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Show May 14, 1943 The Western Mineral Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah . Potash- - News from the front Continued from Page 1 per , cent of the 1942 K20 production coming from California, New Mexico, and Utah. Nearly 81 per cent of the equivalent potash (K20) production. came from the deeply buried Permian saline sedimentary deposits of New Mexico, 19 per cent from the saline lake brines of California and Utah, and less than half of one per cent vras recovered as byproducts of manufacturing processes (ce--' ment and distillery operations) in the East (Maryland). The potash salts sold were largely refined or processed products. No sales ashes for their-p-ot of cotton-bo- il ash content were reported in 1942, nor are any shipments of alunite for fertilizer, as In some former years, known to have been made. The potash producing compan-ies in the United States in 1942 were the American Potash & Chemical Corporation. 122 East 42nd St, New York, N. Y. (plant at Trona on Searles Lake, CaliStates the. United fornia); Potash Co., Inc., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N. Y. (plant near Carlsbad, N. Mex.); the potash Company of America, Carlsbad, N. Mex. (plant near Carlsbad, N.. Mex.); the International Minerals & Chemical Corporation, 20 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. (plant, near Carlsbad, N. Mex.); Bonneville, Ltd., 540 W. 7 South, Salt Lake City, Utah (plant near Wendover, Utah); the North Amedican Cement Corporation, 41 East 42nd St., New York, N. Y. (plant at Security, Md.); and the U. S. Industrial Chemicals, Ine., 60 East 42nd St., New York, N. Y. (plant at Baltimore, Md.) The only producer of potash in California, the American Potash and Chemical Corporation, 122 East 42nd St, New York, N. Y., using the highly complex brine at Searles Lake, in the southeastern part of California as its raw material in its plant at Trona, produced both agricultural and chemical grades, of potassium chloride, as well as potassium sulfate and potassium bromide. Its total production of marketable potash salts was greater in 1942 than in 1941, when a long strike seriously affected production. German ownership of over 90 per cent of the capital stock and control of the American Potash and Chemical Corporation was disclosed, late in 1942, by the Alien Property Custodian, who on Oct. announced the vesting 20, 194 in him of 90.79 per cent of the capital stock oft the company. Carlsbad In Top Position The mine production of the Carlsbad, N. M., potash district has been steadily climbing. In 1940 it passed 1,200,000 short tons, reached 2,270,000 tons of ore in 1941, and in 1942, the three companies operatpotash mining ing in the - area United States Potash Co., Inc., International Minerals and Chemical Corpora--. tion, and the Potash Company of America mined over 3 million short tons of potash ore, cylvite and langbeinite, (3,035, 549 short. tons), with an average equivalent K20 content of 21.52 per cent. All of the companies mined sylvite (potassium chloride), while one, the Intematlon-- ., al Minerals and Chemical Cor-poration, also mined a langbeinite (a potassium-magnesiubed. The greater part , sulfate) of the production was of sylvite, most of which was processed to or yield GO per cent K20 muriate e higher grades. Some sylvite was shipped as manure salts, some was concentrated to produce the 50 per cent K20 muriate, and some was added to the 60 per cent K20 muriate to produce the 50 per cent K20 grade. Potassium sulfate and potassium magnesium sulfate were produced in this district by the International Minerals and Chemical Corporation from langbeinite in the refinery at its mine near Carlsbad. Potassium sulfate was also produced by the Potash Company of America, at plants in Oklahoma and Texas, this latter company also producing potassium hydroxide and potassium chlorate from sylvite at a plant at its mine near Carlsbad. The output of potassium chloride from the existing mines of the Carlsbad mines of the Carlsbad district is said to be still restricted by lack of sufficient refinery capacity. The Union Potash and Cheml- - - HUNTING HUNTMCr fSTR tV OUTFIT HA na-Jo- ClIMP TRBE 9. TELL GRAH'fA OU THE COOK IN TOE. SERVICE WE 0T trimmings, eeavy AND EVERY- - the NATIVES are - . k . m run-of-min- ns er riAP PEEP TOR PINNER LAST SUNDAY, WITH ALL WE dis-tributo- n. . m VfeR above-mentione- Bui-etin.N- o- , i all-tim- 1 . - . - The California state