The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1916-06-24
Great Mineral De-
p0SitS in Comet District
Mil at SherGOmet Mine a Well Equipped Plant Ores
Run We'll in Tungsten.

If the mineral showings of the
Comet mining district were some
where in White Pine county now
there would be boom.
Everywhere you go in Comet you
will find ore-gold, silver, lead, iron
and tungsten
The greatest drawback in the past
has been the matter of transportation
but that problem is being solved
by the auto truck. The best evil
dence of this is found at the prop
critics OF the Silver-Comet Mining
company, which are being operated
under the management of f. D..
Smiley who has associated with
him a strong syndicate of Boston
capitalists. Aside from from the gold,
silver and lead, these properties car
ry tungsten, very important fea-
ture under existing market condi-
tions.
Mr.. Smiley has worked out the
details of proposition which looks
like sure winner. When he first
went to Comet no work was being
done, except by an occasional pros
pector. He was not long in dis
cerning the wonderful possibilities
off Inv 60 hn Dht tn
ed possession of an attractive group
OF claims and began the task of
rounding out a company to develop
the ground.
1t was necessary to do lot Of pi-
roads before supplies could be
brought in to establish camp.
Many hardships, necessarily had to
be endured, and Mrs Smiley bore
her share with him But anyone
who visits the mine today will al
once be convinced that the privatiors
endured were worth while AS Mr.
Smiley put it the other day, he now
las things in shape to do some reGl
mining; from now on the property
will be steady producer. He has
built a splendidly equipped mill Of
60 tons daily capacity and it is il
operation. The plant is eXcellently
arranged and the cost of operation
brought down to the minimum. Or
being brought from the mine, th'
ore is placed in a double compaIt
! ment bin, run over grizzlies ant
through rolls in which it is crushe'
to thre-quarters mesh. 1t is then ell
evated to the fine ore bin; fed from
| there over an automatic feeder Il
| i4x24 rolls. The entire produc
next passes thru trommel screen
everything fine enough going direc
to the classifers; the oversize pass
es through another set of rolls AM
then to a Huntington mill where
is reground to 20 mesh. From th
Huntington, the now finely crushe
ore passes to a set of hydraulic elias
sifiers, each product going over
separate Whitley table. The concen
trate is then dried, elevated bac
to the mill where it is dropped int
a Wetherell magnetic separator
which separates the iron mad tunE
stem from the gold, lead and silve
The tailings from the separator al
shipped direct to the Salt Lak
smelters. The iron and tungsten
: then run over a Wiley table
, separate the iron from the tungste
The iron product contains about 81
in gold to the ton, while the tun
: sten concentrate assays from SO
I 70 per cent. The tailings from Il
! mill contain from SIS to Sc in gol
: 1t is planned to install cyanide tank
t by which process these tailings W
1 be retreated and practically all
the values saved.
a The mining being carried on
9 practically from the grass roo
: stopping from the 70-foot level up
g the surface. The vein is big a.
S strong and undoubtedly continu
g to great depth, while the surfa
: groupings indicates the vein goes
the way across the claims. Besid
gold, silver, lead and iron, the OF
all carry tungsten.
q A shipment of 1900 pounds
7 tungsten concentrate was ma
I last week and the company's al
Is truck has been busy this week {
II livering silver-lead concentrate
f. the railroad for shipment
Salt Lake Route officials. W