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Show Y- y a i . 2 The Western Mineral Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah' Emphasis Goes To Other Metals i MjdreK 5; with 1941, was larger than that Siskiyou, Merced and " Trinity larger operators, and the War ProLimiBuffered Gold in any previous year In duction Board Counties,' the bulk of which was Mining California history and was due from placer mining. The Idaho tation Order suspended virtually g all largely to the promulgation on operations in OcMaryland. Mines Corporation October 8 of War Production tober. Most 6f the. gold produced working' the Idaho ' Maryland-Brunswic- k and Board Limitation Older . group in the Grass (about 93 percent) was sent to the valley-Nevad- a to a lesser extent to rising exUnited States Assay Office at Secity district, attle (Wash.); other major outlets to have fallen from first penses and severe shortages in were the American Smelting & .both labor and materials on the in 1942. place in 1941 to west coast. Despite these difficulOther large gold producers were Refining Co. smelters at Selby, ties the Gran valley-Nevad- a (Calif.) and Tacoma (Wash.) and the Empire Star Mines Co,' Ltd. city ' district in Nevada County contin-the San Francisco Mint (Newmont affiliate), operator of ARIZONA The output of reued to be the principal source of the Empire, Pennsylvania, North g coverable gold from ores and gold, chiefly from gold Star, and Murchie (operations dismore of the Other gravels in Arizona was 247,500 continued early in 1942) mines operations. fine ounces In 1942, a decrease of - Important counties producing gold in the Grass Valley-Nevad- a City were: Kern,' Amador, Calaveras, 67,892 fine ounces from 1941. Dedistrict in Nevada County, the Plumas and Shasta Counties, the crease, in the output of silicieous Zeibright mine near Emigrant bulk of which was from gold from lode mines and the loss, in output of .gold from placers, and Sacramento, Yuba, Butte, (Continued on Page 4) due largely to suspension in December, 1941, of ' operation of - a ' MINE PRODUCTION OF GOLD IN THE UNITED STATES, 1941-4BY STATES IN TERMS OF RECOVERABLE METAL dragline dredge in Lynx Creek and to a substantial decline in output of gold from dredging operations on Big Bug Creek,-- account for decreased gold production in' the State. Gold recovered from copper ores mined at BIsbee, Jerome, AJo, and Superior represent ed 55 percent of the State 'total. The remainder of the gold from lode mines came largely from siliceous gold ore from mines in the San Francisco; Old Hat, and Weaver districts. The more immines portant lode in Arizona in 1942 were the Cop-pe- r -- gold-minin- L-20- 8 . . fq-irt-h . . . lode-minin- - -- lode-mining- . - , 2. , . . gold-producin- g Queen, New Cornelia, Mammoth St. Anthony, United Verde; and Gold Road mines. Placer operations produced about 3,500 fine Ounces ox gold in 1942. compared with 11,931 ounces in 1941. Gold -- . from lode mines totaled about 244,000 ounces in 1942 compared with 303,461 ounces In " 1941. CALIFORNIA California, again the leading state in spite of a 40 per cent decrease In gold production from 1941, produced 851,000 fine ounces of recoverable gold in 1942, 557,-79-3 ounces less than that of 1941. ' This decrease In 1942, compared gold-produci- x Preliminary firures. United State ' refinery and mint receipt. et THE- GALIGHER CO EMMY - METALLURGICAL DIVISION ' ond-large- st Inlet-Susitn- a, - Consolidated ing Co., . . i Initial work modern Ore - of ail types ore dressing ; in this service starts in the laboratory and our thoroughly Testing Laboratory is;fully equipped and staffed to take care of ore treatment problems. Consult with us regarding your questions! We are paying particular attention today to commercial methods of improving the production of stratgic metals and have valuable' Information available on the miHing of tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium N ' and mangandse ores. y - Our warehouse in Salt Lake City has complete stocks of mine, mill and industrial equipment, and supplies. WLn Ifou Dldnt, Mill Construction .Ore Testing - Mill & Equipment Design Industrial Supplies Mill Operation , Min- Mining Hirst-Chichag- of an-pea-rs : Prepared by Chas. W. Hender-on- . Supervising Engineer of Western Offices, Denver. Mineral Production and Economics Division, Economics and Statistics Service. Total mine production of recoverable gold in the United States (territories included) was 3,168.543 fine ounces in. 1942, a decrease of 38 percent, from ounces In 1941, according to preliminary figures of the Denver Office of the Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior. The value of th gold, calculated at 835 per fine ounce, was 8126,649,005 in 1942 and 8205,862,930 in 1941. Of the total production in 194 California contributed 24 percent. South Dakota 14 percent, Alaska 14 percent, Utah 11 'percent Nevada 8 percent, Colorado 8 peiN cent, Arizona 7 percent, Montana 4.. percent, Philippine Islands 4 percent, Idaho 3 percent, and other states 3 percent The Philippine Islands fell from the poei" tlon of second largest producer in 1941 to ninth place til 1942. The following table and summary of State reviews for 1942 were obtained from current reports of the western field offices of the Bureau of Mines. ALASKA. The output of recoverable gold in the Territory of Alaska in 1942 was about 515,-35- 8 fine ounces; a decrease from the 1941 production of 180,109 fine ounces. The larger part of Alaskan gold (about 70 percent) was produced by placer operators, including 45 floating connected-buckdredges which alone yield40 percent of the total ed about United States Smelting; The gold. Refining & Mining Co., the largest single producer of gold, controlled 8 floating connected-bucke- t dredges and a hydraulicking operation in the Yukon River Basin re-4 floating connected-bucke- t 2ion, redges including one new dredge in the Seward Peninsula region, and a lode mine in the Yukon River Basin region. The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., the seer producer of gold, operated the largest! lode mine in. Alaska at Juneau' in the Southeastern Alaska region with a 38 percent decrease in production. In order of importance, the major g regions were, the ?lacer-mininRiver Basin region, the Seward Peninsula region, and the Kuskokwim region. Large placer operators, in addition to the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co., were the Liven-goo- d Placers, Inc., Allucial Golds, Inc, and Gold Placers, Inc, in the Yukon River Basin region; the Arctic Circle Exploration, Inc, In the Seward Peninsula region; and. the New York Alaska Gold Dredg-in the Kuskokwim reing Co., lode In mining the principal gion. regions in order of Importance were the Southeastern Alaska. and the Yukon Cook River Basin.- The most important, lode gold producers were the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., Alaska-Pacific 1943' (operations suspended October 1942), Cleary Hill Mines Co., and Willow Creek Mines (operations suspended October 1942). . The working season in most oi the placer regions was somewhat longer than usual due to exceptionally' large supplies of water in the streams. Labor shortage and unrest due to abnormal rates of. pay offered by the large number of military projects that de-- . mantled skilled workmen curtailed the operations of some of the Co. . . DIAL 4-35- 46 The House of Experience and Service 48 SOUTH SECOND EAST SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH t f J t |