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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1920-10-13


    • Strike quartz in Washington mine property

    • 1920

    • Strike quartz in Washington mine property - Several streaks of quartz have been struck on the face of the lower tunnel of the Washington Mining company's property east of Burke, Idaho, according to a report from the company. Assays on the quartz...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1920-10-13
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1925-01-18


    • Good prospect in west hunter - quartz and iron two feet wide in face of drift - assessment levied

    • 1925

    • Good prospect in west hunter - quartz and iron two feet wide in face of drift - assessment levied - There is about two feet of quartz and iron in the face of the drift in the property of the West Hunter Mining company, near Mullan, Idaho, according...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1925-01-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1933-12-11


    • White quartz vein holds gold.

    • 1933

    • White quartz vein holds gold. - Fifty years ago the Mother Lode mine near Murray, Idaho, was in operation and it is being operated now, but during most of the intervening time it was idle. A three-foot vein of white quartz is here shown, lying...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1933-12-11
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-02-06


    • Ore is grafted on Wisdom Tree

    • 1936

    • Ore is grafted on Wisdom Tree - James McPhail, foreman, and Frank Wike, a large stockholder of the Diadem Mining company, Wisdom, Mont., started out the day before Christmas to cut a tree for youngsters of the camp. A foot of snow covered the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-02-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Engineers. 1936-01-19


    • Pegmatite has kick-not bull quartz

    • 1936

    • Pegmatite has kick-not bull quartz.
      L.K. Armstrong, addressing mining engineers last week at the Davenport, protested the calling of any outcropping as "bull quartz," saying that in 99 out of 100 cases the cropping will be pegmatite.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Engineers. 1936-01-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1930-10-11


    • Gold in three openings - Nelson miner exhibits quartz bearing yellow metal

    • 1930

    • Gold in three openings - Nelson miner exhibits quartz bearing yellow metal - The discovery of gold in three places on the Cold Stream, a quartz claim on Gold creek, a tributary of the first norht fork of Lemon creek, has been reported at Nelson, B....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1930-10-11
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1931-07-29


    • Colors of gold lead to quartz

    • 1931

    • Colors of gold lead to quartz - Jacob Otto and Henry Ney, prospectors, who have spent the summer in the high mountains north and east of Murray, Idaho, along the Idaho-Montana summit, were displaying samples of gold-bearing quartz today in kellogg....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1931-07-29
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1929-12-09


    • Little Sunshine cuts vein

    • 1929

    • Little Sunshine cuts vein
      Bright galena in white quartz, home of the streaks of galena a half inch wide, have been found in a vein cut by a 300-foot crosscut from a 300-foot tunnel in the Little Sunshine mine four miles east of Kellogg, Ore is...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1929-12-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1929-01-15


    • Mutual mines finds quartz

    • 1929

    • Mutual mines finds quartz.
      Drives seven feet daily - Lansing discovers gray copper.
      Wallace, Idaho, Jan. 15.-(Special.)-Several stringers of quartz, as well as occasional shiners of galena, have been uncovered in a crosscut at the Mutual...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1929-01-15
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1929-05-20


    • Weigle mine hits quartz stringer

    • 1929

    • Weigle mine hits quartz stringer.
      A stringer of quartz and iron about two feet thick has been cut in the lower crosscut at the Weigle mine west of Osburn. It is believed to be an off-shoot from the main ledge appearing on the surface. It is the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1929-05-20
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1935-10-17


    • Local men active in Idaho mining

    • 1935

    • Local men active in Idaho mining - Harold McAndrews who returned from Elk CIty, Idaho, last week, reports that mining operations are increasing greatly in that particular region, with prospects that by next summer there will be quite a boom in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1935-10-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1923-04-02


    • Find free gold in U. S. quartz.

    • 1923

    • Find free gold in U. S. quartz. - New work in old coeur d'alene property also shows silver, copper. - An interesting piece of development work in the old U. S. property in the Coeur d'Alenes is being supervised by George Decker, according to a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1923-04-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1928-08-09


    • Teddy company enters quartz.

    • 1928

    • Teddy company enters quartz. - Development work at the Teddy Mining company is meeting with encouraging results, according to John Grenfell, manager. The lower crosscut tunnel has been advanced 100 feet since work started six weeks ago.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1928-08-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1933-03-04


    • Wide quartz veins to be developed

    • 1933

    • Wide quartz veins to be developed.
      Spokane men who have organized the Great Republic Gold Mines company will start development in the spring. They have secured the Iron Mask, DD, Valley View, Finger Board and Evening Star claims a mile west of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1933-03-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-06-16


    • Montana claims attract capital in Washington

    • 1935

    • Montana claims attract capital in Washington - Properties of the Wickes-Corbin Gold and Silver Mining company on Clancy creek, 21 miles south of Helena, Mont., are being developed by Seattle and central Washington interests. It adjoins the famous...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-06-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1935-07-14


    • Placer mines busy in mineral county

    • 1935

    • Placer mines busy in mineral county - Four placer mines are active in Mineral county. At the Meadow creek mine, near Quartz, E. J. Patton and associates employ 17 men and have recently reached bedrock after much effort. They are arranging for their...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1935-07-14
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1928-03-11


    • Silver ore presists - for 54 feet in Butte & Coeur d'Alene - Stratton gets certificate - mine to be unwatered to 800-foot depth

    • 1928

    • Silver ore presists - for 54 feet in Butte & Coeur d'Alene - Stratton gets certificate - mine to be unwatered to 800-foot depth - An assay made for Stratton & Stratton shows 257 ounces of silver in a sample from the Butte & Coeur d'Alene mine near...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1928-03-11
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1931-12-29


    • untitled

    • 1931

    • Another pioneer camp, the Flathead valley, once a heavy producer of gold, will attempt to come back in the spring. Business men of Kalispell, Mont., believe there are possibilities in teh Big Draw and Chief Cliff Draw sections, 35 miles southwest...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1931-12-29
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1936-01-03


    • Rich strike rewards years of perserverance

    • 1936

    • Rich strike rewards years of perserverance - Martin Hickman of Elk City, after working hard for anumber of years, finally made a rich strike in the Mountain Boy, his quartz claim on the south fork of the Clearwater river, four and one-half miles...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1936-01-03

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