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Show Page 2 April 14, 1959 OIL & MINING JOURNAL 'MINING JOURNAL Rocky Mtn. OIL Published weekly in Salt Lake City, Utah, by Utah Scene Publishing, P.O, Box 71, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110. Serving the mining and oil industries of the Rocky Mountain Region. 25 per copy. Subscription rate $10 per year. Editor & Publisher - Chuck Hayward meet association maps Wyo. CASPER, Wyo. The program committee , for the Wyoming Mining Association's 1969 convention at the Ramada Inn here on June 20-2- 1 plans for a discussion on the reclamation of surface mined lands. Participants will include individuals who have been doing experimental reclamation work during the past several years. Land Commissioner Bert King has been invited to be a member of the panel. Surface mine reclamation legislation, enacted by the 40th Legislature, places the authority lor the regulation of reclamation practices in the office of the Land Commissioner. States who are considering or have adopted surface mine reclamation legislation during the 1969 legislature sessions include Alabama, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Montana and Washington. Aussies drop harbor N- blast plan WASHINGTON-T- EDITORIAL A he Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the United States AEC have concluded that there is insufficient basis for proceeding with the feasibility study on the creation of a harbor at Cape Keraudren at this bill has been introduced into Congress by John P. Saylor, Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, which many mining people claim would create chaos and stifle future mineral development in this country. The proposed Saylor bill is printed in full in the April 9 issue of The Mining Record, Denver. Among other things, the bill provides that except as otherwise provided.. .the mining law is Jiereby repealed and all lands and interests in lands belonging to the United States are hereby closed to entry and location under the mining law as of the effective date of this Act. No new rights under the mining law may be acquired after the effective date of this Act. Saylors bill provides instead for competitive bidding for exploration leases. In a discussion of the bill, the Mining Record says that such would favor the relative few and would bidding knock out the small prospector and these people are still very important to the industry right out of the picture. time. The Sentinel Mining Co. has of just completed a WASHINGTON-T- he AEC They are during 1968; The report, entitled Nuclear Fundamental Energy agree with the Mining Record that Congress should at least wait until the study is submitted and studied before considering making any changes in the mineral leasing law's. There seems to be a concerted attack against the minerals industry of We hope w'ere not becoming paranoic. late. DENVER Silverado Mining Co. Inc. has just completed a claim staking program in Emery County, Utah. A total of 315 claims covering 6300 acres have been located directly adjacent to W ASHINGTON-Wat- er passed by. the House . jast. year but which died w)ien the Congress adjourned, now has been cleared by the House wJien the Congress convenes after the Easter recess. Boyles Bros. Drilling Co. CONTRACTING SERVICES 4: sis si: sis' Temple Mountain Uranium Co. Main Office Rooms 26-- Biological, Medical and Environmental Research Documents, Superintendent U.S. Government Printing Office,' Washington, D.C 20402. Price is $4.25 per eppy. a 9700 acre claim block held by a major oil company. Two drilling r;s are presently their acreage. for Silverado Geologists consider its claims to be situated on the same geologic target as at work for the oil company being tested on the oil testing the uranium potential of companys prospect. The measure, entitled the Water Quality Improvement Act of 1969, would place new controls on oil pollution, sewage Administration. In the field of acid and other mine water pollution control, the bill would authorize the from vessels and thermal Secretary of the Interior to carry pollution, and expand the out a demonstration program Federal training grants program. with a fund of $15 million. The It also would change the name total Federal grant to any one of the Federal Water Pollution state in any one year would be Control Administration to the limited to 25 per cent of funds National Water Quality actually appropriated. 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BARS - PLATES - SHEETS a REINFORCING STEU 1 District Offices: Box 9571 0401 Salt Lake City, Utah Research", Reactor Technology Nuclear Safeguards 1968" is available offrom the Mine Developing 27 39 Exchange Place Programs, "Fundamental Nuclear Energy Research COMPLETE WAREHOUSE SERVICE Exploration General Offices: I: Basic Physical Pollution bill now on House floor Soil Snmpling of our natural resources will create new industries Programs" and a Engineering Core Drilling Tunnels INTELLIGENT DEVELOPMENT supplements the Firm stakes uranium claims Public Works and Rules Committee for floor action We Research 1968 report summarizing results of annual report to the Congress. the more noteworthy scientific The research report coven four investigations in nuclear research major topics in some detail. Whats the hurry? The Mining Record points its recommendations next year. However, the United States and Australian Atomic Energy Commissions continue to be interested in the possible use of nuclear explosions for harbor construction and will, therefore, continue their review of the practicability of applying this technology to other possible harbor sites in the area. has published its annual research Commission's more general Research Programs. pollution control legislation, considered .tougher than a bill out that the Public Land Law Review Commission is making a detailed study of all phases of ublic land use, including that by mining, and is to make study. Nuclear research report available The Pennsylvania Representative doesnt know any more about the mining and reclamation problems in the West than he does of the flor and fauna on the most distant str, the Mining Record contends. its opportunities in the mining and marketing of iron ore, which was to be the principal product shipped through the proposed harbor, and therefore desires to limit its participation in the proposed study. SINCE THE economics of the mining venture is an essential element there is insufficient basis for proceeding with this S1EEL ERECTION RIGGING Building the WEST with WESTERN STEa |