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Show Tha Western Mineral Survey; Solt Loke City, UtoK 2 , T October 3, 1947. Unverified Report Says New Goldfield Strike Tintic Metals Enters Ore Production Stage GOLDFIELD, Nevada The mining world this week waited this belief, To substantiate (Continued From Page 1) Tintic Metals is now setting tensely for official confirmation of the report that the Deep Mines cleaned, un watered and retim- plans for the near future inaug-iratioperation in Goldfield. has made a strike of major proportions. bered the shaft and virtually of core drilling operaLocal headquarters of the Newmont Mining Corp., which concompleted rehabilitating the va- tions. This method which will be the trols operation, have thus far admitted only that a very rious levels of ' underground conclusive in its findings can.be now promising vein has been uncovered, and that it is being explored at but a fraction of the workings. The property is with all possible speed to determine its size and quality, according in condition for proceeding with projected cost of shaft sinking. to the Goldfield News, continuing: Additional company plans, acmining of ore and furthering of exploration and development ac- cording to Dr. Johnson, include A spokesman for the comtivities. the mining or ore now in sight pany here indicated that an ofCommercial production, was at the rate of a car load per week eastficial statement will be forthobtained from the property from and the extension of a drift to connect 80 with some 1924. to 1919 feet However, pumping erly coming just as. soon as a comfacilities were inadequate, which, he Tesora workings. The firm plete evaluation of the. situation together with the then prevail-a lolds thenoTesora. isunder lease, can be made. This may be withwork being conhowever, ing low metal, prices forced gobeen has strike this in the next few days, he said. Yea, dose down at the property. The ducted., m these claims 'as the ing on for a long-time- . ' the 'of is caved. their shaft Despite the absence of an auDriving intervening years worked havoc and when the. present op- short drift will open additional thenticated statement from New- -, WINNEMUCCA, erators became interested . in workings for ; inspection- and conto known which mining is regaining its waris be mont, time Shipped In the Mill City possibilities of the district they subsequent mining and devel- High-Grad- e servative in matters of this kind, and importance found the tiresome job before opment operations. Potosi districts. The des it can be stated with more than mand for the metal is reported them that has just been comof the company in- From Beatty Mine Officers Ore said to average $100 a ton reasonable assurance that a new to be active with the price adpleted. ' clude James F. Collins, president, Installation of a modern By- Louis Z. Johnson, vice president in silver and lead is now being, ore body has been discovered in vancing. ron Jackson pump has made easy and J. G. Brennen, secretary and shipped from mining property in The Nevada Massachusetts Co. with Rvalues virgin work of the water problem. xeasurer.. Dr. Johnson, who is the Chloride Cliffs district, some. running territory, is in true GoIdfieM mining scheelite from three high in charge of op- 16 miles south of Beatty, Nevada bonanza fashion. superintendent shafts and three open puts on said' The vein is Development erations has had wide experience The ore is at present coming to be eight feet, across with the its properties at Tungsten in the Present .development of the in operational and geological from the Valley View, but pro- center four feet extremely rich. Mill City area, and is milling is .well known duction is also expected from two 450 tons of ore daily. W. Glenn property includes laterals on the work and Assayers reports on the find mines-j-th- e 250 Silver 200 and mining and oil adjoining the 110, 140, throughout is the manager. The Emminger are not known, but rumor has all of which have been project- world. During .World War II; Queen and Silver Lode. has been for many company established the average value at ed along a main northeast-southwe- st en- Dr. Johnson was with the u. S. one of the Amer: years ton.