The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-12-30

Mines in Utah produced gold, silver.
"copper" lead and zinc in 1915 amount
ing in value to $55,O00000. as estim-
ated by V. c. Heikes of the United
States geological survey. This repre-
sents an increase over the production
in 1914 of nearly so per cent, or $1S,-
100000 There was a considerable in
crease in all the metals. About one
fourth more ore was mined, increas-
ing the total from S,544,014 tons In
1914 to about 10.725,00O tons in 1915.
About 100000 tons were produced at
Bingham, an increase from 7,S00,661
tons In 1914. The bulk of this was
mined at the Utah and Ohio Copper
properties, which yielded about 9,OOO,-
900 tons of low grade ore In 1915 9th
er mines that contributed large guam
titles Of ore were the Utah Consoli-
dated, Utah Apex, United States,
Bingham, Bingham New Haven and
Utah Metal mines. The Tintic district
produced about 100000 tons, against
29S,4S6 tons in 1914. The main ore
producers were the Chief Consolidated
Iron Blossom, Centennial Eureka,
Eagle and Blue Bell, Mammoth, Ge-
mini, Grand Central and May Day
mines. The 1O0-ton concentration mill
built primarily to treat Chief CONSOLE
dated ores, did considerable custom
work.
Crude Ore Shipments.
In the Park city region about 3d.
795 tons of crude ore and concentrates
were shipped, against 6s,736 tons in
1914. improvements in concentration
methods resulted In large shipments of
lead and zinc concentrate from the
DAILY Judge, Daily West and Silver
King Coalition mills. Two large con-
centration mills were built for treat
ing tailings on the flats below Park
City. Flotation was adopted at sew
eral mills In the region, and the pros
pect is that all the mills will be slmil-
arly equipped In 1915 In Beaver
county the ore shipments, including
considerable quantity of old Stag,
amounted to about $4,000 tons, against
shipments of 1896 tons in 1914, prin-
cipally from the Horn Silver and Ma
jestic mines. In Tooele county the ore
production, principally from Stockton
and Ophir, increased from 1891 tons
to 1894 tons In 1915. There were &c.
OF tons of ore hauled from the Cot
tonwood districts to the smelters in
1916 The largest producer was the
Cardiff mine, which yields rich silver
lead ore. Important shipments of sill
yer were made from the South Hecla
and the Michigan Utah properties.
Zinc ore was shipped from the Car
Donate mine.
Gold.
The mine output or gold increased
over 10 per cent, from $3,265,347 in
1914 to $3,90S,O00 in 1915. Copper ores
yielded the larger part of the gold but
large quantities also came from lead
ore and siliceous ore. A comparative
ly small quantity of copper ore was
produced in gold and silver mills. The
high grade gold ore was mined in the
Bull Valley district of Washington
county, during part of the year. and
in the last half Of the year new devel-
opments in the Fortuna district of
Beaver county attracted attention, and
wide veins of low grade gold ore are
said to be Systematically exploited. At
the same time small high grade veins
Of gold ore are being mined and milled
by lessees.
Silver.
The Edne production of silver in
creased from 11,154,916 ounces in 1914
to approximately 12,724,OOO ounces in
1915, the increase amounting to IA per
cent in quantity and about $169,0OO in
value Much of the silver is derived !
rom lead ore, and smaller quantities
rom the copper and siliceous ores. |
Early in the year the Knight Christ
snsen chloridizing, roasting and leach !
ng mill was destroyed by fire, and (
Turing the summer was being recon
tructed at Silver City by the Tintic
Milling company, which dismantled a
imilar plant at Park City that was
ecently used to treat Ontario ores.
The new plant will probably be in OPP
ration early in 1915.