Show RAINBOW TUNNEL CUTS CUTS SECOND VEN VEIN Fissure Opened Only 20 Feet Ahead of First One Further evidence that the Rainbow Mining ground gund contains contIns characteristic Alta AHa ore bodies is pro provided provided provided vided by the tunnel at feet from Its Is portal having cut the second fissure within twenty feet as reported yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day by Manager R IL P J Jarvis The see sec second sc ond end fissure is three feet fet wide and is filled with wih ore of good milling grade the to values running about eight ounces In silver siver 3 In gold 15 per cent copper and andI I some lead led with wih 30 per cent iron The Theiron C Cron he heI I iron ron contents would of course make it ita ita ita a good fluxing ore The new fissure has a northeast and southwest strike which is that of the fissures of Alto Alta Alo district distrct The first fissure encountered carries two and a half hal feet of ore with values of thirty ounces In sliver silver siver and 6 per pr cent lead ead It I was ws caught at the intersection with wih a The entire entre face fae of the tunnel was In ore at the intersection intersection tion ton but investigation proved that the width of the fissure proper is about thirty inches The trend of the first fissure is al almost almost almost most north and south and indications are that it forms a juncture with th tho second fissure a short distance from the tunnel tunnel Both are blind fissures their exist existence existence existence ence having not been suspected until they were wore cut cut by the tunnel tunel The ob objective objective point of the tunnel is the con contact cn contact tact vein about feet ahead of the present face The tunnel has attained a vertical depth of about feet fet With Wih conditions on the contact proving as anticipated a lower tunnel will wi be driven which will wi attain 1400 attin feet a depth of 60 feet in running |