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Show Page March 9. 195$ The Western Mineral Susvey, Salt Lake City. Utah 8 Ear Idea Used In Metal Research Silk-From-So- Learning To Drill The Tough Stuff w's y titanmethod for producing An electro-refinin- g ium from scrap metal promises to reduce the cost of this strong, lightweight construction material and make it available for wider use. The research on the project is being done by metallurgists of the Bureau of Mines at the Bureaus Bolder City, Nev., ExI ; W periment Station, center of a broad research program on titanium. T. H. Miller, acting Bureau director, said private industry has xnproved titanium production echniques remarkably since 1948, when it began making the metal with Kroll process engineered Asked Apprcx. BU o scale by the V. - ; V . : 'Mv : .00 Alco 00 Bureau Mines. of .01 01 Alpine Alpine He pointed out that industrys 01 Vi .02 American .11 11 Apache recent metallurgical accomplish01 .01 Arrow ments made it possible to reduce 08 Atlaa .09 .02 01 Vi Atomic R the price of titanium sponge the 02 .03 Bankers raw metal before it is melted into 02 Vi .03 Bapco 00 Vi .00 Baggs ngots from $4.50 a pound in .00 00 Vi Beacon January, 1955 to $3.45 a pound at .28 .23 Beaver Mesa the end of the year. 01 .02 Bend Big .27 .24 Big Horn However, Miller added, ti04 .05 Big Indian taniums usefulness as a construc.01 Vi 00 Black Hawk .08 .05 Blue Lizard tion material for aircraft, ships, .00 .00 Vi Bonn Basin chemical plants, and other impor16 .20 Br. Wst Am 00 Vi .00 tant applications cannot be fully Buckeye .50 45 BuL Mon realized until its cost is reduced .01 01 Calamity C. much further. .04 .03 f ' w, i Carbon .07 05 Vi Chute Can One of he costs, way lowering .09 08 Circle Cliff .16 14 added, is to find an economic Col U Mez .02 01 Vi Comanche method of recovering titanium .01 00 Vi Congo The Bureau of Mines says scrap. .32 .35 Consol. Ur .05 04 Vi only Congress part of the scrap produced 3.37 I" 3.25 . . Federal in fabricating and machining ti.00 00 Vi Crestline 4' tanium is recovered and used to .41 36 Elaterlte .01 01 El Dorado more is This metal. because make .03 02 Empress of the difficulty in keeping im.02 01 Vi Gem " - . , r. .03 02 Vi lowerGold Cloud in the from scrap purities .02 01 Vi t Great Chief .' ing the quality of metal made .13 ,.11 Green River .03 03 from it. 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The re 3.62 3.50 are left Lisbon behind. 1.75 high-purit- HU iff semi-commerci- . ; - , . j - . g: j t J4: , H VriAVv Lv r? .w : y - i -- electro-refinin- OOVi .01 .01 .01 13 .15 OOVi OOVi .00 .01 06 00 .08 03 .04 OOVi OOVi -- -- Moab King Moab Ur Mont. West O Mother Lode Mt. Mesa Mt. Peale Mt. Valley As wnA.t liilw.! ; . ii ?- - C 4. 4 'I V - ' 4 .... search is expected to yield information on low-co-st techniques for mining oil shale on a commercial basis. The tests are part of the Bureau of Mines synthetic liquid fuels program started in 1948 at the Rifle site. .OOVi 04 Vi 01 Vi 05 Pathfinder Pennell Plneco Producers Radlore Rocket Min Royal Republic .OOVi 02 01 .36 01 Seagull Shamrock 33 Shumway Silver Buckle V M 08 06 Spanish Trail Spencer Standard Sterling Star Dust Sun OIVi oe Mt OOVi Texas Thunderbolt 0 03 01 Timco Trans. West Tri-Sta- te U Beva -- Uint.