| Show GOLDEN GATE AND MEHCUR Superintendent Buzzo Describes These Mercur Mines T W Buzzo manager of the Alice company in Walkervllle returned yesterday yes-terday from a trip to Salt Lake says 1 the Butte Miner where he consulted I i with the ollicers anu owners or the I i Alice group Speaking qf the Mercur mining district near Salt Lake Mr I Buzzo said There is not much activity in the i camp though a good deal of prospecting I i is being done The big man of the camp is DeLamar and there is a great Jp deal depending on what he will do to I develop the district The holdings of Captain J R De I Lamar comprise in all about 2000 acres His Golden Gate mine 143 acreshas been developed under the management of Messrs George H TOSI I h i Sartwig A Cohen with Mrs George vislinsroury as sapennt atut 1 large number of shafts have been j sunk to tie tln three ofLxrMch are i equipped WItH hoisting pints The underground workings consist of aev I j t eral miles of drifts inclines crosscuts raises and winzes and large bodies of ore have been blocked out An experimental experi-mental mill was erected about a year ago and the problem of the successful treatment of the sulphide ore has been solved by Caotaln DeLamars metal DeLmars metl lurgical engineer Mr D C Jackling A mill of 400 or 500 tons capacity will probably soon be erected which according i ac-cording Mr Jackllngs experiments will render a higher percentage of extraction ex-traction than is now obtained by any mill in the district I At the present time the Mercur mine has the largest mill in the district dis-trict Its leaching capacity Is about 225 tons per diem The average value of the 63480 tons o ore treated during I the year 1SS6 was about 1 per ton of which about 80 per cent was saved The strength of cyanide solution used is about 025 per cent and the cyanide consumed is said to be about three quarters of a pound per ton of ore treated The ore is crushed to a size that will pans through a sieve of five eighths inch mesh The total time used fpr leaching and washing a charge Is about 60 hours The average cost ot mining and milling is about 280 per ton There are two ore bodies in this mine each with an average thickness of milling ore of about ten feet The total amount paid in dividends up to jan i isa was jeuoooo Toe mm win soon be increased to a capacity of 300 tons per diem The mine has been developed and worked under the management man-agement of Messrs G S Peyton and John Dern and under the superintend dency of Messrs John Treweek and George Edwards The Marion mine is located on the north side of Lewlston canyon opposite oppo-site the Mercur mine The mill has a capacity of about 50 tons per diem The average value of the ore treated is about 17 npr ton and the lowest erade milled runs ab u4 per ton The extraction ex-traction obtained is said to be about 70 per cent on 4 ore and about 85 percent per-cent on 7 ore The amount of cyanide used is about 04 per ton of ore treated The time consumed in leaching and washing Is about 72 hours The ore is crushed to a size that will pass through a seveneighths mesh The average cost of mining and milling Is about 2 per ton The average thickness of the ore body is I about ten feet Mr Theodore Theo-dore Bruback is president and Captain Joseph Smith is superintendent of the Marion Mining and Milling company IOf 1 a close corporation and the i dividends paid are not made public I |
