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Show MINES A MINING Assessment work is being done on the Minerva Tungsten corporation property near the Swallow ranch at Shoshone, Nev, A distance of approximately L'OO feet on the strike of the fissure lies between be-tween the face of the Howell mine lower tunnel ami the known ore shoots that are the objective of the adit. Highly encouraging reports continue to come from the Pinion Queen property prop-erty of East Tintic, where the main working shaft lias readied the lime formation at a depth of a little over 800 feet. Five cars of good shipping grade lead silver ore mined during development develop-ment work ace on the dump at the Union Chief mine in the Santuquiu district, awaiting shipment to the smelter. It is reported from New York that the "Tonopah Mining company of Nevada Ne-vada has definitely abandoned its Pine river dredging operations near Creck-enridge, Creck-enridge, Oolo., according to 'western advices.' " The preliminary draft of the official of-ficial call for the twenty-third annual convention of the American Mining congress has been submitted to the directors for consideration and early release to the public. A change in the mining laws of the United Slates so that assessment work can be performed between July 1 and the last day of June of the following year is advocated by Senator Charles B. Henderson of Nevada. Increases in shipments of ore reported re-ported from Idaho, Nevada and Utah, the principal zinc producers, indicate that production of zinc may be greater in' 1920 than it was in 1910, when less than one-half of the 1018 output was mined. California's average annual gold production for the decade previous to 1917 was ifL'O.t 100,000 23 to 150 per cent of the output of the entire United States. This dropped to .$17,:i:S.r),l00 in 1919, and the outlook for 1020 is most discouraging. Production will be about $15,000,000. Unless an eleventh-hour Interruption occurs, the new zinc oxide plant of the American Zinc, Lead & Smelting company com-pany will begin operations early next month. This manufacturing unit Is located at Columbus, Ohio, and has facilities of the most modern type for the production of lead-free zinc oxide. It is not generally known that there Is a place in the northeastern part of Humboldt county near the Nevada-Oregon Nevada-Oregon line, called Vicksburg, named ifter the famous Mississippi city. It Is Bltuiitod in a canyon at the extreme north end of the Pine Forest range of mountains and not far from the Ashdown mine. Among the new developments of the past two weeks at the Chief Consolidated, Consoli-dated, Tintic district, was the opening of another bunch of ore out in the new zone to the east of the mine's big stopes. Some months ago the company com-pany cut this new zone and opened some small bunches of ore which was not of shipping grade. A steady output of ore is being mined from the Panaea group of claims controlled by the Combined Metals company, the principal ton-age ton-age coming from the 420-foot level. No stoping is being done, the present production being taken out In the mining min-ing development work undertaken to prove up the ever-increasing ore reserves. re-serves. A large shoot of silver-lead ore has been opened up In the Eureka-Hamilton mine, according to Thomas J. Lynch, secretary-treasurer of the company, com-pany, who says : "It i.s one of the biggest big-gest shoots of ore I have seen, and I think I have seen some of the largest In Nevada. We have a body of ore from nine to sixteen feet wide and you can walk on it for more than 400 feet." Figures furnished by the United States Geological Survey show that Utah's total silver production for 191!) was 11,C1!),9(!1 ounces and that Tin-tic's Tin-tic's share of this was 4,S22,277 ounces. Other counties In the state which produced pro-duced better than a million ounces of silver each were: S:ilt Lake, Summit und Utah, nnd the silver from the last named county, amounting to 1,!KK1,3S1 ounces, really came from the Tintic district, having been produced by the Tintic Standard and other properties. A vigorous plea for the relief of the gold mining industry has been entered ! by Fletcher Hamilton, state mineralogist miner-alogist of California. The problem of stimulating the gold Industry In the west Is analyzed by Mr. Hamilton and reasons ndvanced for the support of the McFudden bill, Introduced at the last session of congress, providing that tin excise tax of $10 iter ounce bo placed upon manui'iictiired gold In order or-der thnt the gold producer may receive re-ceive from the excise tax so collected a premium of $10 per ounce for newly produced gold. The Idaho school of mines has obtained ob-tained the services of a number of prominent geologists, metallurgists nnd mining experts as Instructors for the regular school of mines full year curriculum and the miners' short course. The stockholders of the Kimmcl Mining company held a special meeting meet-ing at their office at Leadore, Ida., receutly nnd decided that the immense tonnage of second-class ore disclosed In mine workings warranted the construction con-struction of a good sized mill ut an early date. |