Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
High pressure centered in the
Arctic Ocean with a ridge extend
ing southwest into Alaska and
thence south through the interior
of Canada to another High cen
tered over Saskatchewan has
caused fair and colder weather to
obtain over this entire area with
sub-zero temperatures reported
all along the Arctic coast with
the lowest reported at Coppermine
eight below. This area of High
pressure will probably cause
cloudy and continued cold to con
tinue over northwest Alaska with
light snow as a further outlook.
Low pressure centered about
two hundred miles southeast of
Dutch Harbor with a trough ex
tending to a secondary over the
northwest United States has caus
ed cloudy and unsettled weather
over the north Pacific Ocean and
rain over southeastern Alaska &
northwest United States. The
greatest 24 hour rainfall was re
ported at Prince Rupert, British
Columbia as over two inches. A
thunderstorm was reported at Es
tevan on Vancouver Island at ob- \
servation time.
The lowest Nome temperature
last night was 21 degrees above;
and the highest yesterday 28.
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Mayor Pierre Nouveau (above)
in the face with a bouquet of
flowers.
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“The Crucible”
Unofficial bulletin for the
Nome Headquarters of the
Territorial Department of
Mines
Assayed by Aben Shallit
8th Pouring
Howdy Sourdough. Now that
all of the tourists have left town
we old-timers can spit on our
hands and get to mining—along
side some nice hot stove. Now
some of these prospects have been
raked over the stove so often
that they are becoming a bit
well, after passing a story along
for so many years, it’s liable to
become a bit obsquatulatorious.
A benevolent Territorial Depart
ment of Mines, realizing the need
of new' exploits to keep the stove
red hot, have created an Assay
Office in town. Here the raw mat
erial for new ventures is given
the fire test and an official touch.
This incidentally gives the pros
pector a chance to evaluate his
find.
When a sample is brought in
to an assay office, how is it treat
ed? In orde rto simplify the pro
cedure, assume that the sample
is to be assayed by fire methods
for gold and silver.
Proper sampling is of the ut
most importance, for unless the
sample to be assayed accurately
represents the lot of ore from
which it is taken, the greatest
care in the assay itself means
nothing. Where so called speci
men assays are made the sampl
ing of the small amount of pulp
is usually a simple matter, but
accuracy is also required.
When a sample is brought in-j
to the office it is crushed to a!
uniform size and is sampled de- j
pending upon its size by one ofj
the following self explanitory
method's; coning and quartering.!
alternate shovels, or riffling.
The part of the sample to be
assayed is ground to minus 80
mesh or more, depending upon
the ore, and a weighed amount
is mixed with a flux, consisting
usually of sodium carbonate, lead
oxide, and borax, together with
enough carbon to reduce most
of the lead oxide to metal. The
mixture is fused in a fire clay
crucible at a red heat until the
had separates and sinks through
the mass. The lead carries the
gold, silver, and platinum if any,
with it while the silica, calcium,
alumina etc. in the ore form a
slag with the rest of the flux.
When the action has been com
pleted. the molten material is
poured into a mold and allowed
to cool and solidify. The lead,
carrying the precious metals with
it sinks to the bottom of the
mold and after solidifying is
separated from the slag and plac
ed in a bone ash cupel which lias
prveioualy be n raised to a red
heat in a muff:!. Here the lead
button is heated under oxidizing
conditions so that the lead is ab
sorbed into the cupel, leaving the1
gold, and silver which ar- weigh
ed together.
The b od consistin g of gold and
•;;lver is flattened and treated with
n-trin ac'd to remove ‘he silver.
This leaves spongy gold, which
is washed, dried, h ated and
weighed, the loss of weight in
dicating the silver.
If the ore contains relatively
little silver, more must be alloy
ed with the bead, as gold pro
tects silver from the action of
nitric acid. If the silver is not to
be determined, extra silver may
be plared in the crucible as this
silver helps to collect gold dur
ing cupellation.
This is the procedure in the
simplest of all gold-silver assays.
The character of tre flux and ore,
the conditions of melting and
cupelling and the parting and
weighing all influence the results
and must be closely controlled.
Accurate assaying consists in
maintaining the most favorable
conditions at each stage of the
process and obtaining the maxi
mum gold and silver in a pure
state.
Now that we are ail brother
assayers, let’s get to work. You
sample the outcrops and I’ll do
the cooking. I’ve been thinking
about getting a sign built saying,
“We guarantee high assay re
turns". So-long, metallurgical
technicians.
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Games Far East
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has long been divided into two
sections with respective head
quarters at Khabarovsk and
Chita.
That Irkutsk is growing in im
portance from the viewpoint of
military industry cannot be de
nied. but Joseph Stalin himself
has made it so clear that the So
viet would consider an infringe
ment of Mongolian territory by
Japanese or Manchukuoan troops
to be a casus belli that there is
no present necessity to make of
Irkutsk more than third or minor
“headquarters”, as it already has'
been for a long time.
Transport Is Problem
As far back as 1933 Marshal
Klcmenty E. Voroshiloff stated
that the transport problem was
one of the greatest difficulties of
this vast country, especially so
far as the Eastern army was con
cerned and that therefore this
army had been so constituted and
supplied as to minimize the trans
port difficulty to the utmost. Man
power and equipment reserves
have been “staggered” across
Eastern Asia at various points,
among which Irkutsk is undoubt
edly included.
Nevertheless although there has
been no considerable reinforce
ment of the Soviet Far Eastern
forces in the sense implied by
the Japanese report, it is an error
to suppose the Soviet is not fully
on the alert toward the danger of
a Japanese attack.—New York
Times.
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St. Joseph’s Church
Mass at 9 A. M. Sunday
J. A. Concannon, S. J.
KfVjf*r:sl«Ml f .luirrii
■lev. Vincent C. Widuey, Pastor
Service for Sunday, Oct. 31
Church School 11 o’clock.
Evening Worship, 7:45.
Serin in topic: "The Way of
Love Works."
Everyone cordially invited to
worship with us.
Native Methodist Church,
Service 5 P. M.
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