Show PRODUCTION OF PLATINUM What tho Product Aggregated During tho Year as Given by the Government Gov-ernment Report The report for 1903 for the United States geological survey on the production produc-tion of platinum In 1902 Is now In press The report Is In tWo parts the first being the report proper by Dr Joseph Struthers and the second being l paper by Prof J F Kemp on platinum plati-num In the Rambler mine Wyoming The production of platinum from do ncstlc ores in the United States decreased de-creased from 110S ounces valued at 27 526 In 1001 the largest output recorded re-corded by the geological survey since 1880to 94 ounces valued at 1814 the smallest production since 1893 In con icqtlon with the platinum there were also obtained from the ores 20 fine ounces of Iridium as against 253 ounces In 1901 The domestic supply of platinum In recent years has been obtained as a secondary product chiefly from gold placer deposits In Trinity and Shasta counties Cal I la reported that the metal occurs though not in commercially commer-cially rich deposits In many other gold placers of California as well ns In Washington Oregon Idaho Montana Colorado and Alaska The Rambler mine Wyoming con Inues to attract attention and during dur-Ing the year a considerable quantity of the metal was collected but not mar toted by the Waratah Minerals company com-pany at Kerby near Grants Pass Jose ihlne county Or The Russian sources of platinum sup My which furnlsli about DO per cent of the total consumption of the world are comparatively United The platinum bearing ores extend along the eastern watershed of the Ural mountains In Eastern Perm and along the watershed further south The imports of platinum into the United States during 1902 were valued at 19S79SO as compared with 1695895 In 1901 Prof Kemps paper contains a brief description of the situation topography and geology of the Rambler mine which is In Albany county Wyo about fortyfive miles southwest of Laramie near the headwater of Douglas creek In the Medicine Bow mountains a description de-scription of the Rambler dike and an account of the ore body Itself Great Interest was excited late In 1901 and early itt 19Q2 by the finding of the platinum plati-num group of metals In the copper ore of the mine and by the separation from the ore of sperryllte dlarsenlde of platinum The metal has not yet been extracted on the commercial scale Tho paper Is Illustrated by I map of the Rambler mine |