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Show S- J - b JrlbAl OF MINES k. !; Mad Vi OF U. CITY - SALT LAKE V ALLEY SMELTER .. WESTEKN MINERAL nun... UR VEX .... SAMe LEAD, per pmai ...... .Jl.ttSc COPTER .ISiD . GOLD ..A. 8.939c . . ZINC SILVER (per m. new mlnrl) - 78.S8C SLZ5e SILVER (per m. epet) you ...... ....... ..... Inctel leieefrini Features Mining, Oil, Financial Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7,-194- (f dtek $2.00 Year, $1.00, 6 Mos. 3 Nonferrous Scrap Near Million Tons Senate Bill Seeks To Aid Small Mine Operators Stand True h to the Hieing ell end the Week A reeene ef the atiteedieg Ce vriepniraU le eerrM eeeh week. I 14, NO. 19. Coal Miners vw- - ' Provision of . convenient out- bly by the Senate Public Lands Bureau of Mines of sampling lets for the products of. small Committee. plants and custom mills for. the Prepared by F. W. Wright unsampling and treatment of ore der the supervision Sponsored by Senator Pat mining operations ' throughout of Thos.. H.: of Nevada, the bill au- containing any strategic and Miller, Chief, Metal Economics America's coal' mines., are still the West is the purpose of a bill working and producing the fuel which has been reported favora thorizes establishment by the critical minerals. Division, Economics and StatisThough it carries no appro- tics Service. ' which is essential to keep going priation, the - bill authorizes such the factories . of war production; appropriations as subsequent feel sure that they will Scrap metal dealers supplied and we to carry-ou- t be ' its 951,027 short tons of nonferrous may necessary keep going permanently. and also authorizes scrap to. consumers during 1942 )urposes, The threat of strike in the coal of use funds allotted or oth- according to the Bureau of Mines. any mines at such, a time as this was made erwise, available, for pur- United States. Department of ' the to astounding. More direct aid ore chase of containing any crit-ca-l Interior., More than half of this Hitler, and Hirohito could hardor minerals, at the total consisted of copper and strategic ly, be given by a large equipped time such ore is delivered to any brass scrap, while the remainder mechanized army suddenly apsampling plant. Payment of GO was 'made up of lead and tin. counof this in the heart pearing per cent of the estimated pur- aluminum, zinc, nickel, and mag- - ' try to attack. chase price of the . ore would nesiiim scrap. The West has right to feel be made at the time of delivery, Dealers receipts . of nonferrous proud that its own miners did not and the balance would be paid metal scrap from farms, housefollow the lead of the East in of after treatment the ore. had holds, factories, ' utilities, and othL. orders Lewis been' completed. answering John er industrial sources of supply to strike, even before the UMW The bill wras approve by Sec- exceeded shipments to consumhead rescinded them in favor of Ickes, in spite , of the fact ers retary 21,214 short tons, resulting this amazing "truce period. Utah that it was opposed by the Budg- in aby 23-pcent in stocks and Wyoming, coal miners stuck et Bureau. In. his report to the held in dealers increaseand warer yards by the job as any true American committee, Ickes said, The houses at the end of 1942 com- . should. of Interior stands ready with stocks at the close of We feel sure that the coal minto undertake any activities nec- pared 1941. The total inventory of 112 ers are worthy, of serious considessary to make available a great- 142 tons of scrap (gross weight) er supply of strategic and crit- held by dealers on Dec. 31, 194 eration in the demands that they ical minerals. I believe that the amounted to are making. " Living costs are a sup' feel could accelerate the ply based on, only sure, and We department hope, high. the December rate concritfull and of acquisition that they will be given strategic of, shipments, that, showing ical minerals under the authori- the whole, dealers have abided on sideration and every. help that is by zation proposed .in the bill. commensurate with the conditions the y turnover clause in curon the bill, Sena- rent regulations. ; of the times. Commenting tor McCarran said it would be , ABut, no matter how. justified in total; dealers of primary importance ' to thou- stocks sharp dip might be their demands, there and Febduring January sands of small mining operations, ruary- 1942 resulted almost could be no justification .for enranging from a single prospector tirely from the unloading of coppestriking, for sabotaging Amehis own claim to a four r-base working ricas war effort in time of' nascrap prior1, to new and five-ma- n or operation. - These revised price ceilings that went tional peril. No possible grievsmall. mines, the senator pointed into r effect-Fe- b.: ance of any group, large of small; 1st and"! 