Show PIOCHE MINES CO ENTERS LIST OF NEVADAS PROMISING PRODUCERS following several years of mine development equipping the property building a mill and working b out refinements in the processes adopted in order to obtain best results from the treatment of the varied mine product the pioche mines company has announced through 6 reports and the pioche record that it now is ready to go from the camp publication is taken the following synopsis of mill experiments and results together with other pertinent data under direction of S Q dark clark mill superintendent the mill of the pioche mines company has been in experimental operation for several weeks past highly satisfactory results have been obtained the mill is generally considered a masterpiece in metallurgy the entire process of operation in all departments requires only five men on a shift which means that the mechanical operation of the plant is almost entirely automatic A car of high grade lead silver concentrates recovered during a series of test mill runs on low low grade ores is now ready for shipment results of test runs and experiments these test runs were made for the purpose of trying out the mill machinery and equipment equip ment and breaking 6 in a mill crew also to supplement on a larger large r scale the laboratory tests made to determine the proper treatment of the different ores A high b percentage of the values in these ores was recovered thereby demonstrating the amenability of the ores to the treatment for which the mill was designed the runs also fully demonstrated the mechanical efficiency capacity and economy of operation of the mill which is now ready to handle a capacity tonnage the first tons of ore put through the mill assayed as follows gold loc silver 33 gozs and 43 lead in the primary concentrates produced the assay values were gold silver 43 gozs and lead while the secondary product contained values of gold gozs silver and lead the next tons of mill heads assayed gold 9 gozs silver 41 lead and yielded in primary concentrates 9 in gold 1981 gozs silver and 70 lead per ton the secondary concentrate yielded 6 in gold gozs silver and lead per ton the market value of the total shipped product was approximately in some of the experiments 31 tons out of were eliminated as waste in the crushing plant by an ingenious adaptation to the sizing mechanism where the tendency of the values to go into the fines was taken advantage of the product thus put to waste contained less than 2 28 cents per ton total value the aerial tramway with automatic loading and unloading mechanism is actually putting ore into the mill from the mines at an operating cost of only 6 cents pe per ton of ore A committee of eastern sto stockholders ck holders and engineers haye have recently been inspecting the property and going over the companas comp anys affairs as conducted by john janney president and the other operating officials bromall Fro from mall all accounts their finding have been most complimentary and ana carried carrid an endorsement of all that had been done it now is the expectation therefore that the pioche mines company will become a regular contributor to the metal output of nevada within a few months and begin reimbursing the patient and loyal backers of the undertaking the stockholders |