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Show 14 . The Western Mineral Survey, Salt CaEe Clfy, UtaR March 5, 1943 . Silver Output Also Down First War Year Sees White Metal Off 21 Per Cent Creek district, Inyo in the Bishop ' COLORADO. The production of recoverable silver in Colorado was 3,073,140 fine ounces in 1942, a decrease of 4,228,557 fine ounces from 1941. Mineral County, -largest producer in Colorado in 1941, attained the lead position from Eagle County in 1942 by virtue of the further curtailing of production of ore ore in favor of zinc-lea- d EmCo. Zinc New the by Jersey pire Zinc Division from its Eagle mine at Gilman, Eagle County. Mineral County production of silver in 1942 was 823,726 fine ounces (27 per cent of the State total) while Eagle County 1942 silver production was 353,219 cent define ounces, a crease from 1941. Silver was produced from virtually every lodemining county in Colorado. The counties producing over 100,000 copper-iron-silver-go- Prepared by Chas. W. Henderson, Supervising Engineer of Western Offices, Denver, Mineral Production and Economics Division, Economics and Statistics Service. In the United States (territories included) the total mine production of recoverable silver was 54,123,792 fine ounces in 1942, a decrease of 21 per cent from 68,483,333 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 the silver calculated for each year at $0,711 per fine ounce was $38,488,030 in 1942 and $48,699,259 in 1941. Of the total silver produced in 1942, Idaho was foremost among About 68 per cent of the silver the states and territories conC produced in Arizona in 1942 is 2 Montana and percent, tributing as a byproduct from recovered Utah ranked second and third ore mined at Bisbee, copper respectively, Montana contributand Ajo, Superior. About ing 21 per cent and Utah 19 per 64 cent of the state output per cent; they were followed by Aricame from the Copper Queen,. . 92-p- per cent). The following table and summary of state reviews for 1942 were obtained from individual state reviews are available upon request to the Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C. ALASKA -- Silver is produced only as byproduct of. gold mining in Alaska. The production of recoverable silver in 1942 was 145,656 fine ounces, a decrease of 24 per cent from 191,522 fine ounces in 1941. The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, g operating properties at Juneau in Southeastern Alaska, produced about 40 per cent of the total silver output of the territory. The remaining 60 per cent was recovered chiefly as a byproduct of gold placer operations. ARIZONA The production of silver in Arizona was 7,050,015 fine ounces of recoverable metal in 1912, a decrease of 448,245 fine ounces (6 per cent) from 1941. ducers. CALIFORNIA. California produced 1,403,000 fine - ounces of silver in 1942, chiefly as a byproduct of gold mining; the output in 1941 was 2,154,188 fine ounces, a decrease of 751.188 fine ounces (35 per cent). The pring center was cipal district in Kern County Mojave where the Cactus Mines Co. and CENTRAL the Eastern and Central States silver is recovered chiefly as a byproduct from the mining of base metals, although some silver is recovered in . bullion from siliceous ores and placers in the Eastern States. Total production in the Eastern and Central States in 1942 was 274,800 fine ounces, a decrease of 280,015 fine ounces. Missouri, New York, Michigan, and Tennessee, respectively, were the largest producers of silver in these areas in 1942. IDAHO. The output of silver from Idaho, the largest silver-producing State, was 14,200,020 fine ounces of recoverable silver ld er - (Continued On Page 15) DIAMOND DRILLING United Verde, New Cornelia, and ' Magma mines. The decrease in silver production in 1942 was a result chiefly from a decline in production from the Denn, Copper. Queen, United Verde, and Magma properties, all copper pro- Ca- lifornia (3 per cent), Texas (1 per cent), New Mexico (1 per cent), Washington' (1 per cent), and other states and territories (2 v AND -- .Jer--om- e, zona (13 per cent), Nevada (7 per Dolores. EASTERN STATES. In second- m cent). Colorado (0 per cent), fine ounces of silver were in order of output: Mineral, San Juan, Eagle, San Miguel, Pitkin Lake, Cleaf Creek, Ouray, and County. CONTRACTORS and MANUFACTURERS Boyles Bros. Drilling Co. 1321 South Main St. Dial Salt Lake City, Utah 6-85- 55 silver-producin- the Golden Queen Mining ' Co., were leading producers. Other luge operators were the Lava lode-minin- Cap Gold Mining Corporation, Empire Star Mines Co., Ltd., and the Idaho Maryland Mines Corporation, in the Grass Valley-Nevad- a City district, Nevada County, producing silver as a byproduct from gold ores: Shoshone Mines, Inc., Resting Springs district, Tnyo County; and United States Vanadium Corporation (Pine Creek tungsten operation), . THOMAS ELECTRIC CO. ,4 SALT LAKE CITY, UT. 547 WEST 2ND SOUTH NEW AND USED MOTORS REWINDING ' . GENERATORS COMPRESSORS 24 Hours a Day MACHINERY ' ELECTRIC POWER I PRODUCES REPAIRING ' t FIGHTING POWER YOUR EQUIPMENT IS VITAL KEEP IT IN CONDITION PHONE 64 Utah Power & Light Co. |