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The principal town is Alta City, situated at the head of Little Cottonwood canon, on a basin or flat, the mountains surrounding it on every side. The town can boast of only one business street, and is built up of frame houses after the plan and manner of other mining towns of the Territory. The population is about 600 ; that of the district is estimated at 1,300. The altitude is about 8,000 feet above the sea level. The summit of the mountain above the Emma mine, and on a level with the discovery of Davenport, is 9,500 feet. Alta is thirty miles distant from Salt Lake City, south-east- erly.
The formation in which the principal mines of this district are found is limestone, although to the west of the Flagstaff is found a quartzite formation, and directly east of Alta there is a granite formation. Several ledges of argentiferous galena have been found in this granite belt. The ores of the mines of Little Cottonwood, are carbonate, galena, sulphuret and chloride ores ; they also contain oxide of iron. They are generally of a high grade, sampling from 60 ozs. in silver to 1,200 ozs. in silver, and from 10 to 60 per cent. lead. Many of the ores carry gold from $5 to $100 per ton. The princi- pal mines of the district are :
On Emma Hill - The Emma, Flagstaff, Vallejo, Titus, Ohio, Highland Chief, Savage, Montezuma, Last Chance, Hiawatha, Western Star, Monitor and Magnet, Morning Star, Caledonia, McKay, Revolution, Stoker, North Star, Brain, Emily, Relief, Paris Belle, Flora Temple, Cincinnati, Chicago, Ratler No. 2, White Cloud, Home Ticket, Rexford.
On Davenport Hill - The Davenport, Matilda, Alice, Im- perial, Excelsior, Grizzly, Pocahontas, Baltic, City Rock, Victoria and Imperial, Vanderbilt, Regulator, Darlington, Utah, King of the West, Florinda, Lavinia, Cub, Olive, Lion, Adelaide, Robert Aull, Dexter, Black Bess, Becca, Amy Dagmar.
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On Granite Hill - The Cedar, Lincoln, Patsey Marley.
On Wellington Hill - The Wellington, Webster, Galena, Iris, Emerald.
On Peruvian Hill- The Ida, Daisy, Louisa, Clipper, Flag- staff No. 2, Skipper, Lexington, Defiance, Moltke, Jim Fisk, Harper's Ferry, Sedan, Oxford and Geneva, Alpha.
On Frederick Hill -The Frederick, Enterprise, Haskell, Wells, Golden Gate, Superior Gulch, and Superior Buckeye.
Principal tunnels, all of which have been or are now being worked : On Emma Hill - the Maxwell, Royal, Lady Emma, Utah, Howland, Bay City, Little Cottonwood, Gladiator, Illinois, Manhattan, Equitable, Reliance, Phoenix, Emma Hill Consolidated, Ely, and Hermann.
Davenport Hill - The Victoria, Imperial, and Christina.
Wellington Hill - The Ætna, Lady Esten, Galena, West Point, and Defiance.
Peruvian Hill - The Clipper, Skipper, and St. Joseph.
The developments of the principal mines of the district are as follows:
Frederick- On Frederick Hill : shaft No. 1, 357 feet deep; shaft No. 2, 200 feet deep; shafts, levels, etc., 313 feet ; formation quartzite and limestone; average width of vein. three feet; 400 tons of ore removed; owned by M. W. Watson & Co .; M. K. Harkness, superintendent.
Fuller - On the bald quartzite mountain, west of the Flagstaff; two shafts, 90 feet and 260 feet; tunnel, 200 feet in ; formation, quartzite ; a true fissure vein cutting boldly across the formation at right angles with the strati- fication ; ore, chloride, assaying from $100 to $1,000 per ton; shipments, 150 tons; owned in Toledo, O .; incor- porated ; Wm. B. Welles, superintendent.
Gen. Welles - On Frederick Hill, 1,500 feet west of Fuller lode ; shaft, 70 feet; tunnel, 268 feet ; vein well defined ; chloride ore, assaying from $150 to $500 per ton; owned by Haskell, Welles & Co., of Toledo, O .; D. H. Bentley, superintendent.
