Bingham Bulletin | 1947-09-05 | Page 4 | Pumps Open way to New Ore Body at Silver King

Pumps Open Way to New Ore Body at Silver King Pumping equipment like this now a requisite to mining. mines were reduced to a low leve due to the shortage of manpowei and the necessity of placing al available workers on production ill order to meet the demand. To siphon off the water undei which much of the States ore now lies requires the expenditure o: much capital both for development and for mining. Kach foot of deptl adds to the problem and the cost Tiler was a time when the minei needed little encouragement t. j stake a claim and develop its re sources. Times have changed aru mines have changed and the in centive to develop must not be los' I to the miner and the prospector ' ' I Deep below the earth's surface, 2800 feet, a hue underground chamber has been carved out of rock and this massive pumping equipment installed in the quest for metals. The picture was taken on the 2800-foot level of the Silver King Coalition mine at Park City, and indicates the depth to which miners must go to provide metals necessary neces-sary for the post war period. One of the problems facing Utah mines today is to meet the in-i in-i creased costs inherent in deeper operations. op-erations. Surface deposits have long since been explored and during the war ore reserves of producing