-Wy- o 0 03 Ji 01 Ula U. N. Beryl 02 Vi va Upetco Uran. Chief .. Uran. Corp. . . Uran. Ind. . . Uran. King .. Uran. Sv Uranus U. 8. Uran.! .. Utaco Utah Prem. .. Walters White Canyon Whltelock Yankee Uranium Yellow Cat Yellow Wing .01 .01 .04 .02 .06 .01 .02 .04 .02 Vi .30 04 .02 .08 .04 .12 .00 .OOVi .04 .21 .02 .01 .87 .03 .04 .01 .01 1.62 .11 .09 .07 1.43 .13 .02 .19 .06 .01 .01 .03 .01 .16 .05 .04 .05 .02 .02 .05 .02 .09 .05 .13 .01 .00 .05 .24 Mii OOVi Vi .03 .02 1.00 .01 .01 .01 .00 Cromer Brokerage Co. Member Sail Lake Stock Ex. Sail Lake City. Utah Exckange Place Salle Re. 4-Uranium Digest Upon Request 39 Thursday, March 8, 1956 The information listed below is derived zProsper Oil a Mng from sources regarded as reliable, not xRlco Argentine guaranteed, but believed to be correct. xRoyiton oMaln Asked xSllver King West Bid Listed Stocks Bunker Hill Callahan Homestake New World Pend Oreille Sidney Silver Over-the-Coun- Swansea Con. zTar Baby . . . Tintic Central Tintlo Lead xTrans-Unlo- OH n Bug. Com. xUtah-Idah- o Sugar Pfd. xUtah-Idah- o kUtah Wyo Com Oil ... ZWest xEureka Mines xEureka Standard Gold Chain zGrand Deposit xGreat Western Horn Silver xlndlan Queen xKennebec Keystone Lakeside Monarxch x Leonora xLlttle May Oil xMagnolla Uran. xMaJestlc Oil & Mng. .. z Mammoth Miller Hill 03 25 06 02 07 05 03 28 .04 JO .08 .03 .08 .06 .04 .30 17 JO 95 1.00 .03 03 .03 .05 .04 52 02 .04 .06 .06 .65 .03 67.00 xUtah P L Com ... 50.00 20.00 xUtah Fire Clay xAmalg. Sugar Pfd. ..10.00 z Indicates operating companies. 69.00 52.00 25.00 11.00 Curb Sales 200 at 15.00 Big H1U 1000 at 4 Banner at 7; 2000 at 7 at 5; 1000 at 6; 3000 at 1000 at 6 Cardiff 500 at 2.50 Bonanza-50- 00 Bullion 3000 Central Standard 1000 Clayton 2000 at. 27 at Clayton-20- 00 Colby-Rexa- U at 38 CoL Con 3000 4000 at 27 at at 38; 3 15; 18; 16; 15; 3; 3; 18; Unlisted Stocks I 2000 at 14; 1000 at 15 13; 3000 at 2000 at 16; 3000 at 17; 3000 at 2000 at 16; 6000 at 20; 1000 at 2000 at 16; 1000 at 16; 1000 at 2000 at 18; 2000 at 19; 1000 at 19; 4000 500 3500 at at 15; 3000 at at 15 North Standard 1000 at 3 Park City 1000 at 18 Prosper 2000 at 15; 100 at 14; 500 at 15 3000 3000 at Royston 3000 at at 3 Sliver Standard 500 at 6; 2000 at 7; 500 3000 at 7 at South tSandard 2000 at 16; 1000 at 3000 at 17; 1000 at 19 2000 at 10; 2000 Tar Baby 3000 at 12; xWllllston Basin Oil xYankee Con. zZuma Ur. & Oil . . Z C M 19.75 90.OO sjo 35.00 5.30 37.25 111.00 4.90 1.12 5.15 1J5 Markets The following quotations are from information obtained from compiled Yartoui brokers and believed to be carrect. Sundance Oil .51 .03 Sahara Unlisted Stocks .01 .25 .18 OOJi Olympic Spokane Stock Exchange Salt Lake Stock Exchange .01 01 21 Northwest Ol Jato Temple '& . 0 Mineral Mtn Mor G I'X hX A ;'-- g, - Lucky Mo Lucky Star Marble. Canyon Mayday Md Wst Cn -- . til - ; m , 8; 100 1000 at 36; 6; at 8 6; at 10; 10 Tlntlc Standard 2000 at Trans Union 1000 at 7; 1.25 5000 at 8 1000 at 200 at 18; 9000 at 20; 2500 at 23; 1500 at 23; 1000 2000 at 23; 500 at 21; 1000 at at 21; 500 at 24; 1000 at 24; 3000 at 22; 500 at 20 Zuma 12000 at 8 West 8300 15; 19: Toledo 19; Curb Sales at 7; 11000 Bonanza-40- 00 Cardiff 200 at 2.50 Central Standard 2000 at 8 at 7 Comstock 3000 at 6 Little May 2000 at 3 Magnolia 1000 at 6 Miners Gold 5000 at 5 Mountain States Nev-Ta- h. 2000 3000 at 2000 at 16; Silver standard 1000 at at 15; 17 3 2000 at 7 1000 at 6 Tintlo Lead at 20 West Toledo-5- 00 Zuma 100 at 8 at 16; 3000 |