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Show 'll. S. 3 -- bJRLAU OF MltoES k. V. L i ta h.-A.-O OF U. CITY " SALT TALLEX UU PRICES LEADi pcv COPPER (OLD i 1 ZINC ii ...... iiiiin t aW r lm WESTERN ' MINERAL SCR VEX SMELTER povii hi ' 1 1 . 8.5SBC alilii U SrvptrS te the Indnelriee mt Dtah 11.711c MiN l.tSCc A SILVER (per m. new mlnrl) IC.ZSe SILVER (per m. spot).. . ...S7Jt5e, Features Mining, Oil, Financial Salt Lake. City, Utah, March 19, 1943 VOL. 14, NO. 12 mwr vrlapmeuU m ml the 0 WmL af the mtstmllag b rarrlel ie each week. $2.00 Year, $1 .00, 6 Mos. - . WPB Eases Limits On Cobalt Antimony, Lead, in In those metals which the supply situation has shown steady improvement the trend in Washington is to ease up on the regulations limiting consumption. During the last week, WPB modified the limitation orders for antimony, lead, and cobalt. However, extreme caution is being exercised by WPB in the matter of lifting any 'of the restrictions. Though progress has been slow in modifying existing regulations, producers of the metals involved feel that the trend is in the right direction. Prices of major metals showed no change last week. non-ferro- Copper Importations of copper have been holding at the same high level established during the last quarter of 1942. Prices being paid for foreign metal by Metals Reserve remain unchanged. Some new domestic production is scheduled to come into the picture this spring. Quotations in the domestic . market last week were unchanged. W Vi Allocations of copper chemiBllnes, mills and smelters are working at top speed to hasten the day of victory and at cals were placed on a quarterly of a monthly basis on though production figures for strategic metals are rarely released in detail, we know that instead to 5 in an amendment March many new records in output are being established. The mill at Mercur, seen above, is keep- General Preference Order This was done to enable producing busy with the rest. ers and consumers of these chemicals to plan production and consumption over a longer period, with resultant economies in operation. Copper chemicals are defined as copper sulphate, car- Its All Out For Seen: For Iron Output ctoryln estern H ills A M-22- 7. Metal Production Rises To Meet Need m Rare Metals Flotation Mill Working Begins Work on a 250 ton flotation - When there is a shortage of anything, the American custom is to. get more, according .to Donald L. Colwell writing on Proxy Metallurgy' in the current issue of Mining and Metallurgy, the official monthly publication of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. In the case ofjsome iwiiiervous metals, he says, "this has been done. For example, bur potential; peak output of magnesium will be almost 100 times the prewar production. Output of aluminum has also been tremendously increased, and production of other metals is being stimulated by every possible means. The author is chief of the nonferrous metals substitution section, Conserva- plant, located at Toulon, Nev, has started. Knapp Engineering Co.; famous builders of mills, have the contract from the Rare Metals. Corporation. ' The mill Is to be similar in nearly every respect to the thousand ton plant erected at mine the last year; except for size. Into the mill, when completed, will be fed 50,000 tons of accumulated tailing' from, the 100-toconcentration plant at Toulon, d from Areana Little .Tungmake cartridge brass, the other, sten ore. In addition, the tailings electrical conductors, and in ad- from newly run ore from the old dition, many minor uses. "With plant will be conveyed into the a cartridge brass program that new mill for flotation treatment. potentially, he says, could use 80 to 83 per cent of our tota, copper production, there isnt must Tracy, California remaining for the conductor uses, required by power, commdnica-tionsManganese .etc. The two alternate ma- Develops terials upon which great progress Manganese deposits occur in the in substitution is being made are Ladd Buckeye area, G5 miles steel for brass in cartridge cases southeast of San Francisco and 10 and silver for copper in conduc- to 20 miles of Tracy in San tors. With the maximum demand Joaquin andsoqh Stanislaus Counties, for ammunition however, the California. The area is 13 miles steel cartridge cases should be in. long and two to four miles wide addition Ic the brass, not instead and lies in mountainous country of the brass, so the copper pic- that is accessible over good roads. ture for the coming