Show SIMON SILVER LEAD FLOTATION PLANT that the simon silver lead mines company will at once proceed with the preliminary work incident to the installation of a notation flotation mill and that a mill of or tons capacity designed to be the first unit of large reduction works will be constructed by the end of the year is the statement given the nevada mining press by president P A simon upon ills his return from a five days conference in san francisco with lloyd C white metallurgist for the company the mill site is to be surveyed at once and grading will commence as soon as possible oil flotation will be used but the exact type of mill has not yet been decided upon that is a matter that mr white will work out the company has had a number of tests made on its ores and mr simon states that there is no metallurgical difficulty to overcome F following ol lowing favorable laboratory tests the company shipped a carload of ore to the minerals separation of north america plant in san F francisco ran cisco an official report issued by the simon silver lead company says the result of this mill test was an exact duplication of the former laboratory test by which a silver lead concentrate containing 39 ounces silver per cent lead 96 per cent zinc 28 per cent iron and 2 per cent insoluble worth per ton and a zinc concentrate containing 82 per cent iron and 2 per cent cant insoluble worth per ton and a zinc concentrate containing 82 ounces silver 32 per cent lead per cent zinc 9 per cent iron and 26 per cent insoluble worth per ton was produced this shows a total extraction of per cent of the silver per cent of the lead and per cent of the zinc regarding the seventh level of the mine which is feet below the or sixth level mr simon said that the rake of the ore and the influence of faulting in the vein p had carried the ore body on that level some distance to the northwest where it is beng be ng sought 1 I have not sold a controlling interest in the company nor have I 1 any intention of doing so said mr simon mr burch has retired from the position of consulting engineer and when he went out superintendent orr asked to be released I 1 was in new york at the time and I 1 wired charlie kaeding g V whom I 1 hold as a friend to recommend a man to take the job and gave him authority to install his man he chose tom mcnamara who was with him at the dome mine in porcupine and later at candelaria mcnamara has had a wide experience as a mine superintendent and I 1 feel that we have secured the services of a competent man mr kaeding has no official connection with the mine and merely acted as my friend in securing a superintendent mr hershey of burch hershey white will continue to act as geologist for the company and mr white of the same firm will direct the metallurgical department we purpose to get our mill up and put the mine on a producing basis just as quickly as the work can be done and the material assembled concerning reports that the international nickel crowd with whom charles D kaeding is associated have bought large holdings in the company mr simon said that it is untrue new strike reported A new strike in the companas comp anys property was reported on the as follows high grade milling ore and what is believed to be the hanging wall ore body opened on the upper levels has been encountered in a raise fifty feet above the lowest level of the mine the ore body has been penetrated along its width for a distance of fourteen feet with the face and sides in solid ore there is as yet no wall in sight the management has started miners crosscutting on the lower level underneath the ore body and expects to cut it within the next forty feet of driving |