OCR Text |
Show Mine Opening Stirs Old Camp at Tintic Part of the town of Eureka, Utah, which Is taking on new life with reopening of old Chief mine. The quantity of ore available for the war effort is determined by the price of metals, costs of mining, min-ing, transportation and smelting. Ore in a mine is worthless, unless it can pay these costs. Emphatic testimony to these facts can be had from the reopening of the old No. 1 mine of the Chief Consolidated Mining company at Eureka. Here the cost of pumping pump-ing was an added factor, which is not always present in mining. The old Chief No. 1 mine was closed in the early thirties, despite the fact that large quantities of low grade zinc-lead-silver ore was known to exist below the Water level. The mine was closed because be-cause metal prices were not high enough to pay for the cost of mining, min-ing, pumping, transportation apd smelting. Recently the company was granted grant-ed favorable quotas on zinc and lead, and these toKether with the silver content, made extraction of the metal possible. The old mine has been unwatered down to the 2,000-foot level and water Is being pumped at the rate of from 3300 to 3700 gallons per minute. Reopening of the mine was difficult dif-ficult and expensive, aggravated by delay In securing adequate pumping pump-ing equipment, but production is rapidly being stepped up to 5.000 tons per day. The ore is being mined largely from below the 1, 800-foot 800-foot level, which Is the main working work-ing adit for the lower levels. Four winzes are In operation below the 1,800-foot level. Not only Is the reopening of the Chief No. 1 mino helpful to the war effort, it is also a stimulant to the economic lire of Eureka, an important community of the stale which has been hard hit by the lack of mine exploration work In recent years. |