The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-04-10


production of anthony ore--about
$500 short tons--the total imports In
1916 amounted to 1854 short tons Of
anthony ore and 1915 short tons of
metallic antimony.
Shoshone County.
The occurrence Of antimOny ore on
Pine creek, tributary of the South
Fork of the Occur d'Alene river, has
been known for many years.
The Occur d'Alene Anthony COM
pany is operating property which
has been worked internationally for 20
years and in that time has produced
approximately 1000 tons of ore con-
tanning 100000 pounds Of antimony
metal
The property is at present being OPP
Grated by company of which M. e.
Jolly, of Davenport, Wash, is presi-
dent and manager. For convenience
of access, no mine could be better sit
uated as 1t lies on the western edge
of the wide valley at the mouth of
Pine creek and within a few hundred
yards of the main line of the O.-W. r..
e. N railway, between Harrison and
Wallace, and about a quarter of mile
from Kingston station on this line,
Kingston being about FIVE miles west
of Wardner Kellogg.
The vein is apparently a fissure
striking north as degrees west, and
dipping As degrees to the southeast
The country rock is Prichard slate
Adequate inspection of the property
was rendered almost impossible by the
condition of the underground work
ings, the mine having been largely in
the hands of leasers with the newt
able result that timbering was neg
lected and practically all the work
ings were caved. Enough was seen
however, to show that south of the in
cline shaft. on the rs and 150-foot lev
els, a shoot of stibnite ore from
inches to feet in width had been de-
veloped for a length of perhaps 1O(
! feet. 1t was also stated that 200 OF
! 800 feet north of the shaft an ore
shoot had been found near the surface
which had not been developed below
At the time the property was visited
drift to the south on the vein at the
| 250-foot level was being run to tar
| the south ore shoot, but at last ac-
| counts the ore had not been reached
While the vein on this property is not
large and the ore shoot is decidedly
| lenzy and likely to be somewhat errat-
ic in its variations due largely to the
! formation in which it occurs, there
icy of development should not result
in opening up good tonnage of med
ium grade ore. The property is sc
favorably located that transportation
mum and If a reasonable price for the
product could be assured it should be
possible to operate at profit.
OF course, in common with other
American properties, it may be i'm
possible without protective tariff to
compete with Bolivian and Chinese
anthony when shipping becomes
available.
The property Is equipped with a
concentrating plant, consisting large
ly of jigs, with one Whitley table and
two X & B. flotation machines. From
the 50O-ton pile of ore outside the mill,
coarse concentration would hardly
seem to be indicated as the proper
treatment.
Another Pine Creek Property.
The Star Anthony property Is sit
uated on the ridge above Masonic,
some five miles up Pine creek. This
property was not visited but from de-
scriptions received 1t would appear to
be similar to the one just described,
except that it lacks the favorable sit
uation.
In Idaho county, just off the wagon
road between Orogrande and Elk City,
a property in Deadwood gulch was
visited From a hasty inspection in a
10-foot prospect hole 1t appeared to be
quite similar to some of the Yellow
pine deposits. being a replacement of
the granite adjacent to a quartz vein.
The remoteness of the deposit from
transportation excludes 1t from con-
sheraton at present.
Stibnite is reported in considerable
quantities in Blaine county in the
Sawtooth range, also in Custer coun-
ty.