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to dividend payments is available, but it is known that the mine has been very profitable, especially from a time shortly after 1900 to the cessation of operations while under the ownership of the ·W. A. Clark The Ophir Coalition group is on the north wall of interests. Geology.-The productive workings of the Ophir Ophir Canyon, about. half a mile north of Ophir, just west of the workings of the Ophir Hill Consolidated Hill Consolidated mi~ are all confined to the Ophir mine. The group consists of about 12 claims, of which formation and almost entirely to a few limestone beds the Lost Boy, Teller, and Montana have thus far of the formation. (See pI. 28.) The most consistently mineralized limestone is that known as the "Copper proved the most productive. vein" limestone. It is about 8 feet thick and is about The mine is developed by means of a vertical shaft about 500 feet deep, with inclines in the limestones of 110 feet above the base of the formation. Just below the "Copper vein" limestone and separated from it the Ophir formation. Litigation with the Ophir Hill Consolidated Mining Co. resulted in a decision in only by llh to 2 feet of shale is the" Blue vein" limefavor of that company, to which the more productive stone, about 6 feet thick. This is also consistently ore part of the workings, developed through the Montana bearing and is commonly mined in one stope with the shaft, were awarded. These workings formed the "Copper vein." About 25 feet above the" Copper Clark stope of the Ophir Hill. The geology of the vein" limestone and separated from it by barren shale Montana mine is like that of the Ophir Hill Consoli- is a 10 to 14 foot limestone known as the" Middle dated and requires no discussion, as there has been no vein" limestone. This in turn is separated by 25 feet of shale from the" Big vein" limestone, which ranges development other than that in the Ophir formation. from 20 to 40 feet in thickness. A 2-foot shale partir..g divides the" Big vein" limestone from the" Top Looation.-The Ophir Hill Consolidated mine is vein" limestone. Still higher, at the top of the forabout a quarter of a mile northwest of Ophir, and the mation, is a 5 to 8 foot limestone to which no name working adit and drain tunnel are in the north wall has been given. This bed is also locally altered to ore. of Ophir Canyon just west of the town. The "Copper vein" limestone, with its close assoDevelopment and production.-The properties of ciate the "Blue vein" limestone, is most widely rethe Ophir Hill Consolidated mine include a consolida- placed and has furnished the largest ore bodies of the tion of many claims, of which the Wild Delirium, mine. The" Middle vein" and" Big vein" limestones Miner's Delight, Bartlett, Northern Light, Bannock, are less consistently ore bearing, and ore bodies in the Burnett, Cooley, Severe, Maud S., Our Boy's, and " Top vein" limestone are only sporadic. First Northerly Extension of the Miner's Delight have Almost all the workable ores of the mine occurred in the block of ground in the angle between the Cliff so far proved most valuable. The development of the mine was first carried out fault and the Canyon fault. Considerable exploratory by inclined shafts in the ore, but in 1911 a drain tun- work was done on the northwest side of the Cliff fault nel about 2,400 feet long was driven, with an alti~ude but was rewarded by only very meager discoveries. It at the portal of 6,502 feet. Considerable drifting was seems very probable that the localization of the ore done on the drain-tunnel level and on the 200 and 400 was due primarily to the shattering of this wedgefoot levels below it. All together more than 10,000 shaped block during the faulting. feet of drifts and tunnels have been driven, with many In this wedge-shaped block the strata strike N. 60°raises and a few winzes, and the stope workings must 75° W. and dip 15°-25° NE., forming part of the be of even greater length. The water in the mine northeast limb of the Ophir anticline. The attitude stands at the level of the drain tunnel. No informaof the rocks is very regular except close to the Cliff tion was obtained as to its natural level before the fault, where there is a great deal of drag and much completion of this drain. slicing of the rock into horses of large and small size. The production of the mine began about 1870. The There are few faults of any consequence except the mine was idle for many years in the period between Cliff fault and its branches. A nearly vertical fault 1880 and 1897, but work was resumed then and con- called the Big fault, with a downthrow to the north tinued until 1926, when the mine was abandoned, be- of 40 feet, cuts the" Copper vein" about 300 feet down ing considered exhausted. During this period over the dip from the outcrop in the Wild Delirium stope. 1,200,000tons of ore was produced, and the value of This fault curves from a course about N. 70° E. to the output must have exceeded $15,000,000and may about N. 55° E. and also cuts the Miner's Delight have approached $20,000,000. The ownership of the stopes at about 300 feet down the dip from the outstock has been so closely held that no information as crop. A number of steep faults having throws as great to the ton and carried a little copper and lead as well as a few cents in gold to the ton.

as 5 feet also occur in the mine. They strike generally east, and all but one also show downthrows to the north, like the Big fault. The ore bodies cropped out a short distance north of the Canyon fault. The ore occurred in blanketlike replacement masses along a series of roughly northward-trending fissures, following the intersection of the fissures with the several favorable limestone beds. There were also very large stopes in the sliced rocks in the Cliff fault zone and in the hanging wall of the Cliff fault. The stopes along the Cliff fault extend for over 2,000 feet, though not continuously mined for this distance. The very rich Clark stope was developed at the west end of this zone in the "Copper vein" in the . hanging wall of the Cliff fault. A large ore body was found in the "Middle vein" above and west of the Clark stope, and a smaller stope was developed in the "Big vein." Along the Cliff fault to the northeast the Senator stope was developed in a horse of the" Big vein," and from this point a practically continuous series of stopes were developed to the northeast along the plunging intersection of the limestones of the Ophir formation and the Cliff fault. Many of these ore bodies were in horses in the fault zone, and their proper description would require a detailed map, permission to publish which was not received. Of the ore bodies localized along fissures, the most westerly was the West stope. This was developed, with some small interruptions, for over 500 feet from the intersection of the "Copper vein" with the Cliff fault. It trends from due north to N. 75° W. The principal stope was in the "Copper vein" and was locally 50 feet wide but probably averaged less than 15 feet. The" Middle vein " stopes were not so per-. sistent nor so wide, and the "Big vein" was mined for only about 200 feet along the fissure. None of the ore bodies along this fissure system extended to the surface. A branch of the West stope fissure system trends easterly, and the stope along it in the" Copper vein" connected with the " Copper vein" stope along the Miner's Delight fissure system, some 150 to 200 feet east. Two other small ore bodies were found along fissures between the West stope and the Miner's Delight. The Miner's Delight fissure system trends almost due north and has been mined for a pitch length of 1,450 feet from the outcrop, practically to the intersection of the "Copper vein" with the Cliff fault. Ore bodies in all the beds were very good, the " Copper vein" stopes averaging about 40 feet in width, the "Middle vein" about 10 feet, the "Big vein" about 40 feet, and the " Top vein" being more continuously productive along this fissure system than anywhere else in the mine, some of the stopes in it being 80 feet wide. .

A few small ore bodies occur along minor fissure systems 100 to 150 feet east of the Miner's Delight system, but they were not continuous, although one stope over 300 feet long was developed in the " Copper vein" south of the Cliff fault. The next major fissure system east of the Miner's Delight was the Wild Delirium, which extends in a course about 300 feet east of and subparallel with the Miner's Delight fissure system. It controlled the largest and most valuable deposits in the mine. The ore bodies extended from the outcrop to the Cliff fault in the " Copper vein," about 1,500 feet in pitch length, and were only slightly less continuous in the "Middle vein" and "Big vein" limestones. Except near the outcrop no valuable ore bodies were found in the "Top vein" limestone. The ore body in the "Copper vein" limestone was 90 feet wide for several hundred feet along its pitch, but near the surface, owing to a branching of the fissures, it attained a width of 120 feet. These brunching fissures near the outcrop showed some continuation down the dip about 200 feet east of the Wild Delirium fissures proper, producing the ore body mined in the Peterson stope, a continuation of the very rich Bonanza stope just below the outcrop. Caving had rendered this portion of the mine inaccessible at the time of this survey, so that the mutual relations of the fissures could not be ascertained. In the "Middle vein" and "Big vein" limestones the stopes along the Wild Delirium fissure system were very wide near the surface, exceeding 100 feet for short distances, but were very much narrower down the dip to the north, averaging 20 to 30 and 10 feet, respectively, in width. The 7112drift was run in the " Copper vein" limestone east from the Wild Delirium stopes at the draintunnel level and revealed ore bodies along two fissure systems. One fissure about 250 feet east of the Wild Delirium localized ore bodies that were minable for about 500 feet in the "Copper vein" and for about 100 feet in the" Middle vein" limestone. The other system, about 120 feet farther east, localized ore bodies that were mined for over 600 feet in the "Copper vein" and nearly as far in the "Middle vein" and "Big vein." None of these ore bodies cropped out. A few smaller ore bodies were found east of the Wild Delirium system, practically along the Cliff fault at and below the 200-foot level below the drain tunnel. Extensive explorations were made on the northwest side of the Cliff fault, chiefly in the "Copper vein," which was followed for about 800 feet on the draintunnel level, about 300 feet on the 200-foot level, and over 1,700feet on the 400-foot level, but only two very small ore bodies were found. The" Big vein" was

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explored on the 200-foot level for about 1,200 feet of strike length northwest of the Cliff fault without success and on the drain-tunnel level for a short distance, where a small ore body was found. Explorations in the lower beds of the Hartmann limestone northwest of the Cliff fault on the tunnel level were fruitless. Essentially aU the fissures along which the ore bodies were localized are nearly vertical, with perhaps slight westward inclinations. They are surprisingly inconspicuous, considering the great size of some of the ore bodies. Commonly the fissures are 2 to 3 inches wide, but locally they attain about 4 inches and elsewhere shrink to mere knife-edges. As a rule there are several such fissures in a zone as much as 4 feet wide, within which they are found to join and separate continually when followed along the stope roof. Despite their narrow width and the additional facts that they sharply cut the replacement ore that made most o'f the ore bodies of the mine, and furthermore, although almost without galena or sphalerite, carry much more pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and tennantite than the replacement me, their central positions in the stopes and their never-failing presence are conclusive evidence of their genetic relations to the replacement ore. They are traceable in the shale between the ore bodies as well as in the shale and quartzite below the "Blue vein" limestone where the workings have extended. On reaching the conclusion that the Ophir Hill Consolidated mine on the north side of the Canyon fault was exhausted, the company began search for another ore body south of this fault. If the Canyon fault had been postmineral, they would have been practically assured of success, but the evidence of a premineral age of this fault is almost conclusive, rendering the results of exploration by deep shaft south of the fault much more uncertain. After diamond drilling had revealed some pyrite in limestone of the Ophir formation south of the Canyon fault, a winze from the end of a 3OO-foottunnel in the south wall of Ophir Canyon was begun in 1926 and carried to a depth of about 1,400 feet. Drifts were run in the Tintic quartzite in search of fissures and also in the" Copper" vein limestone of the Ophir formation, but without result. The work was abandoned in 1928. Evidence of the premineral age of the f!llultingmay be summarized as follows: First, the practical absence of ore northwest of the Cliff fault would hardly be expected were this fault postmineral. Second, the fraying out into northeastward-bending "horsetails" of almost all the mineralized fissures just south of the Cliff fault suggests that the fault was earlier than the fissures. Third, the mineralized limestones in the Cliff fault zone show no evidence of drag. Fourth,

the Cliff fault has clearly localized metamorphism on the hillside between the Ophir Hill and Cliff mines and hence is premineral. Fifth, vugs in the Cliff fault zone contain anhedral pyrite and galena, which also occur in the fault gouge, although no broken crystals are seen there. The Cliff fault appears to be a branch of the Canyon fault. (See p. 75.) Sixth, the mineralized fissures show no offsets where they cross the small faults that are parallel to the Canyon fault, and these small faults are mineralized well away from any limestone beds, proving their premineral age~ Their parallelism to the Canyon fault suggests that they are of the same age as the Canyon fault, which hence is also premineral. Seventh, the Canyon fault carries quartz-pyrite filling locally, as above the Ophir' Hill mill. Eighth, the rhyolite dike that crosses the Canyon and Cliff faults without offset and is clearly later than these faults has been mineralized in the Hidden Treasure mine. Ninth, the manganese mine of the Ophir Hill Consolidated Co. follows a fissure system that is parallel to and only a few score feet from the Canyon fault. The manganese (introduced as manganiferous calcite) was almost surely formed at the same time as the lead and zinc minerals, which were hence la·ter than the Canyon fault. Some of the evidences above enumerated are not strong, but others are nearly conclusive in themselves, and all suggest the same conclusion-namely, that the Cliff and Canyon faults are both premineral. Accordingly this conclusion carries considerably greater weight than it would have from any single line of evidence. The conclusion drawn from the evidence just cited is directly contrary to that of Olmstead 97and Wichman,98neither of whom states the reasons for his conclusion. The exploratoiI'y work carried out by the Ophir Hill Consolidated Co. south of the Canyon fault apparently confirms the evidence that the mineralizatIon occurred later than the faulting. Twelve carloads of manganese ore was mined during the World War by the Ophir Hill Consolidated Co. from the Bowman limestone, just south of the Canyon fault on the spur between Hartmann Gulch and the gulch in which the easterly outcrop of Tintic quartzite occurs. The ore was all oxidized, consisting of pyrolusite, psilomelane, and wad, undoubtedly secondary after manganiferous calcite. The ore was localized in the hanging wall and alOlIlgbranches of a fissure that trends due east and dips 80° N. The limestone has been replaced through a vertical distance of about 60 feet and locally to distances of 6 to 8 feet to the side of the fissures. Certain limestone beds appear

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to have been selectively replaced, leaving nodular limestone residua convex toward the fissures, but on the whole the irregular minor fractures that abound in the rock have guided the replacement. Mining was done by the room and pillar method. The ores.-The ore of the main Ophir Hill mine was composed of mixed pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite, with some argentite occurring in the galena and some tennantite and pyrrhotite as minor constituents. The gangue was extremely. variable, rl1nging from nearly all silicate to fairly pure limestone with only a small percentage of insoluble matter. The insoluble matter in the ore ranged from 13 to 92 per cent. This made selective flotation very difficult, owing to the variable effects of the changes in lime content of the mill heads. The metal contents did not vary systematically from one bed to another nor from one fissure to another, although there were considerable fluctuations in the relative proportions of the several metallic minerals within any given ore body. The tenor was rather low except near the outcrop of the Miner's Delight and Wild Delirium fissure systems, where oxidation had produced very rich lead carbonate and silver ore. This did not extend more than 75 feet down the dip, according to Mr. E. S. Bowman, of the Ophir Hill Consolidated Mining Co. Along the Cliff fault oxidation occurred to much greater depth, supergene chalcocite being found on the Miner's Delight level, about 2·5feet above the ·drlli~ tunnel. The average of the ore mined in the latel years of activity ran about 1.3 per cent of copper, 5.5 to 6 per cent of lead, 6 to 7 ounces of silver to the ton, 4 to 8 per cent of zinc, 12 per cent of iron, and 42 per cent of insoluble material. The gold content was insigllificant. The lime content of mill heads averaged about 8 per cent. Most of the ore was milling ore, but some ran 12 to 15 per cent of lead, 2 per cent of copper, and 15 ounces of silver to the ton and was shipped as mined. A little copper ore, running 4 to 5 percent of copper, 3 per cent of lead, and 15 ounces of silver to the ton, was also shipped. In general, high copper was accompanied by high silver content and very low lead. The maximum contents reported on carload lots were 15 ounces of silver to the ton, 15 per cent of lead, 10 per cent of zinc, and 30 per cent of iron. The small amount of manganese mined ran 47 to 48 per cent of manganese and 1ounce of silver to the ton. Until 1921 the ore was milled by straight gravity concentration with jigs and tables, but in that year the jigs and fine tables were eliminated and replaced by flotation. In 1924 the tables were also eliminated and flotation was used alone, with about 30 per cent better recovery of copper and about 10 per cent better recovery of lead and silver. The tailings losses were

copper 0.096 per cent, lead 0.5 per cent, silver 0.6 ounce to the ton. The extraction, according to R. V. Thompson, mill superintendent, was about 90 per cent of the copper, 91 per cent of the silver, 93 per cent of the lead, 55 per cent of the iron, 67 per cent of the zinc, 8 per cent of the silica, and 8 per cent of the lime contained in the mill heads. The concentration was about 2.5 to 1, and the concentrates ran, when the process was standardized, about 20 to 30 per cent of lead, 4 per cent of copper, 30 to 40 ounces of silver to the ton, and 7 or 8 per cent of iron.

