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Show Afemifi NON-CIRCULATfN- t- Uu& Bulk Rate ,, U. S. Postage VWPA 1 0 Salt Lake' City Utah Permit No. 2091 ' FWT7- N-Bla- site selected near Vernal, Utah sis 0l st MIDLAND, Tex. -- The tentative site of Operation commercial recovery of oil from shale through nuclear fracturing and retorting on the company's properties in the Uinta Basin. CER Geonuclear Corporation of Las Vegas has selected a site on Utah has been selected on Western Oil Shale Corporations Uinta Basin properties by CER Geonuclear Corporation, it was announced by Nash J. Dowdle, chairman of Western Oil Shale. Operation Utah the company's properties approximately 25 miles south of the town of Vernal. The CER Geonuclear report states that the is an experiment aimed specifically at site appears to contain a sufficient volume of oil to be considered as a potential site for nuclear oil place) executive vice president and general counsel for the of the company, will be operational THE NEXT PHASE program calls for the drilling of a core hole to further substantiate its findings. The core hole will coordinator for the Operation Utah. Allen is a former director chief executive officer of the Utah State Land Board, the and be drilled to a depth of witfw the mineral leasing of state lan'ds in Utah. Western Oil Shale owns 1,200 acres of leases on the proposed site for Operation Utah" and efforts will be made to have other companies to join Western Oil Shale in the development and completion of Operation Utah. City, recently appointed shale recoveiy. ,d?0 agency concerned approximately 3,000 feet this summer on the site. Frank J. Allen of Salt Lake (in - GulXiXiDG2KiiOC Vol. 1 Salt Lake City, Utah No. 5 March 28, 1969 Utah mine rates 6th in U.S. gold production SAN FRANCISCO The May- flower Mine in Utah ranked as the nations sixth largest gold producer last year, according to New Park Mining Co. George Day, president of New Park, said the mine, which is operated under contract by Hecla Mining Company, produced 59,000 ounces of gold, a decline of eight per cent compared to 1967, and 535,000 ounces of silver, a gain of one per cent. The mine also produces copper, lead and zinc. (One of the largest gold producers in the country is. also lothe big Bingham cated in Utah mine operated by Kennecott Cop- per Corporation's Utah Copper Division. However, Kennecott does not release figures on gold production there.) Day said that New Park mined 12.000 tons of ore last year--so5.000 tons less than in 1967. A total of 102,000 tons of new reserves were added, raising total ore reserves to 310,000 tons at the end of the year, Day said. me Coal: vital energy source WASHINGTON-- A report to the Department of the Interior finds that not only will coal be able to provide much of our future liquid and gas fuel requirements but it seems certain that it will return to its historical status as the source of most of our organic chemical intermediates. The report states that is synthetic crude oil from coal a much better feed stock for aromatics recovery than typical naphthene-ric- h petroleum crudes, that aromatics are obtainable either as prime rISSURES OPEN IN EARTH a few hundred feet above ground zero of underground nuclear explosion in Nevada. Area is almost becoming a tourist site despite new blasts planned, since AEC is practicing a relaxed security over safe underground tests. Blast is similar to ones planned in Utah, with products or fuel production and that olefins are obtainable from naphtha or ts feeds as readily as from petroleum. off-ga- s In addition, it says, there is the possibility of isolating a variety of intermediates not available from petroleum readily and with potential value for new families of plastics, fibers and chemical specialties. Develop fuel sites Director of the Materials and Fuel were reported by Sen. Frank E. Moss, Geological Survey William T. told a Senate subcommittee chairman of the subcommittee. The subcommittee session was this week that three areas must Utah P&L plans 'no nuclear plants Utah Power & Light , which recently revealed a five- - year $223 million expansion program to provide a minimum of 660,000 kilowatts in new generating capacity, does not at this time plan to build any Company President W. Allen Hunter has said that the cost of coal-fire- d plants in the area is 10 to 20 per cent lower than nuclear plants. under construction at its near Naughton station In addition to capacity, the expansion program calls for construction of transmission and distribution lines, substations and other facilities. Kemmerer, Wyo. new generating Utah Power & Light has a. 330,000 kilowatt coal-fire- d unit nuclear units. WASHINGTON Pe-co- D-Ut- ah, ra Gulf Mineral uncovers uranium be developed if the United States confined mainly to oil and minis to meet its oil requirements. eral development of the outer conGulf Mineral Resources Co., a tinental shelf where Mr. Pecora of Gulf Oil Corp., has They are the outer continental said more than 8,000 oil wells announced it has discovered a shelf, the oil shale deposits of have been drilled since 1953 and uranium deposit in New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado, and only four have caused any signifirm said exploration and the Alaskan oil field. ficant pollution, the most serious Pecoras remarks before the of which was off the California Senate Subcommittee on Minerals, coast near Santa Barbara. Long-ter- m New Denver mini boss DENVER Mrs. Betty Higby of Colorado Sorings has been sworn in as superintendent of Completion of a series of y production tests on the Project Gasbuggy explosive N.M. Marian Rossmiller, a Democrat. 30-da- Ma-subsidi- ary uranium belt has led Gulf to be-T- allotted land leases Gulf Mineral Heve there may be sufficient ton- - picked up about a year ago. he tests at Gasbuggy FARMINGTON the Denver Mint, Mrs. Higby succeeds Mrs. three development drilling in the nage for a commercial deposit. riano Lake area of the Grants The area is located on Indian- - . hole was emplacement announced the Purpose of these tests is to measure the rate of influx of gas project by participants El Paso Natural into the Gas Co., the A.E.C. and the U.S. Bureau of Mines. explosion-create- d chimney from the surrounding rock formation. |