Show NEW disclosures REPORTED IN PARK sensational BONANZA according to local press reports new and important developments are taking place in park cites big bonanza mine the park utah in the being sunk in the main fissure twelve to eighteen inches of solid g galena alena ore has been opened up and in the raise being driven to connect with the surface what appears to be a lime replacement deposit of lead silver ore has been found in the main fissure an ore body is opened for 1300 feet on its strike this ore has been followed up for feet A was started from the main tunnel level to follow the big ore body down on its dip this is now down about 25 feet and shows a seven and half foot width of ore the solid galena occurs in the middle with 60 to 90 ounce silver ore boneither on either side paul hunt mine superintendent is of the opinion that this galena probably is of secondary deposition havin having b been brought down from the oxidized ore above the fissure in which the biord big b body occurs is being followed upward to open it in overlying park cit city y limestone where replacement ore deposits are expected As yet the main fissure has only been explored in quartzite underlying D park city limestone in the hanging wall of the main fissure a raise is being rushed to connect with the old hawkeye mchenry shaft for ventilation this raise has just opened what appears to be a four foot bedding of ore replaced in limestone where opened the formation is intensely so that it is possible that the ore is occurring b in a flat laying fissure however the deposit conforms to t the he limestone bedding and mr hunt says lie he believes it to be a limestone replacement of ore although sufficient work has not yet been done for him to be positive this is in the park city limestone series in which the bononia limestone replacement deposits of the camp are found the ore opened so far is of mill grade with an increased amount of lead over that which thi the mine has been producing the shipping product of th the mine to date runs less than one per cent lead with the silver content held to an average of 55 ounces importance of these two new disclosures is the increased showing b of lead and the showing of lime replacement ore deposition in the vertical shaft bein being 11 sunk from the main tunnel level in the of the main main fissure a limestone formation has been opened below the quartzite the shaft is i s opening up showings of sulphides sulp hides it is believed that this is park city limestone the geological theory is that the quartzite that has been explored in the park utah property is a big block that has been pushed east about tw two miles |