Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1928 — Page 7

AUG. 8, 1928

OPEN MINE TO DIG UP RICHES FROMMETEOR Eastern Capitalists Back Project to Extract Metal Fortune. By United Press WINSLOW, Ariz., Aug. 8. —Mining operations are under way to explore and determine the actual content on the giant Barringer meteor of northern Arizona, greatest known meteor on earth and hitherto enshrouded in mystery and Indian fable. The Barringer meteor, twenty-two miles from Winslow, created a crater a mile across and approximately 1,000 feet deep when it crashed to earth thousands of years ago. It displaced over 300,000,000 tons of rock in the impact. Finds Meteor The crater thus created has been the cenrer of scientific and geological interest for fifty years, and for the past twenty-five years various efforts have been made to reach the great shooting star itself and determine its content. The work has beeen carried on principally by D. M. Barringer, Philadelphia geologist, for whom the meteor was named. Barringer finally located the main body 1,376 feet from the south rim of the crater. Tests showed it to be approximately 400 feet in diameter, and to contain 90 per cent meteoric iron, 7 per cent nickel, .2 ounces of platinum and .1 ounce of iridium per ton. Metal Worth SSO Tone The main body is estimated to weigh 10.000,000 tons, and the metal content to be worth approximately SSO per ton. Age-old rumors that diamonds existed in the ore were disproved by the tests, which showed only microscopic diamond points of no commercial value. Actual mining operations just started are under the direction of Barringer and Quincy A. Shaw' of Boston, of the Calumet & Hecla Mining company. The enterprise is being conducted privately. Contracts for erecting power plant and hoist machinery and sinking a two-compartment shaft have been let, and initial construction work is under way. Expended Own Fortune Thousands of dollars have been spent in past years in futile efforts to locate the great star and its estimated wealth of $500,000,000 of metals. I’he United States Mining, Smelting and Refining Company, one of the largest corporations of its kind in the United States, gave up the attempt after spending over SIOO,OOO. Barringer, however, has stayed with his problem for over twentyfive years, and after expending his personal fortune finally located the great ore body with sufficient exactitude to bring to his aid the funds and engineering assistance of eastern mining capital.

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