Unico operated a smaller test mill - for the mines properties - the engineers reports recommended to increase the Unico - production capacity based on all work done on the mining properties since 1870 incl.
Gold was discovered at - The Deer Trail Mine - Est. 1870 - During its mining production history - approximately 200,000 ounces of Gold has been recorded - ranging from Au 2 to 7 oz./ton - and Ag 1.5 million ounces of Silver -
The initial Deer Trail claim dates to 1870, and mining activity was almost continuous - from the turn-of-the-century to 1981.
By as early as about 1911, an estimated $17 million in ore had been hauled from the mine at a time when gold was only $20 an ounce -
It has been reported that the grade of Gold - processed from the mine ranged from 2 ounces up - to as high as 7 ounces per ton -
incl. many prev. drilling reports up to the date - Unico decide to follow the eng. rep. to increase and develop a new mill -
drilling since has been done by -
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the prime objective has been to est. if open pit mining can be profitable - and the eng. Behre Dolbear is still working on the new reports about the UCOI open pit mining -
the underground mining is est. since more than 100 year of mining production great records etc. -