The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-17
Outline OF MINING OPERATIONS
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tain, Antelope, Jessup, Sacramento
and Spring Valley district. Some
high-grade copper ore was shipped
during the year from the White Cloud
, Copper Kettle and Table Mountain
camps. The greatest attention was
given to the Rochester distrist, and
it is estimated that in its first year it
produced 20, 900 tons of ore, for
which an average value of $25, Dr. a
total of $780, 600, was claimed. This
ore was extracted by lessees and
hauled eight or ten miles to Mcneil
station, on the Southern Pacific.
In the Indian, or Spring Valley dis
trict, the Federal Mining company
proceeding with it's dredging project.
and in the Antelope and Table Noun
tain districts cinnabar deposits were
opened. Lead ore was also encoun-
tered in the Antelope district. In
the Seven Troughs district an event
of Importance is reported in the sue
cessful drilling for the faulted vein
of the Coalition property, and this
district may enter upon renewed ac-
tivity. In the Table Mountain dis
trict the Boyer mine encountered
some rich ore in the lower workings;
the Thies-Sullivan property has pro-
duced some high-grade copper ore.
and it was reported at the end of
the year that the property would be
extensively drilled for secondary de-
posits.
The Salt Lake Copper company,
at Tecoma, New, has been operated
during the year mainly by lessees.
The small amount of development
was performed by the company dur
ing the year with a view of opening
orebodies by means of tunnels. This
work has not yet been extended far
enough to determine whether the
orebodies will be cut by the tunnels.
Among the producing mines of the
Mason Valley mining district in 1913
company, the Mason Valley Mines
were the Nevada-Douglas Copper
company, Mcconnell Mines company,
Malachite, Empire-Nevada, Blue Jay,
New Yerington, Montana Yerington,
YeringtOn Mountain, YeringtOn Cop
per, Smith Valley Mines company,
and others of lesser importance. The
district produced approximately
22O,0 600 tons of ore containing 49,
100000 pounds of copper, $500
ounces gold, and 100 ounces silver.
The entire production was treated
by the Mason Valley Mines company.
at it's Thompson. New, smelling
plant, which was improved by the in
stallation of a converting plant.
Hereafter the company will ship
blister copper to eastern refineries.
In consequence of this installation
the plant will be able to treat more
siliceous ores. The company's own
mines operated steadily in 1913 and
shipped about $4,000 tons of ore.
Development work was vigorously
pushed and satisfactory results were
obtained in diamond-drill prospect
ing.
The Nevada-Douglas Copper com
pany produced about 1900 tons of
ore, containing approximately 7,000,-
900 pounds of copper. The Ludwig
main inclined shaft was sunk a dis
lance of 1875 feet to the eighth level,
where development work indicated
several bodies of high-grade ore and
was still in the oxidized zone. The
main shaft of the Casting Copper
workings was sunk to the 350-fOot
level. The work in this property has
opened a large body of high-grade
oxidized ore now proven from the
surface to the 2O0-foot level. Ex-
ploration during the year was con-
tinued, by means of diamond and
hand drills.
The New Yerington Copper COM
pany shipped about Ave cars of IA
per cent copper ore during the year.
A good deal of development has been
accomplished and about 1900 tons
of Is per cent copper ore is said to
be ready for shipment now
The Mcconnell Mines company
shipped about 1900 ON of copper
ore and the developments during the
year were satisfactory. The Mala-
chite property was purchased in the
summer of 1913 by Grant Snyder and
associates from Salt Lake. The
Smith-Kelly Mines company en-
plOyed about 10 men and installed a
new hoist, a 6-drill compressor and
a 60-horsepower gasoline engine.
Yellow Pine District
The largest producer of the Yellow
Pine district, as in former years, al
the Yellow Pine Mining company,
which operates the Bybee group, four
miles west of GoOdsprings. The COM
pany shipped about 1000 tons Of
crude zinc ore, 5000 tons of lead con-
centrates and 10000 IONS of zinc con-
csntrates; $21S,50O was distributed
in dividends. During the summer the
concentrating plant was enlarged,