The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-07-31
CHROME DEPOSITS
Of HE'LL ROARING,
AMAZE BIOLOGISTS
SIERE ADVISES IMMEDIATG
START OF EXPLORATION
OF NEW LEDGE
POSSIBILITY OF HAVING 4
COMMENTATOR PLANT
BUILT HERE

II CAREFUL comparison OF the Car
bon county chormite belt with that
OF the ehormite fields in Transvaal
ana Rhodesia, South Africa, by
the Princeton university group,
comprising the Beartooth geologic
cal research expedition, and by
Professor Edward Sampson, of
Princeton university, the latter
declaring that the belt in Carbon
county was of the most unique ore
formations in the United States.
and resource of potential value.
The chrome deposits are under op-
ton and are being developed by
M. E. Martin, one of the oldest
mining men in Carbon county. Mr..
Martin was the discoverer of the
chlorine belt several years ago.
Mr.. Martin has option to 25
claims 10 miles south of Red Lodge
and has eight other claims staked |
and ready to be filed on. He has
taken the Princeton group on sew
erat exploration trips in the Hell |
Roaring canyon, where the claims
are located, and research work in
mining geology has been carried
on.
In commenting upon the chrome
belt IN Carbon county, Prof. Samp-
son stated the entire belt is APP
proximately 10 miles square, ex-
tending from Patterson gulch to
Lost Pickett gulch, 10 or IL miles.
This bet extends to the Wyoming
line in one direction. The gener-
al belt, however, is immense in
size, extending from Boulder riv-
er, Big Timber, to the Wyoming
line, including the Dillon-Fry claim
In Saltwater county, at Limestone.
Professor SIMPSONS study of
the seam was the first compre-
henslve research to be made of the c
Beartooth chromite deposits. AL t
though enthusiastic over his find X
lngs, the geologist refuses to com i
ment on the possible economic t
worth Of the deposits aside from T
declaring their locations to be al h
most inaccessible under present con-
dltlons. He made careful compar-
lson with geological formations of :
chromite fields in Transvaal and I :
South Africa mining =
centers, from Where the United :
States imports nearly all of its !
'hromite ores, established a close :,
relationship between the African =
md Beartooth seams. =
"Geologically, these fields are q,
loosely alike" the professor stated. v,
The formation is one of the most h;
Unique in my experience and here =,
ofore was not found in the Trans
'aal deposits. The expeditions =;
tudy of the Beartooth belt was .,
ne first exhaustive research to be =,
ndertaken. | believe, since dis -
overy of the vein by Prof. Arthur ~ ~
'evan, formerly associated with -
ne Montana Mining School of W. W.
lines, and now state geo7ogist for -
lrginia. Although the seam was r:
astily traced during the war by L. III
I. Westgate, a mining geologist
note, who examined the deposits ~ 70
9ports say very little was known 'ii'
its geologic formation hereto %
re. However, had it not been @s
II the Work of Professor Bevan in
apping the district, and Mr..
Testgate whose po,,o,,t. ~ - Re-
tide for orr resaarcbes 1;++1a FRI
ould have been accomplished" he
ded. to
In view of recent Developments IT, IT,
the uses Of chromite in stainless 49,.
atings, Professor Sampson be- a aan
yes that sometime in the future sai
Beartooth fields will be of de-
lite economic value to the state. III
present, Sampson declared, I'M w
bile market conditions and diff
uties to be overcome in mining
ore would make it's production
feasible from a commercial
ndpoint. With the exception II
scattered deposits in the main citel
m and fairly accessible vein star
r Red Lodge, the ore is guarded a te
steep ascents and heavy forests umb
the upper Beartooths. ing
he foreign experts, DR.. Hans half
nelderhohn, of the University the
Freiburg, and Paul Ramdor, of bat.
University of Aachen, Ger LII
ny, who were guests of the gam
rtooth geological research ex- first
ltion last week, confirmed Pro- one,
or SIMPSONS findings and gain
e surprised at the resemblance umbl
yeen African and Beartooth de- innin
is. two
ne deposits, which were a cause ers c
much speculation among both five
Princeton field party and Colul
lbers of the International Sum- four
School Of Geology and Natur- and {
Resources, which visited the ing t
tooth mountains last week. Lutht
, given close scrunity by the ming
German members Of the par more
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