The Ophir Queen prospect is in Hartmann Gulch a few hundred feet north of the Ophir schoolhouse, just north of the northern branch of the Canyon fault.

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of the accessible workings of the Brook· lyn mine, Dry Canyon

A shaft was sunk here about 250 feet, and a small amount of drifting was done in the limestone of the Ophir formation. No production was ever reported, and the shaft was abandoned at the time of the survey in 1926.

The Brooklyn mine is in Dry Canyon about a quarter of a mile north of the Kearsarge. It was discovered in the early days of the district, and most of the work was done at that time. No data on the early production are available. Less than 1,000 tons of ore was extracted at about the time of the World War, but the mine was inactive at the time of the writer's visit, and most of the workings were caved and inaccessible. The accessible portions, amounting to about 1,000 feet, are shown on Figure 19. From the small amount of workings visible it is difficu~t to say

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The Waterman smelter fs situated half a mile southwest of Btockton, near the northern ahore of Buab lab. The Arst furnace in the temrory, an nnaocce88ful reverberarory, was ereoted here in 1864. by General Connor and his officers. It Wall bought in 1871 or 1872 by Mr. I. B. Waterman. Two stone stackll were erected, and water. jackets were bally added. The bail.linga were burnt"d in 1876, but were imme«liately reboilt. This smelter ran quite 8teadily for several years on Hidden Trea8ure ore and some custom rock, but not proAtably. It has been idle for nearly two years. The works are neat, roomy, anel in good condition. All parts of the building are made of sheet iron, or lined, or covered with it. There is also a Ane brick boarding.house and office. The machinery consists of a Blake rook.breaker, two No. 0 Baker blowers, two steam pumps, two horizontal boilel'S,4i by 16 feet, a 40 horse·power engine, and two shaft furnaces. These latter are water jacket furnaces of about the game size. There is a Ane-dust condenser, iovented by a former superintendent. It is so constroctf'd that the oust should pa88 through water, the draft being increased by a fan blower. Owing to idleness of the worb it cannot be described. A report made by George W. Maynard gives the following details: During the four years euiling Aprill, 1878, 26,270 tons of ore were smelted, and yielded 8,312 tons of base bullion, which sold for 8109 64 per ron, or 'Oll,300. During this time 3,300 tons of Aue-aust were caught, which 80888oyed from 36 to o. ller l.-ent.lead and from 13 to 35 ounces I:rilver. The Chicago smelter is at SlagtowlI, on the eastern shore of Rush lake, about 2 miles sonth of Stockton. It was built in 1873 by the Chicago Silver Mining Company, an Eoglish company, which once owned tbe Cbicagoand the Queen ofthe Hills mines in Dry cailon. It ran quite steadily untill8i"7. It was tben idle uutilleased iu 18i9 . ro Mr. Brooks,.whoran it until the autumn of 1880, when it was shut down. The plantconsistaof one 50 hdlse-power engine, two boilel'S, two Blake rock-breakers, one No.6 Baker blower, and three stacks with small duat chambel'll. (For dimensions of these see table of Utah furnaces.) These stacks are similar to the otbers, excepting tbat the water-jackets might more properly be called spl'3y-jacketll. One stack has a rectangular Cl'088-aection 4 by 3 feet. The jacket ill in four sections, one on each side and end. These sections are 3 feet high, and are made of ~ iron. Tbey bave no open lIpace bet\veen tbe walls to contain water, but iustead have three Aangf18 upon the outside which form three V-troughs 2 incbes deel). These are set level, and a stream of water is poured into the uPI,er one. It overtJows into. the middle and lower troughs, from which it runs off in a pipe, thua wetting the entire side of the jacket. The cast iron is about an incb thick. The jackets appeared to have stood well witbont warping or bUlging. One stack has a hexagonal jaeket, 1 foot 9 inches on a side, having the same V-troughs. Another has a circular o-foot jacket of cast iron, single thickneaa, without the V-trongbs cast on the side. Thil is used with a spray of wat'er. OPHIB MINING DISTRIOT.

[November, 1880.]

The Ophir district is lIituatecl south of and adjoining Rush Valley district, from which it was separated iu the summer of 1870. It includes several caiions and lidges on the western slope of the Oquirrh range, the principal of which are Ollhir or East canon and Dry canon, containing tbe mining camps of Ophir City and Jacob City, respectively. There was mucb excitement in 1872, 1873, and 1874, since which time the camp has gradually declined. At the period under review there were not 50 persons where formerly there were 1,000. The reconls showed about 2.500 locations, on not over 150 of which was 8.88es8ment work kept np. The surface of the country is very rough, consisting of steep hillsides amI precipitous walls of mountain gorges. The altitude of the claims varies from 6,500 to 9,000 feet. Iu general, the couotry rock consists of a distinctly stratified limesrone, having a small northerly dip. Near Ollhir City, there are strata of quartzite and siliceons limestone. In many pJaoes, particularly in Dry canon, the limestone is interstratified with calC8ol'eOns shale. In this place, also, there i8 one large dike of granitic porphyry and severa) great faults. . lUuch of the ore of the district has beeu very rich, the 8088ays sometimes averagiDg among the hundreds, and even thousands. In East canon the ore was u8ually a very siliceous or milling ore; ~nt that from Dry canOD contained moch'lead, and was smelted. Tbis district has produced many million dolla.ra; how many, can never be known, as the mine owoel'S of the early days are scattered over the Pacific C088t. Many local attemptS to treat tbe (;res were made in East canon, but were for the most part failures. The works remaining at the period under revi~w were the buildings of thli Pionel'r amI the Baltic mills and tbe Cleveland and tbe New Jersey arrastra& 'fhtl llioneer 111m was built ill 1871 b~' Walker Brotbers, of Salt Lake City, to work ore from the ZeUa group and other mines on Lioo hill. It was a 20-stamp c1ry-crushing silver mill witb an Aiken furnace, aod cost abont 175,000. Many hundred tboosamIlIollars in bullion were extracted. The machinery W88 moved to Butte, Montana, 8f\-eral, years ago. The Baltic mill was a Arnall 5·st.amp mill, with two pans aad a settler, and was run by a tnrbine watt'twheel. It was not worked regularly. Tbe arrastras were in bad order, not having been io operation for seferal years. They were usually run by water·wheels. A small boiler fnrnisbed steam. They were fairly BUcce&'lfD1t owing to the high grade and free nature of tbe ore. Latterly, ore has been shipped to Bait Lake City or to the Stockton smelters. The distances and costs of transportation are as follows: Jacob City to Stockton, 10 milel, from t2 50 to f3 per ton.

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The following works were built in early times, but had been moved away or were in ruins: Pioneer amelter, built in 1871. Probably produced 126 tone of bnllion. Ophir amelter, bnilt in lRi2. Produced but little. Faucett smelter, built in 1872. Small product. Brevoort mill, built iu 1872. Two stamps. Enterpme mill, built in lSi3. Five stamps. One mill (name unknown), built in 1874. Five stampB. Also Beveral small nrrastraB run by \Vater·whE'ela.

Owing to the ext1'f'me dulln('ss of tbe camp when visited, it was impossible to get full information ef mallY of the minef'. Hence probably some will be omitted and others will be described very imperfectly. JUNES OF BAST CABON AND VICINITY.

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Tbe ZelIa group comprises the ZelIa, Mountain Tiger, Silver Obief, and Rockwell, patented, and several others unpatented. It is situated on the western side and near the summit of Lion bill. The mines were discovered in the autumn of 1870, and sold to Walker Brothers in 1871, who worked tbem until 1876, since which time they have been leased. The ore,ol1tcropped in two places, tbe croppings assaying '200 per ton. Three large bodil's and several smaller ones were fOl1nd about 20 feet below the surface. The ore is a soCt, yellow, siliceous cbloride assaying several hundred dollars per ton. The country rock is blue limestone. No water has been encoun,teredo> The mines are opened by several sbafta and tunnels, in allover 6,500 feet. The actual working development on the stratum containiug ore does not, however, extend over 125 feet verticaUyand 800 feet horizontally. During the census year the property was lelUled to six men at a royalty of from one·third to one·sixth of the net receipts. Eighty·four tons, assaying about 120 ounces silver alld,9 gold, selling for 1100 per ton, were obtained. It W8& impossible to ascertain, except approximately, the total product of this group, but it was estimated at '750,000. The Monarch group includes the Monarch, Monarch No.2, Monarch No.3, and Empire. The mines were discovered in 1870. The principal work was done in 1875 and 1876. Since then the property bas been leased. Tbe ore is found in a stratum of quartzite, dipping slightly NE. Th('re is limestone below, Bnd porphyry, in some placeR at least, above this stratum. The explorations were in a ~pace from 5 to 25 feet in height, and 500 by 400 fPoet in length and breadtb. There are two or three large bodies, one 75 feet long, from 3 to 3() feet wide, and from ~ inches to 12 feet (average, 2i feet) thick, and several smaller ones. The ore is a porous quartz containing cavities filled with the" chloride" of the miners and some carbonate of lead. In the center of the body it is quite soCt and fine, but npon tbe edges vel')' bard and coarse. It is said tba.t tbe ore averages 130 ounces silver per ton witb from notbing to '8 in gold, and from nothing to 12 per cent. of lead. Much of it, however, would assay npwards of '500. The mass of the quartzite stratum near the ore is much broken, and the seams are filled with crystals of quartz and calcite, all being somewhat stained with oxide of iron. The cblorider's rule in seeking new ore bodies is to follow soft ground Bnd the stronger ocher stain. The richest ore occurs next the lime Bnd the porplJyry. The mine is worked througb tunnels, and has abont 2,000 feet of cuttings. In no place are these over 125 feet below the surface. Six men were working on lease seven months dnring the censns year, paying from. one· third to one· fifth royalty. They took out ore which sold for'12,556. The total prodnct to the close of the census year waa '1l7,bOU.

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The Douglas mine was located in 1871, and was worked principally in 1875, 1876, and 1877. It has been idle or leased since. It is situated near the western· summit of Lion hill, about B mile southeast of Ophir Oity. It is near the Monarch group, which it greatly resembles iq gangue and ore. The country rock is stratified limestone. Whetber the quartzite gouge of the two former claims is an iuterstratified qnartzite bed or a local mass of quartzite cannot be determined from tbe developments. This stratum is 30 feet thick, and is known to ext~nd 250 by 300 feet. Two bodies have been found of about the same size 50 feet apart. One is 150 feet long, trom 2 to 12 feet thick, and from 4 to 15 feet wide. The mine is dry and is opened by tunnels and shafts. It is WOI ked over 150 feet from th& surfa<>,c, and has about GOO feet of cuttings. The total product is said to be at least 1,000 tons of 100·ounce ore. This is worked at the Pioneer milL The Trace group was located in August, 1878, and worked in B small way since by the owners. It embra(l4>,R four claims on the northern slope of Lion hill. The l,rincipal claim is located on a fissure vein, from 6 inches to 6 feet wide, traceable for 900 feet through blue limestone, dipping 750 W. The ore is found mostly on tbe foot wall from 2 inches to 2 feet wide, but there is also• a band of it upon the hangiug waU, which contains much more gold ('20) thyon the other ore. Between th~se bands of ore is an open fi!l8ure, from 5 inches to 2 feet, somet,imes filled with a lime sand from the surface. The ore is a soCt yellow sandy ocher, which assays: first class, 130 ounces silver and '9 gold; second class, '11 ounces sill"er and gold. Tbe mines of this gronp are developed to a limited extent, mostly by tunnel8, and contain over 1,000 feet of cnttings. The total product to the end of the census year was .11,565.

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The other mines of Elist canon 8n(1 vicinity are: lDIuoa.

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L10u •••••••••• ••••••• •••••• 1,080 1120, 080 •••••••.•••• do ••••••••••••••••• ChlortdePotut aDd otben .••....... , .•••....••.•.••••.•••••••.•... do ••••••.•••••.•••••• OD SUTt'ropolta hill.

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lIuDdred lee, or oa&t.lDp.

PIOdaaed

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tboDuPMIa III

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a 800 Worked 00 1 _.••.•••••. : Ore ._yalllo1Dlcee sUTer aud 11 to If1*" _t.lead; wJlalorf7ptrla I Totall'roduct, maD)' thou"Dd t.oDe; 1, 200 &ooa estraeted ID ...,- y... BoaaDsa .............................. ,..... .•••..••.....•••. . •.... do .••...•••...••.••.. IIu produced coDlIlderable ore. Cle..e1aDd KlDluK Com1fII'IO 1 100. 000 ..•...•••••.•••. ,...... •••••. •••••• . .•• .••• .. Ore _ya ,1110 to ~,oao per too. lODer's Delight JrI'OIIp.....

paD)'. Sua JoaqaiJI •••...•.. .•.•.. POO1'DlIlD...... ••••••. •••••• :Buckhorn..................

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7110" 000 .•••...••••..•.. 1 Worked Irregularly....... " IiOO Small .••••••.•..•••••• : Idle .••••••.•.•••.•••...•.. · &800 , .•••......•••.•••...••.. 1 Leued.... .•.....•....... ' 1 1.000 .....•••.•.•...••..•••.. '. . . . ••• . ....•.•....•....•.. '

Ore --1a '100 to etuO per &00. Little ore e..er Yipped. Ore __ya:110 _ _ Ulnr.85 per _t.I.ad.

Koch ore formedypn-

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alDcIlue; alae other OUttlDJI8.

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h1Dldred feet.

HINES OF' DRY CARON.

