The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-01-29
REVIEW OF MINING

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necessary to hoist iow-grade ma
| terial, there need be no delay in
the handling of the usual shipping
ore.
Silver Pick Consolidated
The announcement has just been
made by President Herman Zadig
that the Silver Pick company has
ordered a Davis Calix drill, with
six-inch bore, for use in thoroughly
exploring the company's ground
below the present lowest levels,
which is at a depth of 700 feet.
A considerable quantity of milling
ore has been exposed in the prop
erty and it is the object of the
MANAGEMENT to determine the vol
ume of this ore. If a sufficiently
large tonnage can be produced, ar
rangements will be made to have
the product treated by flotation,
and it is believed that the mine
can eventually be placed upon a
pr%ofit-earning basis, even should
this work fail to expose deposits
, of higher grade material.
Atlanta Mines Co.
The production of the Atlanta
i property is to be materially in
creased, as it has been found that
a considerable quantity of copper
bearing ore, exposed on the 1880
and 162O-foot levels, can be shipped
! profitably at the present price of
copper. When the company be-
gan to ship ore copper was quoted
at about Is cents, but with the
metal at "a cents or more, it has
been shown by sampling the work
ings that there is much ore of
profitable grade. Development
work continues to expose a large
tonnage that can be treated by flo
tation.
Merger Mines Company
The work outlined by Manager
Willis Lawrence and Geologist G..
H. Carey, at the time of the lat
ter's earlier visit here, has been
making satisfactory progress and is
nearing the point where a raise
will be driven from the cross-cut
on the ~1175-foot level to reach and
explore the shale contact. The
cross-cut will lie continued and 9th
er raises will be driven, in the
same manner as in the adjoining
Jumbo Extension mine. The direc-
ton of the present work is toward
the point where the bonanza ore
channel of the Jumbo Extension
enters the west side of the Sum-
flower claim of the Merger COM
pany.
Florence GO1dfield
New development work is pro-
crossing in the Florence mine at
two points, in the northern eX-
tremity of the property, on the
250-foot lev, and in the n.maai.
ate neighbOsfood oc the old stolins
of the famous Reilly lease, and at
the south of the Florence hill, near
the workings of the old Rogers
Syndicate lease. The 15O-ton flo
tation plant that is being erected
OH Tie SIlc VI the Olu FIOttIlIr
mill, for treating ore from the old
dumps, is nearing completion and
will be in operation in February.
Reorganiac. Kewanas
Conditions in the Kewanas
mine are regarded as encouraging
and a large quantity of ore of
varying grade has been exposed,
some of which can eventually be
shipped at a profit. while prac-
ticaly all is of a character that
will respond to profitable treatment
by ~flotation. The north drift has
exposed the shale and has contin-
ued for nearly 400 feet on ore.
1t will be continued to the north
in the hope that it will find ore Of
high grade at a point. on the din
of the big vein, below the rich
ore found recently in the northern
part of the Red Top mine. A large
body of SIG ore was exposed lately
ear the foot-wall of the vein.
Sandstorm-Kendal Cons.
Cross-cuts on the 700-foot level
are being advanced to the east and
west, the latter to explore a large
vein lying parallel with the main
east lode. This great vein, which
was shown on the 500-foot level
to be 70 feet wide and to contain
many strong seams of good ore,
has flattened below the 500 level.
but the cross-cut has exposed small
seams of ore The Great Bend is
in good condition and quartz found
in the south cross-cut on the 400
foot level has been yielding low as
says in gold. Orc has completed
repairs to shaft and workings, in
preparation for an early RESUMPTION
of work at depth. Black Butte
l~essees are driving for the exto~
sion of a body of good ore exposed