Show BRITISH COLUMBIA two great tunnels are being driven into the sullivan mine of the consolidated mining smelting smelling Sm elting company at kimberley one is being driven into the mountain to determine how far the mineral extends and the other at the base of the mountain where a depth of 2500 feet will be attained ore like that by which the mine attained fame in its early days has been struck in the rambler caribou situated in the slocum district of british columbia according to fielding mcclaine an official of the company the ore was struck by lessees lessels operating from the foot level upward said mr mcclain recently they have a foot of clean ore an assayers certificate fies to the presence of ounces of silver to the ton and 71 per cent lead in a sample I 1 submitted this indicates a value of to the ton the bullion gold mines operating at poplar in the lardo district of british columbia has struck the hanging wall of a thirty five foot vein to which a foot tunnel has been driven A depth of feet has been attained the vein has been opened at the surface above and below the tunnel and at points to feet apart samples taken across the vein at a depth of twenty feet in an open cut contained 58 to the ton and good values have been found in other openings on the vein some of the samples contained 30 to 50 per cent lead 40 ot 50 ounces silver and exceptionally high values in gold ten carloads of shipping ore have been accumulated in the course of the development five men are employed the nugget gold mines limited operating near salmo is developing and producing ore with satisfactory results said harold lakes in spokane recently we are putting more than forty tons of ore through the mill daily and will continue at this rate until the development is advanced the content of the tailings has rarely exceeded 21 cents a ton while the feed contains 10 to 18 in gold to the ton A goli gold brick was shipped from a preliminary run ru made in june the mill is equipped for aya nide operations and has a capacity of tons daily six chutes were installed in I 1 B feet of the ore body ore is being mined five feet wide the slopes have atta attained ineda a height of seventy feet where we are just meeting iron sulphide ore |