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Show MINES AND MINING So:nr- good ore is being taken from :he Blaine in western Tintic. The eastern copper market is unchanged un-changed at from 29c to 30c for August Au-gust to November. Work is going forward on the new louble-compartment shaft at the Tin-:ic Tin-:ic Standard, in Tintic district. Copper exports .from Atlantic porta for the week ended July 20 were 8,346 tons; since July 1, 23,078 versus 6.288 i year ago. There are about 125 men at work at larbidge. Nev., and more are wanted. Wages are $4.50 a day for miners and $4 for muckers. It is understood that one of the largest copper selling agencies in the country has dropped its electrolytic price to 25 cents a pound on late-year late-year deliveries. Greene Cananea's production is on the basis of 5,000,000 pounds a month and extra efforts are being made to bring the property up to capacity output out-put before August. Utah-Apex Mining company reports for quarter ended May 31, 1916, net earnings of $417,948, compared with $202,719 in preceding quarter, says the Boston News bureau. Shipments of ore from the Prince Consolidated at Pioche, Nev., the past week to Utah smelters amounted to 63 carloads. This is estimated at 3,-150 3,-150 tons. It is mainly the low grade iron fluxing ores. The more carefully is examined the proposed tax on copper the more unfair un-fair does it appear to be and the more bungling in its operation if it be enacted en-acted in its present form, says the Engineering & Mining Journal. It is reported that the Utah Metals Mining & Milling company, owning property in the Santaquin district, has been adequately financed and will soon inugurate operations on a larger scale. The main adit is in 125 feet. Shipments from the mines of Tintic last week totaled 185 carloads. This is estimated at 9,200 tons valued at $230,000. It is compared with 191 cars the previous week. There were twenty-six producers in the list last week. Shipments last week from the mines of Park City amounted to 1,857 tons, estimated at $76,000. This includes first-ciass crude ores and the product from several of the mills. This Is compared with 1,469 tons the previous week. The bottom of the Bird winze in the Seven Troughs Coalition which has reached the 1,740-foot point, has Just cut a 6-lnch stringer of ore running nearly $500 a ton. A larger streak of almost the same richness has been passed through, and no hanging wall yet In sight Idaho and Salt Lake people are developing de-veloping the Silver Consolidated property, prop-erty, located about ten miles southwest south-west from the Gilmore district, Idaho. The property is equipped with a two-drill two-drill compressor and a tramway. On the dumps twenty-five tons of ore are estimated at $87 to the ton. Bingham Mines earned for the months of April, May and June a trifle over $40,000, May being high month with $15,426. For the same quarter Eagle & Blue Bell earned about $55,000, May also being the high month at $27,957, according to information infor-mation released by Boston officials. Designed and constructed to handle 800 tons of ore daily, each of the eighteen sections of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper company mill has been putting through 900 tons per day. This has had the effect of raising rais-ing the total tonnage treated from 14,000 to 16,000 tons daily, says Arizo. na advices. According to the announcement of Bart L. Thane, manager of the Alaska Alas-ka Gastineau company (Alaska Gold), the run at the big mill at Thane Monday, Mon-day, June 26, broke the milling record of that company, says the Boston News Bureau. Eighty-seven hundred tons of ore were treated within the twenty-four hours. Production of crude platinum in California Cal-ifornia and Oregon in 1915, according to the United States geological survey, sur-vey, was 741.91 troy ounces, having a value of about $23,538, an increase of 171.91 ounces over the production in 1914. California mines produced most of this quantity; only one mine in Oregon reported production in 1915. Native silver discovered in the bottom of the Codd winze below the SOO-foot point on the dip of the east vein, together with the shipment of $16,700 in gold and silver bullion representing rep-resenting the first half of the month's mill run. are the two most important happenings in connection with the Rochester Mines Company during the past week. Values of the mineral production of the United States In 1915, according to preliminary figures compiled by the United States geological survey, was approximately $2,373,000,000, a gain of $255,000,000. or more than 12 per cent over 1914. The value for 1913 lias been exceeded but once in 1913 when a total of $2,439,000,000 was recorded. re-corded. George Triplett arrived from Tena-bo Tena-bo and the Grey Eagle mining districts dis-tricts last Thursday and reports considerable con-siderable mining activity at both places, says the Battle Mountain Scout. Recent shipments from the Gold Quartz mine have exceeded $1,-100 $1,-100 in value per ton. This property adjoins that owned by Mr. Tripett and associates. A full face of ore has been encountered encount-ered on the 500-foot level of the Pa-loma Pa-loma Gold & Silver Mining company's property in the Star district of Beaver county, Utah. |