Los Angeles Herald, Volume 37, Number 122, 31 January 1910 — MINT MINE NEEDS REDUCTION PLANT [ARTICLE]

MINT MINE NEEDS REDUCTION PLANT

I'll I.SCOTT. Jan. 30.—With large ore bodies showing better values in gold and copper than anticipated In the property of the Mint Gold Mining company of Copper Basin, the directors of the company have decided to sink a new double compartment shaft 1 at once. This decision was reached a few days ago after a thorough Inspection of the mine by Frank D. Shea, president, and Ben F. Sweetwood, a large shareholder. It, has also been decided to equip the shaft with a hoisting plant and erect a reduction plant of thirty tons daily capacity at the mine.

Negotiations will start with the Arizona Power company looking to an agreement with the power company to furnish -power for the proposed hoist and mill from the Fossil creek plant. ! In any event the mine directors have decided to install the hoist and mill in connection with which a power plant will 1,,- built in case an agreeable arrangement is not made with the power company for the delivery of electric power. • One of the main veins has been opened extensively on the 100-foot level of the present shaft. The construction of the new shaft will lie prosecuted from this level by running a raise and sinking. The present half is in a fissure vein. The new shaft will be sunk in a vein following a granite ami porphyry contact which cuts the fissure almost at right angles ln the south drift fifty feet from the station at tiie 100-foot level.