-a $700 This report, it ican producers oflargest fissure. Ore has been War Department, assigned to the Climax "Moly" jpade high should be emphasized, is . comcountered on all of the levels Air. Forces regaining geology tungsten. reCo. inClimax Molybdenum pletely unsubstantiated, but along the fissure and has been and water resources in Utah and In the Potosi district, United ported for the feix months end- dications are that it may be fair- States found to widen as depth is att- Nevada. Vanadium Corp. is mining . of net 30 accurate. June in ed art profit ly the time the present ained.-At Offices of the company a cents . to 54 400 tons of ore daily in about equal The discovery was made along ore shoot, is some five feet in the Continental Bank Building, cuts at its Riley mine. The with inopen in is firm comparison a share, cutoff, from the main crosscut ore is trucked width on the 200 level where Salt Lake City. The a to the nearby share cents a 45 or of k linking the Florence and White-rocproduction activities are being corporated under the laws .mill owned and ' concentrating year agoshafts. Existence of the centered. The firm recently ship- Nevada. Getchell Mine Inc. operated by ore and vein is reported to have been Concentrates are ped its first carload of to Nishipped proven by diamond drilling only agara Falls. David D. Kaber is has another in the bins ready to Vala short time ago. The level' of the be shipped to a Salt. Lake supervising engineer of opoperations is about 300 feet be- erations ley "smelter. the Riley mine and low the surface in the White-roc- k the Pine atCreek The property under developtungsten propdistrict - . ment and .the immediately surof the U. S. Vanadium Corp. erty Workmen blasted right near Bishop, Calif. rounding area, ' is cut by a series the vein,, which ' cuts of prominent northeast-southwe- st through manufacturers The Getchell Mine if prepar- steel to enable all first m. the In were CHICAGO, of at almost all which, - full fissures, right angles across the ing to resume production from at to the in operate the group to beat .kind its and were some 20 feet be- its Granite Creek scheelite highly productive during early move of prop- of 25 capacity, while all excess steel drift, days of the district More notable steel shortage, k syndicate the will be sold to other consumers, yond it when ordered to halt the erty in the Potosi district and a were the Cornucopia, Golden manufacturers throughout and begin exploring the number of small operators are : Maremount said. Sheet bars from work Tesora veins. country has purchased an Treasure-- ' and vein. Significantly, as soon as reported to be developing promwill be the vein steel mill at Phoenix-vill- e, tiie Phoenixville mill was encountered, the ising tungsten deposits in the Similar trouble to that which into sheet steel at the closed . Little May was Pa., .. for approximately rolled mill, formerly the Apollo ore car tracks were proved so .Potosi region and nearby areas. that instead, of throwing .the by all of these that $4,000,000, it was announced by Apollo At its gold property,;, the have a total mucked --out of handling ground waters seep-in- g Arnold' H. Maremont, group Steel Co. Both mills material on the Getchell Mine Inc. is milling 100 of value $11,000,000. old with the appraised into the 'workings dump, it, now goes to a special tons of ore president, who originated , The management of the Phoe-nixvil- le daily to test.1 a new ; steam-drive- n inefficient pumps. idea the syndistockpile. Attempts are also beand organized retained. will mill process, with the ' metallurgical be' ing made to salvage 20 tons or eventual cate. , Maremont is executive David of the reduc- Logical . Theory operation the of so of Thomson; president that. was inadvertent- tion. ore; vice president. . of Maremount Phoenix Iron at its full, - t scheduled plant Co., will serve. as ly tossed on the . dump before While commercial, ore of Automotive Products, Inc., Chitons 1500 of ore a of capacity, new the change was made. general manager under the promising quantities has been cago. . A. Hardy is in charge v Roy day. forHoward Li Keiser, Word of the opened in the tie May claims, was of operations. The purchase was made to ownership.. of the Porstmouth divi- obviously flashed ' discovery more important, insofar as an merly at mill sheet to a for Newmont sion of the Wheeling Steel Co., offices throughout the extensive operation is concerned supply ingots country; Pa., which the syndi- is and vital to the revival of the Apollo, manager of the Apollo mill. for within a few days prominent Oil Company was organit when cate bought Officers of the syndicate, in officials and engineers swarmed entire district is the .theory of