The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-01-05
COPPER
MAKES PROFIT
LARGE AMOUNT OF WORK is
YIELDING EXCELLENT
RESULTS

LUNING, New, Dec. "a. = That
there Is a nice fat profit in copper
at the government-fixed price of
23h cents, when the ore is of good
grade, Is indicated by the returns
from the last two carloads of ore
shipped by the Pilot Copper COM
pany from Luning. The first with
43 dry tons, netted $~1,132.65, and
the second, with 35 tons, netted
$~1,209.94, after deducting the
freight and treatment charges. The
Pilot company is shipping about 80
tons per day.
Three important developments
occurred at the Pilot company's
mines during the week. The first
was in a raise from the 150-foot
level of the Champion mine about
$50 feet northwest of the shaft, and
is an entirely new find.
1t Is evidently a blind vein which
does not crop to the surface and
LuOIOuSh huOWlOu6O VI Y LulA "a
tent must await further develop
ment enough has been done to prove
that it is large and that the ore
averages high in grade. The sam
pies which we're taken Friday went
from 3h to 10 per cent copper,
making a good average product for
shipping without sorting.
Another find was made on the
150-foot level, 230 feet northeast
of the shaft. This was in a cross
cut which is going through the
heart of a low-grade orebody. The
low-grade ore had been broken to
a slip with a smooth face, and the
next round of shots, which left a
face seven feet wide and eight feet
high, broke into a body of carbon
ate ore that assays 4 lilo per cent
copper. This will stand shipping
and indications point to a good ton
mage from this place.
On the Anderson group of the
Pilot company the hanging wall of
the vein on the 100 level was struck
during the week. The vein at this
point is 2S feet wide. On Friday
last three samples were taken from
the top, bottom and middle of the
eight feet next to the hanging wall,
and the assays showed average
values better than Az per cent.
On the Electrolytic claim of the
Congress Copper company the east
drift on the big vein has, for the
last 26 feet, been in ore that aver
ages five per cent copper. The
drift is along the hanging wall and
as it all shows this grade of ore
the full extent of the high-grade
will not be known until further de-
veloped. On the Congress COM
pany's Neversweat group a tunnel
is being run to get under the old
glory hole from which so much rich
ore has been shipped.
At the 'Luning-Idaho mine, in adj
dition to the usual work, a tunnel
has been started in Erickson gulch
which will tap the orebody develop
ed in the Stockham tunnel at 100
feet greater depth. 1t is probable
that this tunnel can be run in ore
the entire distance.
The R. B. Todd Mining company
is concentrating it's efforts on the
building of roads to the Cevita and
Abe Lincoln claims. and installing
chutes, in order to handle economi-
cally the silver-gold ores which they
will ship to the U. s. Smelling COM
pany under the new contract.
Mine looking better" without
definite details. is the report this
week from the St. Patrick mine of
the Kirchen Mines corporation.
However, the steady shipments of
h~igh-grade ore tell a story that even
he who walks may read.