Show MERCUR MINE TO REOPEN organization ot of a new venture to go 90 into commercial production 1 pt ot quicksilver and gold from tho the properties ot of the old sacramento mine at mercur was announced recently the now new company the sacramento gold and quicksilver mining co haa bus taken over under bond and lease ten patented claims of the tha sacramento and owns owna by deed th thirty airty nine contiguous claims the properties are located in the camp floyd mining district the old sacramento was the only mine in the state that ever had any notable record in the production of quicksilver and the new operators be love hove that the difficulties high costs and imperfect extraction facilities have been removed and that the mine can be put back on a profitable basis according to D ea U loughran president there Is a big tonnage ol of cinnabar ore which can be operated at a good profit with present methods there also remains in the mine and 0 on n the dump a big tonnage of low grade ore 01 e which may now be handled profitably he said besides mr loughran officers ot of the company include M II 11 jamison Jam lson vice president 13 krause secretary treasurer S V walsh and J adick C dick additional directors the com company bany is at shares with ith stock at par value of 10 cents per share hare the le first wort of tho new company w will III be the cleaning out ot of the old workings and ings ot of the mill tunnel to the od wynze which was sunk on a high grade cinnabar ore and Is to contain a large tonnage that can be mined profitably under tinder present extraction methods ahe he companas comp anys experts are consad ering two methods of 0 handling the ores and will be gulled by experiments in eats now being made the first pro process cess Is the tha newly perfected flotation process this process which is the cheaper in operation floats both the quicksilver and gold eold and calls tor for the installation of a series of D type retorts tor for handling mercury concentrates and a small cyanide plant for or the gold residue it if the ores fall to respond to this treatment tho the company plans to install a rotary furnace oil of twenty five tons capacity to start tor for extracting lie he cinnabar and 25 ton cyanide mill for the gold a boom camp of some thirty years ago is located in the camp floyd mining district in tooele county 13 a few miles south of the DB Ingham district and adjacent to the ophir and dry canyon districts it had a production record of some in gold salt lake tribune bune |