Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-20
GOLD PEN AND NEVADA RAND

district by Gold Pen and Nevada Rand
Mining companies during the year
1910 is attracting wide attention. due
to the high grade ore recently shipped
by both companies.
The Rand Mining district was origi-
nally discovered in 1oo7 butwas not
oragnized until the year 1914, at the
time the Rand company began its cx-
tensive development. The original
discovery was made byA bert Bovard
on some claims which adioin the
property now owned by the cold Pen
Mines company and Which proved 70
be just OH the mineral zone. The
Gold Pen mine, the Lucky Strike
mine and the Boyard Consolidated
properties were worked at that time
but due to the scarcity oil water no
mill was ever built in the district, and
in 1910 operations were discontinued
and the district lay idle for four or
five years. The discovery OF the Rand
mine by Chas. koegal revived inter
est in the district, and led to the pres
ent activity
The district lies eighteen miles east
of Nolans siding ON the Tonopah
branch OF the Southern Pacific rail
road and is twenty miles southeast o.
the old camp Of Rawhide The coun-
try rock OF this region is 4 series OF
tertiary volcanic rocks, The most
prominent oil which are andesites
The andesites cover a very large area,
and are cut by rhyolite dykes and
fissure veins. The whole region close
ly resembles the Washoe district of
Virginia City, and the values are
carried by a single lode or vein and
can be traced for five miles in length,
and like the Comstock lode carries
distinct shoots of rich ore at inter
walls. So far four OF these shoots have
been opened.
The Gold Pen vein, as this lode is
known, is usually from 20 to over 100
feet in width. 1t strikes in a north
westerly and southeasterly direction
and dips to the northeast from 20 to
80 degrees. The footwall is rhyoite
at the Gold Pen mine, and andesite in
the Rand mine, but the hanging wall
in both is andesite. 1t is typical
fault fissure like the Comstocll lode.
They Elm filling consists OF quartz,
kaolin and silcified andesite, and the
ore minerals are gold, hornsilyer and
argentite, or silver glance. These
ores carry about equal proportions OF
gold and silver by weight and are
readily worked by the cyanide process.
The Gold Pen mine was purchased
by the Gold Pen Mines company on
the first day OF June, 1919, and work
was started on the third day OF the
same month This company has been
quietly developing its ground and now
has a crew of fifteen men at work at
the mine During the summer the
company built large boarding house,
bunk-house, assay office, blacksmith
shop, office and store room, and is
now building a 20-ton amalgamating
mill to work the extremely high grade
ores, for which this mine is famous
During the summer the development
work has blocked out some 1900 tons
OF better than $50 ore, and two shoots
OF high grade have been disclosed
which are estimated by the manage
ment to contain i'll excess of $500
0G000 in ore that will exceed $5GO,0C
per ton in value No attempt has been
made to extract ore, but during the
summer over 30 tons OF extremely
high grade has been saved from the
various drifts and raises in the mine y
recent shipment from the south shoot
of 80 pounds ran $l4.424 90 per ton
and netted $4,000. \ former ship.
ment OF $50 pounds ran $l7, l65.40 pei
ton and netted $4,000
The Gold Pen Mines company plans
the installation OF pumping plant
five mile pipe line. two miles OF graded
road, together with additional build
ings to accommodate the crew, anc
will build a l00-ton, all-slime counter
current cyanide mill in the spring
The company is Nevada corpora
ton and the Officers are W. NJ. Want
land, OF Los Angeles. president;T |.
Lipsett, OF Washington ID. G., vice
president; George n Turner, OF L.o
Angeles, Cal, secretary and treasurer
The company maintains offices a
POS Nixon building, Reno Nevada
and OIL Security building. Los An
geles, California
The Nevada Rand mine lies tw,