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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Subject Keys: Metals
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1934-11-02


    • Liberty metals strikes riches.

    • 1934

    • Liberty metals strikes riches. - At end of a half-mile tunnel driven into grouse mountain. - Vein 11 feet wide. - Values in lead and other metals -- signs of another body ahead. - The Liberty Metals Mining company struck high milling ore carrying...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1934-11-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-12-19


    • Liberty metals strikes twice.

    • 1937

    • Liberty metals strikes twice. - Discoveries in long tunnel follow idleness -- promise in development plan. - The Liberty Metals company has found a strong incentive for continuance. In the month of its operation, it has drifted north and south on...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-12-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1938-01-16


    • Liberty metals strikes galena.

    • 1938

    • Liberty metals strikes galena. - Six-foot body stood within two rounds for last three years. - Six feet of steel galena has been opened at the 700-foot depth in the property of the Liberty Metals company, on Grouse mountain, six miles south of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1938-01-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1938-02-02


    • Liberty metals looming large.

    • 1938

    • Liberty metals looming large. - Ore opens to seven feet and bunkers overwhelmed with it, employee reports. - Probably 10 years have elapsed since the Liberty Metals began a search for ore on Grouse mountain, south of Troy, Mont. The operation...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1938-02-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1936-08-20


    • Pierce metals financing ends.

    • 1936

    • Pierce metals financing ends. - In a circular letter, the Pierce Metals company, having a property in the central Idaho gold belt, announced completion of its finances.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1936-08-20
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1938-06-05


    • Liberty metals to explore far - plans penetration of its carbonate Queen and operation of its flotation mill

    • 1938

    • Liberty metals to explore far - plans penetration of its carbonate Queen and operation of its flotation mill - Further development by the Liberty Metals company is planned, Dr. H. E. Zimmerman, president, Kansas City, Mo., said here yesterday. He...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1938-06-05
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1938-04-24


    • Handful of men open rich vein.

    • 1938

    • Handful of men open rich vein. - Silver and lead six feet wide exposed 200 feet in liberty metals. - Kansas City and other stockholders of the Liberty Metals company, on a mountain south of Troy, Mont., continue to wax wealthy from the firendly...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1938-04-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Inspection. 1934-12-30


    • Liberty Metals opens ore

    • 1934

    • Liberty metals opens ore
      Drifts 75 feet in each direction, says Goodsell
      From the 2640-foot point where it was intersected, the vein of the Liberty Metals company has been followed 75 feet in each direction, according to Charles H....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Inspection. 1934-12-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1937-12-19


    • Liberty Metals strikes twice

    • 1937

    • Liberty Metals strikes twice
      Discoveries in long tunnel follow idleness--promise in development plan
      Liberty Metals company has found a strong incentive for continuance. In the month of its operation, it has drifted north and south on ore...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1937-12-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1933-05-27


    • Butte miners optimistic.

    • 1933

    • Butte miners optimistic. - Better feeling on copper and zinc -- word for Silver. - More optimism is prevading copper and zinc circles of Butte, Mont., according to James Woodard, president of the Metals Bank and Trust company of that city, a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1933-05-27
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1935-01-24


    • Silver properties in nighthawk district are merged.

    • 1936

    • Silver properties in nighthawk district are merged. - Announcement was made in Seattle this week of the consolidation under one management of a large group of mining claims along the Similkamee river, north of Nighthawk. Included were the holdings...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1935-01-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1931-11-22


    • Absorb two Idaho groups.

    • 1931

    • Absorb two Idaho groups. - United M. and M. after lookout and little sunshine. - The Lookout Mountain Mining and Milling company and the Little Sunshine Mining company, near Kellogg, Idaho, will be acquired by the United Mines and Metals Company...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1931-11-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1937-03-09


    • Mine company files for appliance work.

    • 1937

    • Mine company files for appliance work. - John W. Errington, Ira W. Terry and Roy Daniels, all of Spokane, and George W. Buchanan, Pollock, Idaho, today filed to form a corporation to be called the Metals Recovery company.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1937-03-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-10-10


    • Pend Oreille drills into gold and silver.

    • 1936

    • Pend Oreille drills into gold and silver. - Gold and silver values, for the first time in the history of the company, were encountered in the Metaline Falls district by the Pend Oreille Mines and Metals company drilling from the 500-foot level of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-10-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-10-04


    • Pend Oreille drills into gold and silver.

    • 1936

    • Pend Oreille drills into gold and silver. - Gold and silver values, for the first time in the history of the company, were encountered in the Metaline Falls district by the Pend Oreille Mines and Metals compny, drilling from the 500-foot level of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-10-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1930-06-03


    • Find big ore body in metaline mine.

    • 1930

    • Find big ore body in metaline mine. - Important strike carrying good values is made in josephine vien. - The Josephine ore body has been struck and partially opened by the lower tunnel now in 643 feet in the property of the Pend Oreille Mines and...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1930-06-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1933-10-28


    • Alladin's cave found in mine near metaline.

    • 1933

    • Alladin's cave found in mine near metaline. - The powerful genie, dynamite, gave a fearful roar, and lo and behold! there appeared a beautiful cavern hung with asbestos curtains and containing rich metals, deep in the earth under the mighty hills.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1933-10-28

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