year may be The manganese deposits have exceedinglv gloomy. been studied by a party of geolo-- . the To conduct electricity, gists from the U. S. Geological See METALLURGY On Page S Survey. Nevada-Massachuset- ts , tion Division, W.P.B. The alternative to getting more metals for a definite war need is to cut down on all non-wa- r uses of the metal or to find some material to take its place. The' American canning Indusaround try has been developed the use of the tin can. which, he says, is essentially of sheet iron coated with tin to the amount of about 1 per cent. This industry was the - largest single user of tin prior to Pearl Harbor. Other types of containers have been one means of reducing the amount of tin required for. this use. Baked beans in the new glass and ceramic containers, spices and talcum powders in fiberboard and cardboard containers, and lubricating oil from drums are only a few. Tin was also one of the primary constituents of the collapsible tube, and here the plastlce tube and glass jar have served as satisfactory substitutes. One of the difficulties in substitute containers has been to adapt the new type of container to the automatic filling processing methods which are used, but such difficulties have been overcome One use of plastic was to take ball the place of copper flush-tan- k or float found in almost all bathroom toilets. Another has been the use of a cellulose acetate base for castings used In the ordinary desk telephone. These were formerly made Of aluminum or of a zinc-bas- e alloy. The old ''corrugated iron culvert heavily galvanized with zinc has been replaced by wood, 'and nozzles for g made of glass are the former steel outwearing nozzles ten times over. ' In develooing a substitute for the aluminum canteen used by the army for years, Mr. Cclwell says "the Quartermaster Corps developed a- vitreous enameled steel substitute. To keep the overall weight down, however, an ighbgauge steel was chipping trouble canteen made of ethyl cellulose ran into a raw material shortage. Stainless steel is probably the best material for this important job. Mr. Colwell points out tliat copper has two main uses, one to - . sand-blastin- . . - devel-ection-mold- ed . n de-rive- Research Fellowships In Engineering Available The Utah Engineering Experiment Station is offering several Research Fellowships for the school year 1943-4each carrying a stipend of $600. Fellowship-me- n are exempted from the nonresidence fee, but are required to pay other University fees, which average about $100 for the school year. The work of the Station involves problems dealing with the mineral industries and resources of the state. Fields in which research work is conducted include Mine Ventilation, Ore Dressing, Ore. Dressing Microscopy, Flotation Fundamentals, Geology and Mineralogy of Mineral Resources, Pyrometallurgy and Hydrometallurgy, etc. The wrork will be carried on 'mostly in the recently completed Experiment Station building. Research Fellowships are open to college graduates who have had the proper training in mining, metallurgy, chemistry, geology, or engineering. Fellows will report at ' the University on or before September 1, 1943. They will register as students in the 4, . . later than May . 15, 1943; oxide, and cyanide. nitrate, chloride, Lead . Demand for lead has been Increasing. Additional tonnages have been released by Metals Reserve for delivery this month'. Lead oxide has been moving lead at as good., rate,, March. heeds of consumers : are about 85 per cent covered, with April close to 4.0 per cent. Sales of common lead for the last week : . - amounted. to 12,507 tons. Limitation Order L454 has been amended by WPB. permitting use of more, lead in the manufacture of caskets. mated average of 50 tons per blast furnace daily through improvement of the quality and uniformity of coke had been offered today ;by Solid Fuels Coordinator for War Harold L. Ickes. The complete success of the program, which is being operated by the Office .of Solid Fuels, the Bureau of Mines and a government-industry committee, would increase the production of pig-iro- n in existing blast furnaces by an amount equal to the production of three new blast furnaces of 1,000 tons daily capacity, principally by better cleaning, grading and handling of coals and cokes and removingcertainL sub t furs.' .' The program was launched last summer with an investigation of the coke problems limiting pig iron production, made by the Bureau of Mines technicians ynder guidance of a Coke Production Committee sponsored by the Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator for . War. is Step3 already are being taken zinc that the being allocated is moving either to to remedy these problems, and brass mills or die casters.