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Show BUREAU OF MINES DEVELOPS UTAH RESOURCES r 'V- - . 1 -V I I ..." " V1,. Testing strategic ores at Salt Lake City station Bureau of Mines. Establishment of the Bureau of Mines station adjacent to the University Uni-versity of Utah campus in 1940 is proving to be of outstanding bene-, fit to the war effort and to the state. Situated in the heart of Western mining, this plant is operating day and night to meet the many problems prob-lems that have arisen out of the war. Operations of the plant have not been confined to inside laboratory labora-tory work, but to numerous field examinations and more recently to actual development of strategic and critical minerals. When a large percentage of the United States imports of sheelite was cut off by the closing of the Burma Road in China, the bureau Immediately set about to augment the rapidly diminishing stocks of the much needed metal. Showings at the Cupric mine in the Milford section of Beaver county were drilled and recently an actual development de-velopment program was launched. A tunnel has been driven a distance of 100 feet at the cupric and several sev-eral hundred feet more work will be done in an effort to determine the sheelite production possibilities of the area. In the same region, the bureau has started work to reclaim the old Tasso shaft of the Wah Wah mining min-ing company. Diamond drilling is also being conducted at Iron Mountain near Cedar City. At Marysvale, Utah, an extensive program is being conducted on Alunite properties. Sampling and investigation work has been completed at Alta, Utah, and a number of projects also have been undertaken throughout Wyo- |