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Show Page 2 Rocky Mtn.OIL GSL Miperals & Chemicals offices rise in Utah LITTLE MOUNTAIN, Weber and bulldozers County-Grade- rs and snort over a growl rubble-lade- n Held that has been carved out of Little Mountain. Here will rise the office building and processing plants of Great Salt Lake Minerals and Chemicals Co. Sprawling like a checkerboard to the west are the 20 square miles of the project's solar evaporation ponds. Already the white precipitate mash of chemical salts is beginning to form on the bottom of the ponds. It is from this white mash that the Great Salt Lake Minerals and Chemicals will extract a variety of August 11, 1969 OIL & MINING JOURNAL chemicals-principa- lly potash for the fertilizer industry. An end chloride bitterns (which taste bitter on the tip of the tongue)-w- il be sold to Dow chemical Co. as feed stock for an electrolytic separation plant Dow is building in the Pacific Northwest. Until 1966, Great Salt Lake product-magnesi- um Minerals and Chemicals had been 'testing the water so to speak. As company president Harold V. Andrews recalls, it had been lithium-occurri- ng in a 40 parts per million ratio in the lake brine-th- at had first engaged the interest of Lithium Corporation of America in 1963. LCA was a New York-base- d relatively small company (it had a $5 million sales in 1963) engaged principally in mining and sale of lithium compounds and products. While it was examining the lake possibilities, the firm also began the rounds of American companies for partnership possibilities. There were no takers on this ride of the Atlantic. However, LCA investigators determined that potassium sulphate-- a variety of potash- - was a far more attractive economic target than lithium. Clemmons Von Velsen, president of Salzdetfurth A.G., Hanover, West Germany, was more than intrigued. The German company-a-n amalgam of five copper, coal and potash firms-h- ad been producing potash for German farmers for nearly 70 years and was now second largest producer in West Germany. While it had no experience in evaporation recovery, it did have a sophisticated proprieiary knowledge of potash chemistry. In 1965 Salzdetfurth bought a 49 percent position in the joint venture. This gave the project the necessary capital to move it Resources Corp., headed by Robert Allen, President. Solar Evaporation is an old for centuries to principle-us- eii recover salt from sea water. Great Salt Lake Minerals & Chemicals, however, now is the first major enterprise on the lake with an ultimate expenditures ranging upward of $30 million. National Lead Co. also is moving ahead with the & MINING JOURNAL Published weekly in Salt Lake City, Utah by Utah Scene Publishing Co.f 4386 W. 3780 South, Salt L ake City, Utah 84120. Mailing address: P.O. Box 10243, Salt Lake City; Utah 84119. Serving the mining and oil Industries of the conRocky Mountain Region. Articles and Information to the best knowledge tained herein are true and factual of the publisher. Information and opinions published are the sole responsibility of the publisher and do not reflect the attitudes or opinions of the merchants, brokers, corp- orations and service firms who advertise herein or otherwise sponsor this publication. 25? per Subscriptions $10 per year copy Advertising rates: Display Advertising Classified Advertising $2 col. inch $2 for 20 wds Phone: 298 2403 or 298 3703 Chuck Hayward Enid J Hayward Editor & Publisher Circulation Manager Magnesium Project, a $70 million complex to recover and process magnesium chloride on the west ride of the lake. It, too, will use the principle of solar evaporation to gain the baric magnesium chloride salts. These will be processed electrolytically at a plant to be built in Utah. At Lakeside, just west of the UN Industries (Continued from Page 1) The equipment will retail in a price range of approximately $25 to $250, and production will begin within four months, central part of the lake, Dawson Said. International Chemical Dawson said Charles D. Development Corp., has begun Oughton, a UN director and evaporation of brines developer of the process, is with currently negotiating with construction of some 2,400 several other companies for acres of ponds with principal manufacturing and distributing targets of magnesium chloride rights on other types of and lithium chloride. simultaneously The basic principle of recovery involves sequential precipitation. That is, certain chemicals which are in solution in the brine will become solids in ahead. LCA was acquired in specific time sequence as water 1967 by the Houston-base- d Gulf is evaporated away. equipment to be used with the Contone process. UN Industries will supply all of the Contone paper for the equipment manufactured by the various concerns, Dawson pointed out. Dawson said the corporation looks forward to the new fiscal .year as 'an even more exciting and rewarding period for UN Industries. Kennebec reports income rise Kennebec Consolidated share. Mining Co. had net income after Revenues were $8,938,f compared to 5,760, 442 for taxes of $1,222,558 for the seven months ending April 30, 1969 compared to $847,236 for the year ago period, Robert L. Rice, president, reports. This was equal to 14.3 cents a share compared to 10.7 cents a periods. Kennebec, headquartered Salt Lake City, is no Ion, engaged in mining and n health stui operates a chain across the United Stat 54-un- it Skyline Oil drilling Utah, Wyoming Skyline Oil Co., Salt Lake City independent, currently is conducting two exploratory oil well drilling projects, one in Wyoming and the other in Utah. 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