The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-03-14
MINING INDUSTRY Of IDAHO


Mulan has enjoyed during the past year several
booms in development particularly in the operations
OF the Copper King and the National Mne both of which
being developed great depth by long tunnels and
have disclosed interesting sowngs at several points
the progress of the work But they have passed up the
that have been encountered for future investigation
after the main chance has been fully determined.
Carbonate Hill and Idaho Giant Mines.
On the opposite side Of the South Fork considerable inter-
est manifest during the the properties Of the
Carbonate Hill and Idaho Giant both of which carry extensive
naturalization at the surface and in shallow development
One Of these properties has splendid showngs OF
zinc associated with an gneous dixie that has the eamks
Of body Of this GLASS; and with the interest in
zinc recently stimulated by the high price Of the metal
these properties are worthy of extensive development
Silver Cable
Another important development tributary to Muan
that of the Silver Cable mine the mountain line at the
head Of the South Fork Of the Occur dAene river The main
development of this group the mountain side but it
conveniently reached from Muan which should prove
it's supply point in the event of it developing into producer
which it has every promise of doing.
The Silver Gable of the old properties OF the district
and has the of considerable development fom
years It's surface showngs consisted OF two splendid crop
pings Of heavy gossan associated with the lead phosphate
minerals that have been Indicator OF the most
cessfu mines Of the Occur Aene district An upper tunnel
was run Of these surface howng about 200
feet deep that intercepted the vein where it was filed with al
most barren quartz Subsequently lower tunnel at
much greater depth which also passed the vein IN mpov
eshed condition. and extended several hundred feet be-
yond it. The disclosures of this property
made the upper tunnel where drift had been started few
feet outside Of the point in the c1osscu tunnel where the
quartz vein had been This drift had been at quarter
ing angle the hanging side of the vein and drill hole had
been put into the quartz but finding mineral color had not
been blasted In that condition the property remained for
long time until the work taken up by the present man
agenen This drill hole put in little deeper and blasted
and revealed pay the bottom Of it. The vein opened
its full width and drift has been continued along it's strike
to the west for 80 feet with gradually improving conditions
until the fact the vein exposed feet thick and varies
down to three feet the point where the drift started
showing solid ribs of massive supde mineral the entire
length of this drift and the full length of the shoot still
undetermined but apparently getting wider the drift ex
tended to the The massive suphde found in this
shoot also associated with pockets of high grade lead
carbonate and the dump shows nearly 200 tons Of 10 to 90
cent mineral which would largely be crude shipping mineral
were its value all in lead 1t unfortunately however, shows
quite strong mixture Of zinc suphides with the lead but also
carries spots of gray copper with excellent silver values
in places The merits of the deposit by fully de
termned and the continuation Of this drifting in the upper
tunnel may find the west end Of the shoot much richer IN lead