| Show new p aay mcclung system put into use jy in cintio an innovation has been introduced at the gintic tintic standard company i 7 s mines in it is nothing less than the substitution of the mechanical ayo for the strong arm vf method of shoveling shoN eling and loading scoped ore w into cars 1 the stan dard management feifar like many other mine managements has experienced aay much difficulty aawar in securing 7 wasy muck ers for certain wa portions of the mine and to relieve the situation 07 old mother 71 necessity t was w called aft upon to solve iw the ans problem J the scheme ats evolved jy has www proven highly efficacy ious and reliable ew Visy besides cutting iff down tw the cost of handling the ww ore ff 7 on the wa 1100 level of the mine 7 in Visy the main fw north zaw south mineral is a chan nel dyff a large of dry sille fous 3 W silver ore which 7 faw averages rw in vi value 6 well over jaff thirty ounces to aw the sr ton has been opened diw here according 7 1 to J A hogle 77 who visited kya the val mine recently a road scraper handled by two men Is used to load alvi the broken ore into mine aff cars aff A small air hoist has been set up from y which esy is y run j a steel cable w to the scraper aff a the scraper fawer Is both y if loaded abiff af iff and i hauled up an 7 enceline slide to the cara y by this cable 7 i this method of handling broken ore where sufficient space Is avail able Is said to be superior to that of muck I 1 ng I 1 n the usual w way more ore Is handled in less time about two W scraper s azis loads w fill a mine car and much hard labor Is saved according to mr hogle on this level the tem 17 pera ture Is so high that it as Is almost impossible for duckers muckers to work with any degree of comfort or efficiency ay this new of ore Is situated on the 77 1100 foot level and about aw feet J west of the w no 0 2 shaft As far ar as recent development rity work has progressed the iffa ore Is from forty to fifty feet 0 wide iff and still v go ing www strong 7 in all directions ay inas much as this ore iseff zone has Off been WO proven ff to be continuous to a depth of 1400 ff feet the vertical thickness W yosif of the ore deposit ff at the y no 2 shaft Is now over feet icv bwy one hundred ff w and fifty zy feet south east of the s vo 2 shaft Is a raise fifty feet rs above the 1450 level a new wy aff of high grade is ore has hii been 9 opened up most of W the values foj of this ore occur in the form of a galena in sf which w the silver aw values run high 07 another significant 2 fact in U con 7 37 ebion with wa the aff ore opened up on the 1100 7 foot level re Is that a this mineralized horizon 07 Is higher up y than any other wv ore previously ft found as far north as the no 2 shaft the aw first great mineralized area aff opened up in the 2 standard no 2 shaft was i on 1260 aw foot level more over with the extension of the ore body iffa north f of the no wor 2 shaft the main mineral channel 2 has been de north and south along the strike of the a vein for a distance 0 7 of fsr feet in one place i between the 1260 and aj W 1350 levels si a ex a tends east and west v horizontally for a z width of feet the whole mass afo as it is being isy broken down awa being of a good shipping grade salt icv lake mining review |
