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Show Pge OIL & MINING JOURNAL 4 National Lead sees sharp spending rise Pyr announced its capital would rise CHEWELAH, Lake. In a copyrighted story on the Dow Jones service, National Leads chairman, E. R. Rowley, said, We believe this plant is the start of a chemical complex for recovery of other mineral values in the lake waters at a later date. National Lead's plant will be on the western side of the lake, near Grantsville. It is the second major plant being built to extract magnesium and other metals. Great Salt Lake Minerals & Chemical Corp. is also building a plant near Ogden that of the former Northwest . Pyro-Metri- c, antimony, silver, lead, zinc and copper, said Carr Chemical. Approximately 15 to 20 Rowley told Dow Jones that the firm would produce 45,000 tons of magnesium, most of it for sale, with some reserved for its own purposes. The plant will onto magnesium by Dow increase U.S. magnesium production by a third. It will also make some 80,000 tons of chlorine and will produce calcium sulfate as a which the company also intends to market. by-produ- ct, - The eighth well was San Francisco announced successful conslusion of completed in the Dakota sands at 6,600 feet. Engineers estimate the well will be capable of cubic feet of producing gas per day. Toledo has a gas purchase contract with Cascade Natural Gas Corp., Seattle, for sale of the gas at the Federal Power Commission's established price of 15 cents per thousand cubic feet. on an additional 35,000 acres of oil and gas leases adjoining its Trail Canyon gas field, located in Colorado. . The company also announced completion of its eighth straight gas well, in a continuous drilling program, in the field 50 miles north of Grand Junction, Colo. This newest acquisition gives Beaver Mesa Uranium Shareholders of Beaver Mesa Uranium Inc. voted to change the name of the firm to Beaver Mesa Exploration Co. at the annual meeting of the natural resources firm last week. DENVER Boekel, president of Beaver Mesa, pointed out that Bob the name change was relevant because of the company's increasing emphasis on oil and gas properties. Beaver Mesa acquired interest in Polar Production Co., with overriding royalty interests in into production. Agreements are being sought by the company with Fargo Corp. of Chewelah and with Cleveland Silver Mines, Inc., to process their antimony ores, he said. The ores whould have to be trucked about 12 and 15 miles respectively. Carr said that custom-millin- g of other ores would also be done mill. at the 300-to- n Both Fargo and Cleveland have small stock interests in Pyro- - Metric, noted CArr, who is more industrialized Wasatch Front drawing people with the strong magnetic power of money, the smaller rural Utah towns have been on the decline for years. Not Delta. Over the past four years, this quiet town on the edge of arich Pavant Valley farming area has been undergoing a reversal of the state-wid- e pattern, thanks to the space age metal, beryllium. similar facility. Like other rural communities in Utah, Delta was declining in population for many years. It is one of the states newer towns, founded in 1906 as Melville, by a group of farmers who drew farms lots for several 40-acthen available. e Over the years the uneconomical farm has become and many of the farmers have 450,000 to 500,000 pounds of contained beryllium per year, roughly equal to the total industry demand in 1969. That's a lot of metal, taking into consideration the fact that beryllium is the third lightest metal. (Lithium and magnesium are lighter.) Its high melting point and hardness in addition to lightness make beryllium valuable in space vehicle building. Nearly all of the 70 employes at the plant were recrutied in the local area. VAliquiette said. Mostly farmers. He added, we have an above average group secretary of Fargo blocking out ore at the Fargo Mine west of Waitts Lake south of Chewelah and at the nearby Edna copper- - silver mine. J. Fred Williams Jr. of Pullman, Wash., a consulting metallurgist has been retained by Pyro-Metri- c. selling at an high of $1.05 a pound compared to 40 cents a year ago, Carr said, pointing out that one of the reasons in the new demand for antimony in plastics to make them is Antimony all-ti- fire-resista- in ability to learn. With the Brush operation well under way, everyone in town except the Anaconda Co., is talking about the people recent announcement by Topaz Beryllium Co., an Anaconda - subsidiary, that another ore concentration plant will be built in the area. beryllium The January issue of Intermountain 136 E. South Temple Phone: 364-197- 1 Provo. 