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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Subjects: Prospecting --Northwest, Pacific
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Exemptions. 1936-04-26


    • $100 assessment work is suspended by law

    • 1936

    • $100 assessment work is suspended by law.
      Washington, April 25.(AP)-President Roosevelt today signed an act suspending for the current fiscal year the $100 annual assessment work requirement on mining claims held by location.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exemptions. 1936-04-26
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exemptions. 1937-08-17


    • $30,000 company may not assess

    • 1937

    • $30,000 company may not assess.
      Possible ruling of SEC, because no stated limit of total to be raised. Thousands of small assessable mining companies may have inadvertantly violated the federal securities act, under an opinion not yet made...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exemptions. 1937-08-17
    • 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. 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. Exploration. 1932-12-24


    • 20 men swarm over Orofino - filled stopes to be tested - to develop other veins, inspector Campbell hears

    • 1932

    • 20 men swarm over Orofino - filled stopes to be tested - to develop other veins, inspector Campbell hears - The old Orofino mine, one of the oldest quartz properties in the Silver City district, has been reopened by a New York company financed for...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1932-12-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-07-12


    • 3000-foot run in Atlas mine

    • 1928

    • 3000-foot run in Atlas mine.
      Authorized by stockholders--may find ore at any time, says Hershey.
      An exploratory operation of large extent was authorized by the stockholders of the Atlas Mining company at a recent meeting in Mullan, Idaho,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-07-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1933-10-14


    • "Gold at the grass roots" - Montana clay yields from $1000 to $70 a ton

    • 1933

    • "Gold at the grass roots" - Montana clay yields from $1000 to $70 a ton - "Gold at the grass roots!" throaty paean of miners' triumph is heard again in Montana.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1933-10-14
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1931-05-10


    • Advance for Sunshine ore - Silver Summit expects change in next 600 feet

    • 1931

    • Advance for Sunshine ore - Silver Summit expects change in next 600 feet - Drifting continues at much depth on the long tunnel level of Strattons Silver Summit mine in the Coeur d'ALene region of Idaho. The westward advance is toward what is...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1931-05-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exemptions. 1936-03-28


    • Again suspend assessment work on mine claims

    • 1936

    • Again suspend assessment work on mine claims.
      Montana miners learned this week that contrary to earlier reports, congress is again suspending requirements for assessment work on mining claims. As in the past several years it will be necessary...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exemptions. 1936-03-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exemptions. 1932-12-18


    • Aid mineral claim men

    • 1932

    • Aid mineral claim men.
      New bill would suspend $100 work requirement. Washington, Dec. 17. (AP)-Suspension from July 1, 1932, to July 1, 1933, of the requirement that $100 worth of work be done yearly on mining claims in Alaska and the United...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exemptions. 1932-12-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-11-28


    • Ajax nearing Hercules vein

    • 1928

    • Ajax nearing Hercules vein.
      Arrival at ore expected by crosscutting from bottom of deepened shaft.
      A shaft being sunk from the Bixby tunnel level of the Ajax Mining company at Burke, Idaho, is at the 330-foot point and lacks about 70 feet of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-11-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1935-12-22


    • Aladdin head says three feet $44 ore

    • 1935

    • Aladdin head says three feet $44 ore - A drift being run of the Aladdin Gold Mining and Milling company on Two Mile creek, near St. Regis, Mont., in some rounds shows almost a full face of gold-bearing ore and general assay from a three-foot face...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1935-12-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1918-03-06


    • Alameda cuts two stringers - disclosed on same horzon as the success tunnel

    • 1918

    • Alameda cuts two stringers - disclosed on same horzon as the success tunnel - The ALameda Mining company, after drifting 100 feet on its ledge, has encountered stringers of lead-zinc ore. According to Manager R. R. Catching two stringers of ore...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1918-03-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-03-16


    • Alameda enters hard formation

    • 1928

    • Alameda enters hard formation.
      Wallace, Idaho, March 16.-(Special.)-Martin Marra, manager of the Alameda mine on Nine Mile, reports that the formation is becoming harder as the drift is extended east.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-03-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 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 hillls.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1933-10-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1937-08-22


    • Amazing width for gold value - 41 feet in Butte highland reported to average $19.50- sampler, assayer able

    • 1937

    • Amazing width for gold value - 41 feet in Butte highland reported to average $19.50- sampler, assayer able - An ore body of unusual value for its width has been exposed in a crosscut from a winze sunk from the 600-foot level of the Butte Highland...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1937-08-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1926-01-30


    • American Eagle exploring

    • 1926

    • American Eagle exploring.
      Two other Republic mines ship from lower levels. Exploration is in progress on the 400-foot level of the American Eagle mine at Republic, Ferry county, according to a report from the district. The objective is one of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1926-01-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1931-08-26


    • An objective in Washington - shaft sunk to 300, where four veins will be crusscut- exploring 125 level

    • 1931

    • An objective in Washington - shaft sunk to 300, where four veins will be crusscut- exploring 125 level - The shaft sunk for the Washington-Idaho Mining company, on Moon creek near the Kellogg highway, in Idaho, has reached the 300 foot depth,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1931-08-26
    • 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

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