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KING SOLOMON MINE OPENED
IN NEW COLORADO AREA
AN OLD, but inaccessible and therefore
undeveloped, mining area in Park
County, Colorado, near the Lake County
line is being opened and the King Solomon
property will soon be in production. For
the past several years Major Sam has been
interested in the area and has done consid ·
erable work, using hand labor. ..
Three months ago a scientific study of
the district was started and test shipments
were made to determine the requirements
and values of the ores. The claims can
be classified as both lode and placer and
work to date shows the richer ground to
lie between Mount Silverheels and Lookout
Point.
The King Solomon group lies within
these confines at the head of Dry Gulch.
The district as mapped is several miles in
extent and is intruded by wide, nearly vertical
dikes of quartz-monzonite-porphyry,
with a north-south strike. It is within these
dikes that the important ore bodies are
found.
Eight major veins have been exposed so
far and tested by assay, mill-run, smelter.
panning, and with the spectroscope. While
the length of the ore body has not been
detennined, a heavy mantle of high-grade,
triturated vein material is stated to overlie
it, covering a tested width of 450 feet
and a length of 500 feet. There is esti·
mated to be at least 100,000 cubic yards
of this material which is expected to carry
gold values varying from $10 to $40 a
yard. This m .... will probably be handled
by glory-hole methods eventually.
Recently a 10-yard G-B placer machine
was taken in for testing purposes and the
results were reported to have been very
promising. A railway tram is now contemplated
to handle at least 200 tons of
ore from either the placer or lode claims.
There is a mill site on Montgomery Creek,
3,500 feet away, where abundant water and
timber are available and which may be
reached by truck road.
In considering the formation geologically,
it is believed that the alteration of
the porphyries by hydrothennal action may
account for much of the ore deposition. The
porphyritic intrusions evidently took place
prior to the principal faulting, as may be
observed in the extruded sills of the sedimentary
series and dikes of the deeper
placement as shown on the map of the field
survey. It is thought the pr(ncipal mineralization
antedated the formation of the main
faults.
The altitude of the area is about the
same as that at Climax, around 12,000 feet,
which, with the rigorous winters and inaccessibility,
have combined to hinder the development
of the King Solomon group of
claims. C. C. Coulter, 1165 Pennsylvania
Street, Denver, consulting geologist, has
been directing work at the property for the
past three months. Present owners are understood
to be adequately financed and able
to carry on the development started under
the direction of Major Sam with pick, pan,
and burros.
GOVERNMENT SEARCHING FOR
SOURCES OF QUiCKSILVEII
pROSPECTS for mining additional quan.
tities of quicksilver in N-evada and
California for the defense program are
good, according to a recent announcement
by the United States Department of the
Interior. Surveys conducted by the geo.
logical survey and bureau of mines in the
Bottle Creek district of Nevada and the
Mt. Diablo region of California have recently
been completed.
Although there are no proved reserves
in the Bottle Creek district, past production
records indicate a probable reserve of
approximately 3,000 flasks ot 76 pounds
each.
No estimate was made of the probable
supply in the Mt. Diablo area, but the in·
terior department stated that the geologie
setting is such as to encourage the hope
that new supplies of the mineral can be
mined in addition to that already taken
out. The area was productive from 1936
to 1939.
MEXICAN MINE LABOR GROUP
QUITS WORKERS CONFEDERATION'
HE Mexican Mine Workers Syndicate
T has withdrawn from the Mexican
Workers Confederation, according to a recent
announcement, charging politics and
radicalism in the parent organization.
Three other labor unions are understood to
be considering like action. The mine workers
syndicate claims a membership of 12-6,-
000.
PHELPS DODGE
CORPORATION
Producer. of
Electrolytic Copper
Blister Copper
Casting Copper
Sulphuric Acid
(60' B.ume)
Buyers of Copper Ores
MINES AT.
Bi.b~Mor.nci--J.rome--Ajo
REDUCTION WORKS AT:
Douet •• , Clifton, aJld Clarkdale
I nt:ernat:ional
Smelt:ing and ReJining Co.
A,! .. ~DA
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Buyers of
Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead,
Zinc Ores and Concent:rat:es
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ORE PURCHASING DEPARTMENTS
MIAML AJUZONA
Copper Smelt ..
MIAMI. ARIZONA
818 Keanur BlcIg.
SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH
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Lead and Copper Smelter
...- TOOElE. UTAH
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