Show GALLIUM discovered IN NEVADA MINE dr benr ben jl hoering Koerin ff of 0 salt t lako city has tho the distinction of first finding it god almighty gave you people ot of the tha united states everything in the world except tho the sense ot of making proper UBO ot of it U said once a british mining engineer after an extensive investigation of 0 the mining possibilities ties in the united states and right he was ev even en not knowing yet that gallium one of the rarest or of rare metals is also to be found here this rare metal has now been discovered in the old mining district of lynn twenty miles north of carlin nevada says dr ben R kooring koering E M an expert metallurgist and chemist who has spent some time in the district he is president of the spirit ore porphyry gold mines co ho he declares that it is his belief that this is the first discovery of this metal on the north american continent relative to his discovery at tore camp where the company will soon ho be operating the doctor said to a western mineral survey representative the country rock is mainly bedded rhyolite which indicates a now flow structure the rhyolite rh olite was later shattered by a series of intruding int roding porphyry dales probably and andesite edite which were afterwards so badly altered that the exact classification Non must be determined by other than ordinary f field work the porphyry intrusions were vere responsible for the main which is locally indicated by a distinct reddish stain throughout the whole porphyry aiea abea evidently the not only permeated the intruding masses but was forced along the bedding planes of the preexisting pre existing rhyolite in ies iea sufficient to enrich the whole area this reddish stain the so called iron stain as it was locally supposed to bo be by those who were interested in the district and also by a considerable number of mining engineers who had examined and reported upon the district during ithe U be last fourteen years has been found after a thorough and exhaustive chemical analysis to be predominantly a mercury stain which carries not only gold tin nd vanadium in quite extensive quantities but also the rare element gallium and in smaller quantities bismuth platinum ruthenium selenium tellurium thorium and uranium the rare element gallium was first discovered in a zinc plant from the fitte mine in the ardiles valley Py rennes france and its name is derived from gallia the latin name for france it is also found in the zinc ores of westphalia germany and in a few other places in europe but in so far as wo we know this is the first time that it has been identified upon tho the north american continent it is the only metal that gives a white precipitate in an acid solution upon the introduction of hydrogen sulphide gas gallium is a hard whitish metal specific gravity 9 atomic weight and pos possesses gesses a metallic luster which closely resembles that or of nickel acl its most remarkable property is its low fusing point 30 degrees centigrade ti which means that it melts with the heat beat of the hand it also forms a liquid alloy with aluminum another remarkable property of gallium which we noted was vas that by leaving it in a steel pan the steel would become plated a silver white which completely resisted tho the attack of all acids this property is probably due to the rapid breaking up or oxidization in the ore of the combined gallium tin and mercury this silver white plating can only bo be removed by highly heating the steel wo we also found fonn d that the claimed properties of gallium are such that it will keep other metals from precipitating according to ordinary procedure and must necessarily be removed before any reaction tor for other metals in the same solution can bo be ascertained with such a combination ks IB this it can bo be readily understood why it is impossible to make correct fire assay tor for gold the volatilization of an ounce of this combination of metals is easily responsible for the loss in a similar way of one half an all ounce of gold this la Is the reason why ore in tho the lynn district which pans any colors gives returns of only twenty cents per ton when assayed by the fire method and it is tor for this reason that we design designate ate the term spirit ore to best describe this unusual combination of c metals it is the intention of the management of the company to immediately install he first ton unit of a mill to cost dr is 13 known to people in richfield from a recent visit in our city with the editor of raper capor hla his brother in law |