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Show Face Mining With Water NEWS The following article by Robert W. Berwick , Tribune business alitor, is reprinted from a recent issue of the Salt Lake Ttibune. loader-convey- air-driv- or V-sha- an arm. Fftt! - CIRCULATION Phone EM 421 Church Street 2402 Curtle St., Denver 44 ALplne 34 ADVERTISING EM 49 2402 Curtla St., Denver ALplne 38 aecond claea natter at Salt Entered Lake City, Utah, under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate: $5.00 for two for one year. 13.00 yean; oil-shal- e Please mention Western Mineral Survey when wrltlnt to advertisers. Advertlslni rates on application. Editor U M. HILL Written by K. E. Stanfield, C. The second in a series of Bureau K. detailed Rose, W. S. McAuley, and W. of Mines reports giving cores from the J. Tesch, Jr., of the Bureaus assays of drill Green River oilahale formation staff ,the survey increases the inof Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming formation useful in determining rescources and evaluatwas released today. The report, containing logs ing deposits as potential sources of drill holes sunk in Colorado of liquid fuels Most of the information was from 1952 to 1954, brings to 76 the total number of holes in that assembled as the result of coState on which the Bureau has operative studies in whfch the cores (Bureau assayed published analyses. Besides showing the toil yields provided by oil companies and of the entire cores graphically, individuals. A copy of R. I. 5321, Oil Yields the publication includes tables of Sections of Green River Oil giving the yields of the richer can Shale in Colorado, 1952-5cores portions both of the 48 of Bureau the covered in the latest study as well be obtained from Pitts4800 Forbes Street, as 28 Colorado cores logged in Section, an earlier Bureau report for sam- burgh 13, Pa. It should be identified by number and title. ples collected in 1945-5oil-shal- e Salt Lake City, Utah 4, All news appearing in the Western Mineral Survey la obtained from sources believed to be reliable but no responsibility Is assumed for accuracy of statements. Reproduction of any material from this publication must have written permission from the publisher. or en PHU Sox 2608 On Monday, a group of 150 miners at Bonanza, Uintah Country, Utah, will commence not only a ne wworkday for themselves but a new day for the mining industry. They will go underground. An with the aid of hydraulic engineering, they will mine Gilsonite, a brittle Uintah Basin hydrocarbon, by pouring water on it. From the days of Solomon, men have been picking and scratching at the earth to obtain the necessary minerals without which they would have no civilization. And from the hand-hel- d drill smashed through the ore face the hammer modern to by day explosives and loading machines through cutting devices and automatic arrangements, the drive of mining engineering has been directed at production of large and large volumes of material at lower costs. Of course, at the American Gilsonite Co.s operation, use of hydraulics was spurred largely by safety factors. For gilsonite has an affinity for creation of static electricity. In the past, there have been some fateful accidents, even with safety precautions in advance of coal mining conditions in the region. But in accommodating safety requirements, the affiliate of the Standard Oil Company of California and the Barber Oil Corp. has created what almost seems like a world of tomorrow in the mining industry. ' Strange-lookin- g and hydraulically manipulated cutter cars will move down a drift (tunnel) Monday. The adjusts his rig, which looks not unlike a praying mantis. Some 2,200 pounds per square inch of water, occupying at striking distance an area the size of a nickel, spews from four or five arms. It strikes the vast gilsonite wall. The wall crumbles. The ore floats down the trout stream, a notch iu the floor of the drift. Where there are pieces of gilsonite too large to be carried down the stream, the car operator aims Oil-Sha- le SURVEY LORRAINE 4 2. Leader Tintic Reports Include to Maps Unknown Area5 Operations Underway In New Mexico H. E. Raddatz, president of Tin-ti- c exploration venture in the Eureka Standard Mining Co., reported Tintic District. The shaft is 200 feet from Tintic in the black was made Rio De Oro is the only firm operating mining commercial grades and during 1956. quantities of uranium ore in the ' Net loss for the 2 year was rich Ambrosia Lake area. loss of with $66,512 compared An Albuquerque uranium ex- for the previous year and a loss ecutive is literally putting the of $52,544 in 1954, he said in the fabulous Ambrosia Lake area of companys annual report to stockNew Mexico on .the map. holders. During 1956, income from royalW. Rodney DeVillier, president of Rio De Oro Uranium Mines, ties on leases and other sources Inc., has asked the nation's lead- totaled $47,384. Income from seing map makers to spot the mush- curities was $11,232 and from oila rooming dry lake region north and gas operations, $1,776 for of Grants on future editions of total of $60,392. Maintenance of Eureka District road and geological