27th. out, are frequently, long, distances The ' , . stock trend , could 'give-- the faintest shadowed general an (Figure pTantg-atithcTronr treatment was justification- - for. such action ofHI"hohferfbus7scrap' not carafford to than less pay - rest of the throughout upward , against the entire nation., minload shipment of' their the year, and the rising flow of To Utah and Wyoming, Utah continued to, set the. pace Trepared by Clias. W. Hender- ore. rates forthese small mines materials reflected not Forcing reon of the job for the nations gold producCrs'lh son,! Supervising- Engineer ers who stayed only the accumuto can wait until they ofindustry, but February of 1943, as output of the Western Offices,' Denver,' Mineral late carload - shipments ' means. upsurge in war-tim- e gardless of eastern action, we fer congratulations. . We feel yellow metal remained strictly a Production and Economics Divi- McCarran said, that many of also the cooperation of a public during the wide-- , sure that your future actions will sideline in the turning out of sion, Economics' and Statistics them are unable to' get quick re--' ef- Service. Ameriiron and steel scrap war for metals the ly same publicized the strategic be guided by turns on their work. drive. can patriotism which is needed fort. Silver production (in terms Oi .Trends were based on data not only in' the mines, but in ; As In' January of this year, recoverable domestic-mine- s from metal) e We Mixed each month from a con. .. endeavor. , And Oil the Coal States of field gathered .gold producevery was Alaska) min(including of 1,126 dealers, and of trol eastern Utah a that tion, group chiefly strongly- hope Tests previously conducted on. fines ounces in' Febin this figures report were exers will also see their first duty, Copper Company operations, .was 3,515,130 a decrease of 6.5. per the burning of a mixture of pow- panded from more 1943, ruary. of to the combined close total whole.. as a to the nation that dered coal and oil In industrial ulations. to cover complete tabDa- cent from the output in January, virtually all For Mr. Lewis' attitude therd Alaska, California and South boilers were inconclusive. There of the Bureau to Mines, according, of .Amerthe in dealers former continental United or three kota, excuse big juscan be no possible was 'no incentive to' push them, to- United States Department of the More ican' States. national nonferbut 4,500 than output, gold that can We to due tification. only hope cheap and abundant supInterior.. Average daily output plies of both fuels.' Conclusion of rous scrap metal dealers (excluseven Mr:- - Lewis will come to see tals continued sharply to decline. an increase was ounces, 125,543 , February gold production of the new experiments is expected ive of peddlers and auto wreck--ers- ) the light and in the future strive United cent 3.5 ounces or of 4,260 States per (Including Alaska) and, if successful would 1942. were active at the close of to attain his ends by means which was 1G over but 48,344 shortly in below cent that January per January oil saving of about will, not viciously attack the of this year and G1 per cent be- ounces or 28 per cent, below the permit.-a- The mixture contains Copper and Brass Scrap heart of his nation 'at war low the figures for February, February 1942 average. about 40 per cent coal and it is Dealers transactions in copper-bas- e 1942. A 37 per cent increase in sib believed that existing boilers scrap (Figure 2) appeared Utahs February gold total was ver output in Colorado in Feb- could readily be adapted to the to follow a cycle, with 29,314 fin? ounces, as compared ruary resulted from a railroad new fuel. (Standard & Poors See SCRAP on Page 2 in southwestern Colorado Corp.) with 17,383 fine ounces, for South tie-uDakota, 8,400 fine ounces for Cal- which prevented much of the ifornia . and 5,424 for Alaska. mine concentrates produced in In Three other western states, Ari- January from reaching the smelIt ,is exCHAMBERLAIN, S. D. Devel- zona, Colorado and Nevada, step- ter until February. in behind South Utah and Colorado that ped mangaDakota South of production pected, opment constant nese deposits near here has been Dakota at the top of the' gold will remain fairly Production the year. halted by the ' War Production production list, with February throughout 15,175, 12,254 and 10,907 in Washington, though larger in Board with the announcement fine of The nations war plants will ounces Today the concentrate is being sitrespectively. that the present manganese February than in January, will of rare have an increased supply at Rolla awaiting rebeFigures are those published by show a decline for the year uation, when compared with the tantalum for special carbides and stockpiled S. U. moval the Bureau a Mines silver of of of in cause one the largest manpower by the Metals Reserve critical shortages electrical equipment as the result a with which report and . equipment, in no way looks special by prepared together, of .tantalum 'ore in Company, a federal agency, which producers, of a