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Show MILL TESTS AT RHTFynp Hi! First Unit of Five Stamps Operating Steadily to Try Several Methods. With the first unit of five stamps at the Maj-flowcr mill at Pioneer in steady use, to determine absolutely whether the method of milling urged by the mill expert and laboratories as the best practice for obtaining the best results from the Mayflower ores would be adopted as a permanent system of induction and treutment, the company officials are getting in position to make recommendations to the directors and executive officers of the corporation for the carrying on of its operations at the mill, says the Tonopah Miner. Up to date, the method selected by he company appears to be proving successful, suc-cessful, and, according to reports, the extraction of gold from the ore can be accomplished without the aid of eyani-dation eyani-dation to a greater extent than was possible when the mill was first built. At that time, only stamps and tables were used, and it is estimated that many tons of tailings, containing a high per cent of gold were allowed to run into the tailings ponds. Later, filters, tanks and the c3ranide process were introduced, in-troduced, and, while some improvement was sl)own in the matter of extraction, the process was not as completely successful suc-cessful as could be wished. - Under the present practice, (which, if proven to be successful in all details and adopted as the regular mill practice prac-tice of the company, will be fully described de-scribed in a later issue of The Miner), better results than ever have been obtained ob-tained and there is every prospect that the large tonnage of ore now in the bins and stored in old workings of the mine can be worked at a big profit. While the, milliner nrovss has claimed the greater part of the attention of the management, development work has gone ahead steadily and at the usual Tate. Since the minie was taken over bv the syndicate headed by John H. Miller, man' hundreds of feet of development work have been extended on th.1 different dif-ferent levels, which run from the shaft at the 100, 200, 300, 400 aud 500-foot points, and ore bodies of splendid size and excellent values have been disclosed, dis-closed, practically above the 200-font level, where a drift run from an old stope has opened up a full width of better than mill grade ore. Exploration work has also been carried car-ried forward regularly, the main object of the company being to reach a point where the Starlight vein, developed on the adjoining group of claims, purchased pur-chased several years ago by the old corn-pan, corn-pan, intersects the Mayflower vein, and later to develop the Starlight ore body and make connections with the shaft which was sunk to a depth of about 95 feet by Charles Taylor of Tonopah. when he operated a iease on the Starlight group several years ago and developed a fine vein for considerable consid-erable distances in both directions from his shaft. The management believes that when the junction of the two veins is reached, the ore will bo found in considerably greater widths, with a probability that still greater values will be developed across the entire ore boly. |