Selected Articles from "The Mining Journal" 1944 ... - Vredenburgh

Mill Heads from the Western States
Brief items covering the mining industry in the
Western United States and Mexico.
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Production at half capacity is reported
by the New [dria Alaska Quiek.ilver Mining
Company from its newly installed 50ton
Gould rotary furnace at the property
in the Sleetmute district near Flat, Alaska.
Output will be increased gradually. Harold
Schmidt of Fairbanks is general superintendent
and Bruce A. GOUld, Mills Building,
San Francisco, California, is president
and general manager. A crew of
around 25 men is employed.
Arctic Circle Exploration, Inc" has suspended
operations for the winter. During
the season just past the company worked
on a smaH scale, operating one of its two
dredges. James S. Robbins of Candle,
Alaska, is general manager. At present
he is at Nome, engaged in prospecting for
asbestos on the Seward Peninsula.
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It is understood that plans are being
made by the Gallagher Vanadium and
Rare Metals Corporation to start operations
at its mine and concentrating plant
located near Charleston in Cochise County,
Arizona. Jules B. Gallagher, agent and
director of the company, who has been
residing in Las Cruces, New Mexico, recently
was in Tombstone on an inspection
trip and it is expected that he will be located
permanently at Tombstone in the
near future.
According to reports, the 14-mile access
road to the Leviathan mine, which has been
under construction by the U. S. Grazing
Service, was completed recently. The road
not only gives access to the Leviathan and
other mining properties in the Cedar Valley
district of Mohave County, Arizona,
but also connects with the road from
Yucca, making a passable thoroughfare
over the mountains from Yucca to the
Sandy highway. Development work is being
done at the Leviathan under a Reconstruction
Finance Corporation loan.
The operator is M. B. Dudley, Kingman,
Arizona, and the property is under lease
from the Leviathan Metals Company of
Duluth, Minnesota. Values are in molybdenum
with some copper.
Recent investigations are said to have
revealed a deposit of columbium at the
Dungan tungsten mine in the Greenwood
mining district, Mohave County, Arizona.
The property is operated by J. H. Dungan,
Box 522, Kingman, Arizona, and associates.
W. L. Cummings, metallurgical
engineer of Alhambra, California, recently
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investigated the property at the request
of Dungan and chemical analysis of the
ore is said to have shown from 1 to 35
per cent tungsten and from 0.55 to 2 per
cent columbium.
Earl Cook, J. Robert Payne, and R. V.
McAllister, all of Kingman, Arizona, recently
purchased the old White Hills mine
from Slim Cross and Mrs. Florence Mackie,
and it is expected that production of manganese
ores will be started immediately.
The White Hi11s property, which is located
about 28 miles north of Chloride, Arizona,
formerly was worked for its silver
and gold values, but at the present time
it is reported that there are about 15,000
tons of manganese ore already blocked
out. The White Hills mine comprises 32
patented claims.
John D. Long and Roy J. Heyne, both
of 530 West Adams Street, Phoenix, Arizona,
are reported to be operating the CactUI
Queen mine in the Alamo mining district
of Mohave County. Arizona. Values
are in copper. Plans are to retimber the
shaft to the 160-foot level, install a hoist
and compressor, and start shipping oxidized
ores from the area above the 160 level.
The shaft is down 190 feet and sulphide
ores are reported in the drift at the bottom.
The shipments will be made to the
Clarkdale smelter. Jack Cushion is mine
superintendent. The Cactus Queen is owned
by the George W. Long estate and J. L.
McIver, 607 Security Building, Phoenix,
Arizona. John D. Long is the son of the
late George W. Long, a pioneer in Arizona
mining activities who was instrumental in
opening up the United Eastern property
at Oatman, Arizona.
Adrion Skinner and Dan Lewis, Box 106,
Willcox, Arizona, are reported to have
leased the Abril mine located in the Dragoon
Mountains 17 miles from Tombstone,
Cochise County, Arizona. The property
previously was operated by Mrs. Henriette
Miller and Walter Sim, 428 East Eighth
Street, Tucson, Arizona, who were awarded
a $15,000 loan from the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation. The Abril group includes
five claims known as the Herrera,
Dos Hermanos, EI Rico, San Pablo, and La
Hermosa. Values are in copper, zinc, gold,
and silver. It is expected that the new operators
will begin production immediately.
Hal Smith and M. R. Abril, Tombstone, and
J. S. Abril, Superior, Arizona, are the owners
of the Abril.
The Bagdad Copper Corporation is reported
to be handling 1,800 tons of copper
ore daily at its recently completed flota-
All new! appearing in The Mining Journal
i! obtained from !ource! believed to be
reliable, bllt the accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
However, every item has been sent
to the pmon or company mentioned for
verification before publication.
tion plant at Hillside, Arizona. Two units
of the mill are operating steadily, while the
third is under part-time operation. At
present, Bagdad is employing a crew of
190 men. The c'opper company, which has
been undergoing a $2,500,000 expansion
program since February of 1942, operates
the Bagdad copper mine in the Copper
Creek region of the Eureka mining district
of Yavapai County, 28 miles northwest of
Hillside. Jack W. Still of Hillside is general
manager. S. A. Millikan, 480 Arcade
A venue, Cleveland, Ohio, is president and
C. Q. Schlereth, Route 8, Box 258-B, Phoenix,
Arizona, holds the office of vice-president.
Elmer Tomkinson is general mine
foreman; J. C. MacIntosh, mill superintendent;
Roscoe Duncan, general mill foreman;
Walter Deacon, chief electrician;
Clint Anderson, master mechanic ; E. G.
Green, chief chemist; and Robert Foudy,
chief clerk.
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Operations at the Adamson mine have
been suspended for the winter months by
Panaminas, Inc., because of the poor
weather conditions at the high altitude at
which the property is located. It is expected
that regular operations will be resumed
by the company next spring. The
Adamson is in the Pine Creek area near
Bishop, California, and is a tungsten operation.
About 135 men have been employed.
The Adamson has been in full production
since last August, at which time the new
aerial tram was completed. Ore was
shipped daily to the U. S. Vanadium Corporation
mill near Bishop. A. H. Heller,
1800 North Hill Avenue, Pasadena, California,
is general manager of operations
for Panaminas, Inc.
The United States Geological Survey recently
examined the High Plateau mine
situated in Del Norte County, California,
as part of its investigation of domestic
deposits of strategic minerals. Maps of the
deposit have been prepared showing in
detail the surface geology and underground
workings of the High Plateau and
copies may be obtained by anyone directly
interested from the Director, USGS, Washington
25, D. C. Eugene Brown of
O'Brien, Oregon, has been working the
mine and shipments of ore for smelting
have been made by way of Grants Pas::;,
Oregon.
Work has been suspended because of bad
weather at the Lead King Mines in the
northwest corner of Death Valley in the
Panamint Mountains of California. The
operators have been hauling ore for a distance
of 100 miles to Goldfield, Nevada,
the nearest shipping point, but it is underM
stood that a new road, which will facilitate
shipping from this property, is under construction.
The operators, George Lippincott
and two sons, George, Jr., and Dick,
have been using selective mining methods
at the Lead King. The company mailing
address is Box 1811, Santa Ana, California.
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