The Hidden Treasure mine is situated on a steep hillside above and three·quarters of a mile northeaatof Jacob City. It waalocated in 1865 as the Saint Loui81ode by General Connor's soldiers, who had been told by Indiana of the outcropping bowlders of galena. Little work was done until Apri1, 1870, when it was relocated 88 the Bidden Treasure. The mine has beeu exten8ive1y but irregular1y worked since 1872. It W88 idle during' a few montba . preceding the writer's visit. The property consi8ts of the Bidden Treasure, Saint Louis, Cedar, Summit, Red Line, Sacramento, Hidden Treasure East Extension, Columbia, and Western, all adjacent c1aim8. The oreie found in one or two chimneys in a bedded vein in a compact bluish Jimestone, which dips about 3()0 N. 320 W. About 3 ,feet above the ore there i8 a contact vein an inch or 80 in width between an overlying stratum of siliceou8 elat. (locally called "block slate") and the limestone ~neatb, Very rarely, however, does the ore body make to the contact (in some of the upper works the ore W88 on the contact). One chimney began at the surface, or at ll'aat within 60 feet of it, and coutinued for 000 feet. It then split into two chimneys, which continued 800 feet or more. The upper chimney W88 from 20 to 100 feet wide and from 3 to 20 feet tbick. Tbe branches were from 10t021Hee' wide and from 1 inch to 20 feet thick. Tbe ore found in the Ohicago mine W88 in two bedded pi~, which werein a limestone stratum about 100 feet beneath these ore bodies. The pipes turned upward and AnaJly connected with the Hidden Treasure vein. The ore of the Bidden Treasure is a soft reddish· brown ocher, contaiuing cerussite, galena, and traces of copper carbonates. It assays from 15 to 40 ounces silver and 20 to 50 per cent. lead. A feW' hundred feet to t'e north of this mine, in the direction in which the 0re-bodie8 dip,.a great dike of granitic porpbyl'1 cut8 tbrough the country. The mine was formerly opened by Ave inclines, three of whicb were in ore, and several tunnels. It was worked at the period under review through a 5OO·foot tunnel, from which au BOO-foot incline \Vaa suuk between the two chutes of ore. The extent of the working8 on this stratum was 1,600 feet on the dip and ~O feet horizontal1y. Within this area there were proba.b1y 9,000 feet of iuclines, drifts, and winze&. The 01'8 chutes continue at the bottom, though small in p1aces. Some seepage water was encountered and zineblende occasionally appeared. The steam hoisting works consi8t of a 40 horse·power horizontal engiue with i-inch steel· wire rope in the tunnel at the top of the incline, and one horizontal boiler 'at the snrface. Water for use in the boilers has to be purchased at 1 cent per gallon, except in the winter month8, when sno.w is used. During the censu8 year about twenty men were employed, at 13 per day, 10·hour day and 9·hour night shifts. There were 1,408 tons of are produced, which assayed about 33 per cent. lead, 18 ounces sill'er, a trace of gold, with 7 lJel' cent. moi8ture, selling for about 120 per ton at the Chicago smelter. During the four years ending April 1, 1878,28,400 tons were mined. Most of this was smelted at the Waterman smelter at Stockton. The cash received for this , amount of ore, whether sold as ore or as bulliou, was 1988,700. It was tonceded that the mine made mouey, bot that the sme1ter 108t it. Several thousand tous of ore were produced prior to 1814. The Chicago mine was located in 1871, aud sold to an English company soon aft.erwllrd. The mine was worked vigorously for several years, but has heen idle since 1876. Ore was found in two pipes 60 feet apart in the" reef" of limestone under the Hidden Treasure. These pipes came to withiu a few feet of the 8urface, co\'ere
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from 40 t.o 45 per cent. lead. On t.he sides of the pipe there is DBuaUy from 6 inches t.o a foot of a valueless oxide of iron, freqnently stained by copper carbonates. The total cuttings amount to about 5,000 feet. The mine is turnished with a Uallidie wire-rope tramway 2i miles long to the wagon road in the ravine below. This gave great satisfaction, and was at the time of the writer's visit still standing. The mine produced considerably over 12,000 tons of ore. This company owns the Chicago smelter, and when the mine failed bought the Queen of the Hill, Flavilla, and Mahogany locations. These claims are on three chimneys in a bedded vein, from 1 to 6 feet wide, diPl>ing 170 to 200 W. between a siliceous limestone above aud a blue limestone stratum below. They'were located in 1870-'71, and were worked extensively between 1873 and 1877, but very little since. Shortly after the pnrchase the Chicago company came to the fault and failed. The Flavilla Mining Company was then organized, and had just begun prospecting to find the vein beyond tbe fault. This group of claims was the moat developed of any in the district, and is situated about half way up a large steep hill, 1 mile south of Jacob City. The (lip of the chimneys is N. 300 W., being obliqne to the dip of the strata. The distance between them is abont 80 feet and 160 feet. Two faults were found, one along the line of the Mahogany chimney northeast and southwest, and the otber nearly at right angles to it, faulting all the ore chutes ami diPlling a little northeast. This fault showed a fissnre 20 feet wide, of which 4 feet on one side waa calcite (locally called "water spar"), the remainder being filled with clay and fragments of country rock. The 1lrst chimney was 350 feet long (before being cut by the fault) and was from 25 to 40 foot wide, having a thickness of from 18 inches to 2 feet of ocherous ore containing but little coppt>r, and said to assay from 20 to 25 oUllceS silver aud 50 per oont. lead. The second chimnl'Y was 1,000 teet long, from 60 to 70 feet wide, and also had from IS'inches to 2 feet of ore, generally upon tbe hanging wall, assaying about 40 ounces silver and 30 per cent. lead. The third chimney was about the same size as till'! secontJ, but the ore contained some tetrabedrite, much malachite, and little lead, and assayed about 60 ounces 8ilV'er. Th\' claims are opeued by two m~in incliues 1,000 feet and 1,400 feet long and 6 feet square, which branch near the surfuce like tbe lctter Y. The borizontal development is 1,200 feet. It is claimed that there are 8 miles of openings. but if the stopes were not counted there would proba.bly be not over 12,000 feet. The hoisting works have a Copeland & Bacon vertical engine of 35 horse-power. A double-track tramway with j-inch steel-wire rope extends Reveral hundred feet from tbe mine to the beclof the raviue below. The product of these mines could not be ascertained. It was probably over 11,000,000, as 26,000 tons, 8ssaying from 30 to 40 ounces silver, were sbipped while llr. Davis was the su'perintendent. The Mono miue is situated half a mile south of Jacob Oity. It waa discovered in the autumn of 1871, and waa owned in its early days by Gisborn, Embody, Heaton & Miller. It was worked vigorously by them until 1875, when Gi~born bought the remaining two-thirds interest for '400,000, mortgaging the whole to eastern capitalists for the money. About three months after the sale a fault was found, or the ore chute" pinched", and only a small prospecting'force was employed until June, 1879, since which time it has been idle. Ore began at the surface and was found In a chute from 10 t.o 50 feet long, from 3 to 5 feet wide, and 300 feet deep. Below that depth it was in a series of sman deposita. It was an oxidized ore, from silver, lead, copper, and iron sulphides. Slabs of horn· silver were frequently found so soft that they would retain the impression of a coin like wax. Its value, by the ton, waa from 1100 to 15,000 in silver. This ore Occurs in a stratnm of clay sbale. The ore chute seems to cross this .tratum aud enter a black shale at a depth of 400 feet. In the lower workings the ore was limitea in quantity, and only assayed abont 1100 per ton. The main incline is 850 feet long, with an angle of about 330 • The greatest horizontal extent of the development was only 300 feet, but the total cuttings amounted to 2,000 feet. It was t·be opinion of many who were familiar with the mine that the dip of the incline was away from the ore chute. The mine had small hoisting works which coat abont 112.000. The total prodoct was not known, even by the original owners, aa they divided the proceeds after the sale of each Jot. By one it was placed somewhat over and by another somewhat under 11,000,000. The Mono Tunnel site is in the ravine 800 feet below the Mono mine. Work was begun in 1872 or 1873. The tuunel is about 1,100 feet in length. Burleigh drills and an air-compressor were nsed. Only assessment work has been done for some time. The Kearsarge mine, located half a mile west of Jacob Oity, was discovered in 1871, a.nd has been idle for a few months. The ore-bearing formation is a stratum of limestone, in which the ore occurs in chimneys and exceedingly irregular maases. The overlying stratum or hanging wall is a very compact siliceous limestoue. One chimney began at the surface and went down 500 feet. In this there was a chamber 70 feet long, 30 feet wide, and from 10 to 20 feet high. Three or four other bodies were foond near the main chimney. In one of them several tous of $10,000 chloride ore were encountere(l. The ore is a soft ocber, similar to that of the Hidden Treasure, bnt lUnch richer. The mine was opened by a 945-foot incline, having a dip of 300 to 3,'jO. It was not prospected over 100 feet horizontally, but contained at least 3,000 feet of cuttings. The ore coutinued in the bottom of the incline 20 inches in width, but water had stopped the work. The hoisting rig consisted of a wllim with a. ~ inch steel-wire rope. The t.otal protJuct waIlS unknown; l)erhapllS 81,000,000 bad been received. Belougiug to this property is the Jennie claim, having a. 3JO-foot incline aud 650 1eet of other cuttings. A few hundred tous of 40-onuce ore were produced.

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PRECIOUS METALS.

The Deseret group consists of the Deseret, Shoo Fly, Azure Queen, Ivanhot'!, Americiln Flag No. 2, and Thad. overlnpping claim8. They were located in 1870-'71. Work on them was begun in 1874, and discontinued January 1, 1879. The Deseret claim has a 750·fuot incline, following the chimney at an angle of 450. There W88 little drifting: There are 8mall, neat hoisting works, containing a 50 horse·power engine, and a Bow('rs aircompressor was U8e(1 to run two Woods drills. The ore has a lime gangue, containing very little iron, oxide of lead, and assayed 70 ounces ~ilver and a trace of gold. The Thad. Stevens has a 38().foot incline and about 250 feet of drifts. The ore of thi~ chimney averaged about a foot in widtb, and assayed 35 per cent. lead and 30 onucea silver. Tbe total production of the group was estimated at ,30,000. The other miues of Dry caiion are:

Ste\~en!l,

,

Mm..

! Total

Total prodllOt.

, lenJtth or iOlK·DiDga.

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ConditlOll at the clORe of the IIOIIIIU year.

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FlIt. WuderlngJew........... Utah QUIItln ... .. .. .. . .. .. Sacram. uto .............. Monntain Savage a.d L

X.L. Emporia ................... FODrth or July.. .. . • ... . . . . Evenlog Star. .. . •. .. .. .. ..

4,200 ........................ Little work dOlle .......... IIOI! ........................ A_ent work done... , 800 ........................ Idle....................... 1,010 2,100 tau ........... ~mentWOl'kdo.ne .••.

I

Afewhnndredt0D8of8O-euucoallYOl'lIDd85per_t.leadoreutneee4. Large amoant of ore extracted. Considerable ore taken out f'ormerly. Ore_ystOoDllCOesilverand26per_t.lead.

1,800 f30,000 ............... Leaaed ................. .. "'0 1, 000 tau. . . .. . .. . . ... A_out work done. ••. Ore _,.. 80 ODDCOR aliTer RDd 10 per _t.1eed. ISO ............................. :do .................. Some good crede ore &hIpped. Kagoulla....... .... .. ...... .......... ....................... . .... do ................... BoTerol hlmdred feet or meUne and drtftL Militia JIl9IIII1 . , . , lltae reociTed. Rattler .................... .......... ........................ Idle....................... Few huuclred feet of work clone. Brooklyn ........................................................... do .................. Do. Elgin .............................................................. do ................. .. lloyea .. ............ ...... .......... .................. ...... .... do .................. .

.

• lDoUno; also other II1lttlDp.

Tbere are many other claims having considerable development represented a.t the time of the writer's vi8it.

whi~

are not mentioned,

88

they were not

OAMP FLOYD DISTRIOT.

[November, 18eO.] "

.

The Camp Floyd district is soutb of the Opbir district, and is on the same range. It is an irregular rectangle, from 7 to 9 mile8 on a 8ide, the mines tbemselves, however, being included within an area of a square mile. Five hundred and uinety·fi\'"e locations had been made, of wbich but twenty· five were hE'ld at tbe time of the writer'8 visit. Aside from those employed by the Carrie Steele Company, not ten meu had been working in the district during the " preceding twelve months. Tbe formation is a blue·black limestone, dipping from 100 to 250 NE. An exception to this is a ~tratum of quartzite or siliceous limestone (locally called a" reef"), from 25 to 75 feet thick, on which all tbe claims are located. Lewiston, the town of the district, is 18 miles soutbeast of Stockton, witb which it is connected by a good wagon road. Tbe Carrie Steele mine is about one·quarter of a mile from Lewiston, and is 7,000 feet above sea·level. It was discovered in 1873 by Leaudro SteE'le; was worked from 1876 to July, 1879, when it WRS 80ld to the Ca·rrie Steele Mining Company, of New York. This company has a capital stock of 11,000,000, in 100,000 8bures. A working capital of '30,000 was raised by the 8ale of 20,000 shares. The ore in thi8 reef outcropped in a single spot Ul)OU the hillside. Tbe workings 80 far bave been' through three tunnels, and bave explored a space not to exceed 50 feet in deptb and 200 by 274: feet. The levels and drifts amount to 1,420 feet. One large body of antimonial ore, 20 feet tbick and 60 by 70 feet in extreme width and length, was found at the surface. The ricbest ore averaged 1700, and occurred in a Beam from 8 to 10 inches wiele, next t.o the roof. Tbere are three crevices a few inches wide, parallel, and 30 feet apart, wbich ran NE. and SW. through the "reef". The 8econdary small bodiE'S of o~ were found on the uorthwest side and adjacent to thes~ crevices. The ore is a bard, tough siliceous limestone~ rarely 80ft and fine, sometimes much broken, and containing seams of oxide of iron and crystals of' quartz and calcite. The silver is in the form of horn·silver, except iu the case of tbe ant.imonial ore. Tbis last oro seems to be an argentiferonK stibuite, and assays from '100 to '500 per ton. Tbe great mass, however, is low grade, from '10 to '50, until 8Orted, and is free milling. No water is fouud. In the censuK year about eighteen men were ewployetl, aut! 1,500 tons of unsorted ore were produced. Tbe silles of ore prior to tbe purcbase by tbe present cowpa.ny amoullted to about '80,000. The mill iK a wet·crushing 20·stamp silver mill, haloing eight pans and four sctt.1ers. It was built by an English company in 1872-'73 to work the ores of the Sparrowhawk mine, and was said to ha\'e cost 180,000. It waa purcbased by the Carrie Steele Mining Company in 1879, and ran from lIay 10 to Augu!'t 15, 1880, since which time it baa been idle. The mill is a quarter of a mile from the mine. The cost of hauling ore ,vas 75 cents ller ton. Owing to f;carcity of water, which WaK brought 21 miles in a pipe, it was pumped from tbe settling tanks and 1l0wed again througb the battery. Ore was worked with salt and sulphate of copper. Tbill method is said to save 83 per cent.

dab

VOL 29

no

21

SALT LAKE CITY UTAH FEBRUARY 15 1928

single copies 15 cents

making new camp of famous old ophir

dry canyon district illustrating properties of ophir mono mines in north end

if there

reference is made to the old ophir dry canyon district

is any one

thing thine more than another that mining men of utah have excelled in it has been in demonstrating to the world that metal producing districts in this state once established never play out this has been proven time and again and with frith increasing frequency during the past few years in the fifty years or more of metal mining in utah many rich mines have been discovered in numerous districts and quick fortunes have been wrested from the original surface or grass root deposits following the hectic days of mining these near surface discoveries and largely because of lack of adequate equipment nd a greater lack of geological and mineralogical knowledge and trainand ing owners would cease operations and retire toj toi enjoy their fortunes or turn to less exacting pursuits ana and the camps would fall into a state stale of innocuous desuetude and await the injection of new blood presto then prestol a vigorous revival takes place and the world soon hears that the old estop cal ap has experienced past pera comeback that for mances no matter how all absorbing and electrifying they may have formances been are quickly crowded out of the and the REAL performance begins this illustration has had exemplification at park city in the gintic tintic district at Bing Bingha hami ml and to a lesser extent a number of other utah mining camps none of the camps in utah were ever but known to go down and out for the count first one and then another jumps to its feet and carries on with accelerated speed and turns out dollars where only nickels were commandeered for duty before editor

just over the divide and a faw miles southwesterly from the world famous camp of bingham home of the utah copper united states mining international Sm elting and many other smelling smelting major operations the ophir dry canyon district also is closely connected with the salt lake route to los angeles and within a distance of twenty to fifty miles are located the greatest sm elting and smelling smelting ore treating works in the world these features alone give a district under review and scrutiny an enviable place in the sun

dividends and production records

but the incentive to greater urge in I1

the

foregoing remarks are intended only as an introduction to a recital that calls for and is justified by events now taking place in one of early day bonanza camps a district that poured millions of dollars into the laps of such extensive and widely known old time operators as the lat senator william A clark and marcus daly of montana the walker brothers matt gisborn col E A wall william S godbe henry lawrence dick mackintosh ben hampton and many others since passed to their final reward

a campaign to develop

and further explore the known and prospective mines of the ophir dry canyon district beyond and below the comparatively shallow horizons made so productive and profitable in the earlier days is not based entirely on the available statistical data that credits the district with dividends closely approximating and with a gross production value of somewhere in reality however that and between is only incidental during the past several years and augmenting the work done by tenacious camp operators highly trained mining engi gineers geologists and students of physical conditions as they

MONO MINES

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panoramic view of dry caneco

glimpsing

portion of

abines ophir mono abines ahir

holdings

THE MINING REVIEW

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apply to this district and others in which deeper and more extensive explorations have been conducted have reached the only and a rational conclusion namely that the potential possibilities of expanded mining development in the ophir dry canyon district are at least on a par with the best accomplishments resultant from the exploitation and application of modern methods in other camps of the state where operators with nerve and won judgment and judge ent have played the game

