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Show RARE TUNGSTEN SULPHIDE OCCURS IN EMMA ORES Rich Deposits hound in Recent Development; Diamond Drills Busy; Operations Retarded Re-tarded tor Lack of Wire. TU, folio wink in to rest I im report on developments! at Hie Kinum mine In the AUa district has been pent to the New York ol't'iers by 3 lteeson. ;eolOid-'i lor Hie Kmma v'onM'IKiated Mines company : T:.e results of the ore analyses vhi.h were betn' made hist week lire now in hand, and the tie lei mum lions of the moio important cU-ments are as follows; I'.oKI. ."Li ot' an oun; Mhi-r, Sso.'JO oiinees; Insoluble, ir..o pK-r cent; iron. . per cent; eopper, .ti pt-r cent; U-ad, 1.VN per rent; ilne. per cent: lime. per cent; tuimsten oUle iV0;O. u.Z per ernt. With the present metal uuotutlous. t!iis ore idiould have a net value of elo.- to $ l.'n' a ton. T.ie ili-teim.ina t Ions were mode by one of the most reliable ehfintsts In I Salt Lake City and eun be taken ns final. Tliis analysis .Ices not repro-t repro-t simply a ,mh:i1I speelliii-n of the ore. but is an average sample of moio than one ton of lne.h-.cniile sulphide, ! which had been sorted from t he oro comlnj? from t ne wlne below tint third level. The sample was taken ! over a week a-;o. and ul present ther are more thnn ten tons of main lal of this tiiaraeter whirh we fully i-x-peei to run more than JO0 ounees silver. 10 per tent lead, and in per rent uinKsien. ''.he dfteraiinat ions on smelt t-r lot 210, whleh asayed 77 oun.es silver, gave 2 per eenl tuime:i; thus tl;e above analysis ran be taken to inukate the eharaeit-r of t lie emenirates whleii wonld be obtained ob-tained from the millinc of the run ; of mine ore below the third level. Tungsten Sulphide Rare. Negotiations are now beiim ihmi with. the I'nited States Smeit in commiiv and other reliable parties for trie treatment of the ore whieh wi:l be shipped from now on. However, recular shipments will sent to the smelter until these arrangements an' eo mole ted. hut the higher K:de sulphide sul-phide eontainintr the most tungsten will be sorted out and saved nnt d deirsi arrangements h.a-.e been oom-pleted. oom-pleted. 1 Kroni a mineraloieal s t ;i n r int. the tnnesten in the Emma ores is of exceptional interest, be-aue this is 'lue onlv known or -urrenee of tungsten tung-sten sulpiride. Artifieial sulphides of tnntrsten h..ie beon made in the laho-I laho-I ratories. bi;t to date there Is appar-! appar-! ently no record of tungsten sulphide ' oerjrrintr in nature: therefore, the I lunrsteij ai the Krnina m.ue is an en- tireiv new mineral. In irany ot her ore bodies tiie tungsten usually indicates in-dicates ores winch were formed at hiirh temperature, and we mav nnt-ii nnt-ii rally expect to find the amount of tunes ten in the Km ma ore bodv to Gradually increase in dpth. where the, deposition has been u!(fcXr bv solutions solu-tions of much Idcher temperature than have deposited the ores near the sji-face. sji-face. Extent Not Determined. The downward extent of the Knmia ; ore body has not yet been deter-! deter-! mined, and, judiner from th historv I of other minep throughout the woi Id 1 from a minerouociral standpoint, we may naturally expect the iniuintr of i the Em ma ore ixxi y to t e mi j n a t e I where the ore becomes le.-. ner and finally develops into an ore shoot containing' con-taining' a- InrKe auno'int of iron ?ul-phi ?ul-phi ie or pyriie. zinc sulphide and' quartz. In the Park City district the n;!n-, n;!n-, inr of some of the ore shoots lias I been discontinued in a zone of lean quartz and zinc sulnhlde. and, con-! con-! siderinir the fact thai the ores of the the Al:a district are very similar to thosj? in Park City, we mav naturally expert io find the same conditions existing in Alt a. In the Emma mine so far there is an exceptionally small amount of both iron and zinc sulphides, sul-phides, and tiie ore below the third level continues to rIiow very ldr.h allies In silver and ""d values m lend. If this can he taken ns an ln-tlltHtion. ln-tlltHtion. tlm hhuina ore hixiy Mliould continue lui- a considcra hie dlntancn h, low the point wheie ftcilve niiidn.k operations are in progress. The wln.o Is now (low ll a hoi 1 1 1 1 1 1 y feel he low the third level and will he continued on a -10-iirniic in-line depth f"f feet. At this point Ilio dmnuunl drill will uKatn he put In operation tu I. lock out the oro hclow. Stope Like Hig Chamber. The lOuinia tttp from the third level up to the .M on t eaiuia t.itilt now presents the upp a nine e. of a wreai I'luimber. .sonift thiily lect in diameter and more than flet In lenlh. In pfsini; t 111 ounh this H'val stopu one cannot help hut he Impressed With the po.vdhillt n-M of id her la rn ore ho.llcs in thin vicinity. To think that the Kuitnu Is the only ore body to ho found lie ond the Montezunui fault la ridiculous. The diamond drill Is now son-llnK out holew nhout LT.it fort In length to tlu northwest and northeast of tho TKnitna, oro ImmJv. Tluc work will ho conlhuied until tiie K'ound U Ihnr-oukdih' Ihnr-oukdih' prospected, and the news that a not her ore body has been encountered encoun-tered may ho forilieomiiij- aL any time. A second diamond drill H now opera op-era t Inc In t he Ivnrnn 'ujiper ii property prop-erty where the lnli-v rade silvei-dead-copper fissure, whicli was encountered In the iinuna iV'pi-r crosscut about a year u.nu. hns been InierstM tt-d at a depth of about forte feet below the level, thowlni,' a thickness of between be-tween four and slv inches. The drill hole will be continued until it has passed throutrh the block shale in th limestone forjr.allon, which .-houid be eii on nte red a bout se eni - f i ve feet below the tunr.ol level. Operations Are Retarded. As soon as litis has been accomplished, accom-plished, another hoie w.ll he j-ent down to iniers.ee t 1 1 le tsi: re w here it pisse! ilirouch the limestone. It has been reported from reliable sourcf. that this limestone was one of the principal ore-bearing forma -lions In tl'.e properties adjoining the Krnma Topper to rhe west. Thus we look forwa r1 wi: h creat expeetatlon to t he res ilt 5 of t he diamond dn !l work In this vicinity. The driftinp and minintr oreratlon have been retarded ?on'ewhut during J the pat week by n fciortace of com- : pressed air. because it Jias not been jvosslhle to put tiie new compressor in full operation. Tho dday in Ftait-hiff Ftait-hiff t ue compressor has been due to the fact thai it has ten Impossible to Set doll vcrv on the nceesarv copper wire to transmit the eleotrbUy from th.e portal of tiie tunnel to t lie eom-presor. eom-presor. some uno feet underpround. How ever, we are assured t hat tills wire will be delivered within th., ,-om-Int week, and upon arrival !t will he Placed In the tunnel Immediate'v and will eonnect the larse power hnc at the I'tah T'ower & Iiht with the compressor and other c'eetrlenl efjulp-ment efjulp-ment underground. Tills P"W-er line will carry more than f.in ho;se-power: ho;se-power: thus In the very near future the Krnma mine will be assured of more than enough power to operate all the mac hlnerv to full capacity and aii development and minlr- operations op-erations will be sreatlv accelerate, m all direeiions. |