The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-11-17
LUN|NG DISTRICT PROVING
Continued From rage One).

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3OO-foot width of the vein and for
900 feet in length on its strike.
He can see surface open
ings from which hundreds of tons
running from 6 per cen up in cop
per have been shipped.
He can go down to the 15O-foot
level and see solid ore so feet wide,
from which several thousand tons
OF high-grade has been shipped. He
can see the primary sulphide ores
on the 200-foot level which run as
high as "a per cent, indicating that
still further depth will reveal big
bodies of solid high-grade. We will
also see here enough extra good
mill ore already developed and
blocked out to keep a large reduc-
ton plant busy for some years if
not another pound was uncovered.
The next day a trip up Pinto can
yon will bring him to the st. Pat
rick mine of the Kirchen Mines
Corporation, where his practical
mind and artistic soul will be
equally pleased as he gazes upon
the beautiful colorings of the high
grade ore in the picture stope" be-
ing opened up from the main work
ing tunnel.
A sample across two feet of the
red oxides here gives returns of Is
per cent, while across the face for
six feet averages 8 per cent copper.
To the average man, ownership in
such, ore must give rise to the same
satisfactory feeling as when one
marries both beauty and money.
Next comes the Wedge Copper
company, adjoining the Calavada on
the west, where the massive out
crops give promise of ore that has
been borne out with development.
and where most of the ores, even
near the surface, are the primary
sulphides-a cause of great satisfac-
ton. Here ore is being mined, both
above and below the floor of tun-
mel No. 1, which assays as high as
20 per cen copper and which will
average better than s per cent as
it is shipped in carload lots.
From the Wedge one can cross to
the big holdings of the Fermina
Sarrias, consisting of 46 claims, and
which it is believed will Don be
consolidated with the Wedge Cop
per company's holdings. The main
tunnel on the Emma claim of this
group is OF a vein that shows heavy
naturalization for so feet in width,
and it is believed that the major
portion of this wide vein can be
put through a local reduction plant
at a profit, much of it being high
grade.
From the lease of Fermin Arrigia
on the Emma a carload of ore was
recently shipped that went 80 per
cent copper, and the ore o ready
to ship will average IL per cent.
Settlement sheets prove that the
smelter returns on 13 different
shipments we're as follows, given in
the order in which the sheets were
picked up; 11.5 per cent; 14.64 per
cent: 26 per cent; 25 per cent;
1905 per cent; SOS per cent;
$50 per cent; 11.50 per cent; 1851
per cent; 1852 per cent; sos per
cent; 1915 per cent; and 4.07 per
cent. The same contact which is
on the Emma also goes through the
st Patrick, Calavada, Wedge and
Giroux.
When the visitor arrives at the
southern end of the R. B. Todd
Mining company's property he
comes across veins in which the
values are nearly all in gold,
about $50 worth having been
shipped which went from $50 to
as high as SIS per ton. Near the
center of this group are veins where
the values are equally divided be-
tween gold and silver. A carload
shipment went out this week which
went about $40 per ton.
A little to the north is the Lun-
ing-Idaho group where good copper
values are again in evidence. Five
different ore-shoots have been
opened on the surface and three of
them have also been cut in tn
Hahn tunnel, which runs under
Copper Peak. In the Stockham
tunnel the most of the ore is oxidi
zed but there are streaks of sui
phides hat run as high as 25 per
cent p p and IS in gold and sill
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