The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-24
PUTS DEEP
CREEK IN l|MfL|GHT
WESTERN PACIFIC NEW ORE
BODY EVEN LARGER THAN
AT FIRST THOUGHT


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The big copper-lead strike recently
made in the property of the Western
Pacific Copper company at Deep
Creek is creating much interest in the
possibility of that part of the state.
Some of the wide-awake and
progressive men who have held in
terests i'll that section have always
maintained that it was only a matter
of time and the expenditure of the
necessary money to demonstrate it's
mineral wealth, and the development
CT the large body of ore in the West
ern ] ariflc properly will go a long
way in establishing ,h, fact.
T.. 5 !;ilcman. who has just re-
turned fron Eeer Creek. had an OPP
portunity to thoroughly examine the
big ore-body, and he pronounces it
one of extraordinary size and aver
age richness. He reports it ever
larger than at first thought, but
more work had been done than when
the first report was made to the
main office in the Brooks Arcade
building.
Mr.. Hileman says the ore is of a
uniform grade for the full width of
the vein, and hat the company can
begin to ship in quantity as o as
the heavy snow disappears in the
spring. An average sample taken
from the orebody gives 24.4 per cent
copper. 23.S per cent lead, one ounce
silver and the ore carries about 20
per cent iron. Such values are en-
tirely satisfactory, but the managers
of the property predict even richer
values at a greater depth. The belief
is based upon the fact that the ore
body shows considerable teaching,
but in portions of the vein that have
escaped the teaching process, rich
oxides are found, and native copper
is also occasionally encountered. A
fine specimen of native copper is on
exhibition at the office; also several
hundred pounds of the average ore.
some of the samples weighing fifty
to seventy-five pounds.
The ore makes in a stratum of
dClomite lime, which dips to the west
at the angle of something neal forty
degrees from the horizon. The lime
belt is about fifty feet in width,
and the orebodies are found on the
under and upper sides of the lime.
The large body of ore recently
Cpsned is on the hanging wall. The
smaller or footwall part of the vein
has been followed from the surface
for approximately $50 feet from the
apex. The lime lying between the
foot and h~anging-wall orebodies is
highly m~ineralized, and with depth
will probably all go to ore. This
lime belt had never been crOsscut
to the hanging-wall until after the
discovery of the big ore vein in the
cave. The caves make along the fis-
sure, but the cavities are made in
the south wall, the north side of the
assure being but slightly affected.
The reason for this condition is that
the assure runs along the side of the
mountain and the water that runs
uOWH the ulllSluc Ihco III
down that side of the assure, and
has formed a system of caves several
hundred feet in length.
The fissure bisects the vein, but is
not thought to have had any par
ticular influence in the deposition
of the Orebodies found in the dOlO-
mite lime belt. Below the bottom
of the lower cave system, the assure
is closed, and it is not improbable
that it will be found to contain con-
siderable ore, concentrated from the
nearby Orebodies, and the highly
mineralized country rock.
The north side of the assure, hav-
ing been but slightly affected by the
water, shows almost a clean break.
Even the OrebOdy that has been cut
by the fissure shows but slight indi-
cations of teaching. The continu-
alton of the orebody to the south
of the fssnre has not yet been ex-
plored, but, without doubt, it will
be found to correspond with the ore
vein on the north side, because the
orebody on the north side of the
fissure shows a face of ore almost
perfect to the line of the fissure.-
Salt Lake Tribune.