| Show AROUND THE MINES the shattuck arizona copper in uly july produced pounds copper for or seven months eight million pounds ot of copper WM was reported sold on august 8 tor for foreign account around 26 to 26 cents A at the michigan utah ufah at alta afta new development work IF la showing results ore Is appearing in a number of new places dome mines july tonnage was 38 tons ions valued at an overage of a ton total operating cost a ton assays essays just made from some ore recently taken from an incline in the arrowhead property in iron county utah pave gave returns of 28 per cent lead A steady shipment of eighty tons dally daily from the triangle lease at alta utah Is being maintained A at present there are twenty five cars I 1 sidetracked at the sampler aw awaiting acting their turn inspiration setup set up a new record in july with production of pounds of copper an increase of pounds oyer over best previous month at the july rate inspiration Is producing at the rate of pounds annually what Is apparently developing into an important ore body Is a strike made recently in the territory being operated by the triangle leasing company compain at the michigan utah consolidated soli dated property in the little cottonwood di district A five drill compressor has been shipped to the rico argentine mining companas comp anys property located at rico colo under the contract with thema the machinery company it Is to be installed at the property and in working condition by august 20 after a great deal of trouble with their new ne w hoisting engine which was shipped out from salt lake about halt made the gold queen of beaver county utah finally got things ibrao in motion last week and sinking was vas begun from the bottom of the sixty five foot shaft ehatt for the purpose of operating property located in the blue wing mining district of leahi lemhi county idaho consisting of six claims on which a bond and lease has been taken the big creek copper silver wining mining company has been organized by salt lake mining men reports became stronger than ever last week that the walker mining property in plumas county cal will eventually be taken over by the international smelter Re refining dIning company in other words the anaconda copper company the leading copper mining company of the world returns of have been received for one carload of copper silver ore from the pacific property in the american fork mining district two additional carloads of the same grade are in afi transit and the prospects ot of regular shipments from the property are said to be exceptionally good A brother of james crooks of eureka utah who Is mining in the philippines has sent mr crooks some samples of copper ore from his claims specimens were vere brought to provo by attorney jacob evans who was in eureka last week they are very rich in native copper mr crooks writes that tha t there are large veins of the pre ore from nevada comes the news that the new 2000 ton mill just completed at Bulli bullionville onville has started actual treatment of ores on a commercial basis and recoveries of high grade concentrates are the result recoveries co of 75 to 95 per cent are expected of the old Bulli bullionville onville tailings these are estimated at tons valued at about 10 a ton arrangements are being made to start up work at the beaver range mines company property in the near future the group la Is located ten miles southeast from blac black rock station on the salt lake route it has 1500 feet of workings with lead ore in the north rth end and copper in the south marketed production of salt in 1915 in the united states including hawaii pd and porto rico according to W C phalen of the united states geological survey was barrels or short tons valued at 11 an increase of barrels or short obort tons in quantity and of tl in value as compared with 1914 the tungsten production of the united states during the first six months of 19 1916 IS exceeded the production of this or any other country in any previous twelve months ls prices were even more phenomenal than pro and reached more than ten times their ordinary level the output was equivalent to about short tons of concentrates carrying 60 per cent tungsten trioxide fri oxide valued at transaction Transact lont on the salt lake mining ex exchange chango the passed week show an increase of about compared com parea wi with thAlie the previous six sli days or in round numbers last weeks week compared with the week previous colorado has regained regained its lead in the production pt of tungsten ores and between january 1 and june dune oi 0 marketed 1505 tons valued at ot 0 which the boulder field furnished ir tons california sold tons at 1 ym om nevada tons of tungsten ors ores valad at and from arizona tons worth are estimated to have been shipped since last january smaller quitt tes were mined in alaska connecticut idaho missouri south dakota new mexico utah and washington |
