Company
Overview
Copper
King Mine was rediscovered in 2007 by Wilf Blum, Dee Allred
and Jack Rasmussen. The mine was originally deeded in
1937, at which time 65,000 ounces of gold were mined from
the area.
The
mine in the Drum Mountains area of Utah consists of 62
claims filed and recorded in Juab and Millard counties,
as the claims straddle the counties' borders. The claims
were patent-deeded and the deeds were purchased by Copper
King Mining Inc., a Utah corporation, which shows Dee
Allred as the only shareholder at this time. The company
has recently added another 6 claims to their holdings.
Upon
discovery of the ore bodies in the mining area, Allred
had assays performed and contracted a company in Orem,
Utah who provided geological survey work on the area.
George
Harris, a senior geologist with Bullion Monarch Mining,
a Utah consulting and mining firm, was contacted and spent
several days going over the site. The site consists of
several volcanic out-croppings and old mine shafts that
have very large bodies of ore associated with them. The
ore consists of copper, silver, and gold, plus several
trace minerals of value.
The
company has plans to do a sonogram survey of the area.
Based on those results, the company plans to do a drilling
program to prove reserves.
Copper
King recently acquired Western Utah Copper Company and
after a drilling program, they will plan how to begin
mining the combined 2300 acres in the Drum Mountains area.
Copper
King currently has a copper milling facility and copper
strip mining operation under construction in the Milford,
Utah area. Copper King has plans to begin mining operations
between April and June, 2008.
Copper
King owns or controls more than 100,000 acres of mineral
properties, real estate, and other assets in Beaver County,
Juab County and Millard County, Utah.
Its
holdings include a vast number of mining claims, land
leases and mining rights described as the Milford Mineral
Belt. It is 18 miles long and 8 miles wide. The principal
metals include Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten and Molybdenum.
Among its assets are also buildings, mining equipment
and the new copper milling facility.
Copper
King Future Brighter after Acquisition of Western Utah
Copper Company
Copper
King Mining recently acquired Western Utah Copper Company.
The merged company will continue to be called Copper King
Mining and the two minining operations combined are poised
to become a huge money making mining machine in the coming
months and years, with proven Gold, Silver, Copper, Tungsten
and Molybdenum reserves with more reserved being
identified all the time.
In
early January, Copper King Mining Finalized the Purchase
of 62 patent deeded mining claims in the Drum Mountains
of Utah. These 62 mining claims were originally mined
in the late 1800s and produced considerable gold. The
copper was just left as most people were interested only
in gold back in those days. This area just sort of fell
through the cracks in the 20th century, and with new mining
and ore extraction technologies, these existing claims
can yield excellent precious metal production rates.
On
January 10th, Copper King also announced that applications
had been made for 6 more mining claims in adjoining areas
to their already patent deeded claims, bringing their
total to 68 a claims on 1200 acres and now, post merger,
Copper King has added 1100 more contiguous acres of claims
to it's existing 1200 acres for a total of 2300 acres
in the Utah Drum Mountain area. These claims in the Drum
Mountain area are primarily gold bearing mining claims
with some copper and other precious metals.
With
the addition of the Western Utah Copper Company assets,
equipemtn and claims, the company now holds approximately
100,000 acres of mining claims in total and a complete
line of Caterpillar Mining equipment including their own
processing mill which is near completion at their mine
in their Hidden Treasure mine in Milford, UT. The mill
at the Hidden Treasure mine in Milford is around 100 miles
south of the Drum Mountain mining area upon its completion
is expected to process 2500 tons of ore per day, recovering
50-65,000 pounds of Copper per day plus Gold and Silver.
The property's mineralization consists of Gold, Silver,
Copper and other metals such as Tungsten and Molybdenum.
Copper
King currently employs upwards of 60 people including
geologists, engineers, management, construction personnel
and miners. The company is currently removing overburden
from the ore body on several acres of their Hidden Treasure
mining property. The company has removed a combined 1,600,000
tons of over burden and ore, and has stock piled 200,000
tons of ore in preparation of the completed mill which
should begin operations in April or May of this year.
Mr.
Mark Dotson, previously of Western Utah Copper Company,
is now the President and CEO of Copper King Mining Corporation.
Mr. Dwaine Allred stepped aside with the merger and is
now a member of the board of directors.
Conversation
with Mark Dotson, CEO
I
was curious to know more about the new Copper King Mining
Corporation so I picked up the phone and recently spoke
to Mark Dotson, CEO. We spoke for a while and he was very
open about answering my questions. A summary of our conversation
is shown below:
Mr.
Dotson confirmed that the company's mill operations and
ore processing facility would be online and processing
ore between April and June of this year, and the company
already has around 200,000 tons of ore ready to be processed.
According
to Mr. Dotson, "The ore at the Hidden Treasure mine
we are currently mining runs approximately 36 pounds of
copper per ton of ore. Historically the ore runs 0.01
opt gold per each unit of copper in the ore. A unit of
copper is equal to 1% and 1% is equal to 20 pounds per
ton, or 1% of 2,000 pounds, which is 20. The ore at our
mine is about 1.8% copper so the gold historically was
about 0.015 opt gold per ton of ore. It should be noted
that most of larger copper deposits currently being mined
world wide is less that 12 pounds of copper per ton of
ore, and the copper in the Hidden Treasure mine will run
around 36 lbs. copper per ton. So you can see the ore
grades at our mine are much richer than most. Many of
the copper deposits in the world do not have any gold
or silver with them at all but we have significant gold
and silver deposits. In addition to the gold and silver
many of our ore bodies contain tungsten and molybedum.
Anticipated Mineral
Extraction Rates
Currently,
Copper King Mining Corporation is developing the Milford
Mineral Belt which is made up of approximately 59,000
acres of mining claims which are proven, highly probable,
probable, or likely.
The
Milford Mineral Belt is a geologic setting very typical
of porphyry copper mega districts. The Milford district
lies within an east trending belt of altered quartz monzonite,
quartz monzonite porphyry, granodiorite, as well as altered
andesites, diorites, and other typical volcanic associated
with Porphyry copper mineralization.
Copper
King's holdings include a vast number of mining claims,
land leases and mining rights described as the Millford
Mineral Belt. It is 18 miles long and 8 miles wide. The
principal metals include Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten
and Molybdenum. Among the company's assets are also buildings,
mining equipment and a new milling facility that will
be operational in the April to June 2008 timeframe.