The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-03-30

In an interview yesterday Mr..
kalston stated that he had found
rI;ning conditions in Tonopah, Gold
field and Manhattan to be very
good, and that the outlook was
most promising.
The lower level of the Tonopah
Extension have opened up a large
body of milling ore in thes Tonopah
Merger vein and the Murray vein.
The West End mine has opened
up in the Ohio claim one of the
largest bodies of commercial ore
that has been found in Tonopah.
IL is stated that they have between
two and three million dollars worth
ii ore in sight.
The foregoing and the recent de-
velopment In the Cash Boy, and the
opportunities for development in
Midway, augur we'll for the future
of Tonopah in the opinion of Mr..
7alston.
The one big new development
near Tonopah is located at Gold
Mountain, six miles from Tonopah,
on the road to Goldfield. The To-
nopah Divide mine has recently
made some sensational develop
lnents. This was formerly the Gold
Mountain mine and produced under
-a,s;no cox 000 In 0oId
This was all taken out from the
tunnel, where the ledge varied from
three to 20 feet in width and was
sorted for shipment to IN average
value of $50 per ton. About 800
feet to the west and $50 feet lower
than the Gold Mountain tunnel a
shaft was sunk, and when it had at
tanned a depth of 160 feet, a cross
cut was started in a %sOutherly di-
rection to reach the Gold Mountain
vein.
At a distance Of 140 feet from
the shaft, a dyke of rhyolite was
encountered and proved to be 12O
feet in width. In the center of this
dyke was found twenty feet of ore
which averaged about $40 per ton
in gold and silver values. 1t also
contained molybdate or molybdite,
and by some called m%olybdenum.
II is used for hardening steel and is
a very valuable product, being
worth 81 a pound. The ore car
ries from one to 20 per cent of
mOlybdenum with a probable aver
age of 2h to 3 per cent. This
would give the r an average
value of over 500 per ton.
After striking these values on the
i65-foot level, the dyke on the sur
lace was prospected, and on the
hanging wall a streak of ore IL to
IA inches in width was found that
carried very high gold values but
not ~molybdenum.
The shaft was sunk to a depth of
$50 feet and a crOss-cut run to en-
counter the dyke, which was struck
at a distance of 1876 feet showing
that it stands nearly vertical. The
vein here is about fifty feet in
width, rs feet of which averages
about $25 per ton in gold and sill
yer, carrying from two to three per
cent of molybdenum. On the 165-
root level a drift was run on the
ore for a distance of about ninety
feet carrying high values the full
distance.
1t is remarkable, says Mr.. Ralston
that with all of the geological in
designations that Gold Mountain has
received at the hands of some OF
rhe leading mining engineers of this
country and the United States geo.
logical survey, nj one ever sampled
this dyke which stands up promin-
entity on the southeasterly slope of
Gold Mountain.
Several shafts will soon be started
to open up this dyke along its
course, and Ralston looks for large
bodies of ore to be developed in the
region.
The Atlanta mine in GOldfield in
R~alston's opinion is going to prove
that the values continue in depth in
that camp. On the 1750-foot level,
a little understoping was done on
GRE of a very good grade, carrying
values of between $40 and $50 per
ton in gold, 5 per cent in copper and
a few ounces in silver. A cross-cut
is being run to encounter this ledge
on the 1900-foot level and which
should reach a point under this ore
body in about eighty or ninety feet.
when this is a demonstrated
fact it is to be hoped that other
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