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Page 6 -Mountain Messenger -Friday. March I, 1991 <br />Mining Classes for Forest Service at the Phoenix <br />dy Siegfried D Benson <br />Photos by The Oldtimer <br />Six U.S. Mineral Examiners, <br />Geologists and Mining Engineers from <br />Region Four of the U.S. Forest <br />Service, attended a day long class in <br />advanced mining techniques used by <br />small mining operations at the Phoenix <br />Mine on Monday February 25. <br />David Mosch, Mining Engineer and <br />partner in the Phoenix Mine with his <br />father AI Mosch, taught the Forest <br />Service representatives about the <br />technical and practical aspects of <br />small mining operations in today's <br />economy. <br />The six men attending the class do <br />mineral assessments of properties on <br />Forest Service Land to determine the <br />reaV economic potential of small nunmg <br />prospects. <br />The Phoenix Mine, datim, back to <br />1372, offer a wide array of ecologic <br />formations and ore bodies and has <br />been used by ~_ovemment agencies for <br />academic study for several years. <br />The wide range of mining <br />techniques represented at the Phoenix <br />Mine, from hand drilling and blasting to <br />state of the art mining and milling <br />techniques, provide the U.S. Forest <br />Service Examiners with an ideal training <br />ground in actual working <br />circumstances. <br />Two additional week long classes <br />each year, to be attended by as many <br />as 30 representatives of the U.J. <br />Forest Service, are planned at the <br />Phoenix Mine which is lorared I I/4 <br />miles west and 3/4 mtlc somh of Idaho <br />Springs. Public tours of the Phoenix <br />Mine are available all year. <br /> <br />Pictured at the portal of the Phoenix Mine, are, left to right, <br />John Branch, Pete Peters, Tom Abbay, Bob Randolph, Robert <br />Sykes, Ray Wallace and Instructor David Mosch. <br />