Show NEW VEIN TAPPED IN NEVADA RAND exploration work on the foot level of the nevada rand mine at rand mineral I 1 county nevada from which a shipment of silver gold ore was made in december to the western ore purchasing company at hazen has disclosed a new vein which promises to be the most important strike yet made in the mine anine W V manager of the company states that in extending the east face of the foot level which shows good ore for a distance of sixty feet that a kaolin wall was found crossing the drift diagonally between this wall and a body of quartz or highly andesite the new vein was encountered while as yet it is opened for a distance of only seventeen feet both faces are in high grade ore averaging av era 91 ng a foot in width sack samples from the first ton mined from the new vein ran and the second ton with some selected sacks running as high as 1000 a ton while the usual horn silver is present in this vein it also contains a notable percentage of silver sulphide which in section answers to argentite the silver values are much higher than is usual a sample carrying ds as high as ounces in silver the presence of this silver sulphide and the increased percentage of silver values indicates that the oxidized section of the primary ore chute has been encountered the local work is in charge of J D walker a well known nevada miner C G H mac bride of san francisco is president of the company the nevada rand has a shipping record of about and is reported to have a substantial ton tonnage liage of milling ore in sight 0 |