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Show Another "Scrap Pile" ' Helping War Effort Once considered a "scrap dump," this slag dump at Tooele t is now yielding valuable zinc I The metal mining Industry of ! Utah is leaving no stone unturned I ; in an effort to meet the increased , war demands placed upon it by our ; , armed forces. i Heretofore worthless dumps are . now being turned into the vital ' sinues of war by the ingenius ef-1 ef-1 fort of mining companies operating in Utah. At Tooele, Utah, an old ; slag dump is being retreated for 1 the small amount of zinc which-; which-; was left in the slag by early day ' i smelting methods. And as a result i I of large scale operations which ' have been applied to this develop-! develop-! ment, a sizeable amount of zinc is being added to the war effort. Sensing the oncoming shortage of zinc, officials of the International Smelting & Rc'ining company began I the erection of its slag zinc plant i early in 1941. The plant was com pleted in September of that year and is now adding 1,500,000 pounds of the metal monthly to the war effort. This; metal is in addition to that regularly produced at the Tooele plant and is a welcome addition to the war effort. The four smelters smelt-ers operating in this territory, the American Smelting & Refining company, the United States Smelting. Smelt-ing. Refining and Mining Company, the Combined Metal Reduction company and the International, maintain research staffs that are continually working on problems to help the producer of metals. Small producers are afforded an unfailing market for their product, and often advances are made to small operators opera-tors in order that they may meet their payrolls and get the metal out of the ground. |