The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-09-26

steep canyon slope to a low saddle in
the adjacent divide between two
forks of Cinnibar creek and appar-
emily consists of a powerful fault fis-
sure zone fully so feet wide at the
! junction Of the main limestone and
Quartzite horizons of the belt This
interesting ore course Is covered by
three contiguous claims for $500 feet.
The principal surface manifestations
on the lower claim near the creek is
an outcrop Of crushed quartzite with
the hard Quartzite beds exposed In
bluffs on the side of gully that has
cut through its course showing con-
siderable alteration and evidence of
mineral action. The blush limestons
beds of the east wall of the deposit
carry a wide soft gangue parting.
This big zone is SO feet wide and l5O
feet long in this lowest surface ex-
posture. 1t carries a little cinnibar
to panning tests throughout its entire
width. A tunnel 1870 feet long has
been run close to the lime wall and a
crosscut 30 feet long close to the
quartzite wall neither of these tun-
nels have yet disclosed a full cross
section of the deposit, but they both
carry good paintings of red mercury
concentrates throughout their length
with stringers and bands in places of
high grade mineral. One of the rich
est bands in this deposit is in sur
face cut at the portal of the longest
tunnel and shows a foot of sheared
ore that will average fully per cent
quicksilver. This is the bright red,
fine-grained variety of the mineral.
Fifteen hundred feet northwest of
this opening and 500 feet higher the
best exhibition of the property is
manifest. This consists of a bluff of
rich brown IRON stained slicious and
calcareous breccia with good sized
patches of included limestone, full of
large bug holes, and showing inclu-
sions Of clean brown iron pseudo
morphs after pyrite. There is no de-
velopment worth speaking of on this
big showing of richly iron stained
gangue and an average sample across
the face of the bluff, taken by the
writer avoiding the rich pay seams
did not give workable values in quick
silver but traversing the center of |
the bluff on the strike of the zone and !
traceable on its course for 40 or SO |
feet there is a series Of strngers of
rich solid cinnibar material from |
which specimens can be readily sell
ected that would assay from to 10 !
per cent quicksilver and in fact, gave |
camp fire retort results of these val
ues, and 1t is likely that short tun-
mel extended under the center of this
big outcrop and a crosscut run to
both walls would show several fair
sized pay courses of high grade ore
that may vary from surface evidences
anywhere from a fraction of an inch
to foot or more in width.
Between these two big showings on
the Smith property there are several |
massive boulders of the brown iron
stained gangue that has rolled down |
the mountain and of all sizes up to |
so tons in weight that also contains |
rich specimen 'cinnibar ore threaded |
around and among the rather coarse |
crystals of hematite and resembling |
cuprite. A short prospect tunnel |
started under the center of the main |
bluff shows a face of tight silicious
breccia and it Is likely live pyrte and |
will be encountered by cross
cutting even at this shallow depth.
Fifteen hundred feet further north
west on this property and 500 feet
still higher where the zone assumed
to cross low saddle in the mountain
divide, tunnel 40 feet long has been
driven in lime beds. A band Of cherry
lime feet wide at the portal Of this
tunnel gave an average assay result
If 80 of l per cent quicksilver or 16
pounds per ton, which for the width