maps. mine and equipment expenses Among the firms requested by amounted to $34,410, administraMr. DeVilliers to pin point the tive expenses $37,768 and interest famous uranium section are the $1,615, for a total of $73,794 in Company in Sko- 1956, the report showed. kie, Illinois, publishMr. Raddatz said Bear Creek ers of commercial road maps and Mining Oo., was well below 400 atlases, and the US Geological feet in shaft sinking on the Consolidated-Bea- r Creek Survey Division of the Department of Interior. James M. Darley chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society, has also received description of Ambrosia Lake from DeVilliers. This organization publishes widely used maps and map supplements to the monthly National Geographic $13,-40- . It disintegrates, and joins the rest of the ore in a merry float to a grinding room in the bowels of the fantastic mine in eastern Utah. , Later, it is shot to the surface by hydraulic means to start a journey to market. Of course, you know the story of Gilsonite. What westerner . doesnt. hundred million barrels or more ready for use by man. How to mine it. Next, how to take it to the Solid Petroleum. A people for use. To handle the latter problem, AGC has constructed a line from Utah into a town now long, two million dollar, named Gilsonite, Colo. and gasoline plant has been There, a complicated combined into one package. In all, the company is gambling 16 r, million dollars of its own money on production of metallurgical grade coke and high test gasoline. (Management in Salt Lake City insists that given normal conditions, the program initiated in 1948 will show profits divided about 0 between sale of the coke and the gasoline). From hydraulic mining we go to hydraulic transportation. Still using 2,200 pounds per square inch of pressure, the gilsoninch in size and in now ground to less than ite of solution is some over most the water propelled rugged terrain in the West. Up over 8,492 foot Baxter Pass, down with a rush into Grand Valley, swirls the hydrocarbon. To stop a runaway, the firm uses a series of smaller pipe to reduce speed by application of friction on the rushing water. Says E. F. Goodner, president of AGC at Salt Lake City: The secret is the size: It would be mathematically possible to carry anything (solid) this way if the size is small enough and with disregard of specific gravity of the material. It so happens that Gilsonite has specific gravity 4 per cent greater than water. This helps. But ultimately, the only deterrent is economic. How much does it cost to dry the stuff out, once it arrives at its destination .nd, how much does it cost to grind it to the required fineness before it enters the line. Thi process at Gilsonite has been described before. It i enough to say, that removal of elements poisonous to gasoline, creation of the very high specification coke, have been solved il a fashion as to beggar the claims of the Chicago packing houses who convert everything but the squeal." While Utah and western Colorado have joined hands with the creation of this mutually independent industry of the American Gilsonite Co.s,' the technical advance are not without importance in our world. Hydraulic mining underground. The conveyance of a solid by a pipeline. Theres a challenge to set you thinking. 72-mil- six-inc- h coke-refin- er non-sulfu- 50-5- one-eigh- th e 17, 1957 Information Published In U. S. Bureau of Mines Analysis WESTERN MINERAL New Mining Revealed miner-operat- Friday, May THE WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY 2 Rand-McNall- y well-know- n Tin-tic-Chi- Magazine. The uranium industry in New Mexico is constantly referring to Ambrosia Lake, DeVilliers said, but it doesnt show on any everyday maps. I suspect some people outside the mining business are confused when they cannot find Ambrosia Lake on any accepted map. Therefore, it is only proper of the nation that the to include asked its location be on new editions of authoritative map-make- ef property and could involve Tintic directly, depending on results of the drifting and crosscutting operore ations on lead-silver-zi- nc bodies. Tintic participation in any eventual properties is related to the ore body location in the joint venture but the firm is guaranteed some interests if developments are favorable. An affiliate, Tintic Uranium Co., did 3,230 feet' of drilling on prospects during 1956, largely an an assessment work basis. No Uranium was found.' T-- acquired a 10 per cent interest in a uranium mine near Meeker, Colorado, on which it advanced $20,000 and $16,250 worth of equipment. To date ithe operations have shown a loss but patential ore recoveries will be profitable, the report U predicted. One of the Larger Independent Rocky Mountain Oil Producers rs maps. NOTICE Please Edward Yakemonts call las Vegas, Nevada, DU collect at once. This would be much to ; your VBE9SBSBEHBB9BHOBB99 LAYTON'S Rosedale Cleaners PICK UP and DELIVERY GOLD STRIKE STAMPS IVAN W. LAYTON, Prop. West 4th North PHONE EL Res. Phone EL Phone EMpire 125S 4-56- 69 65 48 Salt Lake City aKIJJBBBlMRmMHgBgMHIHBlBJlUJ-R.-lU.U-i- H Utah Oil Building Salt Lake City, Utah |