Show MILLER MINE STRIKE during the last week of october the miller mine development company operating the old miller mine aline in american fork canyon utah opened a fine body of galena ore in the blocky shale feet below the big which made such a famous production during tyng t brothers lease about ten years ago the new strike is just above the lady annie tunnel level and occurs along a well defined fissure striking NE SW which is characteristic of the mineralizing mineral izing fissures of the district the ore is a high grade galena carrying 25 to 47 ounces silver and 30 to 60 per cent lead the high grade streak is from eighteen to twenty four inches wide and was exposed for six feet in length some of the lower grade ore appears to be an impregnation pr egnation of the blocky shale by the galena and occurs on both sides of the fissure there is very little oxidized material in the vein which shows that below the limestone there has been very little alteration of the primary sulphides sulp hides this ore occurs about feet above the zone in the quartzite which has proven to be heavily mineralized in the pacific and augurs well for the continuation of the miller fissures into the underlying quartzite |