FEBRUARY 15

1928

in round figures without encroaching on reserves at the same time shares in these companies for most part advanced in market value several times their original par on sale value these and many other reasons might be advanced to show why old mines and old mining districts are commanding unusual attention these days they serve also to illustrate why the ophir dry canyon section is swinging into line for a place

alongside of the other districts and mines that have made utah preeminent as a metal mining state and that is why the mining review has selected for illustration one of the several propositions in that district as a sample of the camp s potential possibilities

organization and operations Operation of the ophir mono mines ss

16

A few years ago with a clear knowledge of the camps early odthe day history and the operations of those then in the saddle murray C godbe with his coworkers co workers buckled down to the task of acna quiring and making available for holdingss consolidation purposes holdin in the northern or dry canyon end of the district many of which had been real history makers in the early days of the camp when this task was finally accomplished a stretch of country covering about two by three miles in extent and embracing some 1600 acres had been brought in to the fold the accompanying panoramic view gives an excellent perspective of the physical lay of the land from the head of dry canyon on the left over and across the A divide into ophir canyon not included on the right and above the town of ophir and the holdings of the ophir hill consolidated comp companas anys mines and mill owned and operated by the senatorerW senator W A dark clark estate the panoramic view takes in practically all of the mining properties shown in the sketch map of the northern portion of the district printed herewith considered together it is easy to grasp something of the mag00

10

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00 early day records carelessly kept early day operators in the mining districts of utah and elsewhere for that matter were proverbially careless in compiling and preserving statistical data that might later be used to show their accomplishments THEY were satisfied and did not care a rap whether the world knew what they were doing or not because of that attitude mine dividend records are incomplete but actual figures and close estimates by statisticians who have been and still are delving into the subject indicate that metal mine di dividends paid in utah to date will easily total more one recent compilation shows the total to ihan than ve been nearer chave or sundry and justifiable reasons several prominent min companies Ompaantes nies which paid regular dividends in 1926 decided not 31 ay last year but the eight companies which did contribute year and whose total disbursements aggregate more than enriched their shareholders to the extent of 15

llast

aw s

nitude of the ophir mono mines companas comp anys estate following the organization of the company plans for development and equipment were whipped into shape and with the aid and counsel of a competent engineering and geological 9 eo agica 0 staff manager godbe began the work that is designed and expected to place these various mines on a productive and earning a basis once again finaly finally the proposition ro position was laid before coterie of friends and wealthy investors of detroit who were invited to back the undertaking when fully explained the and an sagacity and enterprise appealed to their business judgment godbe was authorized to go ahead with his plans and count upon ar this their full support without appealing to fo the public 1

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4

THE MINING REVIEW ranger gement ran nent virtually makes of the ophir mono what may be designated as a close corporation where only the selected few can hope to participate and where only kindred spirits so to speak may have the satisfaction and privilege of reaping

reward as the development of the proper tys latent resources will secure continued on page 28 such

COLLEGE OF MINES U OF W

SEATTLE TO CONDUCT INSTITUTE OPEN TO ALL

mining institute open to all men interested in any branch of the mining industry will be held at the college of mines university of washington seattle during the week beginning march 5 according to announcement made a few days ago by milnor roberts dean prospectors miners mine owners persons interested in metallurgy investors in mining enterprises and the public generally are invited to attend this institute will take the place of the winter mining session which originated at seattle in 1897 and continued for twenty eight years the complete new equipment of mines laboratory will be used to give demon stations of new machines and processes in mining ore demonstrations dressing and metallurgy this year the ceramic industry including cement and branches of clay working of special importance in the northwest will be included in the institute all instruction will be given by specialists prominent technical men and managers will give lectures on their special subjects among the speakers engaged are G T jackson formerly superintendent of the alaska gastineau and the Chica mines who will speak on the mining of large bodies of low grade ore R F mcelvenny superintendent of the tacoma smelter on the nature of contracts that a smelter can offer to mines and prospects M D leehey mining lawyer er on some popular errors regarding the mining law H H townsend on the exploration and purchase of prospects by operating companies J L mcallen on quartz mining in the willow creek district alaska F powell on gold dredging in the evenings lectures illustrated by stereopticon views and moving pictures will be given the week will close with an excursion to mines and plants A

FEBRUARY 15

consolidated ANNUAL

MINING COMPANY REPORT FOR 1927 SHOWS FAIR PROFIT

in its annual report to shareholders recently issued and covering operations for the year 1927 the chief consolidated mining company shows that total shipments of mine product fining amounted to dry tons after transportation sampling andd all other operating charges this product yielded as compared ss for the year with tons and previous drifts raises dinzes and crosscuts cross cuts represented 27 5 feet feet covered mine while a total drill footage of

metal yield for the year was as follows gold ounces ounces silver lead ad in lead ores pounds copper in copper ores pounds zinc pounds lead in zinc lead ores in ln zinc lead ores pounds the average gross value of mine products amounted to 33 06 a ton smelling smelting elting freight and averaging net value after sm developments

for the current year

the

11

sampling was 1780 a ton assay values were as follows gold ounces silver ounces lead in lead ore 1651 per cent copper in copper ores per cent lead in zinc lead ores per cent and zinc in zinc lead ores 1219 per cent concerning the outlook at the various properties general manager cecil fitch reports that the should henceforth continue a steady earner of good profits new ore opened at the grand central should mean a small profit accruing from this mine the ore body in the eureka lily mine reports mr fitch which was encountered several months ago has developed into good size and grade from which a product is being shipped the returns paying all development charges in addition to yielding a small monthly profit operations at the chief consolidated mill have been progressing in a very satisfactory manner in recent research work we have discovered that we can now treat 90 per cent of our oxide ores both in the wet concentrator and volatilization plant at a great saving over present costs of treatment the plant is now being tuned up for a run on these ores and within the next few weeks should be successfully operating mining chief consolidated mining company and 1927 to comp anys consolidated surplus account january companas december 31 1927 1

surplus deduct

january

1

1927

surplus adjustment items

add net income to surplus for period sales of ore lime concentrates etc less operating costs net profit on operation deduct other expense interest on first mortgage bonds

bend discount and expense accrued federal and state taxes

add other income interest on investments interest on bank deposits other profit items period deduct dividends paid to minority stockholders company

net profit for

net

mining

income to surplus i

minority stockholders equity in surplus of deduct mining company net surplus of chief consolidated mining company december 31

CHIEF

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MAKING A NEW CAMP OF THE FAMOUS OLD OPHIR DRY CANYON DISTRICT continued from page 11 among the famous old mining properties included in ophir mono holdings may be mentioned the mono the queen of the hills wandering jew the brooklyn and the garber their locations are shown on the name plates on the photograph it is not the purpose of this article to go into detail concerning the workings or production of any of these or other properties of the ophir dry canyon district mentioned here As a matter of fact however work now is under way at different points in the consolidated property and wherever considered advisable advantage is taken of tunnel or other openings to speed up the task of developing virgin ground or reopening ore bodies previously known to exist owing to the rugged lofty contours of the mountain range in which the mines are located it is going to be possible in many instances to open the mineral bearing ledges and deposits depo sits at much greater depth than when such operations were proscribed by the limited boundaries of the old company or individual holdings without having to sink shafts and explore in that manner just recently it is reported fine ore has been encountered in driving one of the tunnels on ophir mono ground while other developments are approaching objective points but these are subjects for news treatment as such and when released for public consumption

many concerns and companies operating the camp as a whole now is enjoying more activity than it has known for many years for more than a year past the ophir hill consolidated dark clark property has been engaged in prospecting at a depth of more than 1400 feet below the bottom of ophir canyon from a tunnel driven on the opposite side of the canyon from its old mine a shaft has been electrically equipped and sunk to a depth of 1400 feet crosscutting and drifting from the bottom of this shaft has been progressing for several months for the purpose of again opening up a faulted section of the lode that has proven so productive and profitable for the past twenty years in the old mine this and other activities in the ophir dry canyon district have had their effect in stirring many other interests to work out consolidations form new companies and generally 9 ene rally to take advantage of changed conditions ands and opportunities to revive old and develop new mines all through the district the old kearsarge the utah queen the hidden treasure the properties rounded up by L G burton R J evans guy R lacoste and a number of other promotion and brokerage concerns are receiving all kinds of attention and out of them no doubt some mighty fine propositions will be developed some of them according to report already are making good and others are being presented as sure winners

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Utah Mining Timeline Ken Krahulec*

ABSTRACT The mining history of Utah really begins with the arrival of the Latter Day Saints in the Salt Lake valley in 1847 and the discovery of gold in California the following year. Little is known of prior Native American efforts at exploiting Utah’s mineral resources, however, several of the earliest recorded discoveries by the pioneers apparently resulted from leadership by aboriginal guides. The massive influx of Forty-Niners resulted in a scattering of mineral discoveries across the Great Basin as the prospectors traveled to the California gold fields, e.g. placer gold was located near the Comstock lode in 1850. Later, a wave of discoveries fanned out to the east from the gold fields of California as disenchanted prospectors went further a field in search of their fortunes. The 1860s saw the discovery of new mining districts and ore deposits throughout Utah as a result of prospecting trips by the Third California Infantry under Colonel Patrick E. Connor during the Civil War, e.g. Bingham Canyon and Park City. The arrival of the railroads in the mining districts in the 1870s sent off a boom in both base and precious metal production from these newly discovered camps. Utah’s mineral discoveries continued into the first half of the 20th century, accompanied by a surge in metal production. The eastern Great Basin’s increasing ore production turned Salt Lake City into the intermountain west’s milling, smelting, and transportation center. This period also saw significant innovations in mining and metallurgy, led by Daniel Jackling’s important pioneering work in the bulk mining and milling of porphyry copper ores at Bingham Canyon. A huge emphasis on metal production was placed on the mines by the Allies efforts in the two World Wars. This prioritization generated renewed prospecting and exploration activities leading to additional discoveries mostly within known mining camps, e.g. the East Tintic district. Utah’s lead, zinc, and silver production all reached their peaks during this half-century. The later half of the 1900s were a difficult time for Utah’s mining industry, however it also saw the rise of organized mineral exploration groups, e.g. Kennecott Exploration Company. The new demands of nuclear power and atomic warfare set off uranium prospecting rushes to southeastern Utah in the 1950s and 1960s and an accompanying bull market on the Salt Lake penny stock exchange. However, uranium production had tailed off by the 1980s. The Clean Air act of 1971 forced the closure of all of Utah’s base metal smelters and the majority of the base metal mines of the Great Basin closed with them. The beryllium deposits near Topaz Mountain (1968) and the magnesium production from Great Salt Lake brines (1972) began during this period and have continued to date. The sharp rise in the price of gold in the late 1970s led to renewed gold exploration programs in the 1980s and early 1990s. This effort resulted in the discovery and opening of several new gold mines in Utah using open-pit mining and the new cyanide heap leach technology that had been developed during this period, e.g. Barneys Canyon and Mercur. Utah’s gold and copper production peaked in the 1990s as a result of these new gold operations and the continuing production expansions at the Bingham Canyon operations. The new century has seen the closure of nearly all of the metal mines in Utah. However, gold and silver production has continued in the western Great Basin, most prominently along the Carlin and Battle Mountain trends in Nevada. The Bingham Canyon porphyry system remains Utah’s most important source of metal and appears to be set for at least another decade of copper-gold-molybdenum-silver production.

*Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84116 [email protected]

Krahulec, Ken, 2006, Utah Mining Timeline in Bon, R.L., Gloyn, R.W., and Park, G.M., editors, Mining Districts of Utah: Utah Geological Association Publication 32, p. 1-5.

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NOTES The data for this chart have been compiled from innumerable individual sources over a period of several years. The information resources used have included books, newspapers articles, websites, periodicals, USGS and state publications as well as some unpublished materials. The Long and others (1998) database was particularly valuable for important dates in the major mining districts in the U.S. as were the Ore Deposits of the United States volumes (Ridge, 1968). Unpublished spreadsheets of mineral exploration discoveries compiled by Jay Hammitt and Dave Caldwell were also very helpful. The most important references are listed below. The text benefited from reviews by Hans Rasmussen, Jay Hammitt, and Bob Gloyn.

Mako, D.A., 1999, A post-mining view of the Mercur gold district, Tooele County, Utah: G.S.N. Special Publication 30, 51p. Meyerriecks, Will, 2003, Drills and Mills: Precious Metal Mining and Milling Method of the Frontier West: Second Edition, 264 p. Notarianni, P.F., 1982, Faith, Hope and Prosperity: The Tintic Mining district: Tintic Historical Society, Tintic, Utah, 189 p. Ridge, J.D., ed., 1968, Ore deposits in the United States, 1933-1967, the Graton-Sales volume: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, New York, 1880 p.

REFERENCES Boutwell, J.M., 1905, Economic geology of the Bingham mining district, Utah: United States Geological Survey, Professional Paper 38, 413 p. Butler, B. S., Loughlin, G. F., Heikes, V. C., and Others, 1920, The ore deposits of Utah: United States Geological Survey, Professional Paper 111, 672 p. Chadwick, J., and Hinde, C., 2003, A century of mining: Mining Magazine, September, pp. 94-106. Craig, S.E., 1953, Utah Operations - Combined Metals Reduction Company: Mining, Smelting, and Railroading in Tooele County, 1986, Tooele County Historical Society, pp. 15-18. Erickson, A.J., Phillips, W.R., and Garmoe, W.J., eds., 1968, Park City district, Utah: Guidebook to the Geology of Utah, No. 22, 102 p. Krahulec, K.A., 1997, History and production of the West Mountain (Bingham) mining district, Utah: Society of Economic Geologists Guidebook, v. 29, p. 189–217. Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H.Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1988, Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: U.S.G.S. Open-File Report 98-206A, 3.5” com2

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The remainder of the district output in 1933 oonaist«l. of siliceous ONI from the Alvarado, Gold Spar, Il.Ild MidlUl properties ; lead ore • from the Ganison, Success, Pocahontas, and Tom Tom groupe ; oud and a little co~per ore from the Lucy L. And Pole Star cl .. jms. Fru Coi~ didrid.- A lessoo ahipped I car of o.ndU;ed lead ore of swelting grade in 1933 from the BumdinWlt group of the LeBd Ore Mining Co. LakuUk diltrid.-Nearly .500 500 tons of lead ore were shipped in 1933 from the Monarcl1 property 17 milea nort.h north of Delle DelIe on the Western Pacific Railroad. OphiT Ophir di#Md.-The diril"id.-The proJlllrty pro,PUty of the Ophir Hill Consolidated Mining Co. (under lease and option to the International I nternational Smelting Co.) W!l8 was operated in 1933 by 188800s lessees who shipped several cars of lead-zinc leiid~zinc ore to the Combined Metals mill at Bauer and several hundred hundt-&d tons of lead ore to the smelter amelt.er at Tooele. Several lata Iota of silver ailver ore were wern shipped from the Chloride Point property, fWd IUld 2 cars of oxidized zinc ore from the Queen of are or the Hill Hills.. group were shipped to an eaatem eaat.em zinc

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• ore of smelting gra.de was ahipped in m and a prospect. Treatiure Mining & Development Co. Hidden Ttzuure mine on & Iuse basis more than 4,000 tons of high-grade lead-zinc ore mill at Midvale; in addition to the milling ore 2 ears ore were shipped for smelting. The Ophir Development. Co. continued shipm611te from the Otlhir trill Consolidated mine in 1934; lead-zinc ore (2,594 tons) was afiipped to the Combined Metals mill at Bauer and crude lead ore (3,352 tons) to the emetter at Tooele. The remainder of the ()Phir district. output com"prised silieeoUll silver ore from the Chloride ".Point, Zel1aJ Buffalo, Fisk Ophir, Lakes of Killarney, Ophir, and Croft properties; lead ore from the Wandering J ew and Queen of the Hills mines; and copper-lead ore [rom the Kearsarge Standard 'pro~y . Bud. ValUy dVtrict.-Tbe out.l!.ut. output. of lead ore from the CycloneCyclon~ Tip Top group hy J.ime &; by the Bluestone Umfl &: Quartzite Mining Co. waa was considerably less in l';'~ 1934 t.hr.n ~a .in 1933, but but. t.be the company retained its position as the l&tgest producer of lead ore of smelting grade in the

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. Co. The Combined Metals Reduction Co. continued to operate both the Honenne and West. CI~=:ef0Up8 in 1934. The output from the West Calumet. group ' considerably; lead-zinc ore (more than 12,000 tons) was shipped to the Hot.u.tion mill at Bauer and crude lead ore (nearly 2,900 tons) to the smelter at Tooele. The output from the Bonerine group co:::ruriBed a little lead-zinc ore treated at the Bauer lead-zinc HOtaUOD and several hundred tons of lead ore coneeottat.ed in the jig JilllUlt at. Bauer. The lead-zinc Hotation _._rom _\...B._Jler opera.ted.coDtlDl!ously_during_the_year,----ehielly-Oll-·ore_. _____ from Pioche, Nev., but considerable custom ore also was treated. The remainder of the production oC the Rush Valley district in 1934 was oxidized lead ore of smelting grade from the Commodore group of the Utah Ophir Mines Co. almost. Wea Movntain di.tfrid. -The Weat. Mountain district lies almost bound&ry wholly in Salt Leks County, but. ita established western boundary extends over the divide of the Oquirrh Mountains into Tooele County. The Bingham Star mine, in Tooele County near the head bead of Pine Canyon about one-baH mile from the Salt Lake-Tooele County line, was reopened in 1934, and nearly 100 tons of ailieeous gold ore were &eDt to Oarfie]d for lIIDeiting. .... Willow Spring, di.mid.. The output of the Willow Springs district in 1934 (lOll8isted coll8isted of 38 tons toll8 or gold ore from the Eagle's Nest mine 25 miles from Gold Hill and a small smaUlot lo t oC of copper ore from t.be the Nicholes pl'08pect near Ibapah. prospect ODT ..... CooaTi ODT.i.B COIa'Tt

Chrbonatt Oarbonale dwrid.-A diBIrid.- A small lot of oxidized copper ore from the old Dyer mine and 1 car of oxidized lead ore from the Lead Bell property 25 miles north of Vernal were shipped crude for smelting. &melting.

