Rtc·bAPR 15 1966 WITHOUT GOLD WE FOLD COPY AME.RI�AN Published MoD!bly Combining Western DedicaJed to the Except January Mini g and Industrial News aacl n AdvancemenJ of the Jul b the Amerl y y caa and Prospectors' Digest Cold Mining Industry Cold Anociatioa in the United Stat. San Andreas, California, April, 1966 SINGLE-JACK MINERS- These two miners, Hugh blast holes in rock. Although such drills were intro­ Grant and Charles McCormick, were snapped while at duced in the 70's they were not widely used in the work on the second level of the Golden King Mine, smaller mines until after the turn of the century. A few near Alleghany, Sierra County, California, in May, months after this picture was taken, Grant was fatally 1894. "Single-jacking" is largely a forgotten art, as injured in a mine blast. machine drills have replaced this method of making PAGE 2-AME.RICAN GOLD NEWS-APRIL. 1966 GOLD COMMITTEE P.OINTS TO Cartwheel Shortage Turned to Profit HAS THE MOTHER LODE NEW USES FOR GOLD RENO - George Washington Gold-plated sunglasses, sky­ a 16-foot ultraprecise micro­ SEEN ITS FINISH? would have a tough time find­ lights, windows, and other wave antenna surfa·ced with ing a silver dollar these days By D. C. DEMAREST Mother Lode mines are incom­ specialty items where the gold. A partial quote from the to pitch across a river, even in Written in 1950 by the late plete. harmful effects of the ultra­ paper r e p o r t i n g this work Nevada where cartwheels used well ltnown mining engineer violet •part of the sun's radia­ states, "Gold 'is one of the few FO'LLOW TH1E ORE to flow freely across the gamb­ and mine owner, who for tion must be avoided may one metals which when plated pro­ The ability, experience and ling tables. many years operated a foun· day be realized according to a vides a long-term environmen­ good judgment needed in most It was two years ago that dry located in the Mother spokesman for the Committee tal protection for the base ma­ cases to make a success of these mint director Eva Adams, a na­ Lode town of Altaville, Cali­ for Research on the Properties terial. In this case, it was as­ mines, is very much under-esti­ tive of Wonder, Nev., told a Re· fornia that specialized in and Uses of Gold, Inc. sured that no corrosive mois­ mated by non-mining people. I no audience she doubted if mining equipment. Gold films on glass can re­ ture could reach the critical have seen uncalled-for failures more silver dollars would be duce harmful ultraviolet radi­ plastic Invar surface. In addi­ made by men who had aocumu­ made and predicted those in cir­ (Continued From Last Month) ation, yet by proper processing tion, gold is the best microwave lated millions in conducting culation in the west would not can retain almost full visible refletive m&terial available, their own business successfully, last long. FIND IT transmission properties. So say and its high reflectivity protects GOLD WHERE YOU and who had the idea that they She was right. the researchers at the Univers­ the reflector from much of the Two mines on the Lode, the could m a s t e r the "mining The disappearance of the re­ ity of California in the fourth thermal distortion caused by Kennedy and the Argonaut, game" without having its spe­ maining silver dollars into col­ quarterly report issued by the solar radiation." were operated profitably to the cial knowledge and training. lections and speculation caches Gold Committee, prepared by Mr. Wise also comments on 6000 foot levels. There are no In the first place, the ore de­ was mourned in Nevada, where Clyde Williams and Company, the equally important indus­ indications at the bottom of posits often are tricky, so that the silver dollar was the com­ the Committee's business, re­ trial application of gold in its these mines that the ore will early in the business the old· mon medium of exchange. search monitoring, and techni­ role as a protection for printed quit with increased depth-and timers learned to "follow the The casinos came up with an cal public relations agent. circuit boards used in critical some day, if economic condi· ore" rather than to take short answer, however, that has paid Under the auspi-ces and fund­ applications. A major drawback tions are right, these properties cuts to its supposed position at off: ing of the Gold Committee, has been the high reactiveness may be worked to the 10,000 or deeper levels. For instance, in Their own $1 metal tokens for three research groups are study­ of ordinary solders with the 12,000 foot levels. In the whole the 1890's