Selected Articles from "The Mining Journal" 1944 ... - Vredenburgh
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WARSAW. INDIANA. U. S. A.<br />
on that vein. It is reported that this is<br />
entirely unexplored ground and satisfactory<br />
COT)ner values are anticipated. <strong>The</strong><br />
Blue Bell is owned by the Southwest<br />
Metals Company, Ford Building, Detroit,<br />
Michigan.<br />
It is reported that a recent fire at the<br />
Gladiator mine resulted in the loss of several<br />
thousand dollars' worth of mining<br />
equipment and machinery. <strong>The</strong> hoist house<br />
and compressor room were destroyed, but<br />
it is understood that the shaft and headframe<br />
were not harmed. Reconstruction<br />
already is under way, and it is believed<br />
that, if a sufficient crew can be engaged,<br />
mining operations will be resumed in the<br />
near future. During the shutdown period,<br />
it is expected that the Golden Belt mill at<br />
Cordes, Arizona, which has been handling<br />
the Gladiator ore, will do some contract<br />
milling. <strong>The</strong> property of the Gladiator<br />
<strong>Mining</strong> Company is situated in the Pine<br />
Grove district near Crown King, Arizona,<br />
and is under lease <strong>from</strong> the owner, David<br />
Russell, Box 603, Prescott, Arizona. E.<br />
M. Moores, Box 628, Glendale, Arizona,<br />
is president and general manager, and<br />
Anthony N. Bennett, Crown King, is mine<br />
superintendent. R. G. Sturm. Cordes, is<br />
superintendent at the Golden Belt plant.<br />
Jack Manifee, Rock Springs, Arizona, is<br />
said to be doing some development work at<br />
the Cold Standard mine, formerly known<br />
as the Nigger Brown, located in the Black<br />
Canyon district of Yavapai County, Arizona.<br />
At present he is doing some trench<br />
work, exploring a feeder vein at the old<br />
gold property, and he also plans to deepen<br />
the shaft on the vein.<br />
-It is reported that the Permanente<br />
Metal. Corporation, Henry J. Kaiser,<br />
Latham Square Building, Oakland 12, California,<br />
president, is resuming operations<br />
at its silica deposit at White Rock in<br />
Mariposa County, California. A crew already<br />
is on the ground, engaged in quarrying<br />
operations. Permanente first started<br />
operating the property late in 1942 and<br />
shipments were made to the company's<br />
ferro silicon plant near San Jose, California.<br />
<strong>Mining</strong> consists of blasting the rock<br />
and loading it by power shovels in giant<br />
trucks for shipping. John Podey has been<br />
mine foreman under Superintendent Don<br />
Tretzel.<br />
A washing plant for the recovery of<br />
zirconium, garnet, and ruby has been installed<br />
by G. L. Tomlinson, 831 Eleanor<br />
Avenue, North Sacramento, California.<br />
<strong>The</strong> unit is situated in Placer County near<br />
Lincoln, California, an old gold dredging<br />
area, and Tomlinson's operations consist<br />
of working the old dragline tailings.<br />
Zirconium is used in manufacturing gun<br />
steel because of its heat resistance.<br />
Regular shipping is being continued<br />
<strong>from</strong> the Strawberry tungsten mine on<br />
Granite Creek, a tributary of the San<br />
Joaquin River, in the eastern part of<br />
Madera County, California. <strong>The</strong> ore comes<br />
<strong>from</strong> both open-cut and tunnel mining and<br />
is treated in the company's new 50-ton<br />
gravity concentration plant. J. C. Perkins,<br />
322 North Calaveras Street, Fresno, California,<br />
is general manager at the Strawberry<br />
property. <strong>The</strong> mine is operated by a<br />
syndicate owned by Walter Haggerty, Beverly<br />
Wilshire Hotel, Beverly - Hills, California,<br />
and Coleman Madden of New York<br />
and Nevada. Madden and Haggerty formerly<br />
were the principal owners of the<br />
Weepah <strong>Mining</strong> Company of Nevada, and<br />
control the Northumberland <strong>Mining</strong> Company,<br />
also of Nevada.<br />
Regular shipments are being made by<br />
Damon and Damon <strong>from</strong> the Gold Bottom<br />
mine located east of Trona, California,<br />
and a milling plant is being constructed<br />
at the Ophir mine which adjoins the Gold<br />
Bottom property. <strong>The</strong> mill will handle<br />
ores <strong>from</strong> both properties, which recently<br />
were acquired by the Damon and Damon<br />
firm. It is understood that a substantial<br />
tonnage of commercial-grade lead-zincgold<br />
ore is exposed at the Gold Bottom<br />
and it is planned to conduct an extensive<br />
development program at the Ophir to develop<br />
additional reserves. Both properties<br />
fonnerly were worked for their gold values.<br />
Road improvement work has been authorized<br />
for 5 * mites of access road to<br />
the Castro chrome property, and it is expected<br />
that about $3,200 will be expended<br />
on the project. <strong>The</strong> property is owned<br />
by Castro Chrome Associates and is located<br />
north of San Luis Obispo, California.<br />
Power shovel mining has been resumed<br />
at the old Harri.on quicksilver mine located<br />
in Morgan Valley near Reiff, Lake<br />
County, California. <strong>The</strong> property had been<br />
closed down because of weather conditions.<br />
Operations are conducted by H. C. Scott<br />
of Oakland, California, under lease <strong>from</strong><br />
Vince and Hannon Harrison, Morgan<br />
Valley.<br />
A crew of five men is engaged in operations<br />
at the Red Star gold mine near<br />
Michigan Bluff, Placer County, California.<br />
Hydraulic mining methods are<br />
employed. Work was resumed recently by<br />
the Red Star <strong>Mining</strong> Company, Inc., under<br />
special pennission <strong>from</strong> the WPB. <strong>The</strong><br />
company is headed by David M. Ray,<br />
Georgetown, California. A. F. Erickson<br />
of Santa Rosa, California, directs work at<br />
the mine. Head offices for the company<br />
are maintained at 210 Post Street, Room<br />
910, San Francisco.<br />
Approximately 20 tons of scrap and<br />
mine-run mica are being treated daily at<br />
the mica mill of Durand Beam, Beam<br />
Smelters, 10535 Buford Avenue, Inglewood,<br />
California, and it is planned to increase<br />
production materially by the installation<br />
of a new vacuum concentrator.<br />
Beam completed installation of the plant<br />
only recently.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Barker Corporation, Box 696, Patterson,<br />
California, former gold dredge<br />
operator, is successfully continuing manganese<br />
mining in the Red Mountain mining<br />
district of California. <strong>The</strong> Dead Oak<br />
property is the principal producing mine<br />
now being worked by the Barker company.<br />
Development work at the Peter MOT prop.<br />
THE MINING JOURNAL lor JUNE 30, <strong>1944</strong>