Show 0 THE rejuvenation OF LEADVILLE all colorado is rejoicing over the fact that leadville has come back from time to time the mining mining review has made the assertion that a really great mining camp is never really exhausted that if such camps have produced millions in the past have given up vast fortunes and have afterwards been practically abandoned there ther e is good reason to believe that their undeveloped and practically unknown resources will ultimately more than equal the records they have made in the past this is now the case with great leadville a camp that since 1897 has produced in gold silver and lead a camp which notwithstanding the splendid showing it has made has been on a steady decline d for a number of years now however leadville is in the ascendant cen dant and all because of the fact that it has been discovered that the waste comprising millions of tons which the mine owners of the camp have been throwing over the dump has been found to be carbonate of zinc of the highest grade in the old mines also alsa great bodies of this zinc ore exist and leadville has awakened to the fact that there is more wealth bound up in these zinc ores than was ever taken out in the form of gold silver and lead values As a matter of fact leadville has come back and excited excitement ent is running high over the wonderful possibilities for the future of the camp now made possible because of its magnificent deposits of zinc ores and this renu reminds ads us that zinc is the basic principle of many of our old silver lead camps because of its deposits of zinc park city can look for better times in the future the old scranton in north tintic gintic district utah was formerly operated as a silver lead proposition now however it is one of the finest zinc ore producers in the west at good springs nevada mine owners for years have been devoting ther their energies to silver lead mining with results far from satisfactory now however vi as will be seen in an article in the last issue of the mining review the despised waste so burdensome and fit only for dump material has been found to be ithe best cr cl zinc ore and the deposits there of this commodity are immense practically ine inexhaustible chaus tible and the district in consequence has taken a new lease on lire the same as leadville and promises to become one oi of 1 the greatest producers of zinc bearing ores alo to be found in this intermountain region leadville has come back has been re juvena ted and its example will most likely be followed by numerous old and supposedly worn out mining camps throughout the west |