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Show Friday. October 12, 1956 THE WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY Page 2 Vitro to Refinery Build $5 Million Uranium Southwest Salt Lake in Vitro Corporation of America contract decision before Jan. 1. n has proposed to build a Circumstances favorable for dollar uranium refinery adto bid the the local conjacent to the companys uranium awarding ore mill in southwest Salt Lake cern is that it is the only one of several bidders to propose a Salt City. Lake location. Most of the other The plant, which company offi- locations are east of the Conticials term a nuclear feed mate- nental Divide. rials facility, would be keyed Vitro officials said the prointo a pending $1,200,000 expansion to the present mill. posal would account for about 40 cent of the total 5,000 tons of Vitro submitted its bid to the per Atomic Energy Commission to feed material capacity on which convert uranium oxides to recator AEC is seeking processing feed materials and anticipates a five-millio- -- Prospector's Special 500 Watt - 115 Volt D. C. Uranium Sparks M. Max. Battle For Water Rights A fight that may dwarf the bat- needing water, for prospective tle over uranium claims is devel- mills. oping in the Grants, NM., area An indication of the fight over between farmers with irrigated water rights is a protest filed acreage and uranium companies by one group of landowners against the water right claims of T. A. Morris and son of AlbuquerUtaco Completes que. Sixth Oil Well ONLY They asked a switch of water In a letter to stockholders of rights from agriculture use to inCircle Cliff ranium, Ed Wolsey, dustrial for a uranium processing Corp. president, sai dthat Kern County mill' owned by Sabre-PinoLand Co. has elected to proceed The protest period on this change with ite lease with the company ended without any challenge regand is now on the ground with istered with the state engineers two drilling crews doing exten- office. sive testing and exploratory work. Wolsey and Kern County has had engineers and geologists on the property all summer and now Copper Sulphate contemplates the expenditure of Production Down further thousands of dollars in exProduction of copper sulfate in ploratory work before mining and n PORTO POWER MFC. CO. through June Secondary Zinc 1955. Recovery Declines Free Information CLEARFIELD, UTAH WRITE TOR OUR LOW FACTORY PRICES On other Light Plants np to 100 k.w. COMPRESSORS. WELDERS. PUMPS. STEAM CLEANERS. ETC. QUOTATIONS on Unlisted Uranium and Oil Issues KEEP ABREAST OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS lHAIL COUPON TODAY! Subscribe to the Western tiUneral Surteif Right now the circulation oi the WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY is keeping pace with the uranium industry in general booming! Keep posted on latest news and quotations by reading the WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY regularly . . . every week. I year $3.00 CIxcnlatloB Dept 421 Chuck SL P. 0. Box 2601 Salt Lake City. Utah 2 years $5.00 Also Reports On Companies Listed and Traded on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange Ctomer Brokerage Co. Suite Address-Cit- y State- - zinc recovered in products during July declined 29 per' cent to 8,500 short tons, according to the Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior. Stocks of all types of zinc scrap increased 4 per cent to 38,600 tons, the highest monthly level since January 31, 1946. Secondary zinc-bas- e Total consumption of zinc scrap dropped to 12,200 tons, 24 uer cent below June consumption, and the lowest rate of use since July 1952. (Incorporated) Name-- HEWS CIRCULATION Church Stmt 2402 Curtla St., Denver 431 Phone EX 4.3640 ALpine ADVERTISING Box 2608 EM Belt Luke City, TTtah 2402 Curtis 8t., Denver AT.pirif 5.4038 Entered as second dans matter at Salt Lake City, Utah, under Act of March 3. 1878. Subscription ratee: for one rear. 08-0- 0 for two "an-13.0- 0 New Process for Beneficiating Ore Studied New process for beneficiating lower quality uranium ores was discussed between financier Floyd Odium and Mountain Mesa president, H. O. English, at a meeting held in Denver last Monday. The process was developed exclusively for Mountain Mesa by Dr. Maurice Tripp of the Tripp Research Corporation, Dallas, Texas, after two years of research. Mountain Mesa has sole rights to its use. Dr. Tripp is nationally known as an and expert and did special assignment work for the Atomic Energy Commission during the original development of the atomic bomb. He is one of few researchers in the country who have been associated with the uranium industry since its inception in the U. S. with the creation of the atomic bomb. ore-proce- ss met-alurgic- al the United States in August was 4 shipping on a 50-5-0 basis. Kern County has an option to er cent less han in July, $ccord-n- g to the Bureau of Mines, Unitacquire the property for ed States Department of the Interior. Shipments dropped 30 per cent and, except for January, New Publication were the smallest of the year. Inventories rose 29 cent, and, at A new guide to Bureau of Mines the August rate per of shipments, publications on health and safety were sufficient for about 3 weeks in the mineral and allied indus- needs. tries is now available from the Foreign trade data for August Superintendent of Documents, STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP United States Government Print- are not available. There were no Statement required by the Act of Anmports in July, and exports were ing office in Washington, D. C. nul 24. 