The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-09-13
e. A. Richard in Engineering a
Mining Hournal-Press.)

"A 6Ao4H VI AiAAntl6 tAH lAttAH was
recalling the richest faces of ore each
of them had seen in the course of his
experience. The subject proved so in
teresting that 1 wrote to one or two
others asking them to contribute their
quota to the discussion. Mr.. A. w.
Allen instanced pocket of gold ore at
Pilbarra, in northern Australia, that
yielded $50 OF. per ton on the plates.
Mr.. Ira b. Joralemon spoke of seeing
IA inches of silver ore in the Nipissing
mine in 1906 that assayed $4,000 Oh. for
the full height of the drift. The same
geologist mentioned a face of ore in
one Of the upper levels of the Shattuck
mine, at Bisbee, that consisted of al
most solid chalcocite. assaying IS per
cent in copper and containing $50 on.
of silver per ton. Mr.. Albert Burch
harlSed back to his mining at Eureka,
Utah, and described a remarkable pipe
of ore, 21a to 4 #. in diameter and
nearly horizontal that had been fol-
lowed for so fl. before IL enlarged to
a diameter Of II IT, of soft lead car
Donate, full of hornsilver and assaying
1000 o.. of silver per ton. 1T was so
soft and easy to mine," he says that
two men took out about ten tons, or
about 10000 OF. Of silver, per day"
This was the Bullion-Bec mine in
the Tintic district Mr.. IL. A. Guess
instanced the sub-level so fl. below
the No. 1 level, in the Premier mine.
British Columbia. the face of which
per ton, the assays showing 10 on. of
gold and 600 to 700 on. of silver per
ton. Mr.. Louis A. Wright stated that
the richest face of ore he had seen
was in the Alacran mine, in the State
of Mexico, in 1898. In a drift the ore,
a metre wide, assayed 30 per cent in
silver. the face showing a clean streak
of proustite. pyrargyrite, and argen-
tite about 40 centimetres wide Mr. !
II. Mackenzie drew upon his eXper-
fence at Goldheld, New. On the 7OO-ft |
level of the Goldheld Consolidated |
mine on the Mohawk vein the face /
for a width of II IT,, assayed over 20 |
OF. of gold per ton. MIR. c. II. Fry !
mentioned the glory-hole of the yellow |
sANAti IAiltr III oNhAAA1AM ANU AAietf ]
where he saw face fl. by If #, that |
was covered with gold. but it proved /
to be only a thin sheet of bearing |
quartz along the plane of a fault in |
granite. He spoke also of face, TT. /
wide, of solid scheelite, (tungstate of |
lime) on the SCOTT level of the Atolia |
mine, in the same California region. |
1,a Ia.
tungsten was selling at $50 per unit.
Mr.. r. G. Hall spoke with relish con-
corning the chamber opened in the |
Hercules mine, in the Occur d'Alene |
district, in 1904 There a face of ore
10 #. square assayed 40 per cent in
lead and 25 OF. of silver. II made a
handsome showing thanks to the
brilliant facets of the galena. The
same engineer spoke of the Wild Horse
mine at Cripple Creek in 1908, where
on the /, 2OO-ft level a vein two inches
wide assayed o.. gold per pound. But
it lasted for only three tonsl When I
asked him about the richest ore in the
Bawdwin mine, in Burma, he said that
on the fourtl level the face two sets
wide, assayed 60 per cent in lead and
60 o. of silver, but it was worth only 4
s72 per ton of ore. Mr.. w. J. Loring
recalls a stope in the Oroya- Brown Hill
mine, at Kalgoorlie. eWstern Australia,
that showed a face 30 IT, high and so
IT wide, assaying five hundred ounces
Of gold per ton. in free gold and tel
hurdles
The finest showing of ore that I re-
call was on the third level of the Brok-
en- Hill Proprietary mine, in New
South Wales, in 1891. A face 2O2 #.
wide averaged so on. silver per ton
and So per cent lead. The most beauti- I
'ul face of ore I ever saw was below
The third level in the Independence '
mine, at Cripple Greek, in 1899; this Z
VAS made brilliant by the tellurides I
,ylvanite and calaverite, which gave i
he ore an assay value of $500 per ton
IN the Esperanza mine, at III ORC,
Mexico, in 1905. on the first level, I a
saw S5 #. of ore worth 500 per ton, L
md in a stope near by 1 saw it. of a
500 ore In the old Rathgeb mine, d
lear San Andreas, in California, in v
SS7 took out $4,000 of native gold in 2
hree hours with a miners candle S
tick. In one month one man mined s
25. 900 worth of gold. 1t was a "pock- Il
IT," which is short and sweet, like t
Ionkey's gallop, and usually leads to +
he spending of more than it yields in T.
he effort to find another treasure of n
he same kind. Mr.. Philip Bradley re- il
allied a bucfi of nickel ore in New Gale h
onia that showed face 80 IT, square
# almost solid garnierite, containing Il
o per cent nickel; but it proved to be g
My a face: it was skin deep. He C
dded: when you start gathering h
alta on low-grade ore experiences, ]
nay perhaps qualify to give some
Is this came from the resident man il
ger of the Alaska juneau mine. it Il
vas spoken with some feeling, ior as a
contrast TO the richness that we a