Franklin Mining, Inc. (FMNJ)

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RE: FRANKLIN MINING - FMNJ - History # 3 in Serie -
continuation -



The Old Franklin Gold, Silver &
Copper Mines & Mill -

The Old Franklin Gold, Silver &
Copper Mines & Mill -

History -

* Franklin Mining Company -
was established as a Colorado -
exploration and mining -
company in Est. 1864.

* In 1865, the claims that comprise -
The Franklin Mines -
were located about 1½ miles north of
Idaho Springs and the vein system -
that became the ore bodies of -
The Franklin Mines -
were also discovered that year,
with the sinking of the Franklin shaft.

* Between 1865 and 1870 -
shafts were also sunk -
at the Gem Mine -
Freighters Friend Mine -
Franklin 73 Mine -
Franklin 87 Mine -
Alpha Mine -
Reilly Mine -
Silver Age Mine -
Freemen Mine -
and
Seaton Mines -

that would later be combined -
all of the above into -

- * Franklin Mines * -.

To All -
Don't underestimate FMNJ backbone -
The Great Franklin Mines -
Rich Old Mines -
the Gold made U.S. Rich from the start -

Ex. 1. Note. Seaton Mines -

at the bottom of
FMNJ old Gold Mines list -

History # 3 in the serie -
cont. from # 2nd -
of Old Franklin Gold Mines -
History -

Seaton Gold Mine -

At the bottom of the shaft, the vein was eighteen
inches
of nearly solid ore, consisting of galena,
gray copper, yellow copper, and iron pyrites.

The first-class ore brought $100 to
$180 per ton. The second-class ore milled out
from $90 to $100 per ton and the concentrating
ore ranged from $40 to $50 per ton.

The first class ore assayed at ¾ of an ounce of
gold, 170 ounces of silver per ton
with 4 to 6% copper.

4.5 The Casino Shaft -
(to the right and below the road)
has a 500-foot shaft that connects with
a 640 foot adit.

It produced considerable amounts of rich telluride ore.

In 1893, the Casino reported 82 pounds of ore that
contained 76 ounces of Gold and 18 ounces of silver.

An 82-pound, solid block or ore is about the size
of a small watermelon.

Below the road is the Foxhall Tunnel,
the lowest portal for the Seaton vein.

Crossing the Bullion-Interocean vein.

We are simply criss-crossing the section as we go
down the hill.

The road traverses tightly folded biotite gneisses
cut by a few Tertiary porphyry dikes.

Open stope on the right is the Metropolitan shaft.
STAY AWAY - from it -
Boreas adit is below the road on the left.

The Bride shaft is up the mountain on the right.

The Adits seen across the valley on the horizon
are the Ottawa (upper dump) and the Esmeralda
(lower dump)

These are located on the east side of Seaton Gulch.

Below in Boomerang Gulch,
lies the portal of the Idaho Tunnel that
was also called the Rattler Tunnel or Idaho-Bride Tunnel,
depending on which company was operating it.

The Idaho Tunnel starts in Boomerang Gulch and
heads into Seaton Mountain for over 700 feet.

It crosses nine different Gold veins, with
the Bride being the richest.

The Idaho Tunnel was operated until 1945!

In 1880,
The Consolidated Seaton Mountain Mining Company

was one of the most colossal enterprises under way
in Virginia Canyon.

The property
included 25 lodes that were to be intersected
by the Tunnel.

The average grade of the ores of the different
lodes ranged from $100 to $200 per ton in gold
and silver.

The tunnel, in 1880, was 600 feet long and
intersected the Inter-Ocean and the Carpenter.

The company organized on a capital of $50,000,000!!!

This same company owed the Colorado Tunnel that
opened on Sulphuret Hill, and then was projected
to penetrate Seaton Mountain in a different location.

Thomas B. Bryon, the Mayor of Idaho Springs,
managed all of this property.

The series of mine dumps on the eastern side of
Boomerang Gulch, extending from the bottom of
the gulch to the road, are on the Bullion-Interocean
vein.

Further up the gulch, but still below the main road
is the 1850-foot long Metropolitan Tunnel or
Boreas adit that accesses the Metropolitan and
Kangaroo veins.

Additional mine workings on the Metropolitan and
Kangaroo veins can be seen above the road.

The Kangaroo and the Metropolitan veins were
located in 1873 but weren't patented until 1882.

They contained ore ranging in Gold value from
.2 to 2 ounces per ton.

Most of the Gold mining was done prior to 1915 -

The Gold Mines were also most last worked to
the early 1940s -

when most of the US Miners volunteered for WWII -
and didn't returned back to the US Gold Country -

and kept the tradition since most Gold Miners
had also volunteered for WWI -

often as soon as the Miners heard the Christian Brothers
were in the war -

they put down all the tools and volunteered
to help the Brothers & Sisters.

Note.
Don't under estimate the Oldtimers -
- the US Real Miners - who made -
U.S.A. Great.

Franklin Gold Mines -

should be proud to be the owner to
one of the first US Great Mines -

FMNJ - will soon rediscover
what great assets are in the
FMNJ Mines safest safetybox -

down below 1000' to the
20000' deepth is saved -

for the modern Hi-tech
mining state of art
mining methods today -

the Old Timers only got
a sniff of the treasures -
and still showing theirs sons
were to find the Gold -

if You know of any old -
Franklin Mines - history -

please contribute -
the history often repeat itself -
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