Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-20 | Page 16 | Sheep Rock History Shows Ore Shipped

SHEEP ROCK OCK HISTORY HISTO Y SHOWS O ORE E SHIP SHIPPED pm Check by President of Beaver Mine Proves It More Than Prospect I Stud Study of mining history in some I If of f the almost forgotten gold districts of Utah Is bringing to light surprising I facts The Sheep Reck p op arty rt in eastern Beaver county for Instance proves to be a mine rather than the thel mere prospect it has had been rated for many a year It never was wasa a big mine but it has done fairl fairly i well one must concede considering the limited amount of development and the Indifferent equipment provided pro vided folt foht Total production from the time of its location to date is estimated by its president W W. A. A Wilson at about Early records have been lost and some dependence must be placed on the memories of timers old but buta a check by Mr Wilson of the shipment ship ment made since he has been in office of of- flee fice places actual receipts In recent years at leaving a little more than to l bj c accounted for tor by operators and lessees over a term of ot 20 to 30 years Nine lots of crude ore sent ent to the smelters melters since a n. record was kept yielded according to ro Mr Wilson 32 8 ounces of gold and ounces of silver sUver Two lots of concentrates concentrates concentrates concen concen- turned out of a little mill rigged up near the mine and for a short time returned ounces of ot gold and ounces of ot sliver silver Tailings contributed a a. saving of ounce gold and 1210 ounces 5 Then there were several bars of bullion bumon the product of at one phase of the mines mine's variegated metallurgical career that sold for and concentrates with a market value alue of Mine development In a Q fissured zone with a north south strike and a steep westerly dip consists of a a. foot vertical shaft with levels at GO 60 60 and feet a a. tunnel and anda a a. number of small surface openings The company sa says s 's of Its mineral It is a silver gold ore with the percentage of ot the precious metals changing In different parts of the mine The general ore is of a a. milling grade with its extent not properly outlined It can be worked successfully success success- fully by the cyanide process The minerals In which the values run nm are native gold sulphides s. s ana The gangue Is quartz constituting constituting con con- about DO 00 per cent of the ore In the same fissured zone an immense im mense deposit of alunite occurs carrying carrying car car- quartz In ill varying proportions Mr Wilson attaches considerable importance to the fact that the Sheep Rock ock Is on the opposite side of the Tushar mountain range from the Annie An nie Laurie Lauric mine and presumably on the he same zone of enrichment The ores of ot the two mines are said to show much similarity Of the Annie Laurie product Lindgren geologist says The value of the gold in the ore exceeds that of the sliver silver Samples of ot ore of the East vein ein yield for instance Instance instance in in- stance gold 12 silver Samples Sam pIes ples of the West vein contain for Instance Instance instance in In- stance gold 11 silver The rIchest ore is said to assay from 15 to o 18 a ton The average a value of ot the he ore Is said to be between 7 and 8 3 per ton With the advent of or the cyanide process a method was found which permitted the successful working work work- Ing ng of the ores and the present mill was built at the mine by the Annie Laurie jaurie Min Mining ng company in the year 1899 The production of gold and silver silver sil sil- sil ver vcr of the n mine ne since that time writ writ- ten en in 1905 has amounted to 2100 A lease and bond on the Sheep Rock held by Provo parties recently expired Negotiations with a 0 syndicate syndicate syndi syndi- cate financially capable of providing a c cyanide plant and operating on a larger arger scale are said to be in r ess tess s. s