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Show UTAH CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. MAY BUILD . A BJGMILL Highland Boy Mining Company Will Build a Mill With 1,000-ton Capacity. ; vThe .Utah .Consolidated Mining company during the year 1919 mined 126,893 tons of copper ore and 45,337 tons of lead ore, ' which yielded 5,710,34 pounds of copper, 13,072,177 pounds ot lead, 373,180 ounces of silver and 10,548 ounces of gold. A total of 17,407 feet of exploration and development work was done,, according accord-ing to the report of R. H. Channing, Jr., president. " ' : . The principal features of the year's work were, first, development of the property at depth; second, successful completion of tests for the treatment of the copper ores by flotation, and the litigation with the Uath Apex company. com-pany. Mr. Channing's report says: "At the end of 1918 the deepest workings in the mine were the 1600-foot 1600-foot level. The results of exploration work on that level indicated that in depth the Highland Boy lode, after passing through a leaner zone, which commenced at the 1300-foot level, was again showing enrichment. Sinking was therefore resumed and the shaft is now between the 2200 and 2400-foot levels. It will be continued to the latter level, which will, for the time being, be made the lowest workings. "The 1800- and 2000-foot levels are being opened up and the results so far have justified expectations. On the 2000-foot level a new ore body has been encountered in the Highland Boy limestone which is being drifted upon. The 2200-foot level is Just being started start-ed and the 2400-foot level will be Opened during the coming year. "The results of the laboratory experiments ex-periments for the treatment of our copper ores by flotation were confirmed con-firmed during the year by an actual mill run of over 2,500 tons of ore. This showed conclusively that a reduction re-duction in cost can, be. made by milling mill-ing our eopper ores, which will make available at a profit a. large -tonnage of ores in the mine heretofore clask fled as too low grade to be commercially commer-cially profitable. Plans are being completely for a 1,000-ton mill, which will be constructed during the coming year. - Now that this problem, has been successfully solved, it is anticipated that a large additional tonnage of this low-grade ore can be developed. "The suits between your company and the Utah Apex . company were heard in the United States district court late in the past year. The ores In controversy are an ore body in the western portion of the Highland Boy lodge and certain large ore bies in the Yampa lode, the latter now and heretofore worked by the Utah Apex company. None of your company's principal copper ore bodies are in controversy. con-troversy. Your company maintains that, by virtue of apex rights, it is the sole owner ot all these ore bodies. Your attorneys, basing their opinion on the testimony and the law as invariably in-variably construed in past decisions in the Bingham district in similar litigation, litiga-tion, believe the decisions in all these cases will be rendered favorably to your company." The reserves of the Company at present, as stated by the report, are 848,000 tons of copper ore, averaging 1.94 per cent copper, .66 of an ounce of silver and .04 of an ounce of gold. None of this ore is tn controversy with the Utah Apex company. There is also in sight 38,400 tons ot lead ore, averaging 15.7 per cent lead; 5.36 ounces of silver, .06 of an ounce of gold and .90 per cent copper. |