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Show December 8r 1969 OIL & MINING JOURNAI Page 6 chuckimi WoDaflCDF DdddCss - few KJM, By Chuck Hayward i HJ. Tibbits. president of Spokane National Mines, Inc., believes mining must tell it's story to the people of this nation if it is to survive. Very few people have any real idea of the benefits that result from mining for every man, woman and child, Mr. Tibbits notes. From early times mining was a stronghold of independent man, a industry, Tibbits said in an article for Western Mining News, Spokane. A prospector ...found an ore deposit, developed it and extracted the ore, shipping...to a smelter either in the I nited States or Europe. Life was full of hardships, but with bacon, beans and lour, ammunition to shoot game and powder, caps, fuse and steel to mine ore, a man did make his living." Romex Corporation, Denver, has announced plans to drill a wildcat well this month on the Rock Creek anticline in the southeastern part of Kane County, Utah. Crest Resources, Inc., Salt Lake City, has two oil and gas leases totaling 680 acres, on the southeast plunge of the anticline and three and one-hamiles south of the proposed location, according to Malcolm F. Justice, Crest president. Justice said, in addition, Crest has purchased a two per cent carried working interest in the Romex Corp. well and in the e block covering 2 9,0 leases in the prospect. 00-acr- Other teh prospect, in addition to Crest and Romex, include Mountain Fuel Supply Co. and Occidental Petroleum Corp. of California. The Rock Creek anticline is one of the few known undrilled surface anticlines in the United States, Justice said. It is located in extremely rugged terrain north of Lake Powell. The structure has remained untested for so long primarily because of its remote and relatively inaccessible location. CQcaifreisfls environmental alterations that result from a land use tiffed human welfare. 2. Analysis of existing public land policy to control adverse environmental effects to enable the Commission to determine the adequacy of policy and the laws implementing (hid policy and how . if necessary, such policies and laws can he improved. 2. Examination of the effects that modified policies would have on current uses of public Commission 1 "Then with the industrial revolution, the demand for !.ii;ill pointed out that this "1 a series of studies and .in. being prepared by or tin-he supervision of the I'niniMivsimi staff in fulfillment .he lal'f responsibility to - i : For some reason no one objects to the cutting down of irgin orests, to tear down mountains, change stream beds in order to build roads, nor do we object to building huge dams that flood our high valleys and cover virgin forests. interest working in owners lf I "Today the mining industry is faced with increasing public criticism; blamed for w'ater and air pollution, hazardous working conditions, despoilers of scenery and land, destroyers of fish and games and of forests and recreation opportunities. ESstmes resD !i, Ore was rich and near surface and relatively easy to mine. Diggings were far away from city folk whose metal needs were modest. Only in war times when more metal was needed was mining important enough to make news. iron, copper, and lead particularly, slowly changed mining from a hand operation to mechanical production.... taniax, I lands. Pearl I provide liable i he Commission with all and announced contracts backgroundit that that have the been awarded will accomplish two phases of the .study: (1) ail examinut ion of selected cases showing environmental impacts and (21 a review of existing legal and administrative systems dealing with environmental problems. Additional aspects of the subject, including an examination of' methods of information and data that requires in order to complete its deliberations and submit its report to the President ami tbe Congress by June .'It). 1 il 7 (). Objectives of the overall study, according to Commission Director Milton A. Pearl include: I. I Must rations of how environmental analysis are under consideration for inclusion in the overall study report. of legal and systems is being REVIEW THE administrative performed by Ira Michael llevman. professor id" law and of city and regional planning at the University of (.'alifornia at Berkeley - and Dr. Robert H. I w iss, associate professor in the Department of Landscape or for Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. The report is to lie submitted by 7 0 at a price not. January a, to exceed $2(U)00. I Co n i 1 r a c t I he examination of environmental impacts is the Rocky Mountain Center on I! n v i ro u me n t (KOMCOKl of Denver. Colo. The study report, which is being accomplished at a price not to exceed $80,000. is to be ready by January 26, 1070. "It must then be a matter of choice, to give something for something that we want badly enough. I,et us for a moment consider our wants and demands. New homes, home appliances, automobiles, boats, motors, televisions radios snowmobiles, fishing equipment, machinery, computers airplanes ships and so on and on. These things we call necessities today and yet we forget that metals must come from the earth with which to make the good tilings we use and enjoy every day. This nation has been built by trained manpower using modern machinery to make the products we enjoy. There is a to pay for what we demand and I suggest we have to price make a choice to mine our metals Deelopment of all our resources is the answer to our future prosperity, Certainly we are intelligent enough to realize that the earth must be moved to gain our metal needs Mines do not last forever and when a mine is depleted it ran become a lake or a new forest." An offer of 411.75 acres in Carbon County for a coal lease lias been made by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Scaled bids will be opened Dec. 18 at 2 p.m. in the BLM IftuilnnKS Exploration of Utah State Office, Room 8103, Federal Building, 125 S. State, after which oral bids will be received. Robert D. Nielson, BLM state director for Utah, said the highest qualified bidder will be issued the lease. In addition to the amount of his bid, he will pay the usual rental and royalty on any coal mined. MDoGilGjj (SMlhnlS Drilling Jefferson Canyon silver property near Round Mountain, Nevada, Tuma, a Nevada corporation with offices in Salt Lake City, Nevada, lias Company announced it has commenced drilling on Tuma Corporations hopes to block out ore on the property. Drill sites have been completed by the company geologist and drilling equipment will be moved onto the sites, the company said. Weston "We should be proud of the fact that millions of acres controlled by the forest products industry and mining companies provide recreation for the families of America. Hiking, camping, fishing, hunting, bottle collecting, ghost towns and historic monuments without restrictions except against dangerous hazards are all offered without cost to the public by the mining industry." and Company INVESTMENT SECURITIES Members Salt Lake Stock Exchange INVEST WITH OUR MARKET SPECIALISTS OVER-THE-COUNT- "Next lime you read about squabble over whether or not a mining company is the villain. Consider the contributions mining adds to your g and We too concerned are that Americas beauties enjoyment and wealth be passed on to generations yet to come." a well-liein- Inc. Salt Lake City 2000 Univ. Club Bldg. 36 L South Temple LI 364-197- Blvd. 1 Provo 163 N. Univ. Ave. Phone: 7 374-825- . of Corporation America has announced the completion of plans for the construction of a rare metals refinery to be built near San Bernardino, Calif. The refinery will process rare earth metals gallium, osmium, columbium by electrolytic and other processes, the corporation said. John H. Schlmcicr, president, stated that contracts arc now being negotiated for future rare earth metals refining. He said the service is "urgently needed by iany small mining companies. Tungsten |