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Show JULY 27t 1970 OIL & MINING JOURNAL PAGE 2 Monte Cristo shipping high grade IGDDMOM U-o- re -- Monte Cristo announces it is now MOAB. Utah Wire service stories out of Idaho state that central Idaho's scenic White Gouds Mountains may become the focal point of a series of court tests brought to protect the area if efforts to create legislative protection agains mining fail. The decision was made here by attorneys for national and hike in the central Idaho conservation groups following a two-da- y Idaho high country. Groups represented were the Sierra Gub. the Naitonal Wildlife Federation, the Greater Sawtooth Preservation Council, the Federation of Western Outdoors Gub and the Idaho Environmental Council. Don Harris, San Francisco, cochairman of the Sierra Clubs legal committee, said he was shocked to discover the White Gouds area has not been included in the wilderness system since it seems such an obvious candidate with relatively difficult access getting in and yet relatively easy access once you arc in. Ed Weinberg. Beverly Hills. Calif., counsel for the National Wildlife Federation, said the proposal to mine the area was a threat to water quality, fish and wildlife, addint it was a direct clash with the application of the scenic and Wild Rivers Act. the Environmental Quality Act. and the National Forest Act. . r . ' Corp. making shipments of uranium ore averaging better than A uranium oxide from a reopened mine in Can Spring Canyon southwest of here. The regular shipments arc being mined under contract to Joe Stocks of Moab. Richard Minasian. president of Monte Cristo, said that even though shipments to date have been relatively small, it is anticipated that tonnage will reach 2.000 tons of ore this month, and inerrease in months to come. Stocks said that long-hol- e drilling from old drifts in the mine have uncovered new of pockets Andersonitc e high-grad- ore which arc ''In Pocatello last week. Idaho State Sen. John Evans predicted American Smelter and Refining Co. wont develop its mine in the Whjte .Gouds sector, of Idaho because of publicity over the controversial molybdenum operation. Further, the Senate Lands-Surfac- c minority leader, and member of the Idaho State Mining Committee, said his committee will come up with a strong surface-minin- g bill. Evans, just back from a special legislative junket into the White Gouds area in question, said he was horrified with the problem of the proposed 2,000-acr- c tailings pond ASARCO would create if allowed to develop, its initial mining operations on Little Boulder Creek near Castle Peak. Neither the State of Idaho nor the Forest Service should allow this to happen. he said. The claims arc located on federal land, and ASARCO is awaiting Forest Service permission to build a Mountain States Machinery and Supply Co. of Price, Utah, has delivered the first known mill. The mill, with components mounted on skids, can be trucked to site on eight he considered it one of the most beautiful sights he has seen. He our children will be said if ASARCO receives the seeing the scars of this venture. Because of the briticism, ASARCO will hold off mining the area unless there is a national emergency, Evans said. go-ahea- . trucks and readily assembled in place. It has a capacity of 150 tons of sulfide ore a day. The first $125,000 mill was made of Hydro-Nuclea- r Corp., Albuquerque, N.M., for use at its announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities. The offering is made only by the Offering Circular. Hm Issuo fca-ossosu-klo 10,000,000 Shares Common Stock No Par Value Offering Price; $0.03 per share A holding company with subsidiaries which propose to offer a variety of services to the public in the fields ofsecurities and insur ance. Copies of the Offering Circular may be obtained from the Underwriters. First Fiddity Underwriters, let. 530 East Fifth South the area exceed two years. The White Gouds controversy points up the vital need for the mining industry to take its story to the public before every state legislature gets stampeded into passing punitive mining control laws by the efforts of conservationist groups and legislators who jump on the ecology bandwagon without examining both sides of the question. Minerals are, after all, where you find them, and extraction of minerals cannot be done without some rearrangement of the landscape. But nature itself does ugly things to the landscape at times. And has the ability to heal mighty scars. We would agree that the minerals extraction industry must be held accountable for its use and abuse of