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was reduced one-half in January 1938 when the mine was placed on a one-shift hasis. The Park City Consolidated Mines Co. operated the Roosevelt group and shipped 38,464 tons of zinc-lead-silver ore to Midvale for milling; the output of ore was considerahly less thun in 1936, when nearly 55,000 tons were produced, but the output of silver was only slightly less. The New Park Mining Co. operated the full year at the Park Galena mine and shipped 10,761 tons of zinc-leadsilver ore to the custom flotation mill at Midvale. The remainder of the output from Wasatch County in 1937 was zinc-lead are and lead are from the New Quincy mine shipped to Tooele. TOOELE COUNTY

Camp Floyd (Mereur) district.-The output of gold from the Mercur district decreased about 1,000 ounces in 1937 due to interruption in milling at the Manning cyanide plant. After completing re-treatment of the old tailings dump at Manning, the Snyder Mines, Inc., dismantled and moved the mill to a new site at Mercur, and milling operations on Can M ercur are were resumed September 27; in addition to ore cyanided, the company shipped nearly 7,600 tons of p:old are for smelting. The Geyser Marion Gold Mining Co. continued operations on a 300-ton basis durin!,: 1937, and in addition to treating nearly 57,000 tons of are from the Geyser M,nion mine the cyanide mill also handled nearly 9,300 tons of custom ore from the Herschel, Sacramento, and Rover properties. The remainder of the district output was gold ore shipped for smelting, chiefly from the Herschel and Boston Sunshine mines, and gold precipitates from the eyanidation operation in 1936 at the West Dip mill- an operation that proved unsuccessful. CU/ton (Gold Hill) district.- Crude ore of smelting grade was shipped in 1937 from severnl mines ncar Gold Hill, including the Bonnemort, Ca.ne Springs, Garrison, Monarch, Manocco, Spotted F awn, Success, and Silver Hill. Ophir and Rush Valley districts.- The Hidden Treasure Mining & Development Co. shipped 27,702 tons of zinc-lead ore to Midvale in 1937 for milling, an increase of nearly 6,000 tons over 1936. The output from the Ophir Hill Consolidated property was 3,300 tons, or slightly less than in 1936; it comprised lead ore and silver ore shipped for smeltiug and zinc-lead are milled at, Tooele. The remainder of the output from the Ophir district was ore of smelting grade, chiefly from the Tintic Ophir, Ophir, Queen of the Hills, and Wandering Jew mines. The Cyelone & Tip Top mine was operated by the nluestone Lime & Quartzite Mining Co. and the Combined Metals Lease in 1937; the output of lead ore was only 15,000 tons, a nmrked cleCl'case from the 28,000 tons produced in 1936. The Comhined M etals Reduction Co. shipped more than 42,000 tons of ore from the Honerine and West Calumet mines in 1937 compared with about 32,000 tons in 1936; zinc-lead ore from both mines was treated in the Bmwr mill, and lead are was shipped to Tooele for smelting. Other producing mines in the Rush Valley district in 1937 included the Commodore, Sharp, Salvation-Hercules, Silver Eagle, 01 a, J enny, and Moylen. Other producing mines in Tooele County in 1937 included the Four Metals mine at Dugway (zinc-lead are shipped to Tooele for milling),

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15,969 tons of zinc-lead ore to the mill at Midvale; development at the mjne amounted to 1,861 feet, and arrangements were made to reopen the Mayflower tunnel and extend it about 1,600 feet to open the Park Galena fissure at a depth of 760 feet below the present main tunnel. The remainder of the output from the Park City region in 1938 comprised small lots of ote from the New Quincy, Keystone, and Park Flag properties and old t·ailings from Silver Creek. TOOELE COUNTY

GGdnP Floyd (Mercur) district.-The output of gold from Mercur increased from 14,016 ounces in 1937 to 23,001 ounoos in 1938, as a result of inereased output by both Snyder Mines, Ine., and Geyser Marion Gold Minin~ Co. Snyder Mines, Inc., operated the remodeled Manning mlll from January to Ocf.Qber and treated more than 85,000 tons of ore from the Con Mereor property by combined cyanidation and flotation; in addition, the company and lessees shipped 21,150 tons of gold are for smelting. The Can Merour mine was the third~largest producer of gold in Utah in 1938. The mill also treated by str~ight cyanidation about 5,100 tons of oxidized custom ore from five properties in the district. The G~ser Marion Gold Mining Co. completed the installation of new crushing, leaching, and precipItation equipment at the Sacramento and Geyser Marion properties, increasinI{ the capacity of the twoflants to about 800 tons of ore a day. The mills handled 65,251 tons 0 low-grade gold are from the Geyser Marion open-cut mine and 34,529 tons of custom are, including 27,157 tons from the Sacramento mine; the ore was treated by straight cyanidation. Other producers in the Camp Floyd district in 1938 included -the Go1.den Gate, Herschel, Boston Sunshine, West Dip, McCornick, Rover, and Silver Lode properties; most of the out~mt from these mines was treated at the two custom mills, but in addition gold are was shipped crude for smelting from the West Dip and Boston Sunshine mines. Clifton (Gold Hill) district-Crude are was shipped for smelting in 1938 from several mines in the Gold Hill district, including the Clifton Standard, Garrison, Gold Spar, Midas, New Baltimore, Rube No.3, and Success. Ophir and Rush VaUett districts.-The value of the metal ou tput from the Stockton-Ophir region decreased more than $1,160,000 in 1938, owing to decreases at the Hidden Treasure mine and at the properties operated by the Combined Metals Reduction Co. The Hidden Treasure property near Ophir was sold during the year to the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co.; production was suspended in July and was not resumed until early in 1939 after completion of an extensive reconditioning and development program. The ~ifli~t in 1938 was 13,742 tons of zinc-~ead are shipped to Midvale for g, a decrease tram 27,702 tons m 1937. The Ophir Develop~ ment Co. continued work at the Ophir Hill mine, shippmg 2,112 tons of zinc-lead ore to the mill at Tooele and 218 tons of lead ore for smelting. The International Smelting & Refining Co. com{>leted the erection of a 600-ton flotation 'plant at the Ophir Hill tailings dump and placed the plant in operatIOn November 21 ; about 5 000 tons of tailings were treated by the end of the year, and copper-l~ad concen-

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trates were shipped to Tooele for smelting. Much of the equipment used in .the const~ction of the mill was salvaged from the old UtahApex mill at Bingham, which was dismantled during 1938. The Combined Metals Reduction Co. curtailed operations at the Cyclone (Bluestone), Honerine, and West Calumet mines in 1938, and the output of lead ore and zinc-lead ore was much less than in 1937; the output from the Cyclone mine decreased from about 15,000 to 8,429 tons and lead ore and zinc-lead ore from the Bonerine and West Calumet mines from more than 42,000 to about 32,600 tons. The lead ore from all three properties was shipped to Tooele for smeltand the zinc-lead are was milled in the flotation plant at Bauer. ~~:'''' in the Stockton-Ophir region included the Kearsarge, Tintic Ophir, Opbir, ZelIa, Mono, Commodore,

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American Fork district.- The value of the metal output from the American Fork district decreased $91,205 in 1938, as the output from the Live Yankee mine declined. The propert:y is owned by the American Smelting & Refining Co., and lessees' shipments of gold ore and zinc-lead ore declined Crom about 4,300 to 877 tons. Other producers in the American Fork district in 1938 included the Blue-Rock (Pucillc); . . Dutchman, and Bog Iron mines. Tintic district.- The mines in the Utah County section of the TmtJ.c district are reviewed under Juab County. WASHINGTON COUNTY

The Dixie (Apex) mine in the Tutsagubet district, operated by the Utah Southern Mining Co., was the only producer m WashiDgton County in 1938; the company shipped 147 tons of copper are to Garfield for smelting.

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continuous in 1940, and the output of r:inc-lead oro shipJ?Eld to Midvale W38 about 42500 tona-nearly tripla the quantity ill 1939. The company W38 b'y far thE' llU1lest gold producer in the region. Durillg 1940 all operations Wer& transferred to the Marll.ower tunne1, which intersects' the Park Galena fissure at depth. 'the Mayfl.ower tunne1 and the P&.rk O&l.ena mine are now oonnected, by raises. I.eeS6es opE!l'8tOO the AmeriClUl Flag property of the Park Flag Mines Co. and shipped about 6 600 tons of gol d~Jver ore crude t.o sme1ten. The remainder of the rroduction from the Park City regiOll in 1940 comprised shi pments 0 zine-lead ore to custom mill!! and crude silver oro to swelters from the New Quincy property and old tsilings, principo.lly frow Silver Creek. ToonK COtJli'TY

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1039, almost aU the output .~: );::'leee~ operations at. the ,( the Depres&on property 'ODf1'.lH ConT!

A little copper O1'e from the dump of the Dyer mine w .. eent to a smelter in 10tO. The rest of the output. from Uintah County was place1' gold from the Big Ben, Big Lizard, end Utah State Leatie No. 788, all on Green River. trTAJI COOlin A~n

F()Tk dinrict.-There was a marked gain in output. f:rom the AmOtkan Fork district. in tHO compared with 1930. The Pacific Consolidated Co. ehipped about 130 tons of lead coneentratea. Higb~e zine-l Ol'e was ehipped to Midvale f:rom the Dutchman mine. Other mines act.ive in 1940 included the Yankee, Globe,

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Silver Bell, Silver Dipper &nd Red Cloud. Norlh 1lnw: dis/rid.-l trial lot of iea.d ore from the Lobi Tintic mine was ehipped to a emelt.er in 1940. dWrid.-A liule gold orelrom the Golden Leaf propert.y was am at.ed in 1040. Tinw: wriet.-Minllll in the Utah County eection of the Tintic district are reviewed under Juab County.

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WA8HIBGTON OOtfRTJ

A small amount of gold ore from the Bull Run mine in the Bull Valley district was amalEamat.ed in 1 ~0. Some copper ore was shipped direct to a smelter from the Dixie property of the Utah Southern Mining Co. in the Tuteagubet diatriet.. .

GOLD, SILVER, OOI'Pn, Lt:AD, AND ZINC IN UTAH

473

tion 1rom the cyanide mills, about 40,000 tons of siliceous gold ore WeJ'(I shipped direct to Garfield for fluxing purposes. Active niiaeB in tbe distuct included the Consolidated Mercur, New MercW'1 La C4!:ale, Omaha, Sacramento, Geyser Marion, and Boston Slm!!!!oine. 7JlijUm. (Gold Hill) didrict.-The Wa;tern Utah Copper- property WII8 the only producer in the C\ift.<m district in 1941.

Dvqway distritJ.-Crude lead ore and zinc-lead Ol'e were shipped direct to the International smelter IPJ,d Bauer mills, respective!Y. 101 treatment from the Four Metals property. only active mine 10 U1e Dugway district in 1941. _ Free Coinage district.-A small ;mIment of lead ore, sent direct to .. smelter from the Utah B\Wker . mine, was the only produetioo from the Free Coinage district in 1941. I,ak68ide diririct.- Lead ore shipped crude to a smelter from Ute Georgia. Lyn, Lead Prince, and Monarch mines comprised the out.pu~

from the Lakeside district in 1941. NortA Tintic dUtriet.- The &ranton properly was operat.ed by hneee in 1941 , and shipments of zino ore and lead ore were made direct to the smelters. Ophir diltriet.-There was a sharp drop from 1940 in the me'" output from the Ophir district in 1941, due chiefly to the decline in

output from the HIdden Tl'eaaure mine, largest producer in the dietrict. The property was !'pert.ted by the United States Smel.... Refining & Mining Co. The tonnage 01 le&d-copper ore ehlpped crude to the Midvale smelter was 3,000 tom less than in 1940; Ute DrOduction of zinc-lead-copper ore amounted to about 400 tons. 'rhe Ophir Development Co. operated the Ophir Coalition and Ophir Bill prop6lties in 1941 and shipped to smelters 3,825 tons of ore o1.u cl"'es. In addition, 1,67.'5 tons of zinc-lead and zinc-lead~ ores were ehipped to the International eulfide concentnLtor. ~ ~ grade lead ore was ~hir!:e crude to a smelter: by the Meooa MiDlDg Co. (formuly theCW'f ) from the WandenngJew. Amongolher mines active in the Ophir district were the Northern Light, QU_ of · the Hills and the Mono group. Rush Vallev diWitt.-The output from the Rush Valley district in 1941 declined from that in 1940. The W~t Calumet (Calumet) property, owned and operated by the Combined Metals l'ieduction Co,,. was by far the llUp8t producer in the district in 1941. Over 38,000 tona of zinc-lead ore from the Calumet were treated at. the Bauu plant, and in addition over 1,000 tom of crude ore were shipped direct to a emelter. Lead ore was shipped crude to the Internaticinal smelter from the Bluestone mine in 1941. Other producers -in die district included the Honerine, Salvation-Hercules, and Argenta. "SflUlUr" distMct.- 'l'he International Smelting & !tefining Co. erected a alag-fwning plant at the smeltu location near Tooele. The plant was completed m September 1941 and during the rest of the year treated' over 29£:~ tons of zinc-lead slag and a lew bundred tons of crude zinc ore. . recovery averaged nearly 1,OOO,OOOpouodsa month during 1941. During the-first quarter of 1942, the produclion had exceeded 1,000,000 pounds a month. The lino fume produced averaged over 65 percent zinc and 2 percent lead and was shipped tAt the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and to Bart.l.eeVille (Okla..) for treatment, The lead fume aV«aged about 45 peroent lead and wu treated at the Tooele lead emelter.

