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Show March 5, 1 943 The .Western Mineral Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah 4 Gold Output Falls Of In War Year ' .' (Continued Fichu Page 2) ' Gap in Nevada County, and the Yuba . Consolidated Gold Fields in Yuba Coundredging companyconnected-bucket ty. Floating, dredges yielded the bulk of the placer gold production in California in 1942. The number, of. dragline dredges ip operation in . 1942 declined. and Order virtually suspended production by that method by the end of ' . " L-2- 08 1942. Gold Yuba Consolidated Fields, operating floating connedredges, chiefly, in Yuba County and also in Butte, Merced, ; and Siskiyou . Counties, was the leading producer of ' gold in California. of COLORADO The output recoverable' gold in Colorado in 1942 was 274,2122 fine Ounces, a decrease of 105,817' ounces from 1941. A marked decrease in production of gold from Boulder,-CleaCreek, Eagle (71 per cent), Gilpin, Park, Rio Grande, . and Teller Counties' was responsible for the State decrease. Placer operations, chiefly in Park, Gilpin, Summit,': Lake, and Clear Creek Counties, yielded 22,400 fine ounces of gold in 1942, com-pared with 30,377 fine ounces in 1941, a decrease of 26 per cent g Gold from operations came chiefly from gold and gold-silvores. Mines in the Cripple Creek district, Teller ' County, were responsible for 39 per. cent of the state total gold outpiut in' . cted-bucket r such as this' California dredging operation, was completely, cancelled of various strategic metals, however, show- -' which prodaeed gold as a ed gain in gold output during 1942, some of them remarkable. California and Alaska, leading territories were far below normal opnt in 1942, while states like Utah were up. Straight 1942. Mines daring . lode-minin- , gold-mining- by-produ- ct gold-produci- ng er operated at Idaho . 1942. EASTERN STATES The em States produced about Sunbeam, near Harvard, Twin Springs, Warren, Pierce, near Elk City, and near North East Fork. ounces of recoverable gold . in 1942, a', decrease of 7,035 ounces from 1941; of this total South Carolina produced- - 7,760 fine ounces, or 52 per cent, and North Carolina, Pennsylvania, . Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama together accounted for the remaining 48 per cent Gold pro-- , duction Increased in North.. Carolina and Pennsylvania, but decreased heavily in South Carolina, . the principal producer of gold in . the Eastern States since 1937. mine ' The leading in the Eastern States was the old Haile mine near Kershaw, S. C. (closed in September 1942). gold-produci- IDAHO e output from lode mines was about 46,000 fine ounces, .a decrease of 31,421 ounces from 194L and that from placer mines was 45,000 fine ounces, a decrease of 27,395 ounces from 1941. Floating connected-bucke- t dredges .were Montana in 1942 are, respective- ly, the Anaconda. Copper Mining Co. copper and zinc mines at. Butte, the West Mayflower mine near Whitehall, Winston Brothersdredge near Clancey, . the Ohio- -. Center- ville, . 14,947 Idaho, in 1942 produced 91,000 fine ounces of recoverable gold, a decrease of 58.816 ounces (39 per. cent) from 1941.-Th- City,- - Nearly half of the ll . - - ' NATIONAL . 1 total Mexico in 1942 was 12,797 fine ' ounces, a decrease of 15,013 ; ounces from 1941. The princiDal . . - lode gold from lode mines 'came, from the Middle Boise (Atlanta) district; the remainder was produced chiefly in the Yellow Pine, Burgdorf-MarshaLake, Warm Springs (Hailey), Couer d' Alene,' Carson .(Silver City), Mineral Hill (Shoup), and West View districts. The three' largest producers . of . gold in Idaho .in 1942 were the group at Atlanta, Fisher and Baumhoff dredges at Centerville, and the Boise King Placers (buckerline dredge) near Twin Springs. MONTANA Output of recoverable gold in Montana was 145,- -: 800 fine ounces in 1942, a decrease of 100.675 ounces (41 per cent) from 1941. The loss resulted from the decrease ini output from both lode and placer properties; the . production from placer opera-- ' tions (61,611 ounces in 1941) decreased to 'about 41,600 ounces in 1942, while the production of gold from lode mines (104,200 ounces) in 1942. was about 80,664 ounces less than the 1941 output. The five largest gold producers in . gold-produci- districts in New'' Mexico were: Mogollort, Catron County; Central,'- Grant County; Steeple Rock, Grant County, and Lordsburg, Hidalgo County. The1 Nevada Consolidated Copper Corp. - Keating mine at Raders burg, and the Porter Brothers bucketline dredge at Helena. ; in Central district. Grant Coun-- . The production of ' ty, and the Black Hawk Consolirecoverable gold fTOm Nevada in 1942 was 295,200 fine ounces,-dated Mines ' Co., treating gold-- : ' decrease of 71,203 ounces iram ' silver ore in the Mogollon . dis 1941. The leading gold producer trict, Catron County, until June, were .the two largest producers in Nevada in 1942 was again the Getchell mine in the Potosi disof gold in New Mexico in l942. The quantity of re- trict, Humboldt County, operated OREGON ' . Other the Getchell Inc Mine, in Oreby coverable gold produced ' : 1942 was fi ne 47,500' large, producers of gold, . in order gon in of production, were: The Nevada ounces, a - decrease of 49.065 Consolidated Copper Corporation ounces (51 per. cent) from 1941. and Consolidated. Copocvminea Of the total value, of gold, silver, both in . the Robin. Corporation, copper and lead produced in Ore-- , son district,- White Pine County; gon in 1942, 95 per cent was in the Manhattan Gold' Dredging of the gold gold. Over two-thirCo. in Nye County, and the Day-to-n was recovered from placer operDredging Co located on the ations and the remainder from lode properties. Lode and placer edge of the town of Dayton, Lyon County. Shipments - of siliceous operations were located chiefly in ores fTOrn many snail mines to Baker, Grant, Jackson and Jothe McGill smelter. (Kennccott sephine Counties. The suspension Copper Corp.), primarily for use of operations by- the Cornucopia as a 'flux, were in Important Gold Mines on October 31,- 1941. source of gold in Nevada in 1912. was a leading factor in reducing NEW MEXICO The production of recoverable gold from New . (Continued On Page 8) NEVADA a , . . : . - ds -- - - - REGISTERED EXCHANGE ILuVLP Organized 1888 The Largest Market for Mining Securities in the United States i |