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Show Septemhei 9. 1959 Fage Fire The Western Mineral Sumy, Salt Lake City, Utah Hardrock Sinks $60,000 Into Green River Corp. Recovers .47 Uranium Ore Sulphuric Acid Mill Going Full Speed Now White Canyon Hardrock Mining Syndicate, a Nevada firm, is now conducting a $60,000 exploratory program on their Vista claims in White Green River Uranium Corp. struck some .47 per cent ore last week, and according to company spokesmen will continue drilling operations on an ever widening scale. Can- yon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah. This announcement came this week from Thomas P. Sidwell, director. Progress reports are not yet available, he said. The company is owner of interest in 11 unpatented uraof the nium claims. claims is W. T. McDonald. Other claims in the same area include 10 unpatented claims known as the Providence and Stupendous one-ha- IN ACTION Last week the Survey announced the opening of 914 million dollar sulphuric in acid plant Rico, Colo. The plant is now in full operation. In the left photo the conveyor Rico-Argenti- Co-own- er . PUNT RICO-ARGENTI- lf claims. nes Boom Ahead president, John Company McClelland Abrams, a Glendale, California resident has been engaged in oil and industrial de- NEVADA VIEWS MERCURY DRIVE velopment for 30 years. Another Recent activity in the mercury long term mining and oil man, Harry I. Bergman, is vice presi- mining field Indicates Nevada dent with Edgar P. Lyons, direcmay be on the brink of another tor and secretary-treasurer. boom. Nat'l. Uranium A report carried in the Denver Post recently pointed out there Buys Land were over 300 small potential mercury producing properties in the state. Near Daybreak National Uranium Corp., IdaLatest reports show several ho, has announced acquisition of northeasUranium properties in companies now in the process of tern Washington. developing their mercury claims. A company official said the Rare Metals, a branch of El Paso company hads acquired a 10 year lease on 320 acres in northern Natural Gas Co. is carrying out Spokane county, seven miles an advanced drilling program. north of Daybreak uranium mine. Vernon Pick, a uranium and Nationof In the Utah division is also workal the company is continuing ex- mining millionaire, ploratory drilling on their Moun- ing mercury claims. In Pershing tain Lion group in the Big In- County, Nev., some of the smaller dian district, San Juan County, firms are starting development Utah. Three holes have been drilled in this area. Reports of programs. the test holes are awaiting geoIn the Antelope district, locatlogical evaluation. ed 20 miles east of Lovelock, the remnants of one of the nations most outstanding mercury producing areas still remain. The area has never been considered John D. Bradley, executive vice as worked out. president of Bradley Mining Co. Much of the mercury prospectthis week announced a 170 ton ore production ing and development stopped daily tungsten from the companys open pit min- when the price of the ore starting operation in Valley county, market period. ed an Idaho. With the price of mercury guarMore than 30 men are employed in the mining program, he anteed at $225 a flask the possisaid. Open pit mining was start- bilities of realizing mercury ed in early August. The ore is claims is inviting. The standardizbeing processed at a mill used ed price is having a heavy influpreviously for treating talus ma- ence on the resurrection of this terial. Sheelite concentrates tak- phase of the mining industry. en from the open pit area are beSeveral Utah uranium firms ing taken to Stibnite, Iadho for roasting and magnetic separation, are also reported to have mercury holdings in the Nevada area. Bradley said. - Tungsten Shipped Daily by Bradley up-dow- n A. HOGLE & CO. 523 West Sprague Ave.. SPOKANE Member Salt 35 North University. FB0V0 York Stock Exchanges Lake-Spokane-N- ew We Specialize In Mining Stocks Loans Made on Listed Mining Securities 132 Main Street SALT LAKE CITY system. at the plant is in the process of taking pyrite from storage into the mill. The second pictorial view shows the location of the new plant owned by Rico Argentine Mining Co. nestled in the Rico Valley. The prevailing shipment program of one or two truck loads of ore per day is to be increased as exploration widens in the two new channels which company spokesmen say have been opened up directly through the company Nev. Senator Fights For Atom Plants Sidwell said the company has properties in Wyoming and Nevada. In Wyoming they have option on 14 mining claims, and 20 mining claims in the Tonopah Mining District Nye County, Nev. J. Two new phases have been opened up on the companys Vanadium Queen property in San Miguel county, Colo., with daily shipments anticipated, according to spokesmen for Green River. 