mineraloContinned from gist, Walter W. Bradley, Division f Mines, Department of Natural spec ted by the Bureau of Mines tesources, announces that new revised papers on quicksilver and produce 55 per cent of the antimony are now available tor, anbituminous coal and distribution and that a new pa-ithracite and they employ nearly on lithium is ready for. 300,000 men, or 56 per cent of d The papero the total workers in the coal on earlier the will papers replace mines of the United States. in and antimony quicksilver Secretary Ickes, who also Is 124, Commercial MinSolid Fuels Coordinator for War, erals of California, by George L. jointed out that the output of ary, mineral technologist, of the ituminous coal last year was ivision of mines. Were nearly 580 million tons "and rece still hoping for an ord of 600 million this year. The anthracite industry, he said, has )een asked to produce 65 million The Western Mineral Survey is tons of anthracite in 1943. as a Newspaper to pub-- ' In reporting to Secretary Ickes qualified .Notices, Having Been ah Legal on the progress of the federal In- ipproved In the Third District spection of coal mines. Dr. R. R. Lake Salt of Court County. Sayers, director of the Bureau of Mines, stated- that the outstand-n- g Probate And Guardiansafety record in the Notices ship industry was' made in the these lace of many odds. Some of For Further Information Consult were the loss of key employes to the Clerk of the District Court' other war Industries, a heavy la or Respective Signers. jor turnover, which necessitated ' NOTICE TO CREDITORS he training of .new workers to Estate of Laura Ann Boomer, handle complicated equipment, and delays in obtaining addition- Deceased. Creditors . will present claims al mining equipment and replacement parts for older machinery. with vouchers to the undersigned at care of Ingebretsen, Ray, Rawition of the Geological Survey, ng & Christensen, 1011 Walker as agents for the financing De- Bank Building, Salt Lake City, fense Plant Corporation in the Jtah, on or before the 20th day SEU SW4 SEK Sect 4, T. 22 of July, A. D., 1943. Date of first publication. May S. A. 19 E., about 7 miles Page 1 0AP1 HERE, ttMlNPS ME. VERV MUCH OF FAFPHT5 AT HOME. ONLY TH CAH AMP New Bulletins Coal - - coal-min-n- g cal Co., the latest company to enter, potash mining In the Carls- bad area, merged with its parent company, the International Minerals and Chemical Corporation (formerly the International Agricultural Corporation) early 31, came effective, ,March 1942, the potash business has been conducted as the Potash Division of the International company. According to the annual report of this company for the year ended June 30, 1942, the production of this plant for that period, the first full year of operation, was 213,625 tons of various processed potash salts. On Oct. 31, 1941, a contract was completed with the Defense Plant Corporation whereby magnesium chloride cell feed would be produced from a waste brine, con16 per cent magtaining about nesium chloride, from the Carl-baN. Mex., refinery, by a process developed by the International Minerals & Chemical Corporation. The magnesium chloride will be produced by evaporation and selective crystallization, and the dried product shipped to a magnesium metal plant at Austin, Texas, operated by the International Company: The potash bearing solution remaining after the removal of the magnesium chloride will be returned to the potash refinery and the potassium salts previously wasted will be recovered. The magnesium chloride plant, was under construction in 1942. At the Potash Company of Americas plant an additional 2400 HP Diesel engine was rethe cently installed and late in conwas contract a year cluded between the company and the City of Carlsbad, the city to drill a well and supply water to a point near the Bataan Bridge over the Pecos River. The company will pump it to its mine for domestim and industrial use. It will replace several tankloads of waternow hauled daily from the city. Construction of the pipeline started in the fall of 1942. One effect of the war has been the loss to the company of its sources of cocoanut oil soap, its principal flotation agent, previously imported, but satisfactory substitutes are said to have been developed by the company. The companys electrolytic plant was closed down for part of the year. Diversified Sources In Utah In Utah three types of potash occurrences are being exploited potassium bearing brines, hydrothermal deposits of the