The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-06
TONNAGE OF PAY ORE in
CARBONATE GROUP NEAR LUN|NG

a corporation which has been oper
ating extensively in Mineral county
for the past four or five years,
while not making the big noise"
is nevertheless, doing the effective
work that produces results in the
way of proving up well developed
and big producing mines. The
stockholders of the corporation
in the main are business men and
capitalists of Washington state.
The company owns the Carbonate
group, Spectator group, Montreal
group, and the Silver group, locat-
ed in Mineral county, in different
localities in the vicinity of Lun-
ing. The ground of each group is
highly m~ineralized and the pros
pecting and exploratory work done
exposes evidence that either of the
groups holds promises of making
profitable producing mines.
While as stated, all the groups
possess f~lattering showings, the man.
agement evidently holds that the
Carbonate group is the peer of
them all, and is concentrating prac-
tically all it's efforts to the develop
ment of this portion of their hold
ings, and a visit to the property will
convince the most skeptical of the
wisdom of their efforts which are
rapidly reaching the stage of frui-
ton.
The Carbonate group consists of
nine claims, and is located three
miles northwest of Acme tank, and
two and a half miles west of Kin
caid siding, on the Southern Pacific
railway. 1t is in the same range
the famous old La Panta and Pam
lico mines which created sensations
a few years ago by extracting gold
ore for shipment that ran as high
$1,000 a sack or better than $40
per pound; south of it is the old
Garfield mine with an accredit pro-
duction of $17,5O0, 900, and at the
time over a half million
dollars in ore is piled on it's dumps.
South also of it within a dis
lance of from one to sever miles
are the lotta, Lincoln, COffey, Blue
Light and Bell properties, with a
combined production of several mil
lion dollars more.
The Carbonate group has COM
Portable bunk and boarding houses
for the accommodation of its men,
blacksmith shop and gasoline hoist.
The management is now arrang-
ing for the installation of a larger
hoist, and when this is in commits
sion the work of sinking an incline
shaft to depth on a big Ore-shoot
that outcrops below and to the
right of the portal of the tunnel.
This outcrop, upon which no work
has been done, shows a width of
over 10 feet, most of which is ore
of shipping grade.
Active development operations
are being carried forward under
the supervision of James HOughton,
an experienced miner. The for
nation is schist, with flows of lava
at different points. The ore oc-
is carbonate of lead and
silver, a very small percentage of
copper, with high values in gold,
and it also carries an iron base
that assures permanency and depth.
The work already done on the
group consists of prospect shafts,
open cuts and tunnels for explora-
tory purposes on the different
claims of the group, which have
exposed veins and orebodies on
and all of the claims OF the
group. The main work, however,
is on the Carbonate claim in the
center of. the group. A tunnel,
following a strong ore vein, has
been driven in for a distance of
400 feet.
Drifts II at different points on
the tunnel level have exposed sew
eral strong o%rebodies, the main
one being proven for a width OF
so feet and 100 feet in length.
From a point about zoo feet in
the tunnel a shaft has been sunk
to a depth of 100 feet. Drifts run
from the bottom of this in different
directions have shown not only the
strong but q mater