Show 0 THE TUNGSTEN MINES OF OSCEOLA spokesman review spokane wash W S E M has returned from a trip to southern nevada where li he visited 1 a tungsten property near osceola down in white pine county it is an old placer camp and has produced a lot of nuggets one of which was worth said mr several nuggets of over 1000 have been found some placers are being operated as the camp esthe is the only place in that desert where water is obtainable the supply is drawn from the snows on wheeler peak feet high it is being worked some for quartz gold with fair showings 1 I went down in the interests of some german investors who wanted me to examine a tungsten property the mine has six or eight ledges from one to three feet wide and one of them is opened for 2000 feet the country is a granite with a quartz filling the values are confined to tungsten metallic tungsten is worth 88 cents a pound and is used in tempering 1 steel and in making magnets it is found in this property in the form of or of manganese it is a dark reddish friable product in irregular shaped masses the ore will concentrate 1 and abd the tb product would be shipped to germany if the purchase of the property goes through |