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Show lane 29, 1956 The Western Mineral Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah Page 2 Strict Controls Seen For Rangely Wells Editorial Facts Fill Chinks 'Misunderstanding and lack of information are usually die basic causes for consternation. This has held true in the uranium A definite control order deindustry. signed to eliminate waste in the But this week at the Atomic Energy and Uranium confer- Rangely oil field is being drafted by the Colorado Oil and Gas Con- ence held in Denver several of these lines were cleared. The government came through with a clean slate when of' ' &, . v, . ficial figures showed that uranium ore is being produced today at the rate of 3 million tons per year. Six million tons in potential and known ore reserves were noted by Jesse C. Johnson, key man in the AEC raw materials division. Phillip L. Merritt, senior geologist with E. J. Longyear Co., New York, asked for more clarity of rules governing government . .HI. uranium purchases between 1962 and 1966 so that accurate pre- . . . dictions about the future peacetime uses of atomic power can -.be made. '' An Anaconda official pointed out that uranium ore is beH j coming increasingly hard to find and its production is becoming if t ' . j increasingly expensive. Ore price increase, he said, may be needed ' ' ' Ji to stimulate exploration and production. In die peacetime uses area, a New Mexico publisher, asked for small reactors to be sent to underdeveloped countries. He explained the status of current legislative process in this direction. Several areas of the uranium and atomic industry were given clarity by experts in the field this week. This is the kind of information necessary to straighten out much misunderstanding still apparent in the field.. The Denver conference was a good RANGELY PRODUCER beginning a good example. . . . Question is how much? . , f . Jf Ml' - servation Commission this week. The Commission favors unitization of the field under which the entire field would be operated by one concern with all wells sharing in production profits. r According to Sherman Warwick Downing, commission member, the major producers in Colorados largest oil field generally agree regulations are needed but there is yet no agreement on the specific type. One representative, Herman Kaveler, Tulsa, with ihe California Co. said that the fields 476 wells each should be limited to 200-25- 0 barrels of oil per day. Edward Knowles, Denver, lawyer, representing a Joint Rangely interest held by the Texas Co. and Union Pacific Railroad said he felt wells should produce on more than 300 barrels per day. ! J v v , 1 $ Phillips Co. representative Jack Turner, Bartlesville, Okla. agreed with Knowles. A big issue being discussed by the commission is the reinjection of gas or the flaring of gas in oil production. .Turner asked the commission not to require reinjection of gas produced by the oil wells. He contends that they should be permitted to flare as much as 84 million cubic feet of natural gas daily. The hewing was called by Downing after he charged that Rangely operators had refused to cooperate among themselves to institute conservation measures. During April the commission received reports that Rangeley produced 78,000 barrels of oil and during May 83,000 barrels. The natural gas production in April reached , 147 million cubic feet, of which a great portion was flared. Settle 'For Atom Now, But Sun Is Power King Denver Group Told The picture of a super atomic Dr. John I. Yellott, assistant age in which the world will draw director of the Stanford univeron inexhaustible sources of power sity research institute and secin the sea and the sun was retary of the Assn, for Applied painted in Denver Tuesday for Solar Energy, of Phoenix, Aziz. Dr. Bishop described in detail top executives in the U.S. atomic the intricate principles on which industry. But the scientists who de- the fusion process involved in the scribed this future world were hydrogen bomb works and chartquick to warn that the unlimited ed the differences between that power of which they spoke is not process and the fission process just around the corner and that which occurs in the ordinary man will have to settle for the atomic bomb and on which presenatomic power is derived ordinary atomic age for several t-day in reactors from uranium. years to come. The scientists who appeared before a uranium and atomic industry conference at the Cosmopolitan hotel were: Dr. Amasa S. Bishop, chief of ihe atomic energy commissions research program on controlled thermonuclear power which grew out of the hydrogen bomb, of Washington. after that? And We havent spent he said. much time worrying about that Dr. Bishop said many major research problems still exist as barriers to the use of controlled thermonuclear fusion as a practical source of industrial energy. Dr. Bishop said he is convinced that the goal will eventually be realized, but added: All of the work is still very much in the research stage and it is anticipated that many years of intensive work will be reto develop a prototype The fusion process, he said, quired thermonuclear device which utilizes deuterium. more energy than it might yield Since deuterium is a natural consqmes. After that, many more occuring isotope with an abun- years would be required to dedevice which dance of about 1 part in 6,000 of velop a even a chance have of com one show might may hydrogen, easily that there is enough deuterium peting economically