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• County: Clear Creek
• Volume: 12
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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Blase Ridge - 3,
GEOLOGY - Contin.
The character of country rook is granite and sehiat and the
geological period is drehean.
ORES & ORE BODIES

The character oP ore bodios is Yiasure voina. Three of
thg veins oompriaing'thia group have boon oPenod as follor+s;
Blue Ridge 1,000' loni; and fi00' high; Senator, 400';'Capital,
150'. The striko is northoast and southwest nrid the dip is
30° to the north. The vein varios in rridth•from 2~ to 10','
with esn avera~o r;idth of 5' ,
The charaoter'of vein Pilling is porphyry, lice, lead,
and quartz. Tho metals are gold, silvor, lend, oopper and z1ne,
Frith silver predominating. Tho onolosing rooks are porphyry
and granito. Only about 100 oS the voin filling; is of a con-
oontrating nature tho balanoe of vein mattor being conoentrat-
od by roduoing ten tone into ono ton, giving nn avorago veins
of $18 per ton. All of the eonoeatrating oro is treated nt the
company's mill Hoar Dumont. Colo., and ono mild distant from
the mino.
S URFACI; PLART .
Do maohinery is required to oporute thin Property o*oopt
an•air oompresaor to run the meo}iino drills. The'air comprooe-
or is atatlonod 1n tho mill building, one mild distant, and
tho air is oonvoyod through n 3-in. pipo to the tunnel. The
air cowprosnor Sn'u n 0-drill, Loynor. Thv mill and nir oom-
Presaor oro run by u 5-it, Pvlton rratvr nhovl. ~,uter is darned
to tho waster whoel by un open dltoh, ono milo In length, and
100' of 3-_°t, pipo,
Ao protvotlon brio boon provided 1n caao of r:ooiderit by
fire. P1Yo-proof doors nre not Hooded nt tho vntranoe of tho
tnnnvl ae thero oro no bu11d1ngn Hoar the oponlag. Ordinary
woodon doors huvo been Providod 7netoad.
YortY Poet oast of the portal of tho tunnel !e ono Sreae