MINEBK00657

• County: San Juan
• Volume: 13
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

T I ^' L E,
The title is vested in the Garfield Smelting Company,
incorporated under the law3 of the State ~f NeR 1Ca]d[ Jersey.
Capital stock ~3,000,A00.0o. Shares par value 1.00 each,
Principal office located at~165 Broadwap Str. Ne~+ York, City.
Branch office located at Waldheim, Colorado,
H I S T O R Y.
Date of original location, First location 1887, date of
original opening., 1889, date of abandoning Nov. 1, 1908, date of
reopening dune 20. 1911.
. T 0 P O GRAPH Y.
This group of mines is located upon a Rocky and precipi-
tous Mountain and with an altitude of 1300 feet. Water supply
is vert* plentiful.. A very larks lake at mine. The mine build-
. ings are all near the lake with +.he main tunnel about 35 feet
above the lake. A good trail connects the mine and mill a
distance of three miles and a good wagon road connects Mill
with Siiverton, Colorado, also S, N. R. R, to mill.
G F O L O G Y,
A good geological survey has been made of this district.
The character of. the country rock is volcanic.
O R E-A N D-0 R FrB G D I F S.
The character of ore bodies is fissure veins. There are five
veins that have been worked anon. The Silver Lake vein N 45°
W, New York vein N and S, Lettex "G" vein N 70° W and the dip
is s0° N.F, The vein vari=s in width from one to twenty feet
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?side ~~ith and average of four feet Ride, length 20000 feet,
Heip,Izt 1000 fast, The character of vein fill:~ng is quartz,
Pyrite, Galena, Chalcopyrite, Barite, Cerrusite, Angle site,
pyraluaite and Rhodonite. Ail of the vein filling, is eoneentra-
tion ores. Ore sheets usually vertical about sq0 to 800 Peet
long. Character of Ra11a or enrlosing rocks andesite with ptTD-
phyry and Rhyolite dikes,
0 R ~' S.
Concentration ore Chalcopyrite and Galena carrying; small
amounts of Gold, Silver and lead. No free milling ore. Gangue
is largely quartz,
S6R FACH-PLANT.
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