Mohave County miner., 1917-08-11

The other day we had the pleasure of being shown. through the Middle Golconda Mine in the Todd Basin sec tion, by general manager c. B. Bell which property is the subject matter of this article. The mines are situa- ted about 16 miles north of Kingman and four miles from the station of Mineral, on the Western Railway of Arizona. (the Chloride branch of the Santa Fe). It is reached by an ex- cellent wagon or auto road, the haul from the mines to the railroad being all down grade.
 The Middle Golconda is situated be- tween the famous old Orc Plata claim and the GoIconda, which has been one of the largest producers of zinc ore in the state the past five years. The crosscut tunnel that taps the ore body at depth of about 100 feet has been carried along the hanging and foot wall veins of the property 67O and 300 feet, respectively. These drifts have opened some excellent ore bodies, from which large shipments of highgrade zinc have been made to the smelters The lower grades of ore from the openings have been left on the dump for later dressing into commercial shape in milling plant. There are now 5000 tons of this class O. ore on the various dumps, the average of which is above IS per cent zir ounces silver and S2.00 g,ld It also carries values in copper anu lead StUpes have been opened along the levels in this tunnel and many thous- ands of tons are now available for stoping and shipment. The ore bodies throughout the levels are from g inches to feet in width and more than 25O feet in length.
 After breaking through faulted zone the ore again appears on the level and shows the same general high grade On the level a splendid body of silver ore has been opened, portions of the streak being fully five feet wide and carrying big smelting vat ues. Assays from this streak run we'll into the hundreds of dollars to the ton. The silver appears in the form of ruby and native, many handsome specimens being found in the mass of ore. The main ore body along this level has been opened for length of 670 feet while the footwall streak has been drifted on about 70 feet, al though opened in other places by crosscuts. Everywhere along the lev el great bodies of milling and ship ing ore have been opened, giving that part of the mine big tonnage.
 The second level is in 200 feet. Il is on the hanging wall that the neh silver ore appears in combination with zinc and copper that will run as high as ' per cent, besides exceptionally good silver values.
 While the main values on all levels | is zinc, the values in gold and silver are not to be overlooked, as all the ores will run enough in these precious metals to pay expense of milling and other treatment, as well as freight The lower tunnel level shows immense improvement over the ore exposure: above, the veins showing greater width and longer unbroken shoots. A no time has any of the drifts beer really out of ore from the crosscu to the end of the drifts north an' south.
 The whole area of ground covere' by the Middle Golconda claims appear to be mineralized, with the walls O granite and schist pointing to the pos sibility of the shoots coming togethe at depth. Everything indicates stil