The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-12-26
STINDT-DONAHUE STRIKE
VERTICAL FISSURE

The Stindt- t-Donohue lease which has
been in active operation under various
maalgements during the past nine
months has now reached a most in
portant stage in its development
Last week the main fissure was op-
ened up in drift from the long in
cline shaft from which such a large
tonnage OF shipping ore has been ex-
traeted. This big fissure vein which
Is over twelve feet between walls is
heavily mineralized over its entire
width and although pockets of high
grade galena occur along the contact
the average of the vein estimated by
careful sampling will run y l. IN gold.
lls ounces in silver and ! . per cent
In lead. low grade shipping product
but satisfactory grade for milling.
Development on this vertical fissure
has not progressed sufficiently at this
time TO determine the extent of his
wide vein which is very srong and an
parently bears evidences indicat-
ing the minimum amount of faulting.
1t is this vertical fissure which has
been the objective of the mining opera
tions throughout the summer as the
high grade bodies which have been ex-
tracted and shipped apparently have
their parental source in this strong
fissure vein, being connected thereto
with small quartz stringers which have
here and there opened out into high
grade ore bodies.
1t was one of these beddings that
developed into a veritable bonanza led
to the real discovery of this produc-
tive mine. which discovery was des-
cribed by Tom McCormac, mining op-
orator of Phoebe as follows:- "The
discovery Of silver lead ore on the
Stindt-Donohue lease in the Harvey
mine makes one of the most interest
ing chapters in the mining history of
Phoebe and the ore body already open
ed up in one stope with a face of ga
lena carrying the usual high silver
values and the handsome average of
$4,000 in gold opened for stopping dis
tance and for a heighth ranging from
four feet in one end to eight feet in
the other with the ledge ultimately
widening to nine feet marks a real
discovery of ore we'll worth noting in
the history of mining in Nevada
The ore maintains an average val
ue VI DelWetu SoU.UU ana SlUUUb as
broken in the stope. There is a small
quantity of second class ore being sort
ed out due to lack of freighters and
the desire to ship as much high grade
as possible and this ore is said to hav.
value of $4,000 per ton. Bands ant
bodies in the face of the slopes carry
sensa Jlonal vasues. The gAtent OF
the ore body is not yet determined as
indeed it dips into ground unpros
pected and the lessees have had nt
time to do more than open the on,
working face.
"All hosting is done with wind
lass and an idea of the value of tn,
output was gathered by the timing o
the hosting for an hour, the buckets
reaching the top of the shaft ever.
two minutes. Loaded as they wer
with three hundred pounds of ore, i
was an easy computation to estimat
the output at $3.50 per minute as tn
ore is worth five cents per pound. T.
the miner the ore, both in the face o
the stope and in the ore bin, presen
a beautiful sight. Added to the natur
al beauty of the steel galena are tn
brilliant blue colorings due to copper
of which the ore carries a small pc
centage. The scene at the strike
one Of bustlng activity. The freshl
wounded cedars serving for tying post
of improvised stalls and the straw lit