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Show REPORT ON UTAH MINING OUTPUT GIVEN Bureau of Mines Review Shows Tear to be One of Outstanding Events The mines of Utah in 1929 produced pro-duced gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc valued at about $96,485-000, $96,485-000, an increase of about $17,226,-(XX) $17,226,-(XX) over the output of 1928 .according tt) estimates of C. N. Gerry, of the United States Bureau Bur-eau of Mines Department of Commerce. Com-merce. A large increase was reported re-ported iu copper and gold on account ac-count of vigorous mining and improvements im-provements at Bingham, especially especial-ly during the first half of the year. Good increases were also reported in the production of silver sil-ver and zinc but the output of lead was slightly less than that of 1928. Park City region. The Silvei King Coalition Mining Co. was tht largest producer of silver in Utah in 1929. It was followed closely ly the Tintic Standard Mining Co. and the Park Utah Consolidated Consolidat-ed Mines Co. Next in order came 'he Utah Copper, Bingham Prospect, Pros-pect, New Quincy, United States, Bingham Mines Co. including Victoria, Vic-toria, Nor h Lily, Plutus, and Chief Consolidated properties. Other large producers were the Mammoth, Utah-Apex, Utah-Delaware, Ontario, and Bullion Coalition, Coali-tion, Combined Metals Reduction ham Prospect and New Quincy Co., properties. Greatly increased The smelting plants at Murray Midvale, Garfield and International Internat-ional were regularly operated, and the output of several comparatively com-paratively new mines, such as the North Lily and New Quincy properties pro-perties was greatly increased. The production of copper in 1929 was Ihe largebt that has ever been doubt that the state has established estab-lished itself as the second copper cop-per producer of th Trnit production was made by the Bmg-mines Bmg-mines and good increases were reported by tme Victoria, Silver King Coalition, Mammoth, and Utah Copper properties. Production Produc-tion of silver by the Park Utah Consolidated and Ontario mines was much less than that of 1928, and decreases were also reported by the Tintic Standard, Plutus, North Lily, Utah-Delaware, and Utah-Apex mines. Copper increased from 293,23,-039 293,23,-039 pounds in 1928 to about 320,-193,000 320,-193,000 pounds in 1920, the largest larg-est production ever recorded from the state. The value increased from $42,225,846 to about $57,-314,000 $57,-314,000 as a result of the in- States. Utah remained first, in the United States in the production of silver, seeond in copper after Arizonia, and third in lead after Missouri and Idaho. The cusitom flotation mills at International Midvale, and Bauer and at the Silver King Coalition mill at Park City. A large new precipition plant designed to save copper from mine and surface water was completed at the moutfh of Bingham Bing-ham canyon by the Utah Copper Co. A flotation plant for oxidized oxidiz-ed silver-lead ores was constructed construct-ed at International and placed in operation late in the year by the International Smelting company. A. 100-ton flotation plant for the creased price oi copper and intensive inten-sive work at Bingham. Utah ranked second in Copper production produc-tion in 1929 after Arizona and was followed by Montana. The Utah Copper Co. at Bingham responded respond-ed to the increased price of copper cop-per and produced 27,603,282 net pounds of copper a month during the first half of the year, but decreased de-creased the rate of production to about 2l.98,000 net prouuds of copper a month the second half of of the district was 160,410 ounces cf gold, 4,640,0CO ounces of silver, 2PO,000,000 pounds of copper, 96-(y'AOOO 96-(y'AOOO pounds of lead, and 43,-O 43,-O 0,000 pounds of zinc. The pro Miction in 1928 was 140,813.93 oxidized copper ore of the Big Indian mine in San Juan county and its initial run in November. Mine Pay Dividends The dividends reported paid by mining companies in Utah in 1929 in largest aggregate payments ever ev-er reported in the state, amounted amount-ed to about $38,045,070, exclusive of $3,313,409 paid by the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Min-ing Co., which controls mines at the year. Utah Copper Builds Installation of Symons cone crushers, Dorr bowl classifiers, and additional ball mills at the Arthur and Magna mills brought the combined capacity up to a maximum of about 60,000 tons of. ore a day, but the recovery of copper in concentrate decreased to about 80 per cent of the period f maximum production. Elec- ounces of gold, 3,728,942 ounces ,rf silver, 287,684,950 pounds of ynpper, 104,750,662 pounds of iad and 44,492,643 pounds of zinc ' . r The mines of the Tintic district produced about' 420,000 tons of ore and old tailings, as compared with 379,349 tons in 1928. The estimated production of the district dis-trict was 42,000 ounces of gold, 15.130,000 ounces of s'ilver, 2,800,-C00 2,800,-C00 pounds of copper, 85,600,000 (omuls of lead, and 750,000 pounds of zinc. The production i:i 1928 was 34,406.80 ounces of tfoid, 6,232.02 ounces of silver, 2,-t 2,-t -6,866 pounds of copper, 88,192,-,j91 88,192,-,j91 pounds of lead and 41,563 pounds of zinc. The mines that prqduced more than 10,000 tons of ore in 1929 were the Tintic Standard, Stand-ard, Chief Consolidated, Plutus, Victoria, Mammoth, North. Lily, iv.u'dka Standard!, Centennial, Kureka, Bullion Beck, Eureka, i.ily and Mammoth tailings dump. The Tintic Standard Standard Mining Co. was second in the production pro-duction of silver and lead in Utah in 1929. , Eureka and Bingham, as well as mines in other states. The companies com-panies that contributed to this total were Utah Copper, Tintic Standard, Silver King Coalition Park Utah Consolidated, North Lily, New Quincy, Utah-Apex, Bingham Mines, and Yankee Mines. The total compares with . 18,307,894 paid in 1928, and $15,778,551 paid in 1918, and it far exceeded that paid by Arizonia Ari-zonia metal mines in 1929. The gold production increased considerably from $4,394,001 in 1928 to about $4,803,000 in 1929 As in recent years, virtually all the gold was recovered from ores and concentrates smelted. In general gen-eral the mines of the Bingham district! especially the Utah Copper Cop-per property, showed a marked increase in the output of gold, and gold from the Tintic district was also deci'dedly greater, but the Park City region showed a trification of the mine in the year and a new record of more " than 141,000 tons of ore and waste in one day was made on May 16. The new precipition plant has a capacity capa-city of more than 5,000,000 gallons gal-lons of copper-bearing water a day an dmakes a recovery of about 97 pe rcent of fhe copper. Most of the increase in copper production came from the Bingham Bing-ham district but slight increases were also reported from the Tintic Tin-tic and Park City, districts. . Following Fol-lowing the Utah Copper company the leading copper producers were the Utah-Delaware, ' Utah-Apex, Ohio Copper, United States, and Silver King Coalition companies. Lead Output The lead output decreased from 291,930,021 pounds in 1928 to about 286,817,000 pounds in 1929, but the value increased from $6,-926,141 $6,-926,141 o about $8,213,000 on ac- pronounced decrease. The United States Smelting, Refining & Exploration Ex-ploration Co. surrendered its option op-tion to purchase the Deer Trail mine near Marysvale early in 1929 and the mine produced only a few shipments during the year. The largest producers of gold were the Utah Copper, Park Utah Consolidated, United States, Utah Delaware, Eureka Standard, North Ldly, Utah-Apex, Eureka Lily, and Tintic Standard properties. proper-ties. Noteworthy increases in gold were made by the Utah Copper, Cop-per, Eureka Standard, United States, Utah-Delaware and Blue-stone Blue-stone properties. Ore shipped from the Eureka Standard mine, a new producer in the eastern part of the Tintie district, was chiefly valuable for its gold content. con-tent. Silver King- Leads The silver output increased from 17,072,852 ounces in 1928 to about 17,749,000 ounces in 1929, and the production was about! 4,-499,000 4,-499,000 ounces more than that of Montana, which was second in silver sil-ver production in the United Slates. The value of the silver output decreased from $9,987,618 fo about $9,478,000, due to the lower average price obt'ained. For nine years Utah has been the leading lead-ing silver producer of the United States, Silver production from the Bingham and Tintic districts increased in-creased slightly in 1929, but there was a slight decrease from thi count of the higher average price of lead. Three large custom flotation plants were operated continuously, continuous-ly, as well as the Chief Consolidated Consolidat-ed mill at Eureka, the Utah-Apex plant at Bingham, and Uhe improved improv-ed mill of the Silver King Coal-tion Coal-tion mine at Park City, The capacity capa-city of the custom flotation mill of the Combined Metals Reduction Reduc-tion company at Bauer was increased in-creased to about 900 tons, of ore a day by the addition of a Sy-rnons Sy-rnons cone crusher. Harding ball mill, Akins classifier and Fahren-wald Fahren-wald and Fagergren floatation machines. The New Quincy Mining company com-pany reported the largest increase in lead production and it was followed fol-lowed by he Bingham Prospect, Silver King Coalition, Bluestonc, North Lily, Bingham Mines, Utah Copper, Chief Consolidated and Horn Silver mines. In June the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining company, com-pany, purchased and operated all the property at Bingham, Lark and Eureka formerly controlled by the Bingham Mines cdmpany. Bingham In 1929 the mines of Utah produced pro-duced about 19,857,000 tons of ore and old tailings, an increase from 18.427,117 tons in 1928. Of this total the Bingham district produced pro-duced about 18,600,000 tons as compared with 17,251,700 tons ii. 1928. The estimated production |