The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-03
PIONEER MINE
MAKES PROFITS
LARGE BODIES OF MILLING ORE
EXPOSED IN THE SOUTH
ERN DISTRICT

The Pioneer Consolidated Mines
company is now treating an average
of 40 toms of ore daily, operating its
ten-stamp mill twelve hours out of
the twenty-four. w. ]. Tobin, presi-
dent and general manager, who has
been personally in charge of the
company's operations ror some time
past, has been in Goldfield and stat
ed in an interview that the prop
erty is now in satisfactory condition
and a good profit will be shown from
the company's operations during the
month of September, with prospects
for a better showing of earnings
next month.
Ore for the mill is now coming
from the $50 and 250-foot levels of
the mine and on both these levels
large bodies of mill ore are exposed,
the product being broken across an
average width of eight feet and
maintaining an average value OF
around SO per ton. Ore reserves
are constantly being added to by
new development work, and the
quantity blocked out insures a sup
ply for many months to come. Bod
les of higher grade ore r opened
occasionally, and this ore is being
saved separately and will be shipped.
The process of treatment employ
ed is a combination of amalgamation
and cyanidation, a saving Of 60 per
ZEN being effected on the amalgama-
ton plates. The sands are treated
by the cyanide process, and as the
mill is not equipped for treating the
shines, the latter product is being
impounded below the mill and will
be treated later by a Shining plant,
which will be installed for that pur-
pose. A Huntington mill is in use
and amalgamation is obtained In
three stages of the treatment pro-
cess, in the batteries, in the Hunt
ington mill and on plates below the
latter. At present the company has
about 10000 tons Of shines i'm
pounded below the mill. Manager
Tobin is now installing a heating
plant to avoid difficulties from freez-
ing pipes during the winter.
There are good prospects that the
next few months will witness a mark
ed revival of activity in the Pioneer
district. Mr.. Tobin declares that
there are a number of properties In
the district that have most encour-
aging surface showings and from
which excellent paintings may be OBJ
tanned at a number of points. Among
these properties are the Pioneer
Consolidated, the Richard lease
ground, the Indiana, Bugnf group,
Mullan and Murphy claims, the Saw
age, the Pioneer Syndicate, May1ow-
err, Marx property, X. X. and Star
light groups.
A discovery that is regarded as
important has been made lately on
the Bugni property, n and one
half miles east of the Pioneer Con-
solidated, where ore of milling grade
was found at the surface and a shaft
has been sunk 20 feet, with the bot
tom still in ore. On the Indiana
property, adjoining the Pioneer Con.
and controlled by Boston people, a
fine body of mill ore has been ex'
posed and active work is to be re-
sumed on this ground shortly. J.. w.
Wilson, who has been operating a
lease on Pioneer Con. ground, Is
about to start development work on
a group of cfilaims owned by him and
situated 1900 feet west of the Pho
neer property. Work is also to be
conducted on the Yellow Jacket
ground.
The Bullfrog Pioneer Extension,
adjoining the Pioneer Con-. and con-
trolled by Denver operators, has an
excellent surface showing and some
development work has been done on
this ground. The company has been
reorganized. on the assessable stock
plan, and it is announced that e x
tensive development will be under
taken at this point in the a flu
ture. Growing activity in the dis
trict is indicated by the fact that
the Pioneer school district has been
reopened.