MINEBK00129

• County: Lake
• Volume: 16
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: B

Title.
Owners:-Austin Blakey $ Oo.P,O.Hox,490 Leadville,Lake Oo.COlo.
Principal office located at Leadville,Lake Co.Colo.
Leeaed by:-Fred Doubleoheok & 00,E 132 Weet 3rd,St,Leadville.
Date of original location:-iN77,
" " openings:-Ig78,
(Altitude:-I0.500.-Character oP surface.Hilly-Stresma,none.Water
supply,City Water worke.Timber,none,ROada-pagon road, D.Bc.R.G,
(There is a geological survey oP the district:-Heydon.
~S+.ructure and character of country rook:-Porphyry and Quartzite
Ore bodies.
The ore bodies in this property consists of argentiferous iron,
the strike being N.E.&.S.W.Dip.to the east-vein matter consists
'of deposits of iron between porphyry and quartzite.
ores.
All ores mined are smelting in oharaotex--lfine has no mil!.
ltetala and minerals are -Rilver and iron.
Aaseys and analysis ea follows-Silver 5 to 7 Oz-Iron from 36 to
CFO per cent.
Power plant and Hoisting plant.
Same as reports of 1912-i3.
Explosives.
Gelatin powder 40 par cent is used in blasting,with National
fuse-No metal tamping bars allowed-Wooden tamping bare being
provided-NO powder man employed Magazine for dtoring povRier 150
feet from workings-Amount kept in storage IO 1be.NO device for
warming powder-NO oils or oombuatiiblea stored with powder,
Hiving.
Hine is opened by a shaft 300 feet in depth, with about 300 feet
of drifting from bottom.
Hoisting.
Same ea reports of 1912-13.
Hine methods.
Stoping and drifting-Timbering by drift aetta,and orib>>ing-No
machine drills employed-Single hand drilling used-Underground
tramming by men with trunk and bucket on I2 ib,to the yard rail
No water handled-Ventilation,naturai draft.