Flagstaff - Developments not known. They were re- quested, but not handed in. M. T. Patrick, superintendent ; English incorporation ; about 40,000 tons of ore removed ; average value about $60 per ton.
Vallejo - Main tunnel, 650 feet ; main shaft, 100 feet ; levels and drifts, 1,200 feet ; 5,000 tons of ore removed; the ore house is situated in Alta, connected with the mine by a Hallidie patent rope tramway, 2,380 feet in length ;
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Emma-Tunnels, 3,000 feet; levels, winzes, stopes, etc., 1,000 feet ; perpendicular depth from upper tunnel, 350 feet ; incline, 550 feet ; 30,000 tons of ore removed ; formation, limestone ; English incorporation; George M. Atwood, manager ; Hannibal Williams, superintendent; concentrat- ing works erected at the mine ; about seven miles of flumes which cost $4,000. The concentrating works have a capacity of 100 tons per day.
Winsor Group- Located 600 feet above the Emma ; comprises the Hiawatha, Savage, Montezuma and Last chance. Tunnels, shafts, drifts, etc., over 2,000 feet; 1,000 tons of ore removed ; Detroit incorporation.
Mckay - Located on Emma Hill ; open cut and incline, 260 feet; vertical shaft, 50 feet; average width of vein, three feet ; ore, chlorides and carbonates of high grade ; 300 tons of ore removed ; owned by Harlow & Mckay.
Stoker-Incline shaft, 285 feet; levels, etc., 200 feet; Utah incorporation ; James H. Mathews, Supt. ; ore, chlo- rides and carbonates, high grades ; 100 tons removed from the mine ; average width, two feet.
Davenport - Developments, over 2,500 feet; formation, limestone; vein, twenty feet in width in lower levels ; 3,000 tons of ore removed; English incorporation ; Jo. Farren, Superintendent.
Lavinia -Tunnel, 450 feet ; shaft, 50 feet; Utah incorpo- ration ; C. H. Hempstead, Prest. ; Lem. U. Colbath, Supt.
Grizzly-Tunnel, 65 feet; two levels of 210 feet each; third level, 235 feet; six shafts and inclines, 345 feet ; open cut across vein, 64 feet ; open cut, 20 feet ; two tunnels, 100 feet each ; open cuts on surface, 100 feet; formation, lime- stone; ore, carbonate and chlorides; owned by Warren Hussey & Co .; ore removed, 3,000 tons; vein from two to twenty feet in width.
Darlington - Open cut, 40 feet ; from thence by a tunnel on the vein, 200 feet; incline shaft, 93 feet; incline shaft No. 2, 100 feet ; levels and cross cuts, 40 feet ; lower tunnel, 100 feet ; incorporated and owned in Chicago ; John McDonald, superintendent.
Wellington - Incline shaft, 146 feet; tunnel, 628 feet ; 1st level, 57 feet ; 2d, 200 feet; 3d, 180 feet; 4th, 180 feet; 5th, 72 feet ; cross cut from 5th level, 125 feet; winze below 2d and 3d levels, 63 feet; shaft between 3d and 4th levels,
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28 feet; shaft between 4th and 5th levels, 33 feet; ore chutes from 4th level to tunnel level, 80 feet; 5,000 tons of ore removed ; California incorporation ; G. W. Beaver, presi- dent ; E. J. Fields, superintendent.
Oxford and Geneva - On Peruvian Hill; tunnel, 165 feet in length; shaft, 40 feet deep; incline shaft from tunnel level, 185 feet; air shaft driven from initial point of incline to the surface; three levels easterly, 105 feet, 93 feet, and 47 feet in length ; west level, 28 feet; incline, 35 feet ; 500 tons of ore removed ; fissure vein, eutting the formation at right angles ; Detroit incorporation; J. B. Scott, President ; Charles M. Brough, Superintendent.
Peruvian Lode - Peruvian Hill ; shaft, 120 feet ; tunnel, 175 feet; ineline, 40 feet; average width, two feet and a half; 75 tons of ore removed; ore, gray carbonates and chlorides ; formation limestone ; owned by Moore, Wheyland & Co.
