Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-12 | Page 13 | Cinnabar Comes in Bunker Hill Winze

CINNABAR COMES GOMES IN BUNKER HILL Additional samples from the new in the Utah Bunker Hill HUl tunnel in n the Stansbury mo mountains received in m Salt Lake Thursday tend lend to corroborate corroborate cor cor- the report of a gold strike heard icard earlier in the week Beside finely disseminated gold the ore shows a n stron strong streak of cinnabar the parent mineral of mercury lead sulphides and possibly copper The work done so far Is not sufficient to show the quantities in which the respective minerals Man Manager ager John V. V Long after a personal Inspection of the development surmises surmises surmises sur sur- that the shot which brou brought ht the gold sold to light uncovered the top of a aipe l pipe ipe that should expand as IS it goes gocs to o the deep About all that ha has been accomplished is to square up the giving ing ng it a depth of five feet a width of five ive feet and a length of six feet Judging from the position of the strata the he upper ten inches under the hanging hang in ing wall is valuable chiefly for its gold the next eight inches for gold and cinnabar the following eighteen inches for gold contained in a cinder cinder- like formation and the rest of the vein down to the for lead It should not take more than a week to 0 gain a fairly conclusive Idea as to the importance of the find Miners 1 consider the tile occurrence of quicksilver especially interesting as it occurs but seldom in Utah and has not been known as a commercial product since the old Sacramento shut down