with other in the ocean water to provide all sources of power. The fusion process, he said, of mankind's present power refor the first time in hisoffers for of hundreds many quirements tory of mankind the potentiality of an essentially unlimited source Utilities Inv. Sues Blue Lizard, Inc. full-scal- e The WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY is Expanding Its Classified Ad Section An OPPORTUNITY For Buyer & Seller To Get Together For QUICK RESULTS o million years, ECONOMICAL IMMEDIATE ATTENTION r WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY - P. O. Box 2608 Advertising Dept. Salt Lake City I, Utah PHONE EMpire 40 FHM LORRA1M HEWS - CIBCUIATIOM J Phone EM Street 431 Church ADVEETISINO XU Box 2608 49 Salt Lake City, Utah Entered aa aecond daaa matter at Salt Lake-- City, Utah, under Act ol March 3, 1070. Subscription rates : 5:00 lor two yean; 3.00 lor aw year. Fleaae mention Wee tern Mineral Surrey when writing to advertisers. Advertising rates on application. HA&ST GAIL B. F. mttjjbr Publisher Editor CRXTCHLOW Contributing Editor L. M. HILL All news appearing in the Western Mineral Surrey is obtained Irom sources believed to be reliable but no responsibility U assumed lor accuracy ol statements. Reproduction ol any material Irom this publication mutt have written permission Irom the publisher. Tintie Report Gives Details (Continued from Page 1) rocks several hundred feet thick. Surface geochemical anomalies are largely confined to areas of rocks bleached and altered through which are dispersed minute amounts of copper, lead, and zinc minerals that may be related to concealed ore bodies. altered areas have , Similarly been suocesfully used elsewhere in the East Tintie and other mining districts as a guide in mineral exploration. The results of the investigation are given n & report that describes the location, geology, hydrothermal alteration and mineralization of the Trixie area and indudes a geologic map, geochamical sample location maps, drill logs and tables of analytical data. The report titled U. S. logical Survey Exploration GeoPro--, gram in the Trixie area, East Tintie mining district, Utah County, Utah, by H. T. Morris, A. E. Disbrow, and T. S. Lovering has been placed in open file in the libraries of the Geological Survey in Washington, D. C., Denver, Colo., and Menlo Park, Calif. Also in the office of the Geological Survey in Eureka, Utah. - The company, Novelle sale had gone to considerable expens in preparing for this issue an the board of directors do not fee that it would be fair to its stocl holders to have them suffer th Advertise In The . . WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY Reach an Interested marketl CLASSIFIED ADS loss. ROYALTIES AND LEASES Blue Lizard, according to John Snow, attorney, has filed an an- OIL AND GAS property is our swer with the Third Dist. Court, second name. Tell us .what you Salt Lake City and County Buildwant. We perhaps have it. ing. United Uranium Co., First National Bank Building, Tulsa, extremely high temperatures A trial date has not been set. in solar furnaces for research Oklahoma, Phone Gibson Other speakers before the conference Tuesday included Brice OBrien, assistant counsel for the National Coal Assn., and Wallace E. Pratt, consulting geologist in the petroleum industry, each of whom described how they envisage their conventional fuels fitting into the atomic age. Richard E. Barrett, manager of the Uranium Procurement Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., was to address a noon luncheon of the conference to describe developments in the Canadian uranium industry. (Denver Post Reprint). fast-growi- 4-36- SURVEY I f purposes. RATES WHITE OB CALL of energy. Dr. Yellott visualized solar energy as sort of a complement source of power to fission and fusion sources. The theoretically available supply of solar energy far exceeds all of the earths present and foreseeable future needs, but virtually none of this energy is used today, he said. Research is needed to learn how to make use of the thousands of BTUs of energy which fall daily upon each square foot of the earths surface. Dr. Yellott said he sees three main uses for solar energy. First for home heating and cooling. Second for the generation of small fractions of kilowatts of electrical power. Third for the production-o- Utility Investment Inc., a Utal corporation has filed a $120,001 breach of contract suit agains Blue Lizard Mines, Inc., accordinj to Dave Novelle, general manager According to Novelles claim Blue Lizard had indicated tha Utility Investment would handli arrangements on the current $900, 000 debenture issue now in it underwriting stage. He continues that Blue Lizard acquired services of another un derwriter' without notifying Utility Investment. WESTERN MINERAL ng Walker Wilson To FOR LEASE OR SALE DO YOU WANT good mining Drill Salt1 Basin properties? Then call or write us. We have a long list of satisfied customers. United Uranium Walker Wilson Drilling Co Co., First National Bank BuildDenver, is said to be considering ing, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Phone a second test well of the Salt Lake Gibson Basin on the north side of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The company is now planning to deepen the Woodlay-GarsoNo 1 wildcat near Grantsville, Utah to 7,000 feet. The well is now below the 5,800 foot level and has not penetrated the valley fill. n DAVID H. CROCKETT Consulting Geologist 109 LESLIE AVE. PHONE HUnter Salt Lake City, Utah 57 |