Ida-Peruvian Hill; shaft, 120 feet; ore, galena and chlorides ; 25 tons removed ; Moore, Whezland & Co., owners.
Amy Dagmar-On Davenport Hill, west of Victoria and Imperial Tunnel ; incorporated in San Francisco ; capital stock, three millions; President, T. A. Beach ; Secretary, Jos. R. Beard ; Superintendent, M. S. Stickney.
Emily - Emma Hill, 3,000 feet west of Flagstaff mine. Developments consist of 500 feet drifts, tunnels and shafts ; ore veins six inches to four feet, continuous for 100 feet ; ore, galena and ruby silver ; assayed sixty-two per cent. lead and 100 ozs. of silver to the ton ; owned in Pittsburg, Pa. ; Manager, H. M. Henderson.
Silver Belt Consolidated Mining and Tunnel Company - Tunnel, 285 feet ; shaft 100 feet ; vein fifty-seven feet wide ; 1,800 tons of ore on the dump ; Elijah Sells, president and manager.
Jones and Paddock - Shaft ninety feet ; tunnel 110 feet ; owned by Silver Belt Company.
Pine Grove - Two shafts, No. 1, 108 feet ; No. 2 forty- eight feet ; twenty-five tous of ore removed ; owned by Sil- ver Belt Company.
Victoria and Imperial Mining Company - Tunnel 690 feet; slope from tunnel level, 100 feet; width of vein, five feet ; 100 tons of ore removed ; ore, chlorides, carbonates and galena. The company has four locations on the Daven- port hill ; developments aggregating 500 feet ; San Francisco incorporation ; W. S. Blakely, superintendent.
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Ely Tunnel - 270 feet in length ; Utah incorporation.
Gladiator Tunnel - 493 feet in length ; Utah incorpora- tion ; W. S. Woodhull, superintendent.
Little Cottonwood Tunnel -500 feet in length.
Emma Hill Consolidated Mining and Tunnel Company - Grizzly Flat ; 600 feet in length ; designed to cut the South- ern Crop, White Cloud and Home Ticket lodes; owned by said company.
Definite information in regard to the developments of other mines and tunnels was not obtained in time for publication.
COTTONWOOD (BIG) DISTRICT.
Big Cottonwood Mining district, situated in Salt Lake county, adjoining Little Cottonwood on the north. and Par- ley's Park on the south-east, and about twenty-five miles distant from Salt Lake City in a south-easterly direction, was formerly a part of the old Mountain Lake District, but in 1868, was organized into a separate district. It is about ten miles long by six wide, and contains nearly 700 locations. The principal mines are :
Reed & Benson-Discovered in 1870, on South Fork, near the summit of the divide between Big and Little Cotton- wood, half mile from the Flagstaff, in a direct line, situated nearly 9,000 feet above sea level. From its situation large sums of money had to be expended before it could be worked. Roads were built over the mountains, trails made around almost impassable bluffs, where in drilling and blast- ing the workmen were suspended by ropes, and a tramway of 1,600 feet in length has been erected, passing over a bluff 400 feet in height. This tramway is entirely covered, and is the most perfect and costly arrangement of the kind in the United States. Developments of the mine consist of several shafts and inclines and a tunnel 600 feet long, connecting with an ineline 131 feet, both tunnel and ineline laid with a 26-inch guage; iron track connecting with tramway ; main shaft and incline 380 feet ; total explorations, over 600 feet in depth ; inclines, drifts, leads and shaft, 3,000 feet in length. The vein is a true fissure, cutting the strata, and joined by two strata-veins sixty feet below, where immense bodies of ore were discovered. From surface to depth of 150 feet, vein matter averages fifteen feet in width ; from 150 to 600 feet it averages sixty feet in width. Average assay of ore, eighty oz. in silver and forty-five per cent. of
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lead per ton; cost of the present workings and outside improvements, over $150,000. The property is owned by H. C. Goodspeed, F. Reed, and others.
Highland Chief - In Silver Fork cañon; country rock, limestone; developments consist of a tunnel 400 feet long and 700 feet of shafts, drifts and levels; vein-matter two and a half feet wide of lead-ores carrying silver; average assay $155 per ton in silver and sixty per cent. lead ; owned by Allen Schenck, N. W. Mundy and J. P. Page.
