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Show o Excellent Showing in Frisco Silver Mine Development on the 125 foot level of the Frisco Silver Lead mine in Beaver county, adjoining the holdings hold-ings of the Tintic Lead company, is opening up a highly promising mineralized min-eralized zone in a soluble limestone, according to Manager L. F. Block, veteran Coeur di'Alenes and Utah mining man who returned from the property on Tuesday. On entering the first cross fissure said Mr. Block, the drift exposed ore. When Mr. Block left the mine, the showing had opened up until top bottom and sides were in a mass of milling and high-grade ore, carrying galena, bornite and chalcopyrite as well as a few carbonate minerals. "In a short -distance," Mr. Block added, "We should cut a system of northwest-southeast fissures, with a dip to the east and beyond that another an-other east-west system, which is an extension of the Horn Silver zone. "Those, who thought the mineralization mineral-ization at the Frisco Silver Lead was not deep-seated, should visit the mine now. The ore values are better bet-ter than on the surface, the limestone lime-stone more thoroughly mineralized, and the fissures stronger. "Assays have not yet been made but Frisco Silver Lead ore carries from 1 to 1.5 oz. of silver to the per cent lead and as high as 150 oz. to the ton: 3 to 65 per cent lead; gold, as high as S5.G0 a ton and as high as 10 per cent copper. "The company has cut a big limestone lime-stone bed and then sunk on a fissure. fis-sure. Three parallel northwest-southeast northwest-southeast fissures carrying ore were cut by the winze. In drifting east on the 125 level, the heading cut 100 feet of mineralized limestone. "The showing just exposed is associated as-sociated with the first of the fissures cut in the winze. Within 2 0 feet, the two others should be entered, where even stronger showings are expected, bcause these two carried the strongest mineralization in the winze." Mineral Survey. |