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Show MOSCOW DRIFT CUTS GOOD ORE Strong Lead Being Followed on 1600-Ft Level Into Silver Limestone Be:l. Operations in tlie Moscow Mines in the Star district near Milford, Utah, are being carried on the 900 and the 1G00 foot levels. On the 900, the objective zone is being entered and on the 1600, the company has opened up a good showing in the central cen-tral Moscow area where the company com-pany expects to find the downward extension of the rich ore shoots worked above the 1400-foot level. Indications in this virgin territory according to Manager Garrat Wilkin, point to be a bigger and better mine than In the upper levels that produced produc-ed over a million dollars. Heretofore Hereto-fore the company has been mining on this 1565 and 1600 levels a carbonate car-bonate ore, but recently the West drift on the 1600 level cut a foot of heavy lead and zinc suluhide. indi- - 1 eating that the sulphide zone has ' been entered where secondary mineralization min-eralization should occur. . This showing of heavy galena and saphalerite has been followed for fifteen feet. It occurs, says Mr. Wilkin, Wil-kin, along the north side of a porphyry por-phyry fissure crossing the Mammoth fissure zone, which is about sixty feet wide. Carrying as it does its zinc values in the form of sulphide, the company should be able to ship the product to a Salt Lake Valley flotation plant and thus receive payment for the zinc rather than be penalized for this metal. The sulphide lead is crossing the silver and other main limestone beds, that in the upper levels have carried the largest bedded . repiace- . , ment deposits. Conditions according to Mr. Wilkin, are ideal for tho finding find-ing of other big bedded deposits In this horizon, similar to those that produced so profitably on the upper levels. On the 900 foot level, the company com-pany is driftiug south toward the Wagrara ore shoot, on a north-south, J west-dipping fault, which has displaced dis-placed the ore slightly. On the 1100 foot level in tho same zone ,the company opened up several hundred feet of low grade ore. The fissure being followed on the 900-foot 900-foot level, where physical conditions indicate a concentration and enrichment enrich-ment of values, has a width of ten feet. Vein matter carries good values. val-ues. At any time, the company expects ex-pects to strike a bodv o", drag ore, which will furnish a lead to the main ore body. In this virgin territory te the south, where j,.imi fie fioston and other fissures but bnrloy exploited exploit-ed before. Mr. Wilkin evpcct.s to lind J the high values and substantial ton-.--' nage that In tho other slopes made the Moscow the largest shipper lu the Star district. Mineral Survey. |