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Show REAVER COUNTY MIXES The Herald-Republican, of Salt Lake City in its Sunday issue contained con-tained the following writeup of Beaver county mining activities: One of the. most active mining sections sec-tions in the state today is a low range of hills running north and south through the eastern end of Millard and Beaver counties. It is called Mineral mountain range by the United States Geological Survey, because of its remarkable surface mineralization. Although the range is only about 20 miles in length, yet there are now more than a score of active properties, all of which are said to have more or less excellent excell-ent showings, considering the various vari-ous amounts of work performed. Several have shipped fortunes in ore and others are now shipping, while a number of others promise to enter en-ter the shipping lists in the near future. Of keen interest to the hundreds of stockholders in these various Mineral Min-eral range properties will be the preliminary pre-liminary report on this section issued is-sued the past week by John B. Taylor, Tay-lor, dean of Utah mining. Mr. Taylor Tay-lor is one of the oldest United States geological survey men of the state, a geologist, mining engineer, metallurgist metall-urgist and mill man of note. Some years ago a writer for an eastern' mining magazine said of Mr. Taylor, "He knows every rock from Patagonia Patago-nia to Alaska and has visited from personal contact and observation every ev-ery great mining district in the world." Although Mr. Taylor's report specifies in particular the property of the Beaver Range Mines, yet his deductions apply in a general, way to every property located on the range. The geological and mineral conditions are identical. This is probably the only report ever issued that correlates this particular range with other well known mining districts dis-tricts in Utah. Among active properties on Mineral Mine-ral Range are the Antelope Star, which adjoins the Beaver Range Mines on the north; the Keno. a Jesse Knight property nearby; the East Antelope to the east, the South Antelope to the south; the Cove to the southeast, the Old Crater to the south, the Mammoth Copper, the Antelope An-telope Copper and the Peanuckle Mining. All of these are on the north end of the short range. In the south end are the Old Lincoln mine of 1860 fame, the Old Cave, which produced heavily soon after and the new active Creole, which produced $75,000 the past year, the now shipping Rattler, the active Croft the King of the Hills and the Old Powers property. To the east and north of these are the many active ac-tive properties in the Fortuna district dis-trict on the east side of the range. The Beaver Range mines group of ten claims has been operated in a small way for the past eighteen years by William -M. Moody and associates as-sociates of southern Utah. One of the oldest claims is now' being patented, pat-ented, the Copper Glance in the north end of the property. The company com-pany was recently financed and is now being reorganized. The following follow-ing is a part of the Taylor report: "The group is situated in the Mineral Range, sometimes called the j Antelope Range, nine miles easterly ; from Black Rock station on the Salt j Lake Route, about 200 miles south-j south-j west of Salt Lake. The property lies in the limestones and sedimen-j sedimen-j tary rocks of the upper Carbonifer-j Carbonifer-j ous period. These rocks are closely i related to the Great Basin range i. e., I Oquirrh, Tintic. Beaver and others, j but is somewhat of younger origin, j "This range is built up of dolo-1 dolo-1 mite and chert, brown, blue, gray and white soluble limestone and I puartzite, with granite intrusions, i The silica in many places replaced I the limestone and formed grits or quartzites. During the mountain building period this section was the center of a complex geological cataclysm, cata-clysm, great north-south fissures rent the rocky masses in twain, permitting per-mitting the deep-seated magmas to ascend and till up these fissures at right angles to the main north-south fissures during the cooling of the rocks and causing the deposition of the ascending mineralized solutions carrying lead, silver. copper and gold, depositing the same upon and in the cooling rocks. "The bedding planes are southeasterly south-easterly and northwesterly and dip to the northeast at varying angles, while the fissures radiate from north-south north-south east-west and southwest and southeast and dip slightly to the west. "The ore occurs as a sulphide baryta bar-yta with streaks of galena, cerussite and carbonates of lead and is widely distributed, especially on the Copper Glance M. E. No. 6 437 and Keystone Nos. 3, 6 and 9. "Beginning with the Keystone Xo. 9 and extending in an easterly direction di-rection through the Copper Glance a distance of more than 800 feet, there is an outcrop ranging from a foot to twenty feet wide that assays well above the commercial limit, while a 65-foot incline on the Copper Cop-per Glance assays from a four foot body show 60 per cent lead, 7 ounces ounc-es silver and 4 0 cents gold per ton. On this outcrop the baryta-galena is a very pronounced feature. However, How-ever, with depth, this baryta wil) undoubtedly un-doubtedly lose its identity and carbonate car-bonate and galena will take its place. The descending waters charged with oxygen and alkaline solutions oxidized oxi-dized and leached the ore and rede-posited rede-posited it, so a secondary enrichment enrich-ment of the sulphide zone can confidently confi-dently be expected. "Passing north-south through the west half of the Keystone Nos. 2. 7 and 8 lodes there is a large fissure carrying a heavy copper content. On Keystone No. 2, there is a 100 foot shaft sunk in this copper iron vein gangue. Average assays taken gave returns as follows: 10.5 per cent copper, 2.57 ounces silver and 60 cents gold to the ton. "Brecciation and leaching are seen on the surface and in all the works. Faults and fissures are cutting cutt-ing the bedding planes from all directions, di-rections, permitting the filling up of the fractures with ore." The report goes on to tell of a 250 foot tunnel on Keystone 6 which by extension will give 225 feet of ore overhead, tells of surface improvements im-provements and makes recommendations. |