Wellington Mine - Near the Highland Chief ; two levels, over 500 feet in length ; two shafts, 230 feet ; stopes, 100 feet ; average assay of ore ninety-six ounces of silver and fifty- one per cent. lead per ton, besides large quantities of lower grade ore passed in working ; owned by Allen Schenck and others.
Boston Tunnel - Intended to tap Highland Chief and Wellington mines, now in 114 feet ; at a further distance of eighty feet the vein of Wellington will be cut at a depth of 250 to 300 feet ; Highland Chief, between 800 and 900 feet ; estimated cost of present expenditures upon the entire prop- erty, $75,000.
Sailor Jack -On western slope of Kesler's Peak; dis- covery shaft twelve feet deep; drift of forty-eight feet to the east at bottom of shaft; from bottom of drift is a shaft 115 feet deep, showing a vein of fine ore averaging two feet in width; from bottom of this shaft is a drift to the west, sixty-five feet long, where the surface of another claim was struck, and from this point a tunnel seventy feet long has been run. Formation, quartzite and limestone ; average assay of ore from $40 to $100 per ton ; owned by A. K. Smith and others.
Antelope and Prince of Wales - In Silver Fork ; shaft- ing, 420 feet; winzes, 250 feet; tunneling, 1,670 feet, divided as follows : Silver Fork tunnel, 320; Honey-comb tunnel, 750 ; Antelope tunnel, 320; of this 3,000 feet stop- ing has been done, with 200 feet of other mine drifts ; well- defined fissure vein in limestone formation, carrying silver- lead ores, assaying 130 ozs. of silver per ton, and forty-five per cent. lead ; a valuable property, on which over $75,000 has been expended ; owned by Walker Bros., of Salt Lake.
Homeward Bound - On the eastern side of Kesler's Peak, 9,000 feet above sea level; developed by a shaft and 170 feet of tunneling ; lode has been traced 100 feet along the vein, which is almost vertical, and averages six feet in width
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and generally of low grade ; ore, argentiferous galena, assay- ing $90 in silver per ton and forty-eight per cent. in lead ; owned by Deseret S. M. and T. company.
Congress - At head of Silver Fork Springs; discovery shaft has an incline of forty-five degrees to the depth of thirty- five feet, a level forty five feet and a drift twenty-five feet ; mineral vein averages eighteen inches in thickness ; ores, carbonates of galena mixed with yellow ochre and chlorides. carrying silver ; ore averages $150 per ton in silver; tunnel now in progress to connect with discovery shaft; owned by C. F. Smith and others.
Teresa - Head of Silver Fork; discovery tunnel run twenty feet into the hill, from which an incline. has been driven forty-eight feet deep; Teresa tunnel run south 226 feet, from which a cross-cut extends west forty-seven feet and one east sixty-four feet ; from this an incline forty-three feet deep has been sunk ; formation, limestone ; character of ore smelting, carrying a high per cent. of silver ; owned by Jas. F. Woodman and others.
Richmond-On the divide between Big and Little Cotton- wood ; over two hundred feet of tunneling and eighty feet of inclines, well timbered, besides the stoping on vein ; for- mation, limestone ; vein well defined, varies in width from one to four feet ; ore, carbonates and oxides of lead, carrying silver ; owned by S. Smith and T. Taylor.
Sacramento - Near Reed and Benson ; developed by eighty-five feet of shaft and tunnel 100 feet long; vein nearly vertical, and about fourteen inches wide ; ores, carbo- nates and oxides of lead, carrying silver ; owned by Sacra- mento S. M. company.
Butte - Near head of Honeycomb cañon ; two shafts, about seven feet deep, and incline shaft twenty-eight feet deep; formation, limestone ; ores, carbonates and oxides of lead carrying silver.
Wandering Boy - North-east side of Silver Fork, about 8,500 feet above sea level ; two open cuts, respectively twen- ty and twenty-five feet in length, and incline thirty feet long, from which a shaft eighty feet deep has been sunk ; vein well defined, averaging from six to thirty inches in, width ; country rock, white limestone ; galena and chloride ore, assaying from $100 to $300 per ton in silver and fifty per cent. in lead ; owned by J. M. Moore and others.
