The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-01-28
HIGH GRADE ORE
FROMLYNDONM|NE

] "oT fccclfcu TINS week
on the car Of ore recently shipped
from the Lyndon Mine In the Come,
District. This mine is owned nv
Charles II. schodde. who has been
working the property himself for
the last six mouths The smelter
check In settlement for this car was
sl'672.s5. the shipment assayine
as follows: gold. $3.50: silver. ss.7
ounces; lead, 4.S5 per cent; i.
IA per cent; insoluble, 33.l per-
cent and manganese, 1877 Der cen
with high lime content which was
not determined.
The ore was mined by scbodda
In the west end OF the old Lyndon
Mine at point so feet from the nm
per tunnel portal. At the intersec-
tion OF the porphyry dyke and the
main Lyndon fissure two foot bed
OF rich ore was encountered and a
carload extracted. The working
race is still in ore of shipping grade
and further shipment will be for
warded to the market in the near
future.
Besides this satisfactory showing
Schodde recently uncovered eighteen
inches OF shipping ore of the No. 2
assure ON the porphyry contact some
2oo feet westerly direction from the
main workings and on the same we'll
defined assure contact from
which the ore is being mined belowl
II Is possible that with a proper am
cunt Of exploration work the ore
VIII be found to be continuous be-
tween these, two points and IL nor
IN bonanza, at least a product of
shipping grade.
work will also be continued in
the drift from the so foot level Of
the winze sunk from the main tun-
mel. The last round shot In the
race OF this drift having encountered
low grade ore few feet past the
cross-break at which point It was
expected to strike ore. This drift
II continued would intersect At dan+b
ne dyke adjacent to which the high
grade-ore was mined near the snr.
| face.
MOST OF the work done to date has
oeen on the Lyndon claim and !.
Iarse amount of ore has been ex-
tracted and sold. The main work.
ing tunnel has been run for 100
rect In northerly direction and
mere are a number of drifts rum
'ng both easterly and westerly. two
large slopes ore chambers Of ora bou
ing oeen excavated near the mout,,
OF the tunnel. This tunnel folJows
1he main fissure and at about tbir.
" 1eet from the entrance a winze
mas been sunk to the depth Of one
nundred feet, and drifts run easter.
~ and westerly fifty feet below the
/ Soor of the tunnel.
The easterly drift at 25 feat ,ror,
the shaft cross-cuts the number two
insure, which was stopped to and a.
Dove the easterly drift from tho
main tunnel. The filing of both
these assures is peculiar being iron
ooulders loose in the vein, but MANY
OF them carrying lead and silver
Iney resemble In their placemen.
Inc back filing Of worked on,
stope. There is no ore Of anv val.
uc exposed In the lower drifts hut
the tnce of he west DRIFT VII. assav
ABOUT two ounces in silver ard .
li'tie leat, making 1t quite probable
tnat body Of ore is not far distant
Nost OF the high grade ore has beer
removed from the upper work:ns,
east OF the tunnel, but tho. . remain
consider, BILE bodies of low s-aJe ,r.
which with silver at 81 are barrel,
prontable under the existing jnc.ca.
ed freight rates and smelling charr.
es.
The ore worked on the surface O,
the ground above where the drie,
from the winze has been run. lie,
as follows: the west body to the wes,
OF the winze and the east body to tn,
east Of the winze. Above the tunne
Is an open cut, in which ore is dipp.
ing in southerly direction towards
the main tunnel workings and ther,
Is now over six feet of ore Of nos.
sible shipping grade exposed In tn,
bottom. This ore. with the tonnae,
still exposed, in the slopes lying tt
the east Of the tunnel from the fls
sure, gives a large tonnage Of or,
that could profitably be shipped will
lower freight and treatment charg
es.
To demonstrate the wonderful,
high values Of the ore recently ship,
ed from the Lyndon Mine the fol