The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-06-03
PIONEER CONSOLIDATED
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tending our slopes into territory
that would not be opened in any
other way, affording us the chance
to at any time strike a large de-
post of high grade ore.
1t was in this way the Bonan-
"a stope was discovered, when the
mine was under lease to the Pho
neer Leasing company. The leas-
ing company vas at hat time OPP
Grating a small mill, having a ca
pacity of about eight tons per
day, and was mining ore having
IN assay value of 81 per ton. The
net result was that milling opera
tions did not pay one-half of the
operating costs, but by extending
the producing area and taking out
the 81 ore, the lessees discovered
a large body of high grade ship
ping ore, which enabled them to
produce more than 100000 in a
very few months
1t is the object of your manage
ment to endeavor to pick up this
rich vein again, or to place in sight
a tonnage of milling ore sufficient
to justify an increase in the a
pacity of the mill, with new and
modern machinery, which will IL
able us to handle a large tonnage
and save a high percentage of the
gold content. Tests made by ore.
testing plants show that with the
necessary equipment a saving of
1885 per cent can be made in
the treatment of Pioneer ore.
In connection with the forego-
ing report, those interested in the
company's affairs have found e a
son for qualification in re-
ports made by persons who are
not identified with the company
and who have examined the prop
erty recently. The Denver Mining
and Financial Record publishes the
following;
A. e. Blakesley is back from
Nevada, enthusiastic over mining
conditions as he found them in
hat state, particularly at the
property of the Pioneer Consoli-
dated Mines company. Mr.. Blakes-
ley spent the greater part of the
week at the Pioneer mine and
mill and made a thorough exami-
nation of the ore showings. He
states that there are immense bod
les of ore developed and that all
that is needed to make this prop
erty a great success Is improved
milling facilities.
During the past week a gold re-
tort valued at $2,275 was received
in Denver from the Pioneer mill. It
went direct to the United States
mint here.
In addition to the big tonnage of
mill ore available the company has
4C0 sacks of high grade ore ready
for shipment to the smelter.
While at Pioneer Mr.. Blakesley
net c. w. Wilson, a mining man
who had received instructions to
pI oceed to Pioneer and make a
report on the Pioneer Consolidated.
Among other things Mr.. Wilson
says in his report.
Il must state that l had no idea
much as ! was acquainted with the
information coming from the
nine during the past few years,
that it was such a splendid prop
erty with such vast bodies of ore
now ready for treatment.
II can ~conservatively state that
there is now in sight and broken
down for hosting, thousands OF
tons of milling ore hat will III
all the way from 81 to SIS per
ton with a good general average cfI
SIS per ton. There are several
hundred tons of smelling ore that
will average from $40 to $50 per
ton. They have values hat run
into pictures but general averages
are what count in a mine.
"Over $685. 900 has been extract
ed but the ground has only been
scratched, practically speaking, con-
sidering so many faces of various
grades of ore in the mine, ROW
ready to be milled and smelted.
THE mine, with it's many shoots
and slopes, is literally choked with
ore. Mine cars can be run under
these chutes. filed in a moment,
pushed to the shaft, hoisted and
run 100 feet to the mill and an
enormous tonnage can be handled.
81 advise that ten additional
stamps and a slime treatment pro-
cess be installed at the earliest