Florinda - On the divide between and in both Little and
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Big Cottonwood districts ; incline fifty feet in length, follow- ing the course of the vein, a level twenty-five feet long about thirty feet from the surface, leading off from incline and fol- lowing the same direction ; shaft sixty-five feet deep, sixteen feet west of the mouth of incline, and a drift twenty-five feet long from bottom of shaft; vein varies in width from four to six feet ; is composed of chloride, galena, carbonates and ochre ; ore assays from $30 to $500 per ton in silver, lead per centage light ; owned by Peter Haas and others.
Dolly Varden - Situated in North Fork; incline down about 200 feet ; vein well defined ; immense bodies of low grade ore, assaying from $25 to $40 per ton in silver; can also be used as a flux for other ores.
Maxfield, North Fork - Shaft of 250 feet and tunnel of seventy-five feet ; vein irregular and was lost for some time, causing considerable dead work; found again and mine promises well ; ore good and assays about $100 per ton.
Miller - Adjoining Maxfield ; tunnel of seventy feet ; well defined vein, displaying good ore, averaging $120 in silver per ton, and a good per cent. in lead.
Gregory - In same vicinity ; incline 100 feet ; good ore; fine prospect ; worked continually.
Adelaide, North Fork - 250 feet in tunnels and shafts ; one tunnel cuts four veins, another tunnel is being run to cut these veins at a greater depth ; ore from fifty to 150 ozs. in silver per ton, and small per cent. of lead ; good prospect and continually worked.
York, North Fork - Tunnel forty feet ; vein well defined ; ore low grade galena, mixed with yellow ochre and iron, averaging about $40 per ton.
Sunny Side - Opposite side of ridge from Reed and Benson ; located June, 1871; working shaft, 108 feet ; pros- pecting shafts and drifts, 180 feet, on ledge matter twelve to 40 feet wide ; assays 12 to 80 ozs. silver per ton, and 46 to 68 per cent. lead.
Independence -East of Sunny Side ; shaft, 60 feet, which cuts vein matter; ore, high grade, and found principally in pockets; of which a large quantity has been taken out; vein matter from five to ten feet wide.
Pacific -Situated south of Sunny Side; shaft, 58 feet deep following a continuous vein of high grade argentiferous galena ; assays have been made from $100 to $200 in silver per ton, and forty-five per cent. lead; vein well defined, averaging from eight to twenty-two inches in width. The
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three last mentioned claims are owned by Pardee, Carter, Lewis and others.
Jim Day-South of Pacific ; shaft, 65 feet deep; vein well defined ; good prospect.
Kongsberg - Across South Fork, nearly opposite Reed & Benson ; tunnel sixty-three feet long and shaft twelve feet deep at the end of tunnel ; vein averages ten feet in width and is traceable for 3,000 feet; low grade galena ore ; a three-foot vein of plumbago has also been discovered in the shaft.
Panacca - South-west of the Kongsberg ; shaft thirty feet, showing a vein three feet six inches of carbonate and galena ores ; tunnel, following the course of the vein, thirty feet long, showing two feet of ore; another tunnel in forty feet showing a foot of solid galena and carbonate ores; average assay of ore, $80 in silver per ton and forty per cent. lead ; owned by Bearson, Schad and others.
Marine - West of the Panacca ; incline shaft, seventy-five feet in depth; vein well defined. and averages four feet in width; ore, low grade galena.
Thor - North of Kongsberg ; incline, thirty feet ; showing a three-foot vein and sixteen inches of solid galena and car- bonates ; ore averages $99 in silver per ton and sixty-five per cent. lead. The Kongsberg, Panacca and Thor, with the Venus and Surprise, two good prospects, are owned by Bearson, Schad, and others.
Patchen, North Fork-Tunnel, fifty feet; vein wide and well defined ; good ore; owned by O. Jewett.
Gillmore-On Scott Hill, shaft and tunnel ; good vein ; fine prospect ; owned by a San Francisco company.