1912. aa Amended by the Acta of The index contains abstracts of 2,292 tons. March 3. 1933, and July 3. 1948 Title 39, United State Code, Section 333) showing nearly 300 technical reports issued the ownership, management and circulaInterior of the the tion of WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY, Department by published weekly at Salt Lake City, Utah agency from January 1047 for 1956. Western Factory Branch 46 SOUTH STATE STREET ..... L.ORS.INS Advar-Usin- g Exploration and Testing 3)13)75 SURVEY mention Western Mineral SurMorris last month applied to veyPlaaae when writing to advnrtlwm. for ratee op application MOAB, Utah Utaco. Uranium, State Engineer Steve Reynolds Inc., has completed its sixth pro- permission to change rights on ducing oil well in Tulsa County, 539.7 acres from agricultural to MIRIAM BRINTON Editor Okla., the company announced to- industrial use for uranium pro- L. M. HILL Associate Editor day. cessing at a mill to be construted inD. E. Kivett, president, in Section formed local Utaco office that the AU news appeanns in the Western The group protesting the claim new well tested 150 barrels per Mineral Survey ii obtained from source son have and Morris believed to be reliable but no responsibll-it- y day. The well also tested five state that la aaeumed for accuracy of statements. million cubic feet of gas daily, forfeited their right to use of 300 Reproduction of any material from this Kivett said. A portion of the gas water on lands exceeding must have written permiwuon to publication failed because acres place the used in they be will operating from the publisher all the water to beneficial use for lease, and the rest sealed off. period, under a reRanger Uranium has an interest a four-yea- r in the new well, and also is part-own- quirement of state law. of the other five Utaco Another proposed change of producers. water use in the Bluewater Basin met with no protest. It was requested by Salvador Milan and Circle Cliff U Doing a firm listed as Valencia Corp. U er LIGHT PLANT WESTERN MINERAL 3-- 4 39 Exchange Place Salt Lake City, Utah Bywater is Named New Plant Chief September, 1. The names and addresses of the publisher, editor. Dinaiinf editor, and business managers are: Publisher, Harry B. Miller, 3850 Lynwood Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah; Miriam Brln-to- n, 24 Vk East 1st South, Balt Lake City, Utah, Editor and Managing Editor; Ed Kaln, 425 South 5th East, Balt Lake City, Utah, Business Manager. The owner Is: (If owned by a corpor-tloits name and address must he stated and also Immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders own. 1 or lng holding percent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a cornames and addresses of the poration, the individual owners must be given. If owned by a partnership or other unincorporated firm, its name and address, aa well as that of each individual member, must be given). Edgar 8. Hill, First South A 4th West. 2. n, 3. The known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. 4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, In cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of person or corporation for whom such trustee Is acting; also the statements In the two paragraphs show the affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the hooka of the company aa trustees, hold stock and securities In a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner. PROVO, Oct. 7 L. Gordon Bywater has been appointed superintendent of the new anhydrous ammonia plant now under construction at U. S. Steels Geneva Works, it was announced today by E. V. Boorman, division su5. The average number of copies of each Issue of this publication sold or distribperintendent, coke and coal chem- uted through the malls or otherwise, to icals at this Columbia-Genev- a paid subscribers during tbs 12 months preceding the date shown above was: Steel Division plant. (This information is required from daily, A native of Salt Lake City, Mr. weekly, eemi weekly, and triweekly news, Bywater is a graduate of the Uni- papers only) 4857. By HARRY B. MILLER. Publisher versity of Utah with a B&. degree Sworn to and subscribed before me this in mechanical engineering. He 12th day of October, 1956. served as project engineer during HELEN HOPES the construction of the new chemical plant at Geneva. (My commission expires Oct., 20, 1959) |