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Bat in flight Inside the Big Eye Mine, Kofa Wilderness, Az.
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old mine in southwest montana
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Cool pic.....lotta lumber, hard to believe it hasn't burned up after all these years in the woods.

Any idea of the name of the mine?

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Hey Eigermike welcome to this side of things.........Nice pics , how long were you in Montana, looks like you did a bunch of riding..............cool


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found the name,it was called the Marietta Mine
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The Marietta group of claims were located and surveyed in 1918 for the Barton Gulch Mining Company. At the time the Mineral Survey records noted a powerhouse, stable, blacksmith shop, cook house, bunkhouse and a cabin on the JJJ Lode, one of the claims in the group. The Montana Mineral Record recorded the mine in production in 1922. However, the next year the mine and mill closed due to litigation. The mine remained idle until early in the depression, when interest was renewed. The Mining Journal reported that ore samples were taken in June of 1931. Late in 1933, reports were made to several journals that the newly organized Marietta Mining Company was resuming production in the 100-ton flotation mill that had been built in the 1920s. The Mineral Record noted the new production in 1934 (Mining Journal 1931; 1933; Mining Truth 1931; 1932; 1933; Mineral Record 1922; 1923; 1933).

Under the supervision of W. L. Bell, 1935 was a year of expansion for the operation. Equipment for a new 100-ton mill was ordered from the Union Iron Works in February; a new strike was recorded in May; and by July the newly equipped mill was processing the new strike. The mill ran three shifts to process 40 tons per day (Tanley 1937; Mineral Record 1935).

The operation in 1937 consisted of a 50-ton flotation mill, sawmill, blacksmith shop, assay office, cook house, bunk houses and family cabins. Montana Power electricity ran an Ingersoll-Rand 2-stage air compressor along with other mill equipment. Ore was brought out of a 900 foot adit that connected to the Metallic vein and the Marietta vein. Ore was crushed as it came out of the mine by a 9 x 16 jaw crusher. A conveyor belt carried the crushed ore to the fine ore bin at the top of the mill. The fine ore bin fed into a 4 1/2 x 6 foot Marcy ball mill which emptied into a Dorr duplex classifier. Coarse material was returned to the ball mill, fines were sent through a special five-spigot hydraulic trap and the rest was sent through the eight Union Ironworks flotation cells. Tails were sent over a blanket table. Concentrates from the trap and blanket table were sent through an amalgam barrel, flotation concentrates were put in a settling tank/filter. The return on the ore was .27 ounces gold and 1.11 ounces silver per ton. The mine continued production until 1940 (Lorain 1937).
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hey dave i was there for 8 days! love this site to.im getting hooked on this gold thing!!
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Great info, you did your homework.

It's fascinating to see a place like that and learn what they did there over the years....the investment, the processes, the tunneling, how much it produced....who lost money and why it closed.

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did you get that gold pan yet Mike?


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yes i got one but its a cheapy!!!! i know now what i need.


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