the environment. And we have the technology to minimize and repair the damages left if planning is done in advance of the by mining operations operation. It serves no useful purpose to continue to damn the mining industry for abuses of die past. All industry is equally to blame as is every individual. One answer, of course, would be to close down industry entirely, but no one is suggesting that. The only logical answer is for the public, conservationists and industry to work together to halt the abuses of the past and together blaze a trail toward improving our environment. Right now the mining industry is the goat, and it is not beyond the realip of possibility for the industry to find itself legislated out of existence. A solid public relations program is long overdu- e- and may be too late, already. Suits 201 Magnum Plaza Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 25 Cents a Copy Phone 1801) 521-680- 0 Subscriptions $10 Per Year Published weekly in Salt Lake City, Utah, by Charles E. Hayward of 4386 W. 3780 South, Grangar, Utah 84120. Mailing address: P.O. Box 19243, Salt Lake City, Utah 84119. Serving the mining and oil industries of the Rocky Mountain Region. Articles and information herein are true and factual to the best knowledge of the publisher. Information and opinions published are the sole responsibility of the publisher and do not reflect the attitudes or opinions of the merchants, broken, corporations and service firms who advertise herein or otherwise sponsor this publication. - Editor St Publisher The mill consists of a crushing, grinding, flotation and filtering section. It uses standard production machinery. It is particularly suitable for small marginal properties of short-ternature. No footings are required. m to finish Colorado well World Trans Equities announces it has started completion activities on its well in Routt County, Colorado. E.H. Thomas, executive vice president, said the company wQl complete the well in the next few weeks based on the report and evaluation of geologist John Gray and drilling engineer Homer Dalton. In a letter to management, Mr. Dalton said, 1 have been on this well from the start to present and it is my opinion this well should make a good producer. The well is a test of the Niobrara formation which is at 3,650 feet at the site of the well. Thomas said the company will run a log to verify the drill is at the top of the Niobrara, drill through all of the Niobrara formation, and set packer and swab through drill pipe. Recommendations on the well, Kelton No. 1, are based on the nearby Arrow Head well which is a successful producer, Thomas said. GO WITH A ranE3i?S 359-55- 11 Advertising Rates: Display Aifcertising Classified Advertising 487-17- 68 property. Trc30c7 Second Gan Pottage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah Phone: Battle Mountain, Nev., antimony Trans-Worl- d BnEDPRISES LTD. CEtTTAtKI d, Evans did not attempt to predict how ASARCO could leap into production in the event of a national emergency when company estimates of the development time for production in e Monte Cristo also holds considerable acreage in the Cane June. Spring Canyon area under Also under way at the Cane potash lease. Minisian stated he Spring Canyon site, are two was pleased with the results of other Monte Crisot operations. the mining operations and One is a 1,000-foo- t optimistic about the future of exploration drift down a major fault line the property. Ore is being being driven by Walter Daye of shipped to the Atlas Mill in Moab. From that drift, Monte. Moab for processing. 77 us road to the site. Evans said anyone who has been in the area would not want to sec it torn up. He said this was his first trip into the area and Cristo anticipates producing from whatever mineralization zones that might ... be encountered, as well as doing a long-holdrilling program from the drift. Another drift, further up the hillside from the mine presently being operated, is being explored by the long-hol- e drilling method by Larry Shumway. Portable flotation mill rated at 1 50 tons per day all-porta- Mi! now being opened up by his crews. The mine, located in the has been Cutler formation, operated by various groups over a number of years. First opened by Jess Abernathy, Moab mining man, it was later operated by Goldfield Mines when that firm was doing exploration work in the area. Monte Crisot took back the properties recently, and began formal mining operations during $2 ed. inch $2 for 20 words' CLASSIC EBONY (ML or 298-37- 83 , Tra '. Chuck Hayward '22zi2zii2Jiitiiiniiiiiiiniiiiriiii?' HI-- H0 SILVER 8b GOLD J |