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CONTINUATION OF RECENT
MINING ARTICLES FOR AL
ASKA PROSPECTORS
PLATINUM BY ALBERT S. WIL
KERSON. INSTRUCTOR GEO
LOGY, ALASKA COLLEGE
(Continue cl fro mvesterday)
"How rich some of the impregna
tions are, is indicated by the fact
that one mine of riunite, for exam
ple, 44 x 75 feet, assayed two ounces
per ton at a depth of -72 feet. Par
ticles of crystalline platinum as big
as the head of a match have been
found in this ere. Yes indeed,
•Tack, these lode deposits are being
worked as well as the placers.”
Russia unci Columbia are the
main producers—comes from plac
ers too. In the United States there
?'• a small production in California
and Oregon and a couple of other
r-mtes. Alaska has produced some
platinum. On Dime Creek, in the j
Howard Peninsula country, it has |
Icon found but ti e larger part of
the Alaskan output of platinum1
metals was palladium recovered '
from a copper lode on Kasaan Pen
insula in the Ketchikan district, j
Recently some platinum was recov- j
*'red from Goodnews Bay at the
mouth of the Kuskokwim.”
"In the gold nan, platinum ap- I
pears like grains of native silver. In
cio'or it varies from a silver-white i
So dark gray or even black. It Is
heavier than silver or gold and it is
ns soft as copper. In diamond
(drilling or churn drilling I’ve seen
the panners get excited and think !
that there v as platinum in the drill |
Kludge but these finds are generally 1
fragments of steel worn, off the
bits. A magnet test will decide the
matter or if there is any doubt, the
suspected substance should be boil
ed in nitric or hydrochloric acid.
Platinum is unaffected by these
fields but steel or silver will rapidly
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dissolve.”
Jack interrupted with: “I under
stand that the Salt Chuck Mine
near Ketchikan was originally a
copper mine and that they shipped
the copper ore to the smelter for
some time before platinum and
palladium were discovered in the
ore. Now possibly we might have
platinum in our ore, and if so, how
| are we going to know?”
“There you go. Jack!” said Larry
iwith a hearty laugh. “Every pros
pector believes there must be plati
num in his ore and if one assayer
doesn’t find it he will try them all.
When the assayer makes a fire as
say for the gold and silver in our
ore he will if he is a skilled m -■
watch the lustre of the silver-gold
.bead which he secures. If there is
j platinum present in important
|amounts, the bold-silver bead -
I present a frosty lustre. Anothc
thing I remember is that if you
nave file green mineral, olivine, os
ja ganpue in your ore you should ''
ways .send samples for platinum
. tests. ’
“A sample test to detect the n
once oe platinum is to dissolve t><
, substance in a mixture of three
[parts of hydrochloric acid and one
part of nitric acid. Then to this
add a solution of ammonium chlo
ride and if platinum is. present,
small yellow crystals will form.”
“I must write to our assayer and
warn him to look out for platinum
in our ore; and, Larry, do you want
me to write about that ring for
your girl at the same time0''
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Low water 5:28 p. m. 3.0 ft.
High water 11:31 p. m. 9 0 ft.
Low water 6:21 a. m. 0.9 ft.
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They are wonderful.
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COPPER COMPANY
FINDS COLD AND
SILVER IN ORE
NEW YORK. Peb. 7. (AV-Cerro
de Pasco Orv
orating mines in Pe"n. ncb.i wes tlv
lowest copper producing costs o'
any company in the wor’d thru
subtracting the receipts '-.m th
high percentage of gold and silver
found in its copper ore. Altho the
present corporal/on is onl*’ 12 ve~r
old, the mining history of its pro
perty goes back centuries : •
bistorv of the Incas
In addition to copper m
corporation operate c m
and an 83-mile railroad. Oper
lions have been c :. rplicatcdi' :c
cent years by difficulties with the
Peruvian Government- ove. jam .
I from its new smelter, a •••• h ut
jthe railway and a cave-in l on:: . ..
!he mines. Dividend, were paid
i the rate of $4 ar.nua.Hy from 191 j
to 1927.
Larry’s aim was poo.., .or in
.dears Roebuck catalogue m.. .. :
Jack’s ear by a margin of one-16th
of an inch.
(To be continued)
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candies at Sylvia’s.
Look over otir handsome line of
VALENTINES before you buy. The
, finest of selections. Schallerer’s
I Alaska Shop.
Lt. Philip R. Garges, of the Alao
k *.'oad Commission, has receiv
ed. orders transferring him from
Fairbanks to Juneau, effective
June 1.
Cordovans regretted the Seward
gorls’ basketball team is unable to
Piay a series of games in their
town this winter.
Beautiful assortment of Valen
tines at SehaUerer's Alaska Shop.
NOTICE
Not responsible for bills against
he Overland Grill prior to Febru
ary 1, 1929.
Signed, HARRY KAWABE.
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