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Amm.can. Fork di8trict.-The Howell Mining Co. operated the Globe mine from March through December 'and the Live Yankee mine intermittently in 1943. A total of 109 tom oC gold-fliiv8l' ore was shipped direct to smelters and 267 tons of zinc-lead ore to custom mills. Moat of the remaining production was zine-lead ore from the Silver Dipper mine. Tintic dUtrid.-Minee in the Utah County &eetion of the TinUc district are reviewed under Juab County. WUEDlGTOJt COOTY

T1d.taguht-t dL!trid.-Tbe Apex Mining Co. operated ita Apex mine from January. to April 30, 1943, and shipped copper ore direct. to Oodicld,

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Ot.hcr prod ucLion in the P ark City region included zinc-leR.d lUld silver ore from tbe Park F lag mine (formerly AmeriCAn F lag) and zinc-lead ore from the N ew Quincy mine, TOOELE COUNTY

T ooele COWl t.y contiUU(ld in 1941 to rank fourth a mong the met.alprodllCing are"" in Utah . Min!!f:l in the (loUnLy prod uced gold, s il ve r, copper, lead, nnd zinc val\1od at $2 ,542,21 8 compared with $3,243,258 in 1043. Camp Floud dwrid.-Crudo siliceous gold and gold-silver ore rrom !.be Geysel' :Marion group and Sacramento pl'Opert.ice, shipped to t.ha Oarfield smolter, comprised the out-pu t from t.he Oamp F loyd district in 1914. ThfflC properties were granted an excoption to t.ho gold-mino closing order so n.s to supply siliceous o r B to COPPIll' smcHf'-l'8 for Ouxing. 'r ho Sacramento was opera ted under lca.sc by Cbarles

Mercer. ond lhe Geyser Marion group wu ol)erated unlil November 7 by the Geyser M a riotL Co. and thereaftor by A. J . K i rkman u nder len.se agreement. . Olifton di5tr1cl.- Tho Gold H ill arscni(' millo

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Wa.ndcrlllg Jew mine. R-1Ulh. VaUell districl.- T he W est C alumet (Calumet) m ine opera ted by the C om hined M et als R ed uction Co. ww; one of the principal producers of :r.illc o.nd IllRd in the StIl.t.e d u ring 1944 Ilud WI\S 0IJerat.cd o n bot h oo mptm y and lessee 8CC(lun t.. Produo tion oonsisted 0 40,31 l •

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MINl'RALS Y&ARBOOK, lIIoU

Wrtsatch County the Empire Canyon Mining Co. shipped 291 tons of zinc-lead oro to the Tooelo concent.rator. TOOELE COUNTY

Oamp Fl&yd dutrict.-l'he GoySOl' Marion group, the only produc·

ing property in the Clunp Floyd di~trjct in 1114.~, was worked from January to September, and sili~ gold-silver oro WIlS shipped to the Garfield smeller. Dugway dutrict.-The Rip V...n Winkle Consolidated ~rining Co. operated th e Smelter CUJ\yon and Foul' ?!:Ictlt\a group throughout the yea... Of the total output, the Tooele lead smelter receivod 1),411 tons. of zinc-lead. ore conta.ining 9 ounces of gold, 1(125 OUJlC(l8 of SIlvor, 318 pounds of copper, 110,068 pounds of Jead, an( Tooele conoontrIV tor and Bauer mill for treatment; tho metal oontent was 3 ounCM of gold, 411 OlInC@B of s il ver, 68 pounds of ooper, 43,143 poundB of lsad, and 110,04-2 pounds of !;inc. Other product.ion from tha district was from the Cannon property and comprised 21lons of copper ere con signed to the Tooele and Garfield coppBr smBltc.rs and 10 tons of lead oro to the T ooele lead smelter. Erickson diBtrict.-l'ho I da group and the 'l'int.ic Delaware m ine together p rooncod 52 tons of zinc-l und ore in H145; 38 tons went to t.he T ooele leM SllloiL.er and 14 t om t o the Tooele C
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1647 &: Huber produced 37 toils of lead ~

tons oJ lead- ore .. the waste dump at the year and shipped 2,900

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UTAH-GOLD, SIJ,.VER, CQPPER, - lJIl4D; -AND ZINC

1523

Kine prodll~oll of lold, sIlur, eoppu, lead, ud lino ill Part 01" relioll, SUl:IIJILil &lid WaHlc" COlllltie., Ukb, 11»6-41, aDd total, 1810-11141, ill- torDli ot reeo.ued meW.

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Park Galena and May. ore produced from 61,802 1947. Of this quantity, eontaininJ;!: 13,311 ounces of pounds of copper! 7,316,640 of zinc. Remainmg output

re--treated sbout Coalition mill in treat,..

•ment at operated silver ore siliooous ~:~:i[:!;;;j;, shipped to

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, TOOELE COUNTY

Op}lir Dbtrict.-The Hidd6.ll Treasure mine, a major producer of lead and zinc in Utah in 1947, was worked all year by McFarland« Hullinger, lessees. Output comprised 4,385 tollB of zinc-l611.d ore, !J780 tons of lea-d ore;., and 1,568 tons of zinc-lead-copper ore. The Treasure Hill Mines lXI. operoted the Shoo Fly claims for about 9 months in 1947 and shipped 627 tons of silver smelting ore containing 26 ounees of gold, 10,848 ounces of silveJ', 26,S91 pounds of copper, Iilld 47,490 pounds of lead. The Ophir Development Co. worked its Ophir HiD mine all ySM' and produced 229 tons of zinc-lead milling 01'6 and 64 tona of lead smelting ore. Remainin, district production W8.I> l66 tons of zinc-ISM milling ore from the Ophir Unit of ths United

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MIN~L.S

YEARBOOK, 1947

Statcs SroeltJng, Refining.& Mining Co" 38 tons of riDe 8llleltmg ore from the Queen of the Hills mine, 39 Willi of lead smelting ore from the Meccfl. and 8 tons of simila.r ore from the Mono and Kear-

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lead ore containing 572 ounces of pounds of copper, and 334,748 pounds

ore contaiuing 115 ounces of gold, 275 of copper, and 10,210 pounds of lead. UTAH COUNTY

Ameriea.n Fork District.-The Dutchman group was operated under lease the entire year; output was 2,478 tons of zinc-lead milling ore containing 32 ounces of gold 19,498 ounces of silver, 12,766 pounds of coPlIeI', 566,907 pounds of 1ead, and 1,1351587 pounds of zinc. The Howe Mining Co. operated the Globe 8M the Live Yankee mines all year; the Globe produced 228 tons of zinc-lead ~ Of6 containof silver, 792 poullas of copper, ing 3 ounces of gold, 1,499 21,201 pounds of lead, and pounds of zinc; the Live Yankee produced 249 tons of similar containing 8 ollnces of !rold, 492 ounces of silver, 431 pounds copper, 6,551 pollnds of lead, and 28,497 pounds of zinc. Tintic District.-Mines in ths Tintic dilltrict, inclllding those in the Utllh County section, are reviewed under J uab County. WASHINGTON COUNTY Tutsa.gnbet District,- E. L. Oox worked the Dixie mine all year and shipped to smeltel'8 773 killS of lead ore containing 4 ounces of gold, 9,937 ounces of silver, 1,255 pounds 01 copper, 278,332 pounds of lead, and 9,275 pounds of zinc; and 615 tone of copper ore containing 63 ounces of silver and 160,694 pounds of copper.

UTAH--GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC

1615

Park Utah CoMOlidated Mines Co. operated ite property t.hrouf$hout the year and shipped 44,753 tons of Uue-load. ore, compared wat.h 41,460 tons in 1947. The ore in 1948 contained 1,527 ouncea of gold, 602,880 ounces of silver, 168,368 pounds of copper, 7,625,586 pounds of lead, and 7,055 731 pounds of zinc. P&cifie BridR:e~. operated its 1,000-ton .flotation mill and treated 292J 358 tons of old zinc-lead tailings from the Gras e Jlj dump, compared witb 459,944 tons in 1947. Conoentn.te8 comprised 5,635 toIlll of lead ooneeou-ate containi ng 224 OUDcea of gold, 98 M6 ounces of silver, 76,264 pounds of copper, 1,816,229 pounds or lead, and 569,849 pounds of aine' and 4,6 11 toM of zinc concentrate containing 121 ounee& of gold, 69,404 ounces of silver, 41 ,345 pounds of copper, 4~t768 pounds of lead, and 4 818,599 pounds of zinc. 1 l'jew Park Min~ Co. prOOuced 72,83 1 tons of ore in 1948-a new high-oompared With 68,256 tons in 1947. or the or8 output in 1948, 62,951 toIlll earne from the Mayflower f188ure and 9,880 tons from th"e Pearl lissure. All was zine-read milling ore and contained 19,272 ouncee of gold, 417/OM ouncee of silver, 866,196 pound s of copper, ?12SS,644 pounds 0 lead, and 10,084,961 pounds of zinc. The Silver King Weatm-n mine came into production in t:p~ber and shipped 342 toM of lead oro to srneltera. M cFILrland & ullinger, leesees, operated the Daly No. I waate dump uuill August and shippea 32,745 tons of siliCOOWl silver ore to a smelwr. Reuben Gru:bot produced zinc middling in a small flotation mill by re-treating current t.ail~ from the Silver King Coalition mill. Remaining district. br~tion was principally li64 tons of dump silver ore from the t property and 58 tom of copper ore from th e West PlLrk mine. TOOELE COUNTY

om. by lessees working lead 8IJlelting ore 809 pounds of copper,

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and tons of zinc-lead ore Crom claim 90 tons of .riDelead ore and 82 tons of lead oro from MeW's group, and 173 tons of zine-lead ore from the Cannon property. lriebon Diawot.- Principal out.put. came from t.he Esther grou~ 984 tons of zinc-lead milling ore. Ophir District;.-Leeeees at the Hidden Treasure mine produced 3,926 tons of zine-lead ore, 1,565 toIlll of zine-lead-oopper ore, 4.14 t.ona of lead ofel.....and 42 tons of zinc ore. The Ophir D evelopment. Co. worked its vphir Hill mine all year and sbippOO 203 tons of zinelead ore contaimng 2 ounces of gold, 1, 173 ounces of silver, 2,926 pounds of copper, 29,732 pounds of lead, and 26,906 pounds of zinc. Lenea operated the Shoo Fly group of the Treasure Hill Mines Co. and shipped 423 tone of ailver ore and S8 tone of sine-lead ore. From

1616 the Ophir unit of the United States Smelting, Rofinillg &: Mining Co., lessees shipf.ed 575 tons of zine..leo.d milling oro. Rush Val fly District.--Ore production a~ the West Calumet (Calumet) mine of the Combined Metals Reduction Co. rose from 31,294 tons in 1947 t.o 38,396 tons in 1948. Of the oro produced in 1948, 38,342 tons were ~inc-lead milling ore oontaining 2,716 ounces of goJd, 308,186 ounces of silver , 7 ,~,7 11 pounds of lead, and 3,838,606 pounds of zinc; 54 tons of lead ore went direct to a smelter. From the company Honorine-Galena King group, 1 423 tons of zinc--Jcad ore and 333 tons of lead oro were produced. The company Hotation mill at Bauer treated about 62500 killS of pyritic gold.ilver tail~, which y ielded 20,886 tons iron concentrate valuable cbieOy for 1\6 gold and silver. Ot·ber district output. was 708 tollll of zino-lead ore from the Silver Eagle group and 70 tons of lead ore from the Circle Amended claim. Smeller Diatriat.--Output credited to producers in t.he Smelter district comprises the metals recovered from 1,036 tons of old copper sl~ shipped to II. copper smelter by the International Smelt ing &: Refinmg Co. at Tooele and 34,818 toDS of old zinc alag treated at the company alag-fuming plant. Willow SJ;lrintl Dat.rict.-.~L~r~'~"""",. operated the Oro Del R ey group and shipped to smell.en! 781 tons of lead ore oontaining 1,346 ounces of gold, 4,157 ounces of silver, 1,282 pounds of cofper, 345,765 pounds of lead, t\Jld 253 pounds of zinc, and 63 tons 0 gold ore containing 177 ounces of gold, 193 ounces of silver, 100 pounda of copper, and 5, 181 pounds of lead.

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UTAH COUNTY

American Pork Dat.rict .- Dut.cbman Mine Leasers operated the Dutchman group throughout 1948 and shipped 2,550 tollS of zinc--Iead milling ore containing 37 ounces of gold, 18,449 ounces of silver . 9,671 pounda of copper, 463,250 pounds of lead, and 1,147/095 pounds of zinc. Rema~ district production W&8 200 tons 0 load oro from the Blue Roek mme and 90 tons of zinc-lead ore from the Live Yankee claim. Tintic Diltrict.~Mines in the Utah County II6Otion of the Tintic district are reviewed under J uab County. WASHINGTON COUNTY

Tutsa.gubet District.-E. L . COl: worked tho Dixie (Apex) mine and shipped to smelters 959 tons of lead ore containing 7 ounces of gold, 12,061 ounces of silver, 8,167 pounds of copper, and 269,995 pounds of lead ; and 175 tons of copper ore containing 1 ounce of gold, 61 ounces of silveri and 57,599 pounda of copper. Wayne Snow shipped 113 tons of leaa ore from the Black Warrior claim.

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MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1949

McFarland & Hullinger, lessees( operated the Daly NO .1 waste dump and shipped 50,951 tons 0 siliceous silver ore to a smelter. The West Park Mining Co. operated its property from June to October and shipped 255 tons of copper smelting ore containing 10 ounces of gol!!t. 176 ounces of silver, and 21,182 pounds of copper. Silver King w estern mine was operated by lessees from May to December. Output of ore, all shi]?ped to smelters, comprised 1,530 tons of lead ore aDd 40 tons of silver 000. Reuben Garbett re..treated a Bub· stantia] tonnage of current zinc tailings [rom the Silver King Coalition mill until the mill closed at the end of June. Remaining diet·riet production was 93 tons of silver smelting ore from the J. I . C. &: West Quincy (New Quincy) property ana 119 tons of lead Ore from , the Crescent mine dump. TOOELE COUNTY

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1602 62 pounds of zinc. The main Ollt.put was 139 tons of oopper.uver ore produced from the Monoeoo mine. DqWI" Diab'ict.- In 1950 Willil Smith operated four properties in the I5ugway district.. The principal output was 245 tollll of zinc-lead ore produced from the Four Met.aJs, Fnneea, &lId Raymond properties. BricUon Diatrlct,- The Bar X Mining CO. worked its Esther group most of the year and shipped 1,115, tons of milliDg ore containing 6 ounces of gold, 832 01lnces of silvOt', 143,300 pounds 01 lead! and 147,745

pounds of zinc. The Ida-Desert View group produced 47 tons of l(,jno-lead ore.