Scott, Elgin, Alta and Willamette, good prospects and con- siderably developed ; also on Scott Hill.
Ontario-In Mill F. Fork; shaft, sixty feet ; vein well defined, averaging four feet in width ; ores, argentiferous galena and copper; owned by H. W. Lawrence and Wm. S. Godbe.
Buckeye, Jr .- Shafts and tunnels 150 feet; vein averages four feet in width ; carbonate and galena ore, assaying about $100 per ton.
Mountain King-Near mill A; shaft thirty feet ; two feet wide, galena ore.
Geneva-Shaft fifty feet ; three feet wide of ore.
Evergreen-Shaft sixty feet ; vein-matter of copper. silver and gold,
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Umpire-Shafts and tunnels ; large bodies of free milling ore, assaying from $50 to $200 per ton in silver, and a small per cent. of gold ; good prospect ; owned by the Umpire Tunnel and Mining Co.
Provo-On Kesler's Peak, south-east of Sailor Jack ; is a vein of silver-bearing rock ; good prospect ; owned by J. H. Meeks and others.
Page Tunnel-In a deep basin opening into Silver Fork canon, about 500 feet north of the north line of Little Cot- tonwood District; tunnel in 120 feet; ore already found assays $70 in silver per ton, and rock full of ore stains ; owned by Page Tunnel Co., of San Francisco.
Beckwith - Near Honeycomb canon, and General Grant, a little north, are good prospects ; ores, high grade argenti- ferous galena.
Following is a list of very good prospects, more or less de- veloped, with favorable indications of becoming valuable mines : Young Columbia, near the divide between Silver Fork and Honeycomb canons, lead ores carrying silver; Wild Bill, a little north ; Washington, Lorne, Caine, Wilson, Connaught Ranger on the same side ; Cooper, near Honey- comb canon ; Silver Mountain, near Highland Chief; Vir- ginia, on Silver Fork creek; Alaska, head of Silver Fork Springs, near Congress; Washington Gulch lode, west of Alaska ; Lone Star State tunnel, north of Washington; Maggie, north of mouth of tunnel ; Milt Orr, on the divide between Little and Big Cottonwood ; Empress, north-east of Milt Orr ; Emperor tunnel, a little east of Empress ; Ophir, Excelsior and Cora, in the vicinity of Reed and Benson ; Argenta, Rob Roy and Robert Emmet, further north ; Jeffer- son tunnel, Hope, Little Giant, Wide West, Chieftain, Osce- ola and Mansur, in the vicinity of Kessler's Peak; and fur- ther south, Montreal, Kongsberg tunnel and Hammerskold tunnel, Zoe, under superintendence of Major Meeks ; Um- pire, managed by Edgerly & Snow; Anglo Saxon, Keokuk and Longfellow.
LUCIN DISTRICT.
This district is located six miles south of Tecoma station, on the C. P. R. R., which is 140 miles west of Corinne. The mines are in the Lucin range of mountains, just on the dividing line between Utah and Nevada, the mines, however, being all on the Utah side, in Box Elder county.
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A daily line of stages run from Tecoma to Buel City, at the foot of the hills on which are the mines. At Buel City is the Buel furnace.
The Tecoma mine has a shaft over 250 feet deep, and a tunnel of over 100, with drifts, etc. It has a good mine tram- way and other appliances. The ore is an ochre, with iron, soft carbonates and galena.
The Empire mine has an incline about 150 feet, with a shaft about 160 feet, and drifts, etc., all on a strong vein of ochraceous ore, with plenty of iron for smelting.
The Rising Sun, with the two preceding mines, belongs to the Tecoma Co .; has been extensively worked. These ores are high grade in lead but low in silver.
The Shanly, Gladstone, Ida, L'Arbra, Uncle Sam, and several other claims, belong to the Tecoma S. M. Co. of London. The Shanly has an incline over 300 feet, with cuts and drifts on a good vein of ore, and is being developed by a tunnel from the L'Arbra to strike the vein at a great depth.
The Gladstone has an incline over 200 feet on a good vein of ore of good grade, and has produced considerable. All these mines carry about fifty per cent. lead, and are valuable smelting ores.
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