Show PLATINUM IF FAKE AKE IN OREGON OREON IS U. U S. S INTIMATION Geological Survey Warns Investors and Public in General General I A Platinum Fake In Oregon Is the headline over a circular just Issued by bythe bythe bythe the United States geological survey and andin andin andin in which prospectors and the general public are warned against deceptions In sands The circular follows fol fot- fot- fot lows lows' The present shortage shortage of platinum and the consequent greatly Increased price of the metal bid fair fall to result in a considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable increase in the domestic production production tion ton of platinum during the coming year At the tile same time while legitimate miners miners mi ml- ners are increasing their production and to some extent relieving the country's shortage other persons persona are using the Interest in interest interest In- In terest aroused by b hv the present nationwide search for the metal to make extravagant I claims for utterly worthless deposits and some honest o P prospectors S are e led by false Je JeP al assays made by inefficient le or venal assayers assayers as- as sayers to believe beleve mistakenly that they have valuable platinum deposits Reports Re- Re ports of platinum in some mythical combination com corn volatile volatile platinum or colloidal platinum should should should be ie regarded regarded as sufficient dent evidence of the incompetence or dishonesty of the assayer During the season of 1917 the geologists geologists geologists of the United States geological survey survey survey sur sur- vey department of the interior spent much nuch time in visiting platinum deposits that proved to be worthless A notable example is seen in the supposed erous sands S of the hew Deschutes h rl river near J I r b Ore e. e which were e examined bv by H. H G. G Ferguson in October 1917 Claims havA have been stal staked ed for several miles mies along Deschutes and Crooked Cooked rivers and as certain volcanic sands along these rivers had been said to contain large percentages percentages percentages per per- of gold and rare metals particularly par- par metals of the platinum group Mr Ferguson visited the localities at which the thA sands were obtained and took for test and analysis The material collected which Is exposed ex ex- posed f In the cn canyon on of the Deschutes river Iver north of r Low bridge in section 15 15 township 14 1 south range 12 east consists consists con con- of ot loosely cemented dark volcanic j 1 sand anti and c conglomerate r e W with l I f basalt and d volcanic tuff Tile The black k kW basaltic ba ha- sand is supposed to have the he richest richest rich rich- rich rich-I est content of ot gold and platinum but neither in panning panning the material in the field nor In the chemical tests made by bythe bythe I the tIle geological survey could any trace of ot platinum or other ther metals of the platinum Toun proun proun be found Neither was waR any gold found in the concentrates and it is concluded concluded con con- eluded that material of this type is very unlikely to contain workable amounts of goldIn goldIn gold In conclusion the geological survey desires to warn prospectors and Investors Invest Invest- ors against accepting at their face value any statements in regard to platinum I bearing ores orES and sands that do not show natIve platinum when panned Such materials ma- ma should always be sent to a assayers sayers whose reputation Is above reproach NEW YORK CURS CURE CLOSE J. 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