Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-11-09
TUNGSTIC ACID ORE
FOUND IN QUANTITY
IN YAVAPAI COUNTY
Tip Top Mine Is Location of Ore
From Which TungStiC Acid Is
Found; Rich Is Deposit in the
Wonderful Metal.

Wonderful Metal.
PRESCOTT. Nov. Sit has long
been known that wolframite. one of
the ores producing tungstic acid exist
ed in this country. Specimens of the .
ore, taken from the Tip Top mine
grew dusty with age upon the shelves .
Of mienral cabinets But it was not .
until about two years ago that 81 at .
tracted attention as a commercial .
proposition. The owners of the Tip .
Top mine aware of the fact that the .
old silver mine containing a streak Of .
this ore as well as much of the same
material in the old dumps, installed /
a small mill to treat it. That was
something over a year ago About the F.
some time VIM. Connors began to OPP .
en- up a vein of the ore in Eureka dis
trict. Both of the properties mention .
cd are i'm Yavapai county. but separat-
ed by at least 100 miles of country.
large part of which is in the mineral
belt which has produced millions in
gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc AL
. NAAN'NA-rAA hNN HhhAlNAlg W ur given 10
these finds Of the ore Of tungsten. the
/ general public did not awaken to the
/ importance Of the discovery until
1855 pounds Of the ore had been sold
by Mr.. Connors and his associates for
the neat sum of $1,000. Almost at the
same time that this ore was forward
/ ed TO Pittsburg. the Tip Top mine was
. bonded from the owners by a metllur-
gist Of wide experience. who is now
preparing to concentrate the dumps
of the mine to recover the wolframite.
estimated by him to be worth over
100000 gross
AT the Northern Arizona Fair three
weeks ago, there was also shown vol
frantic from Mohave county from
mine now making shipments of the
ore. These exhibits an attracted
much attention, mainly because plac.
ard stated that the ore is worth over
a dollar pound The unusually high
price obtained recently for the ore is
due to the embargo placed upon il bv
the British. This embargo works a
hardship upon the steel manufacturer
and the manufacturers of electric Iamps
but it has started new industry i'm
Arizona and has had the effect of Cd
ening the eyes Of miners and prosDec-
toTs-and the latter are ant to keen
their eyes peeled from now on. II is
within the probabilities that the ores
of tungsten will be found in scores Of
places The mine in Mohave county
and the Tip Top mine are $50 miles
apart. The vast scope of country be-
tween has not been prospected for this
mineral to any extent. The veins so
far found occur in the form of granite
known to the prospector as "bull gran
tie" (pegmatite), and this formation
is found in several places nthis coun-
try The ore viii always be in de
mand Tungsten, while used i'm very
small quantity compared with other
base metals, has come to stay as an
absolute necessity in certain indus
tries
This is best illustrated by few par
agraphs from an interview had with
Frank L. Hess. who, among mineralo-
gists, is what Edison is among cleo
trcian "a wizard The interview ap-
peared i'm the Los Angeles Times near
ly three years ago, since which time
the use of tungsten has very greatly
increased:
How odd IL seems to reflect that
thirty years ago aluminium was a nov
elty--a mere laboratory curiosity"
said Mr.. Hess the other day. "Yet.
at the present time il is so chean and
common as to be used on an extensive
scale as material for stew-pots, kettles
and other kitchen ware
But within the last few years ever
so many other metals entirely new 10
the nonscientifc public. have become
widely known. It might, indeed be
said that we have entered upon a
new epoch-an age of metals hitherto
unrecognized by mankind at large.
Some Of these metals are stm
hardly more than curiosities of the
laboratory but sooner or later inn
portant uses for them are certain to
be discovered Consider. for example.
the new gas-it buoys which light
J themselves at nightfall and put them
selves out al daybreak Their power
10 act in this seemingly intelligent
manner is attributable to a Bit OF
selenium wire which for an unknown
reason is a conductor Of electricity i'm
the light and nonconductor in the
dark.
"of the new metal tungsten. only