ized . last December. The new to ' Maremount, are into Goldfield. The midnight oil Gets War Refinery Dr. Louis Z. Johnson, geologist addition a program for Tintic Metals, regarding acquisition completes vice presidents D. M. Houghton, is being burned nightly at local FORT WORTH, Texas Alamo ; meeting the manufacturers chairman of the Atlas Tack headquarters' on the corner of geological formations underlying for needs. steel Co., owned- 80 per cent Refining area. the and Columbia and of Corp., Mass., Fairhaven, as a Ramsey Streets, capacity with byThe ' Phillips Petroleum Co.,a has For many years the belief has 30,000. mill, a month, Frank Gibson, secretary of the top operational men of the New- purchased' a 24,000 barrel day of tons ingots persisted that the great mass is the ' Phoenix Iron Co., pur- Gibson Refrigerator Co., Green- mont and Deep Mines organiza- refinery at Sweeny from the ville, Mich.; secretary, Bernard tions pore over maps and dis- War Assets Administration.. Ala- overlying the South Tintic Dis- - chased by the Phoenix-Apol- lo trict was an intrusive porophyry, Steel Co.,' comprising a group of Nath, Chicago attorney; treasur- cuss future plans. Among lead- mo paid $13.1 million for the i obviating the possibility of un- manufacturers .from New York er Bernard Mitchell of. the ing company officials here this plant. derlying bedded deposits. Dr. to California, whose . products Mitchell Manufacturing Co., week was Philip Kraft, Newis expected to be The mont vice president.' There are in full plant Johnson, says, No, this isnt within 30 days. to Chicago. stoves operation kitchen , from so. And in substantiation dis- range, that President reports Fred to produce Originally furnidesigned from lawn mowers, and Searls, Jr., who was in Gold- high octane aviation, gasoline, plays pieces of limestone taken ture to advertising signs. field only two' weeks ago, may the plant, reportedly 'cost over from lower levels of the mine. Maremount said the mill will return here next week. His theory includes the belie: Sun-shi$26 million to build. , KELLOGG; Ida. The under the hew that the porophyry encounters begin operation Co. has resumed Mining wai mill 15. This, in the comparatively . shallow owners Sept on the Silver Syndicate the conviction drifting with purchased as of the exist district vein on the 3700 level, it is west workings and the result of a flow' or series of that a steel' shortage exists reported. The drift ha been flows and is definitely extrusive that it will bo of three or four driven about 30 feet, in good and that underlying this sur- years duration, at least, he said; milling ore. The mill, which contains six face capping will be found the Sunshine and Big Creek Apex soluable limestones, favorable to open hearth furnaces and three have agreed to a 50-division large deposit ore deposition. rolling mills, will provide enough of any ore found in the vein in Big Creek Apex ground, which lies west of the present face of the drift several hundred feet Sunshine Consolidated has a con1 trolling interest in the Big Creek Geologic Section, Showing StratiApex. - on . Activity in T ungsten Shows Gains . Nev-Tung-s- - -- ten . - foot-levels- , - - . , - $1,-368,9- 16, $1,-138,6- 67 1 . Mill to Group Buys Own Beat Shortage of Steel - . . . ingot-produci- ng ; - - - 1 . Sunshine Mining ne MAPS OF UTAH OIL STRUCTURES 50 Compiled by Prominent Geologist The Western Mineral Survey for authentic reports on Mining and Oil developments in the West.- Coal Rise Boosts Costs of Operation CALUMET. Mich. Calum & Hecla was notified recent that-thprice of its 1947 co was being increased $1.20 a to e F1LL OUT AUD MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY 22Vt East First South St., Salt Loke City 1, Utah Gentlemen: -- in payment for years subscription to. the WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY. Enclosed find ONE YEAR Name Street City State $2.50 TWO YEARS $4 This, together with freight ii crease and handling " expens will entail an additional cost the company, of approximate! $400,000 a year. The has ordered 225,000 tonscompai of co for delivery. this season. A Scotsman, leaving his friends house where he had been visiting, held out to his hosts small son a nickel and a dime, saying: Now, Sandy, which one will ye hae? Young Sandy (being a cute, wee beggar) said, Ach, Mr. MacTavish, I was always taught not to be greedy, so Ill have the wee one. 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