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1975 ENTRY REC 010 COL 42 - OPEN CUT TIN ORE FROM NO 1 = 2000 ST STOCKPILE 1892. CONCENTRATING MILL (50000 DOLLARS) COMPLETED IN 1892. TRIAL RUNS OF 3.3 % SN GRADE OF 290 ST ORE RESULTED IN 2400 -CONCENTRATE AVERAGING 43% SN SHIPPED TO BOSTON SMELTER. THIS OPERATION CEASED IN 1892 OVER OWNERSHIP LITIGATION. (REC 701 PGS 285-6 ALL PAST DISTRICT PROD. FROM NOS. 1 & 2 WORKINGS FROM RICH P OF ORE THROUGH OPEN CUTS AND UNDERGROUND WORKINGS. RECORDED PRODUCTION FROM NO 1 (1890-1919) AMOUNTED TO 2253 ST ORE CONTAINING POUNDS OF TIN (TABLE REC 701 PG 287.) RECORDS 020 AND 051/ THE PROPERTY HAS REPEATEDLY BECOME INVOLVED IN LITIGATION AND OWNERSHIP DATA IS INCONCLUSIVE IN THE LITERATURE. BETHLEHEM STEEL LAST WORKED THE PROPERTY WHEN 4 HOLES WERE DUG IN 1942 (REC 701 PGS 286-7) REC.060- ORE DEPOSITION/ INTRUSION OF GRANODIORITE IN GNEISS STS, METAMORPHISM OF GRANODIORITE & GNEISS, FRACTURING & FORMATION OF FISSURE VEINS, GREISENIZATION OF HOST ROCK (FORMATION OF CASSITERITE FRACTURE FILLINGS), FORMATION OF LATE VEIN MINERALS, FORMATION OF SURFICIAL OXIDATION PRODUCTS (REC 700 PG 65). REC 060 FIELD 48-50/ 12 CU FT PER TON ORE = 2.67 SP GR IN PLA 701 PG 295). REC 060 FIELD 56-58 UNSPECIFIED 1G = QTZ FISSURE REC 060 FIELD 61-63 FELSIC IG = GREISEN. REC 060 FIELD 66-7 -S & SCHIST = COUNTRY ROCK. REC 070- MINERALOGY OF GREISEN LODE ORE (REC 701 PGS 281 & 2 REC 080- FIELDS 35 THROUGH 75= DIMENSIONS OF BLOCKED OUT LODE OF NO 1 WORKINGS LOCATED ON E SIDE OF PANTHER RUN TRIBUTARY. TIN DEPOSITS ARE VEINLIKE LODES IN PRECAMBRIAN GRANODIORITE. CASSITERITE OCCURS AS DISSEMINATIONS, VEINLETS, & POCKETS IN GREISEN -S OF GRANODIORITE. THESE ZONES BORDER EARLIER MINERALIZED VEINS OF QTZ. LODES STRIKE FROM N 70 E TO N 60 W AND ARE VERTICAL OR DIP STEEPLY TO THE SOUTH.(REC 701 PG 278) MATRIX 6/ SN CONTENT OF GREISEN ORE RANGES FROM 0.11 % TO 3. AVG. 1% (REC 701 PG 271) ASSUMED 12 CU FT OF ORE PER TON = 3 ORE FOR 330X1.25X100 FT LODE AT 1 % AVG GRADE SN. |