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Show Hill IS HIGHLYJEGARDED Qualified Geologist Makes Favorable Report on Rare Metals Property. "The writer can truly stale that the Peru group haa many characteristics promising the making of a big mine," says Paul ValtirtHle, well-known, mining geologist and engineer. In concluding an exhaustive and comprehensive report completed on the property of the Peru Mining company, located in Meryl's Spring mining district, a few miles out of Cima, Cal. In his summary and conclusions, after giving In detail the results of extended observations. Inspection of. developments and sampling of the ores.Vlr. Valtinkle says: "A mineralized garnet zone, cropping, crop-ping, relatively sneaking, continuously for a distance of 1000 feet, has to be regarded re-garded as a zone of great metasomatism. Naturally, one cannot expect to find mineralization min-eralization of economic importance everywhere along the strike for a distance dis-tance of 2(10 feet, hut It is more than encouraging lo note that all the samples taken from the mere outcrops, or from the ledge material In the tunnels. carried, car-ried, if not values high enough to figure as workable ore bodies, at least appreciable appre-ciable values, suggesting the proximity of workable ore bodies. The width of the ore bodies, when considering the nature of the ore. Is remarkable. The minimum of a large tonnage is made possible pos-sible after systematic development. "Considering the genesis of the deposit, de-posit, it seems only reasonable to ex-tect ex-tect that ore shoots of such strength and number cannot fail, on development with depth, to furnish large quantities of ore. Preliminary shallow work, always al-ways necessary to demonstrate first the extent and value of any deposit, can be considered as practically done. The ore bodies so far encountered furnish ample guaranl ee to justify their prospecting at reasonable depth. "Under efficient, modern management, backed by ample working caoital to develop de-velop at depth and to solve the question of concentration and separation of the ores, the property will not cause losses to the operators, hut on the other hand, promises to do as well or hetter than mines requiring before profitable production produc-tion a far larger Investment. " Mr. Valtinkle, in the report, also points out that the property consists of seven full claims and a ten-acre fraction. The, assessment work for lft IS, although not obligatory, has heen performed. The principal prin-cipal values are in tungstlc acid (V3) and twenty-two different samples, taken from the various workings in the prop- erty, gave values of from 1 to 5.20 per 1 cent, with a genera! average of 2.28 per cent. It is admitted that the bulk of I the ore will be of milling grade, but the engineer makes the positive statement i that by sinking Ihe shaft not more than another 100 feet It Is almost certain that the lower vein will be encountered, that by crosscut ting to the west the upper vein will be effectively opened at this depth. The erection of a small mill ' is discouraged, but the building of a plant of large capacity, so that the vast tonnage ton-nage may be handled on a big scale, is held to be the best method of solving the problem and placing the property on an assured profit-earning basis. |