Show MINING MENTION FROM BUTTE montana idaho mines corporation is enlarging its spring hill cyanide mill near helena to a capacity of tons per day all of the machinery has been installed except an additional ball mill in a crosscut cross cut driven from the foot level of the ardsley butte extension mines company an ore body has been encountered which is five and one half feet wide and assays essays 30 ounces silver per ton john gillie y formerly 6 general mana manager b er of mines and now consulting engineer of the anaconda copper mining 6 company recently was married to mrs mary meagher veazey of butte mr gillie is one of the most prominent pioneer families of the treasure state after consummating the purchase of the montana properties of the W A dark clark estate cornelius F kelley president of the anaconda copper mining company in a speech before the combined civic clubs of butte stated that anaconda would spend at least yearly in developing claims in the undeveloped portion of the butte district according to latest reports the ore in the on the hi highland ahland vein of the ardsley butte mines corporation is assaying better than aw ounces silver per ton this at a depth feet below the surface due to this good showing the company last week decided to sink its shaft from the foot level to the foot point and at this writing the shaft is now feet deep an electric plunger pump with 50 h p motor has been installed on the foot level national parks airways inc on august 1st ast instituted air mail from great falls to salt lake city covering the mining districts of montana airplanes make one trip each day connecting at salt lake city with east bound and west bound planes of the boeing company A letter leaving great falls at in the morning helena at and butte at arrives at salt lake at in the afternoon and arrives in new york at the following afternoon noon making the trip in about 30 hours against 68 hours train time the antone grosso estate is suing the hecla mining company of montana claiming title to tailings from the old hecla mill at melrose beaverhead county it is stated that the tailings were placed on open ground round and were located by grosso in 1920 the tailings an are said to be worth while they have an assay value of that amount no one has ever been able to develop a treatment process to recover these values at any considerable profit even during the war when metals were w ere high the tailings assay about 7 per cent zinc about 1 per cent copper about 12 per cent lead and 6 ounces silver per ton since encountering the ore on the foot level of its joe dandy property at Randers burg butte copper consolidated soli dated mines has shipped seventeen cars of lead silver ore returns having been received from the smelter for four f teen cars averaging better than 1350 per car after freit freight snifter charges arid and metal deductions the second ore breh body A has been encountered on the foot level and shaft sink s I 1 ing also is in progress the shaft now being at the foot f point it is planned to sink the shaft to the foot level where a geologist who recently examined the property stated that the zobie zone of secondary enrichment may mav be h expected since encountering ore on the foot level butte copper consolidated mines has shipped 13 car loads of ore from its joe dandy property at adelsburg aders burg returns have been relieved reci eved on nine of those cars the total being b the seventh car was one of the highest if i not the highest car of crude galena ever shipped from a mine in montana the ore assaying per cent lead and per cent silver the car contained 29 tons from which a smelter check was received for 1942 development work is being confined to opening other ore bodies on the level and arrangements are being made to sink the shaft to the foot point in the near future an electric plunger pump will be installed on the foot level surface crew of the basin montana tunnel company has been working 6 on claims between the proposed portal of the lon long z tunnel gray eagle group at the north end of the companas comp anys property within feet of the portal of the tunnel several veins have been opened on the welcome claim the vein assays essays 48 ounces silver and 7 gold per ton on the welcome no 3 claim the vein assays essays 1 gold and 58 ounces silver per ton and on the welcome extension Ex 10 per cent lead and 22 ounces ounce silver per ton on the hawkeye claim just south of the gray gay silver and 2 gold per to ton eagle the vein assays essays 47 ounces in a shaft 25 feet deep on the independent claim 1200 feet from the portal of the tunnel the vein assays essays per cent copper and ounces silver per ton good pro progress b aress is being made in cleaning out the lower gray eagle under supervision of samuel barker jr managing director of the basin montana tunnel company and con consulting tilting engineer for the butte copper zinc company |