serious enough, to continue fur- Charles W. Henderson, supervis- copper mine produces 90 per cent New discovery Mexico by a private geolb--' is paying the geologist $3.50 a ing engineer of the western of- of the states silver, is principally gist, and research work conducted ther expenditures at this time: or $7,000 a ton, for the In the WPB announcement, An- fice, at Denver, of the Mineral a gold producer and has closed. by the Bureau of: Mines in its pilot Sound, material. The geolodrew Leith, assistant chief ferro-- ' Production and Economics Divi- Production in ail other states de- plant at Rolla, Missouri Taiita- - gist .reports that he plans to deof sion Economics Statisthe and clined in February. Idaho, the lum, a metal scarcer than gold,' velop. his. . property and install alloys branch said that although tics Service. Figures for January g state re- is noted for its' extremely nigh equipment, to utilize the bureaus government tests had shown that production, previously issu- largest the low grade manganese nodules gold corded a decrease of six per cent melting point and' its' process .in turning out concentrate by the Bureau of Mines and One of the two large silver mines qualities. in the South Dakota field can be edublished if . sufficient, reserves are indicatin the Western Mineral . successfully closed separated from the . a. mine. In ed has state the While in virtually .examining urvey, have been slightly revisshale, the problem of separating down, but the other Is operating New Mexico., .the geologist found . In. past years much of the tantaed. maother from the manganese a tantalum mineral in. the pegma: lum .used in States has The rapid decline in gold pro- as the ore also contains antimony, terial in the nodules has not been duction Because of its as a tite deposit of. the. area. .He sub; been . imported shown in February pro- a strategic metal recovered thoroughlv investigated. Utah, the second-larges- t mitted a sample, of the. ore. to .the rarity, tantalum. remained a labfigures is largely attribut- byproduct. 'We believe that we know the duction state Bureaus pilot . plant, at. Rolla, . A oratory. curiosity, for a long time. silver most to able fact that producing the gold was Its first commercial use was in fundamental metallurgy of such mines have percentage of tantalum either closed or are contributed seven per cent less high his announcement in the E. D. Gardner.-regiona- l and filaments of electric light globes indicated a method, Jan-uarin Howthan 6ilver in of closing. February process at and then it' leaped to prominence continued, but when we consid- ever, there engineer is still a substantial however, Bilver is largely sent for ore of its widespread use in er the size of the operation which output of byproduct be because that more, base-metfrom a at obtained as gold Carbides1 of tantalum tests. would be' necessary should be tubes. radio metallurgical mines that are still operatcopper ore, lead ore, and zinc lead g of ore were used in are used in tons Four dies, in completely isolated from the rest ore which at some mines has indeand .further, substantial g tests the beneficiation in tools, of the world say 40 to GO million creased as a result of the larger ing, by early Monand in Rolla chemists and engineers and tong of shales per year or '2 to production of base metals. Over 79 clines are not anticipated. 13 parts of machines, tana decreased g production pei runs were for dies continued 3 million tons of nodules per percent of the lode-golartillery pilot output silver until plant all the kinks in the treat- shells. Because of its power to retype came from diy and siliceous ere cent: the states largest year it is clear that the needis expected to maintain ment process had been Ironed out. sist corrosion, tantalum is In high of metallurgical equipment in 1941, but a smaller proportion producer cent S5 of normal production. Altogether, 30 tons of ore weree demand by manufacturers of surper ed for beneficiation would have of the total output is now coming likewise decreas- handled and more than three gical and dental instruments, elecArizonas output to be large and even a pilot plant from this type of ore. A few mines 8 in Arizona Is tons of high-grad- e concentrate trical contacts, pump and valve cent. Silver ed per would also have to be relatively have increased their production a bureau's were from as in piand obtained the to parts, and temperature control in produced byproduct order provide signifilarge lot plant. Siliceous flux. apparatus. See GOLD on Page 2 cant and reliable results. - . Mc-Carr- ; . - . : . - - er . nt . 40-da- y . 60-da- - .. . " . ir . scrap-conscio- - . Bee-Hiv- by-produ-ct . . , one-thir- Manganese Development Held Up S.D. d. 60-da- y p Tantalum Supply Found In New Mexico . totals . . silver-producin- acid-resisti- . the-Unite- y; Rolla,-propose- al by-produ- ct d . wire-drawin- steel-cuttin- wear-resista- - d . . cold-nosin- nt us |