| Show BETTY ONEAL TAPS 1000 ORE 4 NEW MILL IS DOING FINE WORK ore assaying 1000 in silver was encountered in the new raise now being run at the betty oneal mine eighteen miles south of battle mountain last tuesday says the reno journal of the the new raise according to manager noble gritchell Gr etchell is feet fron frona A the shaft and starts at the main haulage tunnel where a new vein was cut while the main haulage tunnel was being driven during the summer the vein was not explored at the time of its discovery due to the f fact act that work was being rushed on the main tunnel for its completion before the opening of the new ton flotation mill early last week a raise was started on this vein and tuesday had been run ten feet when 1000 ore was found exclusive of th the e 1 1000 W hi high h grade rade the new vein averages across its full width and this value with the nine and ten inch streak of high I 1 grade makes the prospects of the betty oneal still more bright work is progressing 6 on the intermediate level and is now being done in ore that runs per ton in ruby silver for a width of two feet this agh grade is being sacked in thamine the mine for shipment the betty oneal ton flotation mill recently completed and opened is still running at full capacity the first 50 ton car of concentrates from which will be shipped about the of this month when the mill commenced operations rather a low grade 1 rade ore was sent to the bins this 6 grade however being increased as slight changes were made in the quantity and kind of oils used in the mineral separation machines the grade of ore is now nearly that for which the mill was designed and it is expected that within a very short time ore running better than 25 will be fed in the upper end of the plant the outlook for the betty oneal is very promising total m ne and mill costs riming close to 4 per ton make it possible to mine and treat very low grade ore the high grade ores being sacked for shipment in the mine it is expected that the heads for the mill will run close to 25 when the slight changes which are always necessary in a new mill are completed and the regular grade of ore is sent over the weighing scales and into the bins for the coarse crusher construction work on the camp site is still progressing but it will still be some little time before all the buildings are completed |
