The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-18
GOLD AND SILVER
SOUTHERN MINES
Metal Production in States South
of Potonac-Copper, Zinc
and Lead.
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Washington. May 1.-THE total
value of the mine output of gold. sill
ern or Appalachian States in 1ef2. &C
cording to H. d. McCaskey, of the
U. S. Geological Survey was s1S,47e.
276. against s11.7s7942 in 1911 and
s10,127.3o4 I'M 1910. The figures for 1912
represent the production of 90 mines.
of which so were gold placer mines.
many of them small.
The total gold OUTPUT from all mines
was 1O763.24 fine ounces, valued at
s222496 An increase over the produc-
ton of 1911 of 3,053.72 ounces in guam
tity and of S63,126 in value The sill
yer output recovered entirely as q by
product in refining the gold, copper and
lead produced. was 96,523 fine ounces,
valued at s5s,361. decrease of 1852
ounces in quantity but an increase of
S2.065 In value. OF the gold output in
1912 the placers yielded 774.S3 ounces,
against 1,447.2S ounces In 1911. and the
quartz of deep mines produced 20 302. 80
ounces. against 5.699.64 ounces in 1911.
The copper mines produced $500
ounces in 1911 and 1880 ounces in 1912
and the lead mines produced 24t.92
ounces in 1912. OF the 80 producing
gold placers In 1912. there were % in
Georgia, % in North Carolina. and in
South Carolina. There were 33,S13
short tons of siliceous ores sold or
treated from Appalachian gold mines
In 1912, OF which 14.35S tons were
mined in North Carolina. and 12.35S
tons in South Carolina, chiefly from
the well-known lola and Halle mines
which are the two largest gold mines
cast of the Black Hills. The average
recovery of gold Gncluding nominal
recovery of silver) per ton of siliceous
ores treated I'm the Eastern States in
Carolina was s1062 and for South Car
olina the remarkably low figure of
Sl.34.
The copper production in 1912 was
l9,265,945 pounds. valued at $3,1TS,SS2-
n decrease of 339,441 pounds In GUAM
uty. but an increase of S72S,20S in
value. OF the total output 1S.4S3,173
pounds came from the Ducktown dis
trict of Eastern Tennessee, from 603 229
short tons of pyritic copper ore treat
ed. The remainder was chiefly from
Pennsylvania, where. at the Cornwall
iron mines. magnetic separation OF
large tonnage of magnetic ores results
in the recovery of copper bearing py-
rite, Maryland Virginia and North
Carolina also contributed to the copper
output
The production of lead was SCI, o26
pounds valued at S25.2i6. a decrease of
213.716 pounds in quantity and of sl2,-
BIZ In value. The greater part of the
production was derived from the lead
zinc mines of Wythe County. Va, as
usual, but an output of $4,000 pounds
was also reported from North Carolina.
The zinc output, figured as spelter,
was 1A4,699.S63 pounds. valued at So
9S4.29l, a decrease of l4,65l,G95 pounds
| in quantity. but an increase Of SOL q Q
in value. OF the total production I3s
alO.00S pounds. valued at s9.G26.l9I
came from the zinc mines at Frankliu
furnace. n. j.. and over 5000, 900 pounds
came from Eastern Tennessee Nearly
/ 100000 pounds was produced in Vir-
einia. and smaller quantities in North
I Carolina and New York.
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