Show growth of the kay mine BY F W BOWER mayer ariz dec 8 the most interesting thing in the mining game is the development of the first bodies of ore when the prospect is passing into the state of a mine when the dimensions of depth length and width each day multiplied into cubic feet mean tonnage some prospects develop into mines quickly others take many months and sometimes years for their growth while many others die before they are born the writer has just returned from another trip of inspection to the kay mine which is located in the southern portion of black canyon about thirty miles south of mayer probably no other copper mine on the jerome to phoenix mineralized belt has developed so rapidly into a big mine as the kay while the mine has been a producer in a small way for a number of years it was nothing beyond the ordinary until two months ago when the new management under george W long struck the new ore body on the foot level the new work the new work on the consists of the main drift south from the shaft about feet beet dense sulphide ore was first red ed in the drift fifty five feet from the haft shaft and the breast of the drift is still in high gh grade copper ore at seventy five feet arora rom the shaft a crosscut into the exposes exposes sixteen feet of solid sulphide ore averaging 1 averaging over 9 per cent copper and six I 1 feet beet of lower grade ore south of the shaft five feet a crosscut has been run westerly esterly fifty three feet which nearly cuts the 16 formation nation this is being run to test the 16 width of the main ore channel which in 1 all al 1 probability is at least feet wide s shown hown by surface indications the fit ty three feet of crosscut shows ore all the ay which will average a little over 4 per ent u copper and some gold and silver sev lal 1 short cuts have been made on each de e of it the drift showing widths of ore r M ti thirteen to twenty feet assaying 6 0 13 fae der cent copper the estimated tonge 06 F of bore in sight south of the shaft be oil eel en the and the foot levels is er north of the shaft eighty feet a crosscut was run eastward forty feet where sulphide ore was first encountered the crosscut was continued forty six feet all in ore with an average of nearly 6 per cent copper and a small value in gold and silver the sample near the breast of the cut assayed 8 per cent copper the tonnage in the north workings is nearly equal to that of the south workings at the present time with a lesser amount of development work accomplished sinking resumed all prospecting work on the has been stopped for the present and sinking has been resumed to the foot level where extensive exploratory work will be resumed no one who has watched the development of this remarkable mine will doubt for a moment that the large bodies of ore which have steadily increased in width and value from a small stringer at the surface to the present commercial bodies will be found to be still larger and of better grade on the lower level there are six or seven other very promising outcrops on this kay property which have been more or less prospected about 2000 feet north of the main shaft is the buckeye shaft sunk feet A crosscut at the fifty foot level shows ten feet of carbonate schist and quartz ore six feet of which will assay 46 per cent copper A complete hoist equipment has been purchased development of another and systematic ore body will soon be in progress with the possibility of opening up another big mine the company plans to ship none non e of the first and then install ore but will make a mine st all a mill of the required capacity and undoubtedly be an oil flotation pr process icess it will mill for the ore is for the most part a sulphide that will concentrate eight or ten into one big mineral belt the development of the large bodies of mine proves up another portion ore in the nay kay of the long belt of yavapai schist which commences at the mines in jerome and continues southward to the kay a distance of about fifty five miles between the two extremes are other well known mines producing a daily tonnage from depths of to 1200 feet the mineralized belt extends about ten miles south of the kay where it has been exposed in several prospecting works the three dimensions depth length and width of ore bodies necessary to make mines seem to be making good all along this great mineralized belt mining men will watch with great interest the new dimension work at the kay the orizaba the arizona binghampton Bing hampton western copper big bu bug little egypt pentland swastika butternut henrietta united arizona and others in this immediate district in all of these properties mentioned the bodies of ore have grown richer and wider with the depth attained and it is expected that the rule of still lar larger larer t er and richer ore reserves will be maintained with greater depth 0 |