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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1933-11-12


    • Gnome yields 5-ounce ore - average of eight tons- 10 tons run 4.40 ounces

    • 1933

    • Gnome yields 5-ounce ore - average of eight tons- 10 tons run 4.40 ounces - "Ten mine cars, each of a ton capacity, from the mine of the Gnome Gold Mining company near Orogrande, Idaho, in October had an average content of 4.40 ounces of gold to...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1933-11-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-03-27


    • Floor of shaft silver-charged - in Little Pittsburg, eight feet of 150 ounces, rest 40 ounces, report

    • 1936

    • Floor of shaft silver-charged - in Little Pittsburg, eight feet of 150 ounces, rest 40 ounces, report - A station is being cut on the new 215 foot level of the Little Pittsburg mine. Drifting on ore will start from that place and an effort will be...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-03-27
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1929-03-27


    • Tests are good in Independence - larger stringer assays 19.6 ounces in silver, 9.8 per cent lead

    • 1929

    • Tests are good in Independence - larger stringer assays 19.6 ounces in silver, 9.8 per cent lead - Assays of average samples of the ore recently exposed by a crosscut fromt eh main tunnel in a southerly direction in the Independence Lead Mine are...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1929-03-27
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1931-01-01


    • High contents in concentrate - Whitedelf averaged 72 per cent lead and 68 ounces silver, says manager - attaining more depth - winze nears 300-foot point - mine being equiped with telephones

    • 1931

    • High contents in concentrate - Whitedelf averaged 72 per cent lead and 68 ounces silver, says manager - attaining more depth - winze nears 300-foot point - mine being equiped with telephones - Concentrate produced by the Whitedelf Mining company...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1931-01-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-12-25


    • Steel galena at 5000 - morning shoot is 15 feet wide - averages 26 per cent lead, nine ounces silver and 8 per cant zinc, says official

    • 1928

    • Steel galena at 5000 - morning shoot is 15 feet wide - averages 26 per cent lead, nine ounces silver and 8 per cant zinc, says official - The ore body at the 5000-foot depth in the Morning mine of the Federal Mining and Smelting company at Mullan,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-12-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-05-11


    • Silver trail

    • 1935

    • Silver trail.
      A group of miners, working for a stock interest, are planning to reopen the Silver Trail mine, 16 miles north of Colville, this spring, following the finding of an extension of the original rich vein last summer by Charles Sparling...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-05-11
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1927-10-16


    • $18 gold to man

    • 1927

    • $18 gold to man.
      Relief creek run reported by lucky five. 37 ounces of metal taken in 16 days-placer put in operating shape. "Thirty-seven ounces of gold were obtained in a 10-days run with two men sluicing on the Relief creek placer of the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1927-10-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1933-04-23


    • Take $3 a man from Columbia - Angle and crew get 3 ounces of gold in six days with dry land dredge

    • 1933

    • Take $3 a man from Columbia - Angle and crew get 3 ounces of gold in six days with dry land dredge - Turned gold miner pending the restoration of silver's price, James E. Angle, mine operator of the Keller camp, brought nearly three ounces of gold...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1933-04-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1919-07-24


    • Says mill feed has been found on Copper King

    • 1919

    • Says mill feed has been found on Copper King - A crosscut hole recently put down on the property of the Copper King Mining and Smelting company in the Coeur d'Alenes was run through the west end of the big ore shoot and crosscut 35 feet wide ore at...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1919-07-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1919-08-11


    • M'Allister ore assays run high

    • 1919

    • M'Allister ore assays run high - Assays show 5479 ounces of silver to the ton in the strike recently made in the McAllister mine on Carpenter creek in the Slocan district of British Columbia, according to a report made by A. R. Grimes, manager of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1919-08-11
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1934-11-22


    • Get good assay at Virginia City

    • 1934

    • Get good assay at Virginia City - Assays received today from shipments by the Virginia City GOld Mining company of Montana show 10.45 ounces in gold and 139.95 ounces in silver, according to F. J. Robinson, secretary of the company, at his office...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1934-11-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1935-12-21


    • Reports ore find in McFarren Gulch

    • 1935

    • Reports ore find in McFarren Gulch - A vei carrying assay values of 52.4 per cent lead, 19 ounces silver and .02 ounces gold for a gross of $62.49 per ton, was located in the Freeman Sites property at the head of McFarren gulch in the dry ore belt...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1935-12-21
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1936-03-26


    • Report riches in Tourmaline - sample from Winze yields $112 gold to ton - ran but $4 at surface

    • 1936

    • Report riches in Tourmaline - sample from Winze yields $112 gold to ton - ran but $4 at surface - Gold ore assaying 3.2 ounces or $112 to the ton has been struck in the Homestake group of the Tourmaline Gold Mines, Inc., near Morris, Mont.,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1936-03-26
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1937-03-19


    • Grand Coulee's silver mine

    • 1937

    • Grand Coulee's silver mine - After channel-sampling, last week, across the vein at the Black-Rosauer Mines, Inc., at Elecrtic City, O. J. Sims reported that samples from one drift averaged 37 ounces of silver, with some gold, across a face of ore...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1937-03-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions.1936-12-03


    • Inspecting Washington gold ore

    • 1936

    • Inspecting Washington gold ore.
      Roger Oscarson of Spokane (the taller man), is showing Leon Starmont some of the ore from the Morning Star mine at Danville, Wash. The piece he has in his hand is one of the rich samples from that mine on display...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions.1936-12-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1918-10-26


    • Nipsic ore body is rich - contains 28 ounces silver, says Wallace report - day controls Union mine - St. Lawrence finds ore at depth

    • 1918

    • Nipsic ore body is rich - contains 28 ounces silver, says Wallace report - day controls Union mine - St. Lawrence finds ore at depth - The Consolidated Interstate-Callahan Mining company has struck seven feet of silver-lead ore at a depth of about...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1918-10-26
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-01-12


    • 200-foot drift in Livingstone - 60 per cent lead and 60 ounces silver reported at depth of 200 feet

    • 1926

    • 200-foot drift in Livingstone - 60 per cent lead and 60 ounces silver reported at depth of 200 feet - The ore body struck in the Livingstone mine of southern Idaho is worthy of the sensation it has created even after the early effervescence is...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-01-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-06-29


    • Gold strike near Chesaw

    • 1926

    • Gold strike near Chesaw.
      $92 value in 18-inch streak, says owner-activity in other mines. Ore that contains $92 to the ton has been struck in the Lucky Five group, eight miles southeast of Chesaw, Okanogan county, according to C. Clinkenbeard,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-06-29
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-11-10


    • Open good ore in commodore - excellent grade reported on No. 1 level- samples run high

    • 1928

    • Open good ore in commodore - excellent grade reported on No. 1 level- samples run high - A continuous ore body of excellent grade is being opened on the No. 1 level of the Commodore Mines corporation in the Deer Trail district of Stevens county,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-11-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-12-02


    • Encounter ore body

    • 1935

    • Encounter ore body.
      Anna Mines Syndicate, operating the Anna mine in the Ardsley district southwest of Butte, has encountered a sizable body of high grade ore. Shipments average better than three ounces of gold and 185 ounces of silver to the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-12-02

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