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Show MOSCOW SILVER ORE PERSISTENT DEVELOPMENT GOES AHEAD REGULARLY Beginning the most important development de-velopment work done in recent years in the Star district at Milford, Utah, will be undertaken at once in the Moscow Silver Mines co;npany property. prop-erty. Just as soon as weather conditions con-ditions permit, Manager Garratt S. Wilkin will give orders for the sinking sink-ing of the three compr. rtment shaft from the 1400 level to t!.e 1600 level. The Red Warrior Iimest me, in which the replacement deposits of the Moscow Mos-cow occur, will be prospected in the lower horizons, a proj ct of major importance to Beaver county, since the management is confident the ore; will be proved to great depth and mining in the district put on a new and more comprehensive basis through the geologic data accumulated by this the deepest work ever done in the Milford area. At the same time, drifting will be started on the 500 level of the old shaft on the other side of the mountain moun-tain to cut the upward projection on the ore shoot cut on the 1100 level. Should this piece of work, involving but a few hundred feed of drilling, succeed, a new mine will be opened up above the 1100 level and production produc-tion doubled . Current development in the Moscow Mos-cow handicapped in the matter of ore shipments, has opened up conditions, con-ditions, which tend to convince the management that tihe faulted segment seg-ment of the ore body productive in in the upper levels of more than a million dollars has at last been found. This ore was followed from the 1400 level down to the 1510 level, where it opened up to five feet On the 1540, fifteen feet of ore was crosscut. cross-cut. Four carloads of are, derived from development work in sinking from the 1400 to the 1510 and drifting drift-ing forty feet in the 1510, netted the company from $800 to $1000 to the car and carried an average of 22 per cent lead, 5.5 ounces of silver and 22.3 per cent iron. Continued production was interrupted interrupt-ed by unusual snow conditions that have blocked the road. The company has been faced with discontinuing operations temporarily or with doing pracically all dead work. Ore bins have been filled so that drifting in the ore body on the 1540 level has been impractical . During the interim, the winze is being sunk to the 1600 level, where a drift will be run to find the downward down-ward continuation of the ore. Whether this deposit is the downward down-ward continuation of the big Moscow Mos-cow ore body, on another shoot followed fol-lowed on the 1100 level and followed down for 100 feet, is problematical, according to Manager Garratt S. Wilkin. The latter shoot, while not as large nor as rich as the main Moscow ore body was a good producer. However, since the ore first a sulphide has changed to a carbonate, Mr. Wilkin is of the opinion that the 1540 deposit de-posit is the faulted segment of the main Moscow are shoot. Western Mineral Survey. |
