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Show BINGHAM MINE ISSTOPINGORE Production Started From 8-Foot Face Galena on 000 Foot Level Eight feet of silver-lead ore has been exposed in the Bingham Metals Met-als property surrounded by the Utah Copper, the United States mine, and the old Highland Boy at Bingham according to Superintendent Super-intendent Robert Goowin. . This ore, which is going up down, and ahead1 to the South strong, is associated with South No. 2 fissure at a paine 500 feet south of Ihe shaft on the 900 leveL Production has been taken from this channel on seven levels. On the 300, the mineralization was. lean but on the 700 foot , over flCO.000 in ore was stoped. Value of the ore, Mr. Qflodwin reported on Wednesday night wil. average from to $3.50 a ton in gold, 10 ounces of silver and from 15 to 30 per cent lead. ' Two carloads have been stoped from the new showing and are being be-ing hot&'ed to the 800 level, whih connects with the Niagra tunnel of the United States mine, . The Bingham Metals has been a consistent producer of gold ore. All of its output has come from the property. To the north in the Utfch Copper Cop-per property i largo body of silver-lead ore has been opened up in the limestone. The"1 ore was first struck in the Peobody tunnel tun-nel of the Utah Copper company, and exposed later in the Armstrong Arm-strong tunnel, 300 feet lower. Shipuents are averaging around 200 tons daily. -M in. Survey. |