163 N. Univ. Ave. Phone: 7 374-825- in Industry which the announcement appeared, states that exploration work by this firm is continuing on the company claims just south of Brush Berylliums open pit mine. TRAVEL CLUB re 40-acr- sold out. Farm size had increased and population has decreased. This was the trend until 1966, when Delta started on the comeback trail, thanks to the discovery by Brush Topaz-Spo- Departing Salt Lake City Flying Direct In Our Own Club Airliner To Many Exciting Places This Year I ROUND r TRIP 139.00 169.00 195.00 119.00 29.50 39.00 ACAPULCO COZUMEL JAMAICA MEXICO CITY VEGAS SAN FRAN. FEB. PUERTO VALLARTA 119.00 MAY MAY ft JUNI JUNE VANCOUVER THIS SUMMER ALASKA CANADA the area. Brushs spanking new $12 million facility just north of town, took its first steps last year and now is about ready to un. We have made some hipments of concentrate to the :ompany plant in Elmore, Ohio, said Jack Valiquette, plant manager. He said that formal dedication of the plant will take place within the next two months kinks have after the start-u- p been eliminated form the TAHOE operation. Valiquette was reluctant to discuss details of the plant prior to the formal opening, but a Blyth and Co., Inc., report on Brush says that the design capacity of the Delta plant is & IF GR0UND TRANSFERS ARRANGED DESIRED. NEXT VACATION GO BY AIR HAVE MORE TIME THERE REDUCED RATES FOR CHILDREN I SOUNDS HARD TO BELIEVE INFO. ON YOUR CLUB. PLEASE SEND ME NAME ADDRESS ZIP, PHONE PASSPORT AIR BOX 2262 WE FLY EVERYWHARE PH. 359-86- 03 26 APRIL APRIL APRIL 99.00 MAZATLAN 27 MARCH The first beryllium plant in Lake Stock Exchange Mining, adding that Fargo miners are PASSPORT AIR claim-jumpin- Salt Lake City 2000 Univ. Club Bldg. 1721 L Charleston Blvd. Phone: 384-299- 5 employed when the mill goes 40,610 acres on Alaska's North Mountains. There was a minerals Slope last fall, according to the elected exploration frenzy in Millard report. Boekel, who was Beaver Mesa president at that County at that time and there time, now has a direct or were some fancy attempts at g in which some indirect beneficial interest in the of cent 50 about per largeorporations were involved. Rival outfits hired local farmers companys stock. Beaver Mesa also recently to guard their claims amid some acquired a 40 per cent interest in shooting and threats of violence William Ainsworth Inc. and all a la Wild West. Fortunately, no of the assets of Exel Oil Copr., one was hurt but a couple of Midland, Tex. The firm is truck radiators were mangled. Since then, Delta has settled disposing of Aubenderson Inc., a down to a steady roar. subsidiary. MARKET SPECIALISTS Las Vegas With the Utah Delta in the INVEST WITH OUR ER DELTA, Beryllium of the largest known beryllium-containin- g deposits in the world. Its 40 miles west of changes name persons are expected to be Mining- benefits Utah South Brush Beryllium has jst Toledo a total of 60,000 acres in started up its new plant, and the Trail Canyon Field. Anaconda has said it will build a SAN FRANCISCO Toledo Co. of Salt Lake City and Mining OVER-THE-COUNT- is the target date for putting into operation the old flotation mill Toledo acquires Colorado oil, gas leases Members Salt 1 Wash.-M- ay Pyro-Metri- expenditures sharply this year as major construction begins on its $70 million magnesium project on Great Salt negotiations to reactivate mill o-Met- ric Magnesite Co. of Chewelah, Wash., announced Joseph J. of will be on stream before Carr, president Inc., of Seattle. National Lead's c purchased the The National Lead plant, located at the Finch quarry however, will also include mill, of Chewelah, the mill site west facilities to produce magnesium and tailings pond, and plans to by electrolysis. The Ogden plant in changing the will ship its magnesium chloride invest $25,000 the for mill circuits processing of to the Northwest for reduction The National Lead Co. has FEBRUARY 9( 1970 |