full operation. The
big vein located just back of the mill
is being quarried down and put
through the cyanide solution.
The McKelvey mill at Idaho Springs
will be ready the latter part of Au-
gust. Work is being pushed as rapid
ly as possible and Mr.. McKelvey is
confident of a splendid success. Great
interest centers in this project.
The Ramsdell Mining Company is
prosecuting active development at
Georgetown The Market crosscut
tunnel is being advanced at the rate
of one foot each day, and it is eX-
pected a vein will be intersected soon,
Mcclure & Co., owning the Black
Diamond property, Georgetown, report
decided Improvement. In the breast
of the adit an eight-inch streak OF
sulphide ore is showing that returns
assay values of SIS to the ton in gold
and silver.
After being closed down four or five
years, the Golden Age mine at jim
town, in Boulder county, has resumed
with w. Martin of Denver in charge.
This mine the deepest in Boulder
county, has been considered by many
the best paying one.
After % years of perfect quiet, the
old Kentucky Giant mine OF Pough.
keepsie gulch, Ouray, is in fair way
to resume shipments. Not immediate-
ly, but after some development, so
that by this time next summer it ought
to be on permanent shipping basis.
The Western Investment Company's
| July report shows tonnage and values
from the different shafts at Cripple
Creek as follows: Victor mine, 80 cars.
milling grade; Empire State shaft, II
cars, ounce ore; Ophir shaft, 6 cars.
$40 to $40 ore; total, 4S cars, or LAO
tons.
From the FL Paso, on the west slope
| five cars of $25 ore was shipped in
July, decrease of fifty-five cars, ow
ing to the closing of the mine two
weeks for repairs. OF the shipment.
twenty-five cars were by leasers and
the rest by the company.
Filings have been made by Isaac
lines in the Telluride district on
claims showing vanadium, rare
metal. The ore is found in entirely
new fields and has created great ex-
element among miners. This vein is
| in blanket formation, about three feet
thick and runs about 3 per cent vana-
| dium.
The richest copper ore that has
! come to the grubstake committees
| Headquarters in Denver was from Reid
| Gwartney, one of the prospectors sent
out by the committee. He is prospect
| ing near Parlin to the southwest OF
Gunnison county. 1t is from claim
| located by him. The ore, which came
| in large chunks, should assay 40 per
| cent copper. 1t is from a copper dis
trict new to the mining world.
A $14O0 retort of pure gold from the
Nugget mine at Glendale in Boulder
county, is on exhibition at the Boulder
| National bank. 1t is one Of the larg-
est ever seen in Boulder county and,
| according to Olney Newell and asso-
| ciates, is only one of many that will
| be taken from the mine within few
months. This mine is in the Central
district, which has produced $s,000000
or $10,000,00O since the discovery of
gold in that county.
The richest ore yet received at the
grubstake committees headquarters
In Denver, runs $460.45 to the ton.
This is the assay returned from Henry
E. Wood on ore submitted by o. NJ.
Kee, prospecting in the La Plata
mountains. 1t ran 2236 ounces gold
and $3.50 ounces in silver to the ton.
Kee was sent out by the committee a
month ago and he went to work about
fifteen miles from Durango. 1t is a
rich district; in it's day it was famous
for a while.
Samples of ore showing free gold
and giving every evidence of having
come from a lead of high grade ore
we're received in Denver by General
Passenger Agent F. A. Wadleigh of the
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