Show the prospector and his burro V R tip 0 ALM t quite a number of years ago said the prospector to his burro when you were too young to distinguish the difference in taste between a gunny sack and a rind of bacon metallurgy as an established science had not reached that stage of perfection that it enjoys today mining men were then studying the rudiments in the old school and what they know would fill a big book men in those days had but one or two ideas to take care of the same as you have when you think it is about time for me to open the barley sack one of these was that ore to be of any account or value must be free milling or in the form of carbonates or oxides the term sulphide had hardly been coined at that time and when the ordinary mining man came across the word in scientific journals he though it was greek for some newfangled new brand of salar atus or a new ingredient for fumigation purposes and when they encountered sul aphides in mine operation and development they cursed their luck and quit in disgust now however times have changed and sulphide ore has the right of way in many of the mining camps of the west and this class and character of mineral is coming into its own no it is not as pretty as native gold and has not the coloring of ruby and peacock copper the beauty of sulphide not being in its personal appearance but what it looks like on the right side of the ledger for when sulphides sulp hides are encountered gigantic deposits of mineral may be looked for and a continuity and permanency that will withstand generations of heavy production it is largely for the treatment of sulphide ores that mammoth concentrating plants are erected in this day and age and for the handling of which million dollar smelting smelling sm elting plants are going up in the leading mining camps of the west and this in itself shows to what pro mience in the mining world the sulphide ore has attained 1 I want to tell you old long ears continued the jhb prospector a man must know something about geology and metallurgy in these days if he expects to make a success in the mining industry oxidized ore in many cases are but the surface covering of almost inexhaustible wealth in the form of sulphides sulp sul hides the butter blitter on the slice dt df bread as it were at a pinch we can get along without the butter but the bread we must have and yet in my early experience in mining I 1 have always quit when the oxides and carbonates gave out little realizing realizing reali zin g that I 1 was always suspending operations just as I 1 was getting to the really rich and profit making portion of my mine in bingham the utah consolidated built a mill for the reduction of its gold ores and the plant had hardly been in operation for six months before sulphides sulp hides were encountered in the mine workings this did not look like greek to the mine management however and now the company is working hundreds of men and paying millions in dividends where it would have probably chronicled a failure had its gold mine not been the capping for a great copper sulphide zone the same condition has been experienced in other camps throughout the west and to such an extent that I 1 am now a sulphide enthusiast thus last st I 1 bathe in sulphide take sulphide as a regular diet and dream of sulphide I 1 have made small fortunes in oxidized ores but now I 1 am going to lay the wealth of rockefeller in the shade and my money will come honestly without injury to no man and no water will be used excepting that utilized on the two score tables with which I 1 propose to equip my contemplated concentrating works I 1 feel that I 1 am on the right road now and as for small though rich bodies of oxidized ores and carbonates none for me none whatever |