The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-13

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Tonopah Extension
The Tonopah Extension will make
it's record shipment of bullion and
concentrates this morning as the re-
suit of the cleanup of the mill for
the last half of January. 1t con-
sists of so bars of bullion weighing
1O2, 900 ounces and valued at $780,
500 and 20 tons of concentrates,
valued at $500, making a total of
$4,000. This tells %eloquently, if
of what the mill and mine
is doing.
Owing to the cold and stormy
weather which prevailed during the
past week there was o the usual
progress made on the installation of
the pipe line and plant which the
Tonopah Extension is putting in for
the purpose of providing fire protec-
ton for mine and mill buildings.
However, the 100000 gallon water
tank is now finished and a good por-
ton of the pipe has been placed
underground. The pipe is laid at an
average depth of two feet, but w
ing to the contour of the ground
there are places where it is consid-
erably deeped. In the vicinity of
where the line crosses Ohio avenue
there is quite a little stretch that
has to be blasted, but this will be
should not be long now before the
water car be pumped to the tank
and ready for the first fire that
comes along.
The incline shaft is now down
about % feet below the 1860 level
and continues to encounter the rich
stringers from the main vein which
have been in almost continuous evil
dence since the deepening of the
shaft was started from the 1870 lev
ell. The cutting of the station at
the 1850 level has been completed
and in doing this work some excep-
tionally rich ore was encountered in
these stringers. At different times
these stringers have been so large
or of such a high grade that they
sweetened up the rest of the rock
until the whole product from the
shaft could be put through the mill
at a profit, but at other times it is
necessary to sort the ore from the
waste.
Belmont
The report of the development
work at the Belmont mine for the
past week contains the usual fea-
lures that prevail at all good big
mines where the workings are ex-
tensive and more or less great dis
tances apart. In some places the
ore showing are much better and in
others they are not so good, but the
average is such that no fault can
be found.
There has been splendid improve
ment in the east drift from raise -
on the; Belmont vein at the 800
level and very rich punches of ore
are now in evidence making the
average grade of the ore as it is
broken down considerably better.
Previous to last week the ore had
been low grade.
On the level above the east drift
on the Belmont vein also shows
some Improvement, the r being
wider and of better grade.
In the 900 level of the Desert
Queen shaft the ore has been again
picked up in the west drift, $50,
which has been going through a
fault. Raise IS, off the east drift
on the favorite vein has also encoun-
tered a fault and is being pushed up
through it. This raise has been in
very rich ore. The new north cross
cut, which was recently started off
west drift 952, cut some small
%stringers during the week but no
especial value is attached to them.
On the 1000 level of the Belmont
shaft there has been considerable
improvement in the grade of the ore
in raise 35 on the Mizpah fault vein
and it now shows a full face of good
ore.
On the level below, the 21OO, new
raise has been started from the east
drift off south crosscut three. 1t is
following a wide body of low grade
quartz.
The thirteenth level of the Bel
mont is looking very well this week.
The vein that vas cut in north cross
cut four at a point where the values
did not amount OF much, is being
drifted on and the values have in
creased so much that the whole pro-
duct of the drift now goes for ore.
South crosscut No. l has cut the
Mizpah fault vein and has already
gone through II to IA feet of low
grade quartz without reaching the
other wall. The west drift on the
Belmont vein, off raise 81, is now
showing a full face of very good
grade ore.
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