Show argentina Arg entena consolidated company begins production thus adding to fame of the goodsprings Good springs district marking a turning point in the history of the famous yellow pine district of nevada long known for the profitable production of lead zinc silver and vanadium ores the argentina Arg entena consolidated mining company has completed its cevelo development p ment and construction program inaugurated 11 more than a year ago and the mine has now been placed on a definite production basis on october the company began operation of its new mill the last unit in the construe con tion program and at that time resumed underground opera 7 aa U lew of Arff Arx entena property and surface improvements luding mill aerial tram and towers to pumping no 2 lower left and ore bins and tr tramway aniway terni terminal hial lower right t tons ions suspended pending the completion of the mill and other facilities necessary for economical and scientific ing operations the district in the mine is located has produced more than worth of ores and the yellow pine anine which aich enjoys an excellent dividend record has beer the principal producer of the district the properties of the arg entena consolidated comprise tenni ten mining ining claims most of them patented and nineon nine of them showing strong evidence of a high degree of bf the he tenth claim was taken to provide a site for the mill load ing ln station and pumping 6 plant I the mine mihe is located about two miles by road from the town of goodsprings Good springs and eight miles ales by a good automobile road fron from i jean the nearest railroad shipping point on ithe union pacific the claims now being systematically developed by th the Argel itella consolidated have bus 1 bc cwb 1 lown known tp to mining men but no attempt has heretofore been made to apply modern and methodical principles to the development of the property prior to the acquisition of the property by the present owners a number of the claims had been worked by leasers leaders lea sers who were able to do so profitably although Z handicapped by lack of equipment and machi machinery nerv and in spite of the fact that they were forced to haul their water from goodsprings Good springs the ore shipped by these leasers leaders was all high grade in some sonie cases averaging as high as per ton engineer tweedy recommends property the claims comprising ithe argentina Arg entena group were formerly owned by the estate of allen alien G campbell a utah pioneer and were brought it to the attention of george A tweedy minin mining engineer by fred B well known among mining men of the southwest after inspecting the na AM INS 4 ae f bmw I 1 U in H U U ni ti ll 11 U ore sorting Sor lins tables at upper tipper loading station tati oll showing sorters at work property mr tweedy recommended to harry lee of los angeles Z 1 that the development of the claims in a systematic way be undertaken through mr martin a company was formed and arrangements were concluded with the campbell estate for the purchase odthe of the claims I 1 for nearly a year under tinder mr Twe edys direction the company confined its efforts to underground under round de development work on two of the claims during this period about feet of underground work was done and ore bodies of sufficient ficie I 1 it size and of sufficiently high 1 I grade to warrant the construction of a mill power plant water system aerial tramway loading bins and other facilities were blocked out at the conclusion odthe underground exploration work mr tweedy in a report to the officials official of the company estimated that tons of ore chiefly lead and zinc were available and that this ore with proper equipment should be mined milled and shipped at a profit to the company of 10 pr per ton through subsequent work the estimate of the ore body has been increased to tons on the two at olt JY 11 Y 3 al K A 2 K view in adit tunnel showing method of loading mine cars claims and on some additional addition al claims later acquired and partially developed by the leasers leaders lea sers construction program adequate and up to date with the completion of this development work and UP upon on the reco recommendation emendation of mr tweedy the company started its construction program which has just been completed at goodsprings Good springs a site for the pumping plant and power plant was vas obtained and a well which develops suf focient water for all requirements was sunk the company is now sinking a second well for reserve and emergency use se at goodsprings Good springs where pump station no 1 is located a 20 h p type Y fairbanks morse engine was installed this engine being belted to a rumsey triplex pump this plant has a capacity of 60 gallons per minute through a three inch pipe line feet in length pumping against a head of feet the three inch line runs from pump station no 1 to station no 2 at the mill site water from station no 1 is pumped into two 2500 gallon tanks located at station no 2 where there is a 10 h p type Y fairbanks morse engine with a rumsey triplex pump this station has a lifting capacity of 10 gallons per minute through a two inch pipe line feet in length against a head of feet the wa ter is pumped is from this station to the top of the hill where it is distributed to all parts part of the mine and camp by gravity at goodsprings Good springs the company has also erected and installed a modern electric power plant consisting of a hp diesel engine directly connected with an electric generator gene from thi this plant a line three thre miles emiles in length conveys the electric lec current to the mill and mine mill is modern in every respect the mill the last unit in the construction program to be completed comp feted is of the most modern type with machinery and equipment desi gend 2 to concentrate the lead and silver from the ore and to save such values of zin zinc cand and vanadium as is possible the p present resent plant has a capacity of 50 to 80 tons of ore per twenty four hours but in the erection of this unit it was so planned that its capacity can be easily doubled without interruption of operations ores are conveyed from the upper loading station at the adit tunnel level by aerial tramway operated solely by gravity at the upper loading station the ores are sorted crushed in a jaw crusher a and nd automatically conveyed to the proper bins the takes the ore directly from these bins and conveys it to tb emill therill th bins in the case of milling ore borover or over the mill to the shipping ore bins at a lower level the tramway approximately 2500 feet in length was designed for a capacity of 25 tons per hour but it is believed after actual tests that its maximum carrying capacity will greatly exceed this figure thamine the Th mine emine throughout is fully equipped the company has installed a chicago pneumatic bic air compressor with ample capacity to furnish air for the machine drills air hoists etc in the mine a modern and well equipped blacksmith shop mine cars air lines water lines and trac kaoe for mine cars throughout the workings and a mine hoist mine is developed for gravity operation describing the mine workings in a recent report mr tweedy said the hi highest hest levels from which we plan to remove ore at a t the time we place our concentrating mill in operation 0 pe ration are in tunnel 3 the floor of tunnel 3 is at an e elevation of feet below tunnel 3 is the level of tunnel 2 ap which is at an elevation of feet feet below PW Z it 1 0 alit 21 vt ra 4 V L S dij interior Inter lor view of Arsen tenas electric power plant at tunnel 2 is tunnel 1 the elevation of which is is ay A 06 of our y bove above sea level feet below tunnel 1 is the level leve center 0 of f adit tunnel el which is feet from about the ce ea 2 lire our tunnel 2 section and near the inner end of tulin c 1 pt belo now have a shaft sunk ito a level of about tabo icea fee the floor of tunnel 2 at a point of about seven acting I 1 tun the bottom of this sh shaft a ft we ire are running a contie conne c belld 0 f net nel in a straight line ine 1 to a connection with thel the lowe olver the which we ve have sunk at a point feet from the portal of tunnel 1 this connecting tunnel elwill will be feet below the floor of tunnel 1 and feet below the A floor of tunnel 2 the floor of the adit tunnel is feet below the floo this connecting tunnel it will therefore be observed ithac all the ore in our present workings above the level of the adit tunnel that is to say all the ore developed in our present workings inthe in the vicinity of tunnel 1 tunnel 2 and tunnel 3 will move by 0 A W qz t N I 1 ia r h interior view of the Argent argentina Arg entena emiL showing rod mill and dorr classifier gravity to the adit tunnel and then will swill be carried in in cars through said tunnel to our sorting floor which is is imme immediately above our crushing plant which we are about to in install and the material passes through the crusher by gravity to the aerial tramway this tramway will operate by gravity and automatically will convey our ore to the mill site the crushed ore will pass through the mill by gravity and then ceto the loading I 1 bins the elevations as noted are very favorable and will result in more efficient and eco economical comical handling of our ore |