2380 Washington Blvd. 0 ; OGDEN property. Green River officials say the now owns 37 claims, or company Inexpensive power to boom the Wests mines and mills is a about twice the number held virtual certaintly within the next decade, Sen. George W. Malone when operations began a year predicts after having attended the international conference for ago. the peaceful uses of atomic energy, conducted in Geneva in August. Senator Malone, a mining engineer of international standing, ir several years ago startled the country by urging that the worlds Why Pay More? first commercial atomic reactor be built in Eureka, Nev., where important mining activities had been halted by lack of economi- were sufficient to last only a relcal power. atively short time. Recent discoveries of uranium In that area, completely lack-n- f and thorium deposits, together fuel for power, the govern- with the development of cheap ment could have obtained from er. methods of extraction and 1 to 2 cents a kilowatt hour beneficiation prove that the supfor its power, a figure still low ply of miner enough to make mining profit- als is virtually limitless. able. Senator Senator Malone is as determined today as he was at The AEC, however, elected to to the start obtain atomic energy (erect the first plant in Pittsfor Nevada. power burgh, in the very heart of the areas of the state now Great coal fuel area, where at best it and little more dormant, lying can obtain only seven mills a can than be desert, developed inkilowatt hour. to important industrial centers Senator Malone has never re- if given economical power, he laxed his fight for atomic energy declares. Eureka, where he sought to plants in the western mining have the fret reactor built, is at areas where lack of fuel and a standstill because it has the economical power makes mining most expensive power in the nadevelopment unprofitable. tion, according to a survey conAlthough several years ahead ducted by the Atomic Energy of the parade when he commenc- Commission. Other parts of Need his fight, the atomic experts vada are in little better condiwho are mostly in the eastern tion, so far as power is concerned. colleges, have gradually been Although the first commercial Rotes of catching up with him in the real- atomic energy plants have been ization that vast areas in the built In areas where powct and United States need power as bad- fuel are plentiful and cheap, inly as do any of the foreign coun- stead of in the west where such tries. plants are most needed, the Senator points out that much will be Even though as yet unable to learned such plants that obtain atomic power for the west, will be ofabout in the constructhe Senator did obtain two im- tion of latervalue ones. Contact portant atomic projects for the He calls attention particularly University of Nevada. to the package reactor recentBILL ly developed for the Army. to and new was One determine It is beneficiat-into a designed develop improved methods of uranium ore, the other the power reactor plant, with comP. O. Box 586 study of effects of radiation dust ponent parts transportable by to be used in remote bases. on plant and animal life. Both air, those subjects were given con- The complete plant is small Phono siderable attention by the inter- enough to be loaded on a flatcar, yet has a capacity of about 2,000 national conference. kilowatts of electricity. - Alpine ALpine One of the results of the conOnce past the experimental ference, Senator Malone points stage, the Senator declares, it out, was demonstration of the is clearly apparent that reactor fact that through improved plants will provide the solution the Nevada deposits of of a major part of Nevadas seuranium now can be- - rious power problem. come feasible of operation with mills built nearer the deposits. Improved methods of benefeia-tion- , FOR he declared, turns country Well Get the Core" UTAH energy-producin- g DRILLING COMPANY Contract Drilling Core Drills Wagon Drills Competitive Prices OWEN g 3-4- 56 Moab, Utah ben-eficiati- low-grad- e rock into ore. The conference demonstrated the Senator said, that there no longer need be worry of time. Uranium and thorium, present in the earths crust in relative abun dance, assure fuels to supply all the energy needed for thousands of years to come. Until recently it had been believed that the supplies of recoverable uranium and thorium EXPLORATORY DRILLING OF MINERAL CLAIMS CALL FRONTIER DRILLING & EXPLORATION CO. 320 Non Building Phono SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 93 |