Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-09-01
THIRTY MILLIONS
ORE PRODUCTION
GOLD. SILVER, LEAD, ZINC
AND COPPER
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY PRESENTS INTER
ESTINe STATISTICS

The production OF gold. silver. cop |
per, lead, and zinc from Nevada ores
sold or treated in 1914, according TO
Victor c. Heikes. of the United States
geological survey. was valued at s29.
SOO.S42
The output of recoverable gold
from Nevada mines in 1914 was $685.
.402.47 ounces. valued at Sl1.481.lSS,
and Of this amount 1929 per cent was
derived from dry or siliceous ore
The placer gold output was 1S,25O05
ounces, OF which 10,34504 ounces
came from placer mines in Nye eoun
~ The dry or siliceous ores con
tanned 49, 1866 ounces of gold; cop
per ores, 49,476.61 ounces; and lead,
zinc, and copperlead ores contained
2.S79.35 ounces. Bullion from gold
and silver mills contained 439,919.37
ounces; concentrates, 41,6S6.3S
ounces; and crude ore shipped to
shelters, 55.375.09 ounces. The mines
OF Esmeralda county produced nearly
one-half of the total gold, or s5,226,-
367, and the Goldfield district yielded
S4.7O5,210 OF this total Nye county
produced s3,377,262 in gold; the To
nopah district yielded $2,648,S33; the
mines of the Comstock lode produced
s434.3S7 in gold, and Humboldt, Min.
eral, White Pine, and Churchill coun-
ties. in the order named, each pro
duced more than $1,000 ounces of
gold.
For three years prior to 1914 the
silver output of Nevada had been con
stantly increasing, but on account of
the low prices of the metal in the
last half of the year 1914 there was
a slight decrease in silver. The total
output was 15,455.491 ounces, valued
at SS,546.SS7 OF this total yield IA
724,094 ounces. or 95.3 per cent. was
credited TO siliceous ores; 2S6.935
ounces to lead ores, 181. 733 ounces to
copper ores, and 115.13S ounces to
lead-Zinc ores. Ores treated at gold
and silver mills were credited with
l2,lO0,494 ounces; concentrates with
l,721. 348 ounces; and crude ore with
l,600,3l5 ounces. Nye county pro
duced IL ,424.769 ounces; the Tonopah
district produced 11.3SS.452 ounces. or
1874 per cent of the entire silver pro
dnction Of Nevada the Comstock
lode, or Storey county. yielded only
27S.599 ounces. but Churchill eounty's
output was l.545.926 ounces.
In 1914 Nevada produced SO, $50, 45O
pounds Of copper. valued at SSH .lgS.
decrease from the production OF the
: preceding year. The greater part OF
! the copper, or 50,366,650 pounds. came
from concentrates, and 1851 .0OO
pounds were from crude ore shipped
TO smelters. The mines at Ely were
operated at a reduced rate and the
: Mason Valley smelter was idle during
a good part of the year.
The lead output of the state was
l2,809,655 pounds, valued at $499,577
Clark and Lincoln counties continue
TO outrank all others in the produc.
- ton Of lead, the combined output OF
these two counties being 1913. O9s
pounds. White Pine county yielded
+ 915,6O2 pounds and EIko county $50
S26 pounds. The yield of lead from
4 concentrates was 3.937126 pounds
and that from crude ore S,7g4,246
> pounds.
The zinc ores of Nevada produced
v l2,9SO,232 pounds of recoverable zinc
+. figured as spelter, valued at 1861 1922
= clark county produced 11.86214g
pounds of the entire zinc output, the
y remainder coming mostly from Lin
o coin county although small shipments
e We're made from Eureka county dur
ing the year The greater part OF
the zinc material is oxidized. From
crude zinc ore shipped, 6.1isS9s
pounds were recovered. and from con
centrates 6,S6S,3S4 pounds were re
covered
There were 791 producers of gold
silver copper, lead and zinc in Ne
yada in 1914. OF the total of 4,522.
022 short tons of ore sold or treated
l46l,577 tons were treated in gold
I and silver mills, principally cyanide
5 mills; 2,76S,l93 tons were concentrat
. ed, largely copper ore concentrated
ana 2s1 .hlS tons represented crude ore
shipped to several shelters. The
largest part of the total tonnage n,
2'SS2,l2l tons, represented copper ore
l,5s4,4S6 tons were siliceous ore: is.
OSS tons lead ore; $3.50 tons zinc ore
1882 tons copper-lead ore; and 1907.
r tons lead-zinc ore