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Show SEEK ANTIMONY IN NEVADA DISTRICT This War Material, Which Is Used to Harden Lead in Bullets, Is Much Desired. Antimony is one (if the oecessary , ivar minerals for which the United iritutes is dependent ou foreign countries coun-tries and of which laror domestic supplies sup-plies should be promptly developed. Accordingly, Ac-cordingly, in view of the desirability oi having information on all possible domestic do-mestic sources of antimony, the Arabian mining district, in Humboldt county, !Nev., has recently been examined by a geologist of the United States geological survey, department of the iuterior. 'Phis mining district, long idle after its first period of activity in the late sixties, has become active again under the stimulus of the present high prices of lead, antimony and silver. The pio-J pio-J necr smelter in Nevada, at Oreana, on the Central .Pacific railroad, was built in 1SG5 to reduce the ore of the Montezuma Monte-zuma mine in the Arabia district. The ores of the district are notable in that they consist almost wholly of silver-bearing bindheimite, the so-called hydrous antimouate of lead. None of the ore bodies have been explored to a vertical depth greater than 200 feet, and the zone of uualtered sulphides has nowhere been reached. The primary ores of (he district were formed under high temperatures by "deep-satad " minerali.ation. In view of this origiu, some of tho stronger veins may carry ore in depth. This possibility . together with the chance that a zone of enriched silver imlphides exists in depth, suggests that the district merits deeper exploration than has yet been attempted. The principal use of antimonv in war is to harden the lead in bullets. Goldfield Tribune. |