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Show OUTLOOK IS" BRIGHT " FOR M STAR Expert Predicts Dugway Will Become Great Mining Min-ing District. That the development work now under way in the Dub way count ry is destined to bring that district to the front as one of the leading: mining sort ions of the state is the opinion of Professor J. H. Weber, who returned recently from an examination of the property of the Lucky Star Mining company. Professor Weber is of the opinion that the Dugway district dis-trict is one of the most highly mineralized sections of tho state and that its tardy recognilion as such is due to the lack of transportation facilities, which has hampered ham-pered development. Accompanying Professor Weber on the trip were N. J. Neilsen. Israel Parson and Pete Sacos, officers and directors of the Lucky .Star company. Professor Wehcr is enthusiastic over the showing at the Lucky Star and predicts a rosy future for the company and that the property soon will he on a regular producing pro-ducing basis. With reference to the result re-sult of his examination I'rofessor Weber said: The great bodies of ore in the Lucky Star copper mine are found in a shaft 222 feet deep on a north and south vein that dips about 45 degrees northwest. This vein passes through many beds of lime, but Just' as sure as it passes through a bed of white soluble lime, it makes a bedded deposit de-posit of replacement ore. Nature has power to chango 75 per cent of lime and make it J5 per cent of silica. In replacement deposits we often find the lime changed to marble. In this 222-foot shaft four times the ore has bedded and in a thirty-foot shaft south of the main shaft in the same north and south vein there is a body of semi-sulphide and oxidized ore twelve feet thick t hat averages 20 per cent copper and sixteen ounces of silver. There are four chutes of ore opened in the shaft now. Scarcely any drifting drift-ing has been done and everything is intact and ready to begin stoping the ore. Many assays have been made on these ore bodies, and by a close calculation the ore will average 12 to IS per cent copper and ten to sixteen ounces of silver. In depth It should get richer. Many assays have gone 25 to 40 per cent in copper. In fact, one can get ore. that will assay over $100 per ton. There are several cars of ore developed that will pay from 51000 to $1500 per car after all the expenses are paid. The ore is very heavy in iron, thus making an ideal ore sought after by the smelters. Having very little silica and an overstock of iron, the smelters will pay a premium on the ore or smelt it for nothing. It will cost $15 per ton to haul it to the raJl-road raJl-road station at Faust and about $2.25 per ton to freight it to the smelters at Salt Lake. As there is now from $10,000 to 515,000 worth of ore blocked out, it cannot cost over $2.60 per ton to mine it, thus making mak-ing the cost about $20 per ton. Say it will cost $25 per ton. If the ore should fall down and only go 10 per cent copper, that would give 200 pounds of copper to the ton. The smelters will pay at least 21 cents per pound; that would make $42 per ton. It will average ten ounces of silver at least, for which the smelters will pay at least S3 cents per ounce, equals $S.S3, thus giving $50. S3 per ton. If it costs $25 per ton to produce pro-duce it, there will be at the very least $25 per ton profit. A car of fifty tons will net $1250 per car. The ore chute at the bottom of the i 222-foot shaft is much richer than any of the other four chutes above, as you find red and black oxide and na-l na-l tlve copper in it; also some chalco-i chalco-i cite. Much of the ore is oxidized and leached and has gone down, so in depth the ore will get richer and bet-i bet-i ter and when the zone of secondary enrichment is reached one can expect ex-pect a very large body of rich ore. No doubt in the future the shaft will be sunk 200 to 300 feet deeper, and when this is clone there will be j some wonderful large bodies of ore developed. |