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Show Mining Man Reports On Park-Bingham I. F. Block, prominent mining engineer of Salt Lake City visited visit-ed the properties of the Park- tsingnam Mining company in Butterfield on Monday last and made the following report : "The Park- Bingham property in Bingham, through which the United States Smelting, Refining Refin-ing and Mining Company is driving the Butterfield tunnel to connect with the lower workings of the United States Mine, is no longer a prospect it is a mine. There are a number of fissures which can be drifted on a distance dis-tance of approximately 150 feet or raised on about 125 feet, and the limestone entered. Furthermore Fur-thermore pay ore can be followed follow-ed the entire distance to the limestone, where, without doubt, large beds of ore will be opened up. "In my entire experience, I have never seen more favorable conditions for development. The formation first entered consisted of big stocks of mon-zonite mon-zonite and diorite in which are intercalated small beds of limestone. lime-stone. A network of fissures cuts the whole block of ground. These fissures range from a few inches to 12 feet in width. "The first fissure of any prom inence, called fissure No; 1, has a strike of due magnetic north with a dip varying from 45 to 65 degrees. This fissure, measuring meas-uring from four to five feet wide, traverses a limestone bed about seven feet thick included between diorite walls. The ore is of excellent grade. Some of it carries as high as 65 per cent lead, $3.20 in gold and 457 ounces, in silver. Bunches and streaks of pyrargyrite show throughout the whole mass, which should average not less than $60 a ton." The bed of quartzite next entered en-tered by the tunnel, explained Mr. Block, was 115 feet wide. This was cut by fully twenty parallel fissures ranging from 6 inches to twelve feet in width', not a single one of which but carried pay ore. The last 100 feet of the Butterfield tunnel, now about on the line separating Park-Bingham from United States ground, is now in a soluble solu-ble Sappington limestone. "The last fissure," said " Mr. Block, "exposed in the limestone ninety feet from the Silver Shield line, earned from fifteen to eighteen inches of solid shipping ship-ping ore carrying thirty seven ounces of silver, $1.80 in gold, 2 per cent copper and 15 per cent lead. "All of these fissures offer ideal conditions for prospecting. The calcite showing in the vein matter proves conclusively that the limestone lies above or it could not have been carried there by downward percolating waters. wat-ers. In the" last fissure the streaks of pyrargyrite which show all through the vein mat-- mat-- ter carry as high as 1000 ozs. of silver to the ton. "The strength of the mineralizing mineral-izing solutions must have been intense, else the quartzite and diorite, generally believed not to be favorable to replacement, would not be ore-bearing as they are. Likewise, the fissures show immense strength or they would not persist to this horizon from 1600 to 1700 feet below the surface." |
