White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-30
White Pine Tungsten Zone Is
Nevada S Most Attractive Field
SNAKE PROSPECTS INDUCEMENT TO MINERS OF
LIMITED MEANs-PLACER WORKINGS YIELDING RICH
pRoFqTs-LEAsING A GREAT FACTOR.
(BY FRED l.. MINER)'

(BY FRED
Leasing will soon be an important
factor in the development of the
great tungsten belt of the Snake
range, for a convenient local market
for ores in lots of one ton and up has
been provided by the United States
Tungsten Corporation which an
nounces its readiness to purchase
ores, and there is probability that
this plan will be followed by other
companies that are equipped with
milling facilities.
With hundreds of veins showing
good bodies of high grade" at sur
face, the glories OF the old leasing
days of Tonopah, Goldfield and other
precious metal camps should be re-
peated in the mining of this rare
metal which has now become as val
liable and attractive as the rich gold
and silver ores ever were.
The veins and placer ground alike
offer exceptional opportunities for
leasing by men of small capital, but
endowed with energy and ambition
to get out into the hills and wrest
from Dame Nature some of the trea-
sures that abound in generous guam
titles, awaiting men who will reclaim
them.
The tungsten zones of White Pine
county are without doubt the most
attractive field in Nevada today for
the poor man and capitalist alike
And they should appeal particularly
to the leaser, on account of their uni
formly good values and the readi-
ness with which they can be mined
and marketed. The lower grade
ores will easily return 800 to $500
per ton, and the high grade deposits
can be sorted down to grade that
will return thousands.
The general character of the Snake
range is such that practically all of
the veins can be developed to good
depth with tunnels, and large
amounts of money can be produced
from open cuts and surface trenches.
Placer mining can also be pursued
with great profit, by either dry
washing or sluicing. for the surface
debris on the mountain sides is very
rich and the gulches are filed with
erosion that carries large quantities
of scheelite or hubnerite. some of the
chunks of float weighing many
pounds or even up to a ton.
a striking illustration of what can
be accomplished in placering on even
a small scale was recently afforded
by c. E. and A. G. Millick who in
four days panned 800 pounds of
scheelite concentrates from the allu-
vial soil on one of their claims at
Minerva, the concentrates being
worth about $500.
Quite number of prospectors
along the range are making good
money by dry or wet placering, and
some of the big companies consider
their placer ground fully as valuable
as their lode claims and will operate
them on an extensive scale.
The United States Tungsten cor
poration is adding much to its out
put by washing the s1luvial soil con-
tiguous to veins or deposited in the
main gulch, this soil averaging from
IN to 2 per cent tungsten. Richer
punches are frequently encountered,
and in the larger placer operations
some very large chunks of high
grade float are found.
There is little choice, however, be-
tween placering or lode mining, for
each method can be made highly
profitable by leasers who have not
been fortunate enough to obtain
Great headway Is now being made
by the various large companies that
are operating along the Snake range,
from Tungstonia, on the north, to
Minerva, on tne Soutn ana covering
a stretch of 20 miles, and prospectors
and small operators are exceedingly
active on both sides of the range, as
we'll as in other tungsten districts
that are being opened in this county.
At Tungstonia. A. R. Shepherd is
adding equipment that will more
than double the capacity Of his COM
panys mill. end the property is pro-
nounced to be one of the greatest
tungsten discoveries in the entire
country, one man being able to quar-
ry sufficient ore to supply the mill
at its present capacity, with returns
of about 1000 pounds of better than
so per cent concentrates per day.