potassium sulfate alunite, and bedded deposits of the., potassium chlorides carnallite and sylvite. The first type only is in commercial production, but intensive development work is in progress on the alunite. deposits, and the bedded chloride deposits are being tested. Bonneville, Ltd, 540 West Sev enth South, Salt Lake, the only in in Utah Ijotash producer is producing potassium chloride from the potassium-bearinbrine saturating the thin crystalline salt, mass of Salduro Marsh near the western edge of former Lake Bonneville, in the Salt Lake Desert in northwestern Utah. The plant is near Wendover, .Tooele County, Utah, close to the Nevada line on the Western Pacific R. R. from Salt Lake - potassium-magnesium-beari- . d, ar . g W. F. SNYDER & SONS Mines. Felt Building, Salt Lake City- - Analyses, have shown the brine to contain nearly 4.' per cent potassium. (K), equivalent to about 7 per. cent dissolved potassium chloride. The brine . is conducted in collector ditches .to evaporating ponds and then to crystallizing ponds where a crystalline mixture of potassium chloride and sodium chloride is precipitated. These salts are later The final separated by flotation. high-grad- e muriate a is product of potash. . The company ' has shown a continued annual increase in production since operations started in 1938. Production in 1942 was nearly 25 per cent above that of 1941. Alunite Again A renewed interest Is evident in the alunite (a hydrous basic potassium aluminum' sulfate) deposits of the Marysvale district, Piute County, Utah, with emphasis on the aluminum content rather than on the potash which was the chief interest during the first World War. Both vein and replacement types of alunite. deposits occur in the Marysvale district The vein deposits lie n the forks Alunite Ridge between ' i?ity. of Cottonwood Creek. The replacement deposits are more' num- - west-south-we- st . . 4, A. D., 1943. of Thompson, Utah, on the D. & R. G. R. R., and miles south of Crescent about Junction. Material was moved on location May 1, 1942, the . well spudded in on May 6, and com- . . , Herbert H. Boomer, Jr. Executor of the estate of Laura Ann Boomer,' De- . ceased. pleted August 3, 1942, at 4207 feet The well is located within the narrow complexly strike-faultezone along the crest of the long northwest trending Salt Valley anticline, here plunging northwestward. under Cretaceous cover: It started in the Cretaceous Mancos shale and bottomed in the Paradox formation of the Pennsylvania (Carboniferous). The well shows an abnormal geologic section,- possibly due to an upthrust of the plastic ' saltbearing Paradox formation Into the fault zone. About 3,000 feet of sediments of Jurassic, Triassic, Permian, and Pennsylvania age normally expected to be present in this well are missing. The Paradox formation extended from 2,091 feet, to the bottom of the well. The. camallite-bearin- g section, occurring from 3,318-3,58-8 feet, contained 91.6 feet of carnallite with an average assay of 39.5 per cent carnallite. , Individual carnallite beds ranged from . 1 foot to 13.5 feet in thickness and assayed from 10 to 80 per cent carnallite. There were two e sections, the first extending from 3,419 to 3,518 feet with 42 feet of sylvite averaging 24 .per cent sylvite, and the second from 4,152 to 4,157.5 feet containing syMte with an average of 41.3 per cent sylvite. Neither the normal thickness of the salt series nor of the potash beds in this region is known. The salt core shows folding, flowage, and widely varying abnormal dips of the salt as would be expected in squeezed and upthrusted plastic salt beds. The wells' of the district no give' definite proof of the thickness or potassium content of the undis-turbe- d saline beds of the and little information of region their extent and distribution within the fault zone. Th Potash Company 0f Amer-ic- a Carlsbad, N. .M., late in 1942 entered into a prospecting agree-mewith the Utah Magnesium Corporation whereby the former company is to drill a number of deep wells and to prospect the holdings of the latter company near Crescent Junction on which the above Defense Plant Corporation well was drilled, further de- be cootingent upon findings. d - - . Ingrebretsen, Ray, Rawlins & Christensen, Attys. for Executor. