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Show X Page 2 OIL & MINING JOURNAL October 6, 1969 ' (Top) Mine, plant, and townsite of The Anaconda Copper Co., Weed Heights, near Yering-to(Above) Massive machines make it possible to mine huge tonnages of ore. n truck is one of new fleet in use at Anacondas Yerington Mines operation. n. Sixty-five-to- Whether discovered accidentally, prospected laboriously, or researched scientifically, Nevadas minerals have - emerged to form a brilliant spectrum of variety and wealth, ranging from precious and base metals to gem stones and nonmetallic or industrial minerals. Each of Nevadas seventeen counties produces two or more minerals. Most of them produce many. Precious and base metals actively mined in Nevada have included gold, silver, copper, iron, tungsten, lead, zinc, mercury, manganese, molybdenum, antimony, beryllium, uranium, and lithium. Generously deposited throughout the State, gem stones have long attracted both Indians and white men. Turquoise, variscite, fire opal, jasper, and agate are among Nevadas semiprecious minerals. Some of the largest fire opals found in the Western Hemisphere have come from Humboldt County, while the quality of Nevada turquoise is considered among the best in the world. Industrial minerals, though less spectacular in their seduction of man, have become a vital part of the State's mineral industry, making up more than one quarter of the total product. From such pedestrian items as sand, gravel, and volcanic cinders to the fossilized remains of microscopic diatoms, they find their way to thousands of marketable uses, including antibiotics and even space capsules. Nevada's vast wealth of industrial minerals also includes barite, brucite, clays, fluorspar, gypsum, lime, marl, magnesite, perlite, petroleum, pumice, pumicite, salt, stone, talc and soapstone, vermiculite, and volcanic ash. Sponsors hail bill passage (Continued from Page 1) In an address on the Senate floor in the debate preceding unfold, Sen. Allott said. It would put the world on notice as to what our intentions are. It should be approval, Allott said the declaration of a national Allott said, as it minerals policy embodied in the measure panacea problems. It would, however, be an important first step. made clear, was during on this bill, that coal, hearings oil, gas, oil shale and uranium are excluded from the definition of minerals in the bill. These commodities more Such a declaration of policy properly fit into the energy can serve as a springboard from picture along with hydroelectric which solutions to the myriad of power and solar energy, he minerals problems could explained. Published weekly in Salt Lake City, Utah by Utah Scene Publishing Co., 4386 W. 3780 South, Granger, Utah 84120. Mailing address: P.O. Box 19243, Salt Lake City, Utah 841 19. best knowledge of the publisher. 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Population growth and increasing per capita mineral demands are placing unprecedented pressures upon the nations minerals base. and economic development of domestic mineral resources and reserves to help assure satisfaction of industrial and security needs. mineral and Congress cannot avoid its metallurgical research to promote wise and efficient use of domestic mineral resources. policies designed to insure that Responsibility for carrying an adequate supply of mineral commodities are available to our out provisions of the bill is to the Secretary of the manufacturing industry, he assigned responsibility to establish Interior, placing said. primary, on a single responsibility Cabinet officer and assuring Congress of a direct source of advice and counsel. over-a- ll Serving the mining and oil industries of the Rocky Mountain Region. 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