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a t HeFno1the th♦ thfsiowinigny Company Expects to Have Mill o*.and Smelter RunningmeWithin Short Time.EDR-amingvillillsofingatop,ild-bym-fu-eatnaty'snd.rx-istiescd.thetotheup,mdpseed,myay.theeretheup,H.vuped,nd.f»r-lie,iehid-P-E.A.therimtheitrvIchex,in-V’Rlerrevi ill el-ny-ndistIPlet3 PER CENT COPPER ORERICH SULPHIDE DEPOSITS COMING IN AT 1.000 LEVEL.n-Wlthin a month the* Giroux. Consolidated company, operating in the Ely camp, will begin copper production. It will then, according to report, have in operation a 500-ton concentrator and a 250-ton smelter. These units will be rapidly increased when the shafts are enlarged to admit the hoisting of a muchlarger tonnage. The Nevada Northern railroad will reach the Giroux property in about a month and this will greatly facilitate operations.President Joseph S. Giroux, who is now in New York, says that wiiii this equipment together with shipments to other smelters, he cau earn fZjjuO.OflQ net for thecoming year on 15-oent copper.The Giroux company has a mineralized tract two and one-fourth miles long and one and one-fourth miles wide in the very center of the Ely camp, in one body, and, under government patent. It was the first property to be opened in the district. Although the development work was slow at first, it has been carried along definite lines by President Giroux, who, although young in years, is old in mining experience. It was he who opened the United Verde for Senator Clark, leaving his employ to develop this property which bears his name and which lie believes will in time be as great a mine as the United Verde.While other eompanics in Ely have been opening the immense porphyry deposits, Mr. Giroux has been sinking the Alpha shaft with a definite idea of locating the rich ore deposits from which the copper came that enrich'd th** porphyry. He believes this lies within the dike zone containing the Alpha and other claims, all confined within the borders of the Giroux property. v jnMr. Giroux has always believed that he would strike thesd deposits in the Alpha shaft below the water level. Apparently he ha^ been a good prophet, for incross-cutting north from the shaft, ata depth of 1,000 feet, between seventy and seventy-five feet of ore was encountered in five different veins, th*1 average assay of which is 17 per cent. The water level of the Alpha shaft is at a depth of 1,0*jo feet and it is believed that five veins cut are the apex of rich ore body, and that at a depth of a few hundred feet below water level will be foundthe enriched sulphide ore. Diamond drill explorations b* low the water level in the cross-cut have largely proved this.The apex of this ore body is apparently in the shape of peaks, the cross-cut striking the top of each peak. This is a very similar formation to that of the United Verde mine. The Giroux has also developed an Immense body of porphyry,averaging about 3 per cent copper. The porphyry already exposed is upward of 3.000.0«)o tons, carrying small gold values. The developments at the concentrating ore bodies on the Giroux properties, however. have hardly been commenced.The Veteran ore body of the Cumberland Ely company ban been opened to the Giroux boundary. There is every indication that the Giroux land hetwo*»n Old
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Salt Lake City Herald
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Fri, Jul 05, 1907
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