Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-01 | Page 31 | Work Shows Well at Pioche Mines

II SHOWS ILL AT P10GHE IVIiNES Company Is Steadily Shipping Ship-ping While Adding to Equipment. Operations at the Ploche Mines company's com-pany's property, two miles north of Ploche, continue regularly and with gratifying grati-fying results, says the Ploche (Nev.) Rec- : ord. A crew of ten to twelve miners is 1 employed at the mine and development work Is being constantly carried forward. I The stopefc are showing up well, and, In 1 fact, the showing of ore in the present faces of the stopes Is considerably better than the old exposures In the different tunnels, good as these were. i The ore from the mine is being sent to the Southern Nevada mill, situated near the Palt Lake depot, and this tonnage ton-nage la now being obtained almost wholly from the ore taken out in progress prog-ress of development work, as that is practically prac-tically the only work going on. Arthur Thomas is mine foreman and has the work well in hand. The cooling tank. Iron pipe for the compressed air lines and the air receiver re-ceiver required in the installation of the new compressor arrived some time ago and the compressor is now almost ready for use. The entire work of the Ploche Mines company is being handled quietly and sensible and different members of the mining fraternity of Ploche have spoken appreciably of the progress the company is making In the development of the district. dis-trict. A motor truck and a trailer are used to take the ore from mine to mill. C. E. Zube takes care of this equipment and is hauling loads of six tons with such regularity that the mill has been "snowed under" at times. At the Southern Nevada mill, under the supervision of R. H. Shaw, a crew of five men 1b employed and the operations at this new plant are proceeding proceed-ing smoothly after a couple of weeks spent in tuning up and making the changes which are necessary in every new mill. When everything ia finished and the mill is in continuous operation. Its capacity capac-ity will be in the neighborhood of one hundred tons per day. Even now the capacity of the mill during the running periods is at the rate of thirty tons per shift. The concentrates make a desirable product and the ratio of extraction Is satisfactory, although this is expected, of course, to improve. The cyanide extraction extrac-tion will be improved, although the first run of ore through the mill yielded an extraction which would be satisfactory In many mills after operating over a period pe-riod of time.