Show con S spanish belt mine soon will be producing the consolidated spanish belt silver mining company operating the old barcelona mine in spanish belt mining district fifty miles north of tonopah To nevada is rapidly getting ready for production during the past four years develop development me nt has been carried on continuously during which time some feet of underground work has been performed this work consisted of the driving of a long adit drainage tunnel which solved the water problem and drifting for thousands of feet on the large veins exposed in the property the san pedro shaft located 2600 feet away from the mouth of the tunnel has been sunk to a total depth of feet and connects up with the lower tunnel workings thus giving the mine perfect ventilation several tributary veins have been cut exposing quite a tonnage of milling ore but the main barcelona vein promises to yield the largest milling production tonnage in the mine approximately tons of milling ore have been developed as probable ore which will average between 20 and 30 a ton A number of streaks of high grade ore varying in width from a few inches to several feet assaying from 50 to 2000 have also been cut at the present time on the foot level in the san pedro section of the mine an eight inch stringer of high grade rade ore assaying about a ton has been followed for some fifty feet this stringer is widening out and gives promise of increasing values fifty ton mill nearing completion the company is now engaged in completing the erection of its first milling plant under the direction of mr lou townsend this plant consists of ten 1050 pound union iron works stamps together with four concentration cent ration tables and an oil flotation unit having a capacity of approximately fifty tons of ore in 24 hours it is expected that the heads will run around 30 per ton and that the mill will concentrate cen from 20 to 30 tons of ore into one ton of concentrates ordinary concentration tests show that about 60 per cent of the values can be saved with water concentration and the balance by oil flotation these tests ran as follows gold silver copper per cent lead 30 per cent giving a gross value of per ton the mill is expected to be completed about june 1st ast at which date the mine will be electrified the company has recently obtained a permit from the federal power commission allowing them to connect up with the nevada california power company the five mile high tension power line is now completed and telephone connection has also been made with manhattan and tono pah the company operates a fleet of four wheeled drive trucks which will handle the concentrates and supplies between tonopah and spanish belt the company has been financed chiefly by ohio capitalists and approximately has been spent to date in development and equipment during the past four years of operation spanish belt already has a past production record of around when the mine was in operation some thirty five years ago last year the company shipped out eighty one tons of selected ore which yielded or at the rate of per ton this was the highest value in ore are shipped from any mine last year in nye county E J schrader is the superintendent in charge of operations |