Ophir Diltrict.-lead ore (4,303 tonal and zine-lead ore (1,642 tons) produced b'y lesaees McFarland &: HII11inger--from tbe Hidden Treasure rome in 1950 were by far the chief output of the Ophir district.. Other district production included 1,345 tons of zinc-lead ore from the Ophir unit of the United S ta tes Smelting, Refining &: Min.i.o2 Co.' 330 tons of zinc-lead ore and 117 toM of copper ore from the Ophir Hill. mine; and 75 toIlS of Jead..oopper ore, 48 tone of copper ore, and 6 tons of .tine-lead ore from the Mono-K~ group. Bulb. Valler District.- The Combined Met.&ls Reduction CG. operated the West Oalumet (Oalumet) and Honorin&-Galena King propertiea throughout the year; however, ore output from the Wost Calumet mine dropped from !2cf07 tons in 1949 to 6,378 tons in 1950, while that from the Honoi-in alena King group increased from 827, tons to 8,225 tons. The ore from both properties contained 1,094 ouucee of gold, 1115)501 ounces of silver, 60,266 pounds of copper, 3,043,32 1 pounds 01 lead, and 2,11lJ364 pounds of zinc; most of it (14,084 was .tine-leaa ore treate
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American Fork DiatriCl.--Output in 1950 was 76 tons of zino-lead milling ore from the F1orall.OO.e and Silver Leaf propertietl and 18 tons aT lead smelting ore from the Blue Rock (pacific) mine. Tinlio Diltri~.-Mines in the Utah County BOOtion of the Tintic district are reviewed under Juab County,

UTAH-OOLD, SILVIlR, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC

1605

Owing to n early continuous operations throughout 1951 by all of the principoJ producers in the Park City region, outpu~ oC ore and production of each metal (ezoopt gold) were greater thlUl in 1950. Output of zinc-lead ore, the chief lIOuroe of motoJ production, increased £rom 120.].29 tons in 1950 to 190,178 in 1951, fI, 58-percent gain. The New Yark Mining Co. was the leading producer in the Park City region. T he oompany np6rted tha~ 88,296 tona of zinc-lead on was shipptld in 19tH oompued with 70," 80 tone in 1950. The oro in 1951, containing 21,087 ounces of gold l 434i219 ounces of silver, 1,019,881 pounds of copper, 7,737,916 pounds of o~dJI:nd 10,985,330 pounds of zinc, was treatea in the custom fl.otation . of the United States Smelting, Re.fining .t Mining Co. at Midvale and Combined MeW!. ReductIO n Co. at Dauer. The Park Utah Consolidated Mines Co. operated its throe unitsJudge, Ontario, and KeetJey- all year and shipped 55,185 tons (38,23 1 tons in 1950) of zinc-lead ore to t he custom flotaLion mill of the international Smelting &: Refining Co. near Tooele' all ore shipped in 1951 came from the Judge and KeetJey units. The on oontained 2,118 ounces of gold, 315,608 ounces of silver, 22,605 pounds of copper, 9,249,384 pounds of lead, and 11 ,294,(00 pounds of zino. The ooml'('l8ulta of development in the Ontario mine dul"expeet.ations in the finding of new bodiee of ore on

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The most. productive Ill'6&S in Tooele County U'6 the Ophir- and RUBh VAlley districts. In 1951, 4 mines in the Ophir distric~ produced 11 ,395 tons of ore oompared with 7,900 in 1950. Tltis e;ain was due to increased production of zinc-lead on from the Ophir urut of the United States smelting, Refinina: &: Mining Co. (from 1,345 tona in 1950 to 8,167 in 1951). McFarland &: Hullinger continued to operate the Hidden Treuure mine, but output of lead 0l'6 and zine-l.ead ore do-

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~ERAL8

YEARBOOK, 1111

clined to 3,054 tons. Other district. production WU 90 toni of zinclead om from the Mono-Kearsarge group and 45 tollll of lead ore and 39 of zinc-lead ore flOIn the Ophir Hill mine. Output of ore in the Rush Valley district increased from 14,958 tonI in 1950 to 26,343 in 1951. Zinc-lead are produced from the WllIIt Calumet mine by the Combined Metals Reduction Co. increased from 6,051 tollll in 1950 to 23,420 in 1951, while that from t he Honorine min e declined from 8,030 tona to 2,320. The ore from both properties con tAined 1,632 ounces 01 gold, 227,644 ounces of silver, 87,600 pounds of copper, 6,060,404 pounds of lead, and 1,995,070 pounds of zinc. Other district production Willi 570 tons ·of old tailings, oontain!ng chiefly gold and lead shipped by the Combined Metals Reduction Co., U1d 33 tons of zinc-lead ore produced [rom the Silver Ea2le mine. The BfU' X Mining Co. worked ita Esther group in tho 'krickson d illtrict all year and ,hlPfed 2,876 toOl! of ore, which contained 10 OUDCM of gold, 464 ounC€16 0 silver, 4,866 pounds of copper , 380,554 Ji>Oundt of lead, and 462,560 pounds of zinc. Other count.1 production in· eluded 4,881 tons of old zinc slag from the I nt.em.ational Smelting 4: Refining Co. dump near Tooele 1,441 tons of furnace cle8.llings from ita l.inc fuming pl8.llt (also near Tooele), 115 to08 of zinc--Iead ore from !.he Ida-Deeert. View group in the Erickson district 113 to na of oopper ore from the Monocoo mine in the Oifton (Gold Hill) district, 11 tona of zinc ore 8.lld zinc--lead ore from the Four M etals mine and 39 tons of lead ore from the Cl~roperty in t.he Dugway district, and 50 tons of lead ore from the B a.wk claim in the Blue Bell district. UTAH

American Fork Diltrict.-Jay Jacohllon shipped 360 wns of old slag, containing principally lead and zinc, from the Yankee property and 113 tons of lead~ilver ore from the Dutchman waste dump. Other district production was 60 tons of lead ore from the Blue Rock (pacific) mine and 11 tons of zinc--l.ead ore from the norallode. Tintic Datrict.-Mines in the Utah. County section of the Tintic district are reviewed under Juab County. WASATGt Puk CUy Region.-Minell in the Wasatch County section of the

Park City region are r eviewed under Summit and Wasatch Counti6l!!. WASHINGTON

The Requa mine in the Harrisburg (Leedl:l) district. wu operated a short time in 1951 and produced 52 tons of copper-silver ore. Ken· tucky·Utah. Mining Co. worked the Dixie-Apex mine in the Tutsagubet district moU of the year and shipped 111 tons of ore containing 42 ounces of silver, 40,726 pou nds of copper, and 630 pounds of lead.

918

MINERALS T EARBOOX, 195 2

min, 1,058 Refinjng

UIHTAH

The principal miner&J. commodities in Uintah County in 1952 were petroleum produced from wells in the Uinta Basin and FilBOnite produced from three properties at Bonanza. Production 0 oil from the Uinta Basin has nsen consistently each year since 1949, and the area is eu!'reoUy the largest oil-prodllcing field in Utah. Uintah and

'I'lD MINERAL IND11S'I'RY O:P UTAH

common making brick. Wf18

:,"~~~in 1953; moat ~

Gra.nUlville

1021! j"

'1030 1,860,305 pounds of zinc.

The Ophir mine operated all year and

Treasure

was

Willi

the principal producer; the Hidden mjne ~!lfu,a,it under lease from January 1 to Auguat 31 by McFarland
ToooI.

UINTAH Detaila on mining operations and production in U'mtah County are combined with tboee of Duchesne County. UTAH

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THE :MINEaAL INDUSTRY 01' UTAH

1161

Goldl Bilver, lead, and tine with .. total value of $1 ,285 were roOOVOI'O(l from ore mined by Scott M. Nebeker, Gloria Mining Co., aDd \V'd foro W . Sweeney from deposita in Sevier Count.y . So.nunh•..:....The total value of ' the mincra.l production in Summit County increased from $1.2 mjllloll in 1955 to $5.6 million in 1956. M08t of this gain came from the advanced out put of lead and zinc in the county, mainly' from the United Park C ity Mines Co. mines. Production by this company in 1956 C611l6 from illl Swnmit County mines, whereas in 1955 most of it C&Il\e from Wasakh Coun~y mines. The value of gold, Bilvel', copper, lead, and zinc output from deposita in Summit County made up 93 percaDt of the wtal value of all minerals produced in the county in 1956. The United Pat'k City Mines Co. ,group. of mines Will! the 1 600nd· rAnkitur: lead IlIld zinc IUld third-TaIlklll&: silver producer in the State in 1956. The oompany reported that It minod a.nd shippod 83,427 tons of lead-zinc ore (with an averoge assay of 0.030 ounce of gold and 5.71 ounces of silver p&f ton, 0.125 peroent copper, 7.10 percent lead, and 9.64 percent zinc) to the International Smelting and Refining Co. (1S&R) pl&llt at Tooele and the United Statea Smelting Refi¢rlg and Mining Co. (USSR&:M) plant at Midvale for concentration, lead smelting, and fuming of th e zinc-beari.ng: B1ag produced. In addition it shipped 10,376 tons of tailing material to American Smelting and R efifiLng Co. (ASkR ) copper 8IIlelIM at Garfield and 1,260 toDlJ of lowgrade silicooue material to IS&R lead Bmelter and zinc-fuming plant at ToocJ.e and ASd::R smelter at Garfield. In 1056 the company also did 6J.:teus.ive exploration and development at ita mines comprising 22\988 fee~ of tunnel. 11 ,344 feet of dIamond drilling, ~ 42,514 foot of ong-hole percUS8ion drillinll:. An oil warehouse, railroad. spur, and loading dock were built near lteetley during 1956. Five other mines produced varying quantIties of gold, silver, coPpcrl lead, and zinc in Summit County In 1956. G . W . Wortley shipped. material to thesmelter from the Atkinson tailing dump, WortJ~ Broa. shipped from Clegg Leese tailing ~:81 Wortley Broa. and McFarland &: trullinger shipped from the Gr I tailing dump, and McFarla.nd & Hullinger shipped from the Ontario and Park Flag mine dumJ?8. Nonmet ,l, played only a small role in the overall mining activity of the mineral. industriee in 1956. Sand and gravel and stone for highway Use were the moat important. The Federal Bureau of Public Roads, the Utah State Road Commission, and the county highway w£artment were all actively cng&.g6!l. in hjghway construction. iting &; Haymond, Vernal 8&nd & Gravel Co., and Wb&elwright Col\lltruetion Co. Wen! the ludi ng private contractors workin'! r" these agencies· crusbed sand.wne wu the principal stone an wu quarried by Utah Construction Co. for t·he Federal Bureau of Reclamation. Clay production conaisted of 14,700 tons of miscellaneous clay mined by the Ut&h Fire Clay Co. from ito Henefer pit. Coal was produced from the Chappell mineoperat.ed by theChappeU Coal Co. The company employed 13 men. during the year. Tooele. -The total value. of minEll"a1 output in Tooele County in 1956 (M million) was 9 percent above the comparable fi.gur6 for 195.5. Increased output was r eported fOf 10 of the commoditiea produced in 19.5&, including gold, ailVEll", copper, lead, zinc, lime, potash, pumice, and ~ swnee. Declin81 were reported for output of 8aIt, atone, and '611871

51

74

,

][62

•

,

tungsten, and no production wu reported lor claye and sand and gravel. In 1956 Tooele County continued to be an important lead-zinc milling and smeJi.ing area. The International Smelling and Refining Co. l,.500-ton-per-day ooncenlJ'awr and lead &melw and r.inc-41lag fuming plant at Tooele were operated on ore, concentrate, and slag [rom Utah and other States throughout t he year. In 1956 Combined Metals Reduction Co. continued to accept custom lead-zino ore for treatment in itll 7QO..ton-per-
•

1126 continued to be the only clay produOOl' j it mined bentonite and fuller', earth from its Aurora and Redmond deposita. Salt product.ion ~

ma.ined at the aame level as that reported for 1956, and the Red mond rock-salt mine of Poulson Bros. Salt Co. was the 801e source o f supply. Elmo R. H erring !LIld Redmond S&nd &: Gravel Co. were the only producers of sand &nd gravel and 37,100 tons of structural IUld paving

se.nd and gravel were reported. CGaI produced by the Southern Utah Fuel Co. at its No.1 Riawatha mine increased 4 percent compared with 1956. Sum miL- The tot.aJ value of !.he output of ~Id , silver, copper. lead, and zinerroduced (rom deposita in SlImmit County in 1957 was 14.6 million 0 !.he $4.8 million combined value of all mineral. produced in the county. The United Park City Mines Co. in was and zinc) theth"0'~;;l;~'.: in the State.

was comprised of 45,700 tons of pavGibbons, 'iVhiting &: Haymond, and '~.~·"n sandstone, produced by Moun-

of crushed slJldstooe, mined for

Miacellaneous-clay product.ion . from its Henefer pit.

ou.'

o( each o( the metals, gold, in 1957.

Two

lD.lDe wu :",a.d

operated by leuers. continued t.o an imporw,nt lead-zinc International Smelting and Refining lead smelter, and ziDe-aiag concentrate, and slag

potash percen~

,

963 Coal production by the Southern Utah Fuel Co. at its No. 1 mine on the hie seam was S percent greater than in 1957. The entire output El Bees Uranium Co. produced 8 small the Flat Tire group and shipped it

•i

, ,

was

its.Chappel mine for local conbelow that in 1957.

lime, potash, salt, sand and gml Stones was $3.1S million of Tooele value of mineral production. Sub8ta.ntial for some of lime, stones. The

Output of xino- . oompared with Proproduced from duction of tb_ met.a.la was recorded from 12 active l'IliJles., of which the Ophir unit, operated by McFarland a. Hullinger, J noes, and

Calumet, operated by the Calumet I.e''', were the major producers. International Smelting and ReRning Co. reclaimed cold slag ftom the Tooele lead gmelter dump and treated it in its zinc-fuming plant. Lees than 100 tons of ore was produced from each of the remaining active minee.

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MINERALS YEARBOOK, 19(10 19GO

Hales Sand & Gravel; and De Mar Mar W. Brimhall Construction, con· department; and construction crews tractors for the State highway depo.rlment; of Ephrain City Corp. mined 181,500 181,600 tons of building and paving vel. A salt derosit ve}. deROSit near Redmond was worked by :Morton Salt Sal~ Co. formerly fonnexly Royal Cryst&l Salt Solt Co.} Co.).. From" deposit near Sterling, me Utah Min!:f Mini~f Co. recovered clay for use as "a soil conditioner and for poultry f . Dry natural gas produced at Joe's Valley field by Three States Natural Gas Cy United Park City llines ?lIines Co., to the Utah Copper Garfield copper smelter. Coal production, iill an from the Chappel Coal Co., was 9 peromt percent above that of 1959. Tooele.-The Tooele.- The mineral industry of Tooele T ooele County continued to set records in 1900. Production P roduction of nonmetal mineral products accounted aCC
E

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'1'Hk '1m MINUlAL J4lN1;RAL INDUSTRY nmUSTRT OJ' UTAH tJ'TAR

1047

dolomite were mined for U96 Uge in manufacturing manuf&Cturing lime, lim~ . and United States Smelting Refining and :Mining bolining Co. rec()vei-ed recovered oolitic oolitie limesand limeeand at Stansbury ISland. International Smelting and Refining Co. reclaimed cold slag from the Tooele lead smelter dump &nd treated it in its zinc-fuming plant primarily to recover ZiM; however, some silver, copper, and lead . 180 were rooovernd. International Smelting treated State and out-ofState custom ores, ooncentrates, and materials in its lead smelter and zinc-fum ing plant at Tooele. McFarland &; Hullinger conducted de-vel0r,ment work at the Ophir Unit mine, owned by United Stales Sme ling Refining and Mming Co., and shipped lead-zinc ore produced to the Uruted States Smeltrng Midvale mill for treatment. Shipmenta of small lots of gold, lead, and lead-zinc ores, each le8!l than 100 tons, were made from seven other mines.

Uintah.-PetroJeum production from 112 wells in 5 fields was 16

peroent above that of 1959. Notable incresses were recorded at the Ashley Valley and Red Wash fields. Five new 28Sfield9 were di&covered. The discovery well at the White River }leld, completed in November, 80wed 1.25 million cnbic feet of J{U a day from the Wasatch formation at a deE.th of 6,422 to 6,432 -'oot. The Coyote W ash field was discovered in January. The discovery well flowed 826,000 cubic feet of gas a day from the Wasatch formation at a depth of 4,888 to 5,004 foot. A well, 5.5 miles southwest of the discovery well in the Uintah Unit, discovered in 1959, was completed in May and flowed 2.2 million cubic reet of gas a day from tlie W asatch formation at a depth of 6,061 to 6,606 feet. The Rock House field t 5.5 miles south of the Southman Canyon 1ie1d, was discovered in October. The d i900very well flowed 12.5 million cubic feet of gas a day from the Wasatch formation at a depth 014,144 to 51008 feet, a nd 900,000 cubio feet o f gas a day from the Mesa..'erde at a depth of 1i,362 to 5,382 feet. The Fence Canyon field, 10 miles northwest of the Westwater field in Grand County, was diecovered in April. Initial flow of the discovery well was 5.2 million cubic feet of gas a d ay from the Dakota sa.ndstone at a depth of 8,544 to 8~ feet. Development drilling was confined largely to the Red W s.sh-Walker H olloware&. where 25 oil wells lUld 1 gas well were completed. In tile Chipita Wells field. six gas wells were drilled. Two gas wells were drilled in the Ute 1l-ail field and one in the Ashley Valley fie1d. C&1ifornia Oil Co. operated its natural·gas plant in the Red Wash field and recovered natural gaspline that was u96d as a blending stock at refineries in the Salt Lake City area. Residual ~as was marketed throuS-b pipelines. Standard Oil Co. of Californta began the constructIOn of a 40-million-cubic-foot-a-d ay natural.gll8 plant in the Red Wash field. The natural gas liquids recovered were to be used at the Standard Oil Co. refinery at Salt Lake City and the residual gas were to be sold to pipeline companies f or distribution to consumel"fl. Oil80nite mined at the Bonanza mine by American Gilsonite Co. and at the Little Bonanza., Little Emma, and W amer-Quinlan mines by G. S. Ziegler & Co. and cont.nctors was slightly ahovethatof lOtiO. American Gilsonite Co'l !he major producer, further improved its mining method using high-pressure hydranlio nozzles suspended

THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OJ' UTAH

1055

Coal outpUt, all produced by Chappel Coal Co., was slightly below thatof 1960. s.ccounted for 91 ~n_~1

increase in sales of 1XItasnear Wl'J:\dover. Capacity of additional ditches and inof a oompacting was started late in

IOSI An M-percent the decrelL98 in '\'1'&8 U8ed as ways. The 19,000 duood 225 tons

:,"; was

&c.

evapora.precipItated

L.

