The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-01-05
NEW MEXICO MINES
REVIEWED BY THE
MINING WORLD
Metal Producers Of State Des-
oribed and Their Outputs
Listed in Leading Mineral
Publication.

The Mining me Engineering
World. n leading publication In the
mining Held, issues tn IN first NUM-
Der for the new year u Comprchcn-
siVo resume Of the products and de-
Nel"pmcrts Of New Mexico mines IN
igtt.
After quoting the production fig
ureH given In the geological survey
reports, the article continues:
The Mogollon district, which In
1913 yielded &6ie,Ss6 In gold and
l.a0G. I5G ounces of silver, showed a
small Increase Tor 1914. Considcra-
ble metallic gold and silver were
marketed from Piuus Altos, In addi-
ton To ores shipped. The output OF
the gold and silver bearing siiceous
ana copper ores OF the Lordsburg
district Increased. The Whiteoaks
district. Lincoln county. continued TO
produce gold bullion. Thc Elizabeth
town district. Collar county. remain
ed the principal placer producing dis
triot. The orc Graudc district, ia
utrro county, and the san Pedro dis
trict, santa Fc county. contributed
gold and silver iu copper ores. The
new t0O-tuu cyanide min la the re-
NNilI'l NANNINM NNNNA NNNH EtAllAANH o.
county. continued to produce silver
gold bullion after september. n
ruld-siI,cr bullion was produced at
the c%ynuidation plants In the revived
Red River district. Taos county.
Tho greater part Of the output OF
copper comes from the operations of
the chino copper company. which "
mining % low-grado deposit az santa
Rita by steam shoyels This ore IL
concentrated at Hurley In a wet-con-
ycntration plant Of i've sections,
where an average Of j.3s2 tons a day
was treated m 1913. the yield of cop
per for that year being i~3,i70,ltb
pounds In 1914 the production OF
this company began 10 show material
increases over corresponding periods
iu 1919. being ~t1,2NN.65S pounds FOR
the first quarter ana l5.032,S5i
pounds for tho second quarter, but
owing TO the curtailment Of product
ncccssitatcd bs the condition OF the
copper market on account of The war
in Europe. the production for the
third quarter was only li,i5l,i2O
pounds. and the estimated production
for tho year 5i.S22.O 600 pounds The
Lurdsburg district continued to pro-
duce 70 considerable quantity of cop-
per. and the ORC Grundc n san
Redro districts also contributed TO
the p~roductifn. In preparation for
handling the copper ores developed
iu the Burro Mountain district, tho
Gurru Mountain Copper company
compile . an experimental mill Gur-
iug the yelr for determining the
process Co be used lu the proposed
~l,O0O-ton concentration plant ana
made experiments with the tloiation
process.
Tho Head output OF New Mexico
comes chiefly from the crude ore
from tho COOKS Peak district, Luna
county. and from lead ore and con-
ccntratcs com the Magdalena dis
trlct. Socorro county. Several ship
mcnts were made from the organ
district. Duua Ana county, formerly
an important producer of lead.
The mines producing zinc In 1878
ln New Mexico were In the Magda-
lena district. Socorro county; the
Cnok'g Pcnk district, Luna county.
ana the Hanover and puos Altos
districts. Grant county. The Mazda
lona district was the most produc'
i've lNf hhAl'N' HNfhh "N
and xuc gulphide ores and zinc SUI
phide concentrate Zinc arhoha
and zinc suiphidc ores were shipped
from Cook'R and zinc ron
Hanover. Important Development hh'
construction work was done az StnE'
dsleua, Hanover and Plnos AltoH' Ih'
production of zinc ore ana c"noeu.
trates from New Mexico was 2hfN'
tons of 4i.9b per cent zinc, comphi''
with 25,72G tons of SIS per cent I'm
In 1919.
For the past several months I'M
Bonney Mining company OF Lofus
burg has been shipping three carlo"ui
of ore per week, averaging SIS PEI
ton-three-nfths OF the values benz
In gold-to the Copper queen a