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Show June 29. 1956 Tie Welters Mineral Sarny, Salt Lake City, Utah Page 3 Anaconda's Jackpile Open Pit Operations Explained (Editor! Note: Pioneer Engl-neertn- g Works publicity depart ment here explains one of the vast uranium extraction processes in the west. The release is reprinted in entirety as an item of interest to Survey readers). classified as secret information duction managers at the location. by the Atomic Energy Commisof There is no sion, but the big crasher neverlocaunits between pit hauling theless is working under intertions, so rigidly is this delivery esting field conditions. inter-changin- g system controlled. The ore is being hauled from open-pi- t mining operations by n Americas biggest overhead echauling units, and centric jaw crusher, a Pioneer blended as to grade at the crush42 x 48, has one of the most in- er. This is done to assure a fairly teresting crushing assignments in uniform, degree of uranium conthe country. tent as ore flows from the mine to the concentrating plant. BlendSet up at an open-pi- t uranium ore, with mine near Laguna, N. M., the ing is done by loading enrichment of varying degrees big crusher is reducing uranium from low to high grade, in various ore for the Anaconda Co. prior to shipment from its Jackpile part of the pit; then dumping mine to a concentrating these trucks in order according open-pi- t to a production-blendin- g sheet plant near Bluewater, N.M. Production details have been made out each morning by pro 22-to- end-dum- p capacity feeder hopwith per sloping steel sides terminates at the bottom with a feeder which moves the uranium ore across a sloping set of grizzly rails into the jaw plates of the big Pioneer crusher, 'which is The 80-to- n powered by a gine. diesel 200-h- y en- The pecularily efficient grinding-crushing motion of this big crusher, which has been proved on many permanent installations throughout the United States, actually tends to grab and pull big chunks of uranium ore down through the jaw plates. This is caused by a pitman mounting which imparts to the jaws a crushing motion which ranges from round to elliptical. Anderson Bros. Pipeline Extends Interests With A. Lake Land Actually, the big Pioneer jaw crusher at Anacondas Jackpile Mine has much reserve capacity which is unnecessary, because New Mexico Bureau uranium ore breaks down much Anderson Bros. Co., a Houston more easily than many harder rock formations in which the pipelihe contracting firm, reportcrusher has been used. edly has acquired numerous uranium interests in New Mexico, The uranium ore from below including property in the Am-the grizzly deck and under the Pioneer jaw crusher passes over a conveyor belt, 425 feet $10 Million long, to loading spouts which train the material down into railBe road cars. New Mexico Bureau This delivery conveyor is The Permanente Cement Co., mounted on steel trestle supports and carries the ore in almost a a Henry J. Kaiser interest, will level grade out to railroad spur build a cement plant at Scholle, loading tracks, where the Santa N. M., about 35 miles southeast of Albuquerque. Fe Railroad switches in the A large supply of limestone denumber of cars each day. posits near the plant site, plus Use of the big jaw crusher has the states potential markets for made it possible to ship the ore the finished products, were given in bottom-dumrailroad ears, by the Kaiser people as primary providing easy and positive dump- reasons for deciding upon the ing at the Bluewater concentrat- New Mexico location. n maThe wet process cement plant ing plant for the terial. is expected to have an annual of 1,400,000 barrels of ceIn addition to the efficient lay- capacity ment and will represent ultimateout of this installation, a feature an investment of some $10,000,-00of unusual interest is the protec- ly in the state. tion of the crusher housing, the Kaiser last year bought multimillion dollar holdings in coal feeder trap area, and the of conveyor belt from prevailing property in the Raton area as New Mexico but northeastern winds which would blow precious yet no work has begun there. uranium dust away in quantities which would be of economic concern. A fully enclosed rolled protective shed has been built over the conveyor delivery line, and construction is under way to enclose the jaw crusher and feeder trap areas completely. That will preserve almost every speck of uranium dust. Also, as a concession to wind erosion, the railroad cars are not being filled to their full capacity. The uranium ore is of the most precious metal being mined in the United States today. 48-inc- h To -- Plant Erected necessary p Crusher sifts, breaks Jackpile ore; brosia Lake district near Grants, in exchange for its assets. The company, which already has been active in mining and exploration around Grants, transferred its assets to Paul E. McDaniel, Houston businessman. The property which was transferred to Mr. McDaniel was reported to consist of equipment in New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming, Minnesota and in Louisiana. The uranium interests acquired by Anderson Bros, consists of substantial blocks of stock in several uranium corporations including Ranchers Exploration and Development Co. and Pacific Uranium Corp. The company is headed by Carl C. Anderson Sr., who also is president of the Anderson Development Corp., which has its development and exploration headquarters in Albuquerque. well-broke- Californians May See Oil Profit In Uranium hearing is scheduled for July 2. Mrs. Dysart was tried, convicted and sentenced in Los Angeles in 1939 for violation of the securities laws but she succeeded in having the conviction reversed. uraMrs. Bell said that she and her in but the investment profit, - have determined husbandthat nium. LOS ANGELES Five thousand Southern Californians, mostly oldsters, who for 20 years or more wrote off investment in New Mexico oil land as worthless are in a fair position to realize not only The catch is that the identity and location of only about a third of the investors have been discovered by the McKinley County Abstract Co., Gallup, N. M., whose vice president, Frank E. Bell, and his wife have been searching in this area for four months. They are rounding up the stor-owners of tracts in the Ambrosia or Ambrosia Lake subdivisions near Grants and Gallup to get their names on leases with the Phillips Petroleum Co. which wants to develop rich uranium inve- discoveries. Mrs. Dysart now is somewhere on a cruise, believed to be in the Caribbean. The investors bought tracts acre ranging from 10 undoubtacres. Many now to edly are dead, some of those located are ill, bedridden, even one-sixteen- th blind. Typical are Leon P. and Emma Williams, each 66, Corona Del Mar, who bought a New Mexico acre for $300 in 1934. They told the Mirror-New- s: We came very near burning all. our papers. You can guess how happy we are now that we didnt. Bell said about 1600 investors (At Gallup, N. M., a suit is on have been found and signed up in McKinley County district file to be for what should prove court in which Mrs. Dysart lists The eventual profits to them. 18 MexMirror-New- s pages of defendants in her acsaid the New ico land may be among the rich- tion to quiet title and establish her claim to land in the Ambrosia est dirt on earth. Lake area. The general area is the considered extremely rich in uraTheres another catch original promoter of the sup- nium value. posed oil land, Stella Dysart, 78, (The court clerks record did of Los Angeles and New Mexico, date set. has filed suit. to quiet title in the not show any hearing district court in Gallup, a move (Mrs. Dysarts attorney, Sam which Bell says is her effort to Dazzo of Albuquerque, is in Berget the land back and which the muda on a vacation.) X abstract company will contest in Journal A investors. the Albuquerque names of (Reprint the 0 425-fo- half-she- ot DEASON and NICHOLS Assay and Chemist 160 So. West Temple Salt Lake City, Utah PHONE EL 62 One of the larger Independent Rocky Mountain et Oil Producers PRECISION BRAND Geiger counters & Scintillaters At Disizibators Cost CONTACT: Mine & Smelter Supply Co. 121 West 2nd South Salt Lake City, Utah PHONE EMpiie 91 Phone EMpire Utah Oil Building 4-56- 69 Salt Lake City |