, •

realized in quantity of stone quarried. Utah Lime and Stone Co., and Utah Marblehead . crushed limestone. 'The product, a.coounting for most stone production, was used prinetpally for making lime. It was used as flux t roofing, and aspnfLIt mlsr; in cement. stuooo, terrazzo, cast stone ; and for poultry grIt and fil ter beds. Quicklime and hydrated lime were produced by The Utah Lime and Stone Co. at its.f.l'OO' 33ing plant near Gl'Ultsvilie. Utah Marblehead Lime Co. made ead-bumed dolomite from rock quarried near TOMle. Sand and pavel, produced by England Construction, Ine., was I186d in building and road oonstmction. 70'1"-8111 sa 80

1082 Pipe and Ceramics Corp. and Interstate Brick Co. ;;;,.; pits at Five Mile Pa~ for producing heavy clay was $1.26 was due by Me-

•

ducer, mine. A to-percent inereas6 was made in the value of phosphate rock mined by San Francisoo Chemical Co. at the Vernal unit. The rook was shipped to Western Phosphates, Inc., at Garfield for processing. Production of 403,400 tons of sand and gravel in seven operations (four commercial snd three Government-and-contractor) was used in building and rood construction. ' The U.S. Army Col]lS of En¢neers used 5,871 tons of limestone, quarried by A & B Construction Co. and Hensen Construction Co., f or riprap. Gem stolle material--agate Rnd petrified wood-was collected by Francis Boege! and Wilson's Rock Shop. Utah.-Nonmetals, consisting of sand and gravel, stone, lime, clays, and gem stone material (1$ pounds of chrysocolla), oomprised the entire mineral output. LImestone was quarried by tl16 Columbia('nm6vR Steel Division, United States Steel Corp., at the Keigley quarry principall'l.for use fLS flux... in refractories, and as road metall;~~ Lake&de ime & Stone Co. l or use in dusting coal mines and in rna .

1024

~ERALS ~BOOK.

lRft4

Mining Co. in a joint venture with United Park City lfines Co. Fluxing ore oontaining gold. silver, and oopper was shipped from the ~~ West dump by Wordey Co. and from the Ontario dump by ~ arland & Hullinger. The values of the gold, silver, copper, and zinc were lese than in 1963; lead production was higher. Among the nonmetals, clay (all mi8Cella.neous) output declined. Producbon was by International Pipe and Ceramidl Corp. for manufacturing vitrified sewer til~ Interstate Brick Co. for manufacturing buil4ingOrie][. and Utelite Corp. for ma1rin2: lightweight aggregate. Production o( the other nODJ:l)etals, sand ana. grave] and stone. also declined. The sand and gravel, produced by Wortley Co., was uged in paving. Sawed sandStone was qUBlTied by Rooky Mountain Qllarries and miaoollaneoUll stone was produced by a contractor of the State highwa, department. rooeIe.-IncrEpsee in the value of nonmetals output IWalted in a 8-parrent rise in the nIne of mineral production. r.im~ the major mmeral commodity in value of production, increased. QUIcklime and hydrated lime, manufactured by U.S. Lime, were used in constructionl dlemieal, &nd other industries.. Utah Marblehead T,ime Co. produeea dsd·bumed dolomll:6 for use as refractory lime. Leslie Salt Co., Solar Salt Co. and Utah Salt Co. produced 9OIar·eva.porated salt from Grea.t Salt ~e brine. Output was valued at $1.9 million oompared with $U million in 1963. Bonneville, Ltd., produced potassium salts at its evaporation plant in Sil: commercial operators stone. Crushed . was trol, flux, and . dolomite. Dimension duoed. Marble waa

o~~r:~

(gilsonite, ;~;;j reprtemted

Warren Wonsiu Jensen.) Pro-

THI: IlI NEItAL INOUSTlt y or UTAH

operollors woe~ Mo"~ Knudlm Co .• 11K... and eontnaon fo r the State highway drpu"aml. The Utcl ile Corp. ncar Pcoo produced _ of the Iobale io the counlY for ..... 31 I raw matnial in tn:I.nufaauring ligbtwcigtlt ' ' '''!p.1n.. Coal was miMd in productioa value, _~ produced mti~ly by Bonne'tille Division '1 Wendover. Solar cvapont.«! ult wao produoed hy Ha rdy Sal! Co .• I..eIlic SIlt Co. (pu~ by Hardy SIlt Co. In October). Solar Sa[t Co.• and Utah SI lt Co. T-'".-Inuu~

Limestone. marble. and u nditonc Wrl"C produ«
19M . Ont of the nil d i..ocovcricl ap,,"red

very promising! Phillipl Petroleum Co. No. I R.lver Ju nction Uni l _ II was a.o . pletetl. pumping 21H ba .....iI of oil prr day from the Crtt'I"I R.iver formation (Tertiary). ValU4' of pmducllon of phOlphatt rod in cre.xcI .8 perotn r.. Increaxd mining and expa ndon of plant faciliti.,. by San Francisco Chemlca l Co. near Vernal lIim ulaled an increase In production . Production of gillonite dccruxd I. percent in qua ntity and [ ~ pcreenl in ..[ tIC. Sand and gnvel WII prod uced chiefly by con tracton and crew. fOl' Ihe Stale highway department and by ae .. of the wumy high ...a)' de· ~rlmtn t for ux in pa.~ing. A COntractor uled ..... dltone as ripnp and ..... d m«a.l for the National Part; Servia. and mitoel · laneow other Iiones u ripnp fo r the federal Bureau of Public RoadI.. OUtpul of lIone oona itut.«! the largest percentage of the mintral produc:· t ion value. Th e 42-perant 0\'cn1l inO"alle in ~alue. howner. "'.. primarily the rauil of incn:ascd production of lead. dn e. and a.ac:l atcd gold and l il ver from t he Bu rJin Shaft mine of KntntCOIC Copper Corp. Val. ue of lime pmdoclion inertilXd 42 pcrant . Outpul of copper. clays. and .. nd and gn.vel dccrnRd in quant ity and val",,,. Utah

roc .... t of the IIODe (crushed li rncstoa..) _ p,oduoed hy USS for ..... as a RUI< in manuf..:turing "ed. The company abo produced crw.hcd IiIDftIDnC fo r ux in IDDDcrete and II foundries. Crmhed litnfttonc: produced by Lakeside Li"", I: Slone Co. wao uxcl for mal·dust control and in manuflcturing lime. LimCllone was aiM> produced for the Siale high ...ay department. San d and gravel from II operuio>q. wn uled ch iefly fo r bllilding construct io n. Kcnnew " Cop!"" Corp. produced lead· zine and kad orell f,om the I .OSO·foot Inc( of Bu rtin Shaft minco Some lonnal" wu obtaIned from dcftlopmcn t work on the: I .2OO.fOOl Ic-vcl. The main on: lOne conalst_ ed oi mia tura of , ulfid .. and osidra. The main haulage co' 'lI1 ex tended 550 f«t from lhe BUrFo No. 2 production abUI Ind was to boo cxlcsidrd another 50 fCC"!. Th" wa ter tahk was Iowacd by pumpi", below the upper l.,..cI of the on: body. Approx l m~tely '.000 gallons per min ute wen: pllmped by Ilainla. stro.l pump" Ihrough polyvinyl t hlorldc·li ned pi~ bccaux the: water ...., • IQlding 1-fO" f and contained

THE IIIINl.RAL tN OU5TIY OF UTAH ~frlCto,.,. in fou .. d rieo, In " Iilt6S. and lu

TOtI'1'-drilling mud •. Fuller·. earth mined from the wmpany'l AUTOn mine wu UJed in 6.1Ieri", minnal oIb and nportftl. I,,· le .... lional Pipe and c..n.mia Corp . and IlIlernate Britt. Co. minn!. misttlbneoUl d~1 for ma .. ufacturi .. g building brick. .sand and IP"vcl fTom ..,"".. nperuions w:u u.<"d mainly in TOlId and building con· tl ruCilon. SIlt produO!
787

cal Corp. Leading commod itia In dccr~u· ing order o f Outpul value weT~ lim~, A lt, lead, ltollC. rin~. and A nd a nd ,...nl. Magnaiu .. chlorldr for mqt>Qlum mew was produocd for the fin t IUDe In U..ab, by Bonnevilk, Lid. The county ... nnUd finl in the Slate in output o f II"", a nd salt ; lime Will produced hy two companies and Ali by th ree. Pyrite concentnte was ,hipped from a IwckpUe by LSlR. MOIl o f Ih~ gold, Iii...,... copper, lead, a nd line Clme h .... tbe Oph.lr ~ of USSRi:M Co. (Mcfarland" H ulll",", leo· ....). Other appT«lable production o f the metab ClIme from the T (IO(Ie cold·al ag dump of IS8eR, the Argent mine o f Silver Eagle Mining Ie Milling Co .. 111(1 the Wa n · dering J ew mine of Cutron ElI:plontion

'"

.sand and grud &om ti,hl npe"lio:M ..... uxd ..ain ly in pning and hulldlng. Slone produocd by The FliDlkotc Co., Uta h Calcium Co., In c~ and Utah Ma rble· head Lime Co. Wilt u.s<:d chiefty In the pro· duclion 0 1 Hme and as l refractory (dolom ill!) . Sola r..,,,,,,,,,rated ... 11 wu produocd by Ha rdy Salt Co .. Solar Salt Co~ and Uub Salt Co. H ardy SIlt Co. conllmeted twO 4l · .cre, salt ·evaporation poodl It lu uu Point opt"raliot1 : lach 01 the ponili wu 10 yield fro m 20,000 to 25.000 tON of .all an · nualty. U",," Th~ COUnty wu ranked fi lii in pbonite proclunlon and ICCOIld i .. natural gas, Dalunl gMOliru:, !"'troIeum, LP pift. a nd phosphate ·rod. production. All thcoc commoditi.. had decli .... in production CltC~p t Mtunl guo ll ne and ph05phllte rod:. Although total mlnenol " Ut pu . valu e dccrcaoed by 4 !",reent. to S29.6 millio .. , the counlY will ra nked third In the Slate. Al lhough" d«rcaalng In value, !",lroJ.eum coalinum as lhc leadi", toni· modity. rcprewnling 66 pe' a:nl of the 10tal o UtpUI val ~. Gilsonitc. natural po. a .. d phOlphate rock followed in order 01 o"tp"l val"e. Largest decTcasa oc
THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF UTAH

719

7._Vun: Min~ productron of gold, l ilvu, copper, 1,..,11, and Jinc In 1970, by typeo of mat~r;"l pTOc....ed and m~thods of RCOV~ry, w terllll of ra:overablt metali Tabl~

Type or mo.UorlaI p ..... UH i .,.d mothod of """_y

Dl .......... tlna: of_ 0<0_ " _. ____ . _. __ _• __ ____ • _______ • f'recipl"'too ........ ......... .... . . CloooUp I .d .oi1l_ ........ ..... __

1 .116

Tm..L _••• ••••• _•• __•••••••••••

8.832

521,e22

G"""d total • _____________ •••••••

_.029

6.029.787

.

on

&I).IM! 1.~79

,

52.I1S

.

4 .700

I. ~ I~

•.W

4,730

"

1.570

295.7S11

n.377

S4.e88

I I .dud. O<>J><eIIt .... rrom unnlum 0", . • 0.", may no< add ¥O totalo """010 - . .... otll>doptad .... rOUlldl ....

Gold.--Output of gold, ntuly a11 pm. duc1!d at a byproduct of ~ met.o! orq, declined (i percent in !970. Value de· cre..ed 17 perunt beo.ule of lower market prices. The open.pit «Ipper mine ot Bingham w at the princi pal gold prodUCfl" The MayAo ..·cr mine woJ second in gold production. Iron Or ..._lron or~ was produc1!d at five min.s, aU in Iron County. Th~ mines wet'e as follow", the ComstOCk mine oper· ated by Utah Const ruction I: Mining Co. for CnI Sted Corp. (CFI:I); th~ Ikont Mound mine of United SlattS Slttl Cotp. (USS); and th e Iron Springs, McCahiU· T hompson. and Alluvial min,," of Ut.oh Conotruaion I: Mining Co. Total produc· tion rose ~ percent, and >-alue inereued 10

percent. Ores and conCCllU'attl Ihipped during the year conlained an ave-rage of 5'.11 per. ""nl iron . The iron and Itttl indullry uti· Ii<ed 99 percent of Ihe total ore and con· ""nlfate shipments. Th~ remaind~r was used in making cement and paint.

l.ead.-Lead production from 12 minQ rooe 10 pel""U'. T he leading producen, in order of output, wet'e the U.s. and La rl< mine of USSlU:M Co.; Burgin mine. Tin · .ic Divi.ion. Ke nn<:eou Copper Corp.; Mayllo~r mine of H eda Mining Co.; United Park City minco, Un ited Park Cit¥ MinQ Co.; and the Ophir mine of USSRJcM Co .. operate
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MINERALS ff..UJIOO l . 1971

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y ... re 2._Mine prodllCtion 01 copper in Utah, by monlh in te ..... oJ RlI11ined the principal gold producer. Th~ Mayfl~ m ine . operued by Hedo Mi n-

ing Co. of Wallace. lobho. w.o.. ""c:ond in gold production in the Slate. Iron Ott.- lron CYIl' wu pmdu cd at four ~ pit miM:l. all in Iron County : the D~l Mound mine of United Stat... Slrd Corp. (USS); the Iron Sprin~ and McCahill-Thompson alluvial m ineo of Utah International Inc. (fonnerly Utah CorutrucliQn &: Mining Co.) : and the Conalod. mine operated by Utah Interna· tional for CFld Sleel Corp. TQW produc. tion declined 16 percent in quantity and 14 percell\ in value. Oru and COn«nlrale!l , hipped during the )'f'ar contained an uen.ge 01 53.0 percent iron. The iTOn and lied indunry m i· !ired 99 perrelli of Ih ~ lot.101 on: and oon· cenlra\c .hipmenu, a nd th ~ T('tnainder was U$Cd in making cemnlt and paInt. Load.-Toul l .... d production fell 16 percen t; th e value of production feU 25 p"lO'Ut. The leading produ"" ... in ",.dOT of output were Ihe U.s. and Lark mine of USSR.&. M Co.; Burgin mine, Tintie Divi·

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sion, Kennecott Copper Corp.; Mayfl_a mine 01 Hecla Mining Co,; Ophir Hill mine of USSRllcM Co., op"nled by Me· Fa rb od " H ullinger; and United Part. City Min ... United Park City Min .. Co. On N""ember 5, a .uboidiary of The Anaconda Company. announced that the \cad . meher at T ooele would be cI.-d a t y.... ,..n
.mehing \cad ore and roncentnte wuc .tarled in 1912. Copper ._Iting n1ded in 1946. S. . ..... I of the lead oper.tions de· pende" , on Ihe T ooe\c . ... eher WCTe also forced to clooe. On Nowmber II , US5R1oM Co. .nnounced plan. to close Ihe IClld·zinc mine at Lark and the fIoGltion plant II Midvale; production ceailCd in December a l the Ophir HHI mine at Ophir. owned. by USSRioM Co. and operated by McF.rland .nd Hullinger, a leui ng pntnmhip. Manganil~ ~.-ProdUClion of man· ganiittolUl ote (0<'<': conlaining 5 per' cent Or more manp"",,", natunl) wao aU from the Burgin mine, Tintk Diyi.ion, Kenne<:OCt Coo"p. in Utah County.

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