- The material progress is being made, Coordinator Ickes said. The price situation In zinc remains an- coke and blast furnace industries unchanged. .Loss by fire of e have been highly cooperative, and, other- large mill in the area may complicate matters in through the Coke Production treating' ore produced in that Committee, are helping out in a drive to effectuate the program area. an industry-wid- e basis. qu Antimony - The a moderate findings of the investigaThe trade looks for ' increase in the use of primary tion and the technical changes industry operations necessary antimony under an amended ver- in sion of General Preference Or- to carry out the program were issued by WPB on outlined recently in New York der 2 An analysis of the City at the annual meeting of March 8. situation under the war the American Institute of Mining supply economy points to a surplus over and Metallurgical Engineers, in a paper prepared by L. D. f land. Restrictions have been relaxed Schmidt. Pittsburgh. Bureau of cn use of antimony in automo- Mines Chemist; W. C. Schroeder, tive battery plates and permis- Assistant Chief of the Bureaus sible alloys. Scrap figures large- Fuels and Explosives Service, and A F." Fieldner, Chief of Fuels ly in the production of battery-platealto and Explosives Service. Bureau additions the and of at Mines. This embodied the of presantimony primary loy be findings of the investigation and ent are net expected to the steps necessary to carry out heavy. Re'strictions that apply to the the program. The Coke Production Commitantinomy content of inorganic obwhich was a highly impordecorative tee, toys, pigments, remain tant factor in developing the projects, and ornaments gram and is now helping to put unchanged. Use of antimony in any form its proposals into effect, includes Mr. Fieldner, for the manufacture bf white the following: Zinc Most of - Tri-Stat- M-11- s. University and become candidates for the degree of Master of Science. They can ordinarily complete the requirements for the degree in one school year, but additional time may be required if deficiencies exist in undergraduate training. Salt Lake City is the center of one of the most important mining and smelting regions of the world. Frequent visits made by classes to the. many nearby mines, mills, and smelters enable the students to become familiar with ' practice. Salt Lake City is also tiie headquarters of the Metallurgical Division of the United States Bureau of Mines, whose new station is located on the University campus. Applications should be submitted, as soon' as possible, and not up-to-da- bonate, program designed to increase pig iron production by an esti- te an nouncement of appointments will be made shortly thereafter. Apinplication blanks and further adbe obtained formation may by dressing: The Director Utah Engineering Experiment Station, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. pigments, opaciflcrs, or frits for non-aci- d resisting ceramj? enamis allowed under the amendels ed order. Unallocated deliveries to, in dividual customers have been raised from, the 25 lb! limit to a quantities up to 2,240 lb. month. , No change has been made in n limit on the permisthe sible antimony content of unal concentrates located ores and that may be shipped by a producer during any one calendar month from mines located in the and continental United States 50-to- Alaska. COBALT General Preference Order 9 was amended March 8, relaxing restrictions to the extent that the metal is now on a straight allocation basis. Previously, use of cobalt was limited to alloys See MARKETS on Page 4 M-3- See IRON On Page 2 Golden Cycle Mill TreatsLargeDump Colo. CRIPPLE CREEK, Ship- ping of the dump from the Cycle mine is being carried on regularly and is adding materially to the tonnage shipped from this district to the Golden Qycle mill in Colorado Springs. An average of 10 railroad cars a day is being maintained totaling 450 to 475 tons dally. The Cycle mine Is located on Copeland Hill north of Goldfield. Rock from this dump fa an unusually high grade project. At one time the rock was crushed and a screening product taken out, leaving a fine rock which is bulldozed over and loaded into the trucks by a shovel. . |