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Show MINERALIZED ZOilE OF TONOPAH LARGER Trachyte Found Beyond Rhyohte Intrusion of Utmost Importance A discovery of the utmost impor tance to the future development of Ton opah has heen made m the eastern ter r tory by which the mineral zed zone has been extended indefinitely east ward says the Tonopah Daily Bonanza The find is d e to the work of the Buckeye Belmont wh ch has demon stratel that the rhyol te barrier in truded in Buch a "way as to appear to block all further Tela zat on is nothing more than an infos on of rhyol te through an enormous crevice After pass ng through this barren zone for a d stance of 600 feet the trachyte -nas p eked up and there is every promise that n th s formation son e of the r ch ledges found west ot the rhyohte will be opened and several good producers brought into bear ng The value of the nd cannot be over estimated as it is pregnant with the nt most s gn f cance to the mining area of Tonopah as t w 11 extend the nun eralized d strict to an unknown dis tance eaBt of the present producers rep resented by tho Halifax as the out post Heretofore freq ent reference to the trachyte formations of Tonopah have states that on the eaBt s de of Mt Oddie, the t achyte d ps sharply and passes under rhyol te " that if trachyte was found on the east side it would be at great depths The No 1 shaft of the Buckeye com pany after passing through the capping cap-ping entered the rhyohte and contin ued in it to a depth of 1'34 feet This seemed to bear out tho statement n ade by the geolog ts that t would be a long wav8 to the trachyte on the dip of the iorn ation At the 1200 foot le el the B ckeje company ran a crosscut cross-cut north for 300 feet all in rhvol te From the end of th s north crosscut they started two Irifts, one east and one vest In about loO feet the west drift c t into what is called the glas sy trachyte while the east drift cut nto a b g low grade ledge This ledge proved to be a contact ledge between the rhyohte an 1 the trachyte and d s proves the old theory about the trachvte dipping under the rhj ol te It is now ev dent that lur ng the formative per od of the earth the trachyte cracked open, and that the f ssture was intruded full of rhyohte yvh ch extends in a north and so th di rect on nearly 600 feet in width and d pp ng to the east East of th s rhyohte ntrus on the trachyte s agau found wh ch means that in tead of the Tonopah district be ng hm ted by the lbyol te to the mines west of that a great area Is now known to exist beyond it to the east Th s correlates w th the fa t that the nal fax found trach te east of the rhyolite and the cont n at on of the Belmont ve n The Buckeye company will now actively develop the trachyte and will in a few days, let one or two contracts for dr fts and crosscuts m other por tions of the mine to develop the trachyte rapidly This w 11 be done m add t on to the regular work by the present force n an effort to pick up veins of ore in the trachyte |