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Henry . Benton Pront, Deceased. , Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned at 920 Continental Bank Building, Salt Lake City,' Utah, on or he: fore the 23rd day of July, A. D., 1943. Date of first publication. May 14, A. D., 1943. Ralph Benton Prout, Executor of the Estate of Henry Benton Prout, Deceased. Cheney, Jensen, Marr & Wilkins, Attys. for Executor. erous and are distributed over a much larger area. Total reserves of both types exceed 11- - milNOTICE TO CREDITORS of lion tons of pure alunite; Estate of Emery Kimball Holwhich the vein deposits account also sometimes known as land, for only 1,336,600 tons accordK. Holland, Deceased. E. ing to Thoenen (Thoenen, J. R., Creditors will present claims Alunite Resources of the United with vouchers to the undersigned States, Bureau of Mines, Report 275 at Edith Avenue, in Salt Lake of Investigations, 3561, February City, Utah, on or before the 15th 1941, 48 pp.). Mining operations day of July, A. D., 1943. in the Marysvale district in 1942 Date of first publication, May were concentrated at the White A. D., 1943. 14, Horse Mine, (a replacement, type Emery Clarence Holland, of northeast deposit) Marysvale, administrator of the Estate where an open pit mine is 'being of Emery Kimball Hqjland, developed by Kalunite Inc. also known as E. K. Holin Marysvale, Utah. Operations 1942 consisted of development land, Deceased. Paul S. Roberts, work, in preparing mine ' and Attorney for Administrator. crushing plant for production, of road construction, completion NOTICE TO CREDITORS of bridge over the Sevier RivEstate of Jnlia A. Smith, Deer, and the erection of buildings ceased. at the mine. The alunite ore will Creditors will present claims, be sent to Salt Lake City- for with vouchers to the undersigned processing. None was treated in 1942 except in the laboratory. An at 1284 Stratford Avenue, Salt alumina plant using the Kalunite Lake City, Utah, on or before the 28th day of June, A. D. 1943. process to produce alumina and potassium sulfate from the aluDOROTHY SMITH HARVEY, nite was being erected in 1942 in Executrix of the Estate of Salt Lake City. The Kalunite Julia A. Smith, Deceased. process to be used in this plant Date of first publication, April consists in the (1) Dehydration 23, A. D. 1943. of the alunite, driving off the SAMUEL J. NICHOLES, Attorwater of crystallization and then ney for Executrix. dissolving the product in dilute cyclic sulfuric acid and potassNOTICE TO CREDITORS ium sulfate solutions, with the Estate of Alice Jane Nelson, Deproduction of potash alum; (2) ceased. Autoclaving the potash alum to Creditors will present claims a hydrous basic potassium alumwith vouchers to the undersigned inum sulfate; (3) Calcination of at Suite 700, Utah Savings and this sulfate to drive off sulfur oxTrust Building, 235 So. Main SW ides, thereby producing a meSalt Lake City, Utah, on or bechanical mixture of alumina ant fore the 28th day of June, A. D. potassium sulfate; (4) Leaching 1943. of the soluble potassium sulfate WILFORD B. DANSIE, Adfrom the insoluble alumina. ministrator with the will anThe Bureau of Mines carried out exploration work, compris- WESTERN MINERAL nexed of the Estate of Alice Jane Nelson, Deceased. ing diamond drilling, trenching, on test pitting, and sampling, Date of first publication, April SURVEY alunite deposits in - the vicinity 23, A. D. 1943. of Marysvale in 1942 and early in 4 WALTER C. HURD, Attorney for EAST 1ST SOUTH TEL 1943, but temporarily suspendAdministrator. matter at ??. ed it February 25, 1943. The work iv ia&of was done on the Mineral Prod NOTICE TO CREDITORS in Estate of Alice Bnbee, Deceased. ucts. Yellow Jacket, Close In, for White Horse, and Winklemari lix months. Creditors will present claims Plea mention Western Claims, and indicated a large tonMineral with vouchers to the undersigned Surrey when writing to odverttsers. at 175 South Main Street, Salt nage advertising rate on application. Lake City, Utah, on or before the Promising Prospect 25th day of August, A. D. 1943. TOHN R. TALMAGE, Drilling In Utah Managing Editor WALKER BANK & TRUST In the Grand County potash the news of the. development of COMPANY, Administrator of field of eastern Utah a well, theAlllntermountaln Section, lubushed hr the Estate of Alice Bubee, known as the Defense Plan: Die Western Mineral Survey. Deceased h Corporation-Uta.All new appearing in the Western Magnesium Cor- Mineral Date of first publication, April is obtained 1 Survey from was No. Reeder well, poration A. D. 1943. sources 23, believed to be reliable no but Bud in 1942 by the is assumed tor accuracy T. D. 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