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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Description: Mines
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1933-06-18


    • $21,599 is spent in metropolitan.

    • 1933

    • $21,599 is spent in metropolitan. - Reports favorable change in formation-drove 1130 feet in year-reelects board. - The persistence of the Metropolitan Mines corporation, one of the few development companies continuously active in the Coeur...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1933-06-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-03-15


    • $500 ore struck near Elk City

    • 1928

    • $500 ore struck near Elk City.
      Six-inch streak in Idaho-Nevada often runs $1000 to ton, says operator. One to 3 feet shipped. Rejected ore runs $50 to $100-discovery confirms theory of manager Kleesattel. A 10-ton sample of the ore he struck in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-03-15
    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1932-09-25


    • 10 feet zinc in Z Canyon

    • 1932

    • 10 feet zinc in Z Canyon.
      Tunnel to be driven through body and to another deposit ahead. The presence of zinc ore in a body 10 feet wide has been indicated by diamond drilling from the face of a tunnel in the property of the Z Canyon Mutual...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1932-09-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Examination. 1934-09-03


    • 13 pass mine foreman test

    • 1934

    • 13 pass mine foreman test - Six men were granted certificates as foremen and seven as assistant foremen of coal mines in the state of Washington as a result of state mining examinations held at the Mines Building, University of Washington, it was...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Examination. 1934-09-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1935-05-07


    • 15 feet of ore, mineral point - place of concealment shown by diamond drill at 600 feet depth

    • 1935

    • 15 feet of ore, mineral point - place of concealment shown by diamond drill at 600 feet depth -The Coeur d'Alene mines corporation reports 15 feet of ore struck in diamond drilling, east of the fault on the No. 3 1/2 level of the Mineral Point...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1935-05-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-05-07


    • 15 feet of ore, mineral point

    • 1935

    • 15 feet of ore, mineral point.
      Place of concealment shown by diamond drill at 600 feet depth. The Coeur d'Alene Mines corporation reports 15 feet of ore struck in diamond drilling, east of the fault on the No. 3.5 level of the Mineral Point...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-05-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1934-10-16


    • 16-foot shoot in utica mine.

    • 1934

    • 16-foot shoot in utica mine. - Followed from a silver streak on paddy's peak 35 years ago. - Sixteen feet of good milling ore has been struck on the No. 5 level of the Utica mines near Kaslo, B. C. "It will be necessary, it is believed, to drive...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1934-10-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-10-24


    • 1600-foot bore for Deer Tail

    • 1928

    • 1600-foot bore for Deer Trail.
      Will follow recently opened body for 1000 feet, says official.
      Open cuts show ore. Says few dollars to $355 in two to 30 foot vein explored for 2000 feet.
      Surface exploration has been completed and the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-10-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Filings. 1927-03-12


    • 17 new yakima mine claims.

    • 1927

    • 17 new yakima mine claims. - Wide area and variety of minerals covered by 1927 filings. - Seventeen notices of location of mines have been recorded since the beginning of the year, according to the county auditor. They are not in the same district,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Filings. 1927-03-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-08-07


    • 20 men preparing bear top to ship.

    • 1937

    • 20 men preparing bear top to ship. - Murray reports say that the Bear Top mine in that region has 20 men at work, their efforts being centered in preparing the mine for production soon. The Merger Mines corporation controls the Bear Top.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-08-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1935-10-27


    • 20 mines busy in basin camp.

    • 1935

    • 20 mines busy in basin camp. - Two run mills, third mill ready, fourth plannes -- 18 mines ship. - "Two or three years ago the sound of the pick or shovel was not heard in the Basin silver-gold district, between Helena and Butte, Mont., so far as I...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1935-10-27
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-10-01


    • 20-foot shoot cut near troy.

    • 1929

    • 20-foot shoot cut near troy. - Scene is montana morning mine -- contains 10 per cent lead and zinc, says official. - Three veins in group. - Only one developed is in snowstorm -- montana men plan large enterprise. - The disclosure of a hanging wall...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-10-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1927-06-05


    • 20-foot strike near detillion

    • 1927

    • 20-foot strike near detillion.
      Orazada reports gold, silver and lead values-new bore started. Exploration started last January has resulted in the disclosure of what appears to be an important source of ore in the property of the Orazada Mines,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1927-06-05
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1927-10-22


    • 3 bright spots in Idaho mines

    • 1927

    • 3 bright spots in Idaho mines.
      Eight feet shoot reported in both faces of a new Tamarack drift. Sherman ore superior. Foot of it said to rank with richest-Ajax finds what may be clew. Ore in a body two and a half feet wide has been followed for...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1927-10-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1935-12-06


    • 300 mining men applaud white

    • 1935

    • 300 mining men applaud white.
      Idaho congressman hits U.S. attitude on mines, forests. "Those big officials in Washington D.C., can not understand what it is that has made the west; they can not understand the individual effort and if some had...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1935-12-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1935-12-06


    • 300 mining men applaud White

    • 1935

    • 300 mining men applaud White.
      Idaho congressman hits U.S. attitude on mines, forests. "Those big officials in Washington, D.C., can not understand what it is that has made the west; they can not understand the individual effort; and if some had...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1935-12-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1938-01-16


    • 300 to attend mine institute on U, campus

    • 1938

    • 300 to attend mine institute on U, campus.
      More than 300 persons representing all phases of the mining industry in the Northwest and Alaska are expected to attend the elveneth annual mining institute at the mines laboratory at the University of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1938-01-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages.1934-11-01


    • 3500 men back to jobs.

    • 1934

    • 3500 men back to jobs. - Butte banker brings news of anaconda's resumption. - The Anaconda Copper Mining company has resumed operations at six of its Butte mines, employing 3500 men, James E. Woodard, president of the Metals bank of Butte, Mont.,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages.1934-11-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-03-10


    • 4000 at mines get pay raise.

    • 1937

    • 4000 at mines get pay raise. - High price of metals causes $50,000 monthly boost in wages. - Effective March 16, mines of Coeur d'Alenes will increase wages 50 cents per shift to a scale that sets an all-time high for mining in this district, it...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-03-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-05-08


    • 50-oz. silver, mineral point

    • 1935

    • 50-oz. silver, mineral point.
      Four feet may run 200-geologist finds shoot lost 30 years. The 30-year search for the Osburn shoot ended in the Mineral Point mine yesterday with the announcement of Jean M. Peters, geologist for the Coeur d'Alene...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-05-08

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