The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-30
FINE MINERAL CABINET
OWNED BY MULLAN FIRM
INGRAM & INGALLS, HAVE A RE-
MARkA6LE COLLECTION
OF MINERALS.

The most complete mineral cabinet
In the Occur d'Alenes is in the office
Of Ingram & ingalls,, mines and stocks,
at Mullan. 1t is not only thoroughly
representative of the lead, silver, zinc
and copper ores of the Occur d'Alenes,
both in Idaho and western Montana,
but covers a wide range of the min
ing field east and west in our own
country and Alaska and in British
Columbia and Canada. Much care
has been exercised in gathering these
together, and besides the Characters
tic and representative ore in every
day mining and milling there are |
many unusual specimens beautiful! TO
look upon.
The cabinet sits crosswlse OF the
office room as one enters, has three
shelves completely filled, and is near
Is feet in length.
Representative of Butte.
The great copper camp of Butte Is
well represented. There is a speci ,
men of what is known as cavellite
dndigo copper said to be the most
valuable ore in the district, from the
High Ore mine There is pyrito and
chalcopyrite (yeIlow copper, from the
Suite Dal1aklava iaine
Then there are many Others well
representative Of the greatest copper
and zinc camp on earth. Some Of
them as known technically are ener-
Cite, chalcocite bornite sphaelerite
Complex ore) sphaelerite rhedochro-
site (black jack, and others too num-
erous to detail.
East Occur d'Aenes. "
Western Montana, which Is separ-
aztec IRON the Idaho portion of the
Occur dAleres only by an imaginary Il
state line. is well looked after. From tc
upper Silver creek, south of Saltese, w
is ore from the well known ST. Law W
renee Richmond and from the north &C
side of Saltese from the Hemlocz, Tar al
box, Black Traveller and numerous m
others. m
Fr m further east are specimens cf in
Glen Metals and the various mines et
around keystone, Iron Mountain AMI b,
Superior. o,
The ores of our immediate neighbor- h;
mood and the various grades of the H
product of our mines as passed h,
through milling processes are so we'll 81
Known to Miner readers that detail gi
mention Is unnecessary. Suffice ii to W
'ay that the big chunks of galena rep N
esent not only the value of the pro- 70
luct but the quantity in which it Is
mined. The crystalllzed lead in it's
forms and native silver and
atiye copper so often found in near o,
every part of the district are not
My valuable but most attractive to
he eye. Among the rarest of these -.
nay be mentioned a carbonate of -,
lad, brownish in color, technically ~
nown as cerrusite, from the Hercules 20
line. WI
Metals and Districts. Ai'
Most of the great mining sections
the country are in evidence in the
lbinet There is native "copper" which "
encountered in such masses in the ''e
alumet Mich, mines, and native cop pe'
Or in lead ore from Alaska. There wa
a pretty sample of polished marble
ON the Chelan, Wash. section, and
stone with beautiful fin
h quarried in Iowa. Other districts w
presented are Cripple Creek, Joplin 'o'
it'll zinc ore Cobalt silver ore, Por- .i
pine gold ore, southeast Missouri ~
he galena, Black Hills gold and w.
'rn silver Kamiah (Idaho) asbestos, ''
evada and southern Idaho gold ore, wa
timony from Copper mountain. CIV
anley and numerous other local and olo
slant mines ~"
Tungsten, which has become so val '''u'
BILE and is attracting such wide in 70 &, q
rest of late is represented in three "Ai
ms. The specimens come from '"'
array the Okanogan district in
ashington and California
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