the Dutch mine in use in slot machines. Cus­ ing gold and are searching out gold. Now a solder has been de­ length of the Mother Lode, not Tuoloumne County was making tomers are taking them home new industrial uses for some of veloped by the Monsanto Re­ more than four other mines quite a record for gold produc- as souvenirs just as they did its unique properties. The group search Labratory at Miamis­ were opened below the 2500 foot tion under its mine manager, silver dollar>:•. at the Institute of Engineering burg, Ohio, which has slowed level. Even in these, judging A. Trittenbach, a close friend of Better yet, the -casinos get the at the University of California, down the reactions. A gold-sol­ from the history of the Ken­ mine. Trittenbach told me re- tokens made for 15 to 30 cents Berkeley, has spent this past der combination has been pro­ nedy and the Argonaut, there peatedly at the time, that he each and they sell them for $1. three months investigating the duced which may well lead to is a lot o.f unprospected ground couldn't trust his ore "to keep optical properties of gold films increased use of gold in this ····-@-···· yet to be penetrated. Consider­ its place,'' so he had adopted a on such varied items as glass, application. ing the Mother Lode occurrence practi-ce o.f following the ore Tourist View for potassium bromide, silica, and The gold reasearch and appli­ as an ore -channel, 6000 or more down with a winze to the next alumina. The researchers con­ cations studies are spon­ Ft. Knox Planned feet deep and 120 miles long, level, in order to be sure of its eluded that, "By controlling sored by The Committee for Re­ FRANKFORT Ky. The then the explorations of the exact location there, before the film thi-ckness and heat-treat­ search on the Properties and state plans, with Army permis· past have probed into a mere shaft was deepened for the low- ment procedures, the transmis­ Uses of Gold, Inc. Members of sion, to build and o:perate a fraction of the total ground in er workings. sion in the visible region .can the Gold Committee are the museum at Fort Knox military the channel. In view of the In one of the most noted be maintained at high and al­ Transvaal and Orange Free reservation. great amount of exploration mines on the Lode, the vein, a most constant valves, whereas State Chamber of Mines, Re­ The museum w o u 1 d cost that is yet possible, and the large one, had been followed transmission in the infrared public of South Africa ; Gold $250,000 and provide a viewing truth of two o-ld sayings-"No down at a regular pitch to about and ultraviolet regions can be Fields American Corporation, platform for tourists to see the man can look into the ground 1500 feet below the cropping, decreased substantially." New York, New York; the gold depository.-The Stockton any farther than the next man" where it "bottomed,'' seeming- Studies at Fulmer Research Chamber of Mines of Western (Calif. ) Record. and "Gold is where you find it" ly. An exploration below the Institute, Stoke Poges, England, Australia ; the Homestake Min­ -it doesn't seem reasonable to 1500 "picked up" its continua- are continuing on the use of ing Company of San Francisco, Research on the Properties and me to entertain the idea that tion 180 feet away to the east, gold as high-temperature, in­ California; and Sel-Rex Corpor­ U>:•2S of Gold, Inc., may be the best and the biggest prizes going down at its regular pitch. ert containers for highly corro. ation of Nutley, New Jersey. Dr. obtained by writing to the Com­ of the Mother Lode are gone. In another prominent mine, sive materials such as molten Donald H. McLaughlin, Chair­ mittee's busines9, res ear __ Just brfore ,TT Jrld Warone , c.b saw faces -in-drifts stapes of tile I a!C!-d salts. Although the past exper· man· ·board of Homestake, monitoring and technical pu · Doctor Malcolm McClaren, a where the ore had been "pinch- iences of other researchers in ­ is the chairman of the Gold relations agent, Clyde Wil· most noted British mine geolo· ed" completely out of the vein, He dicate that gold has many of Committee. Iiams and Company, 50 West gist, now deceased, came to bringing the walls together ex- the characteristics needed to Information concerning the Gay Street, Colombus, Ohio, California at the instance of cept for a gouge between, "the make it useful in this area, re­ activities of the Committee for 43215. W. J. Loring, who then was op­ thickness of a knife blade" the searcers at Fulmer have not erating important Mother Lode the miner's expression goes.