Show laduc of shipping ore inexperienced ami mine 0 acre sometimes make ions mistakes concerning the actual market value ol 01 their oie and these mistakes of property from which tl cy are never able to ex tract a pound of oie tl ere is a vat difference liet weene tie assay value and tl e product value of ore aa every ore producer well knows but wl ich occasionally on nars of prospects do not seem to knott oi c day tl is a man complaining litterly ie cause a rl 1 e hid made faila 1 to yield treatment cl arges though tl easa value of lie ore was much above tie cost and ho 1 ad expended 1 lal or ai d caralt in developing tl e property by way of illustration ve will take an ore that assave EB 10 ounces of silver 30 per cent lead and half an ounce of gold per ton the silver would be worth 6 CO the lead 15 and tho gold 10 33 a total assay value of 31 93 suppose tl 0 cost of mining was 3 freight 8 and treatment 10 a total of 21 this is 10 below assay value of the oie and strange as it may seem tl ere are i ros an 1 others interested in e who would insist that the ore can be mined at a profit but tl e smelter would figure the value out in this way silver 5 treatment leaving 6 27 lead 10 per cent oft for loss in treatment and tl 2 deducted for freight charges from smelter to mar ket leaving 8 70 old 19 per ounce making the value of gold total value of the ore 2250 deduct 21 for mining treigh and treatment as above and we fin I 1 tl at the prod ice r would leave but 1 l 50 left a very slender mar gin of course tl ese are facts well know n to ai 1 v ho 1 av e ex pi nence in sel I 1 ing ores but other phoi it are often mis lei 1 assay rif cHres denser in n g in 1 isert |