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Show r .'The Western Mineral Surrey! Salt Lake City, Utah Mines Records Increase Production At Montana Continued from Page 1 November and December. The preliminary figures for 1951, with comparative final are given figures for the in accompanying tables. METAL PRICES The prices for gold and silver, $35 a fine ounce and $0.9050505 a fine ounce respectively, have been established by the United States government and remained unchanged during The average 1950 and 1951. of copper inweighted price creased from $0,208 a pound in 1950 to, $0,243 a pound during 1951; lead increased from $0,135 a pound to $0,171; and zinc from $0,142 a pound to $0,179. The market price of copper remained steady at $0,245 pound during most of the year. The market prices for lead and zinc which were $0,170 and $0,175 a pound respectively at the beginning of the year, increased to $0,190 and $0,195 a pound in September and remained constant until the end of the year. 1947-19- Research On Made Study Crude Oils Aids War Effort Of Arziona floDuring 1951 a new tation mill was completed by Metals Milling Co. at Basin in Jefferson County, Mont. The Trout Mining Division of American Machine and Metals, Inc., has constructed a flotation plant at PhUips-burGranite County, Mo(nt. Both mills are expected to be in operation early in 1952. 100-to- n 50 lead-zinc-silv- Bureau of Mines wartime research on the suitability of various American crude oils for producing aviation gasoline and for TNT formed a major contribution to successful prosecution of World War II, Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman said today. The aviation gasoline program, begun more than a year before Pearl Harbor, was the most important phase of the Bureaus studies on petroleum chemistry and refining between 1940 and 1945. It is described briefly, and the most important data developed are presented, in a bulletin just off the presses of the ' Uinited States Government Printing Office. base-material- s er g, GOLD Montanas output of gold de- creased from 51,764 ounces in 1950 to about 28,752 ounces in 1951. This decrease of about 44 per cent was due mainly to the much smaller amount of gold contained in the dump ores mined in the Butte area by the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., the closing down of many of the states gold mines and the near- ly complete cessation of placer mining operations. Placer gold production decreased from 3434 ounces in 1950 to "about 1125 ounces in 1951. Most of this amount was produced by one company that operated a dragline and portable washing plant MINING Increased costs of operation from April to October. ; The states leading gold prowithout an increase, in the price were the Butte Hill ducers the suspenin resulted of gold of , most at mines of the Anaconda Copper activities of sion and state Drumlummon mine the Co., in mines Mining' the gold Rainbow Mining Montana the of of all large down the closing Lincoln Metals Missoula. Co., scale placer mining operations. and and lead Cb. the Gold Coin for (placer) .Increased prices the copmines for of .Acme Company. zinc and a steady price in activity These resultedproduced properties greater per about 60 per cent of the state in the Butte area. Preparations for the mining of a large ton- gold in 1951. SILVER nage of low grade ore by caving methods were carried on, by the The output of silver in MonAnaconda Copper Mining Com- tana decreased from 6,590,747 ounces in 1950 to about 6,054,653 pany. All production from the for was stopped mines ounces in 1951, a loss of slight-- j Butte Auweeks during two nearly ly over. 8 per cent. This loss strike. a and by September iwas due largely to the decrease gust miners preventskilled of in the silver content of Butte Lack of operHill dump ores milled at the An- ed a greater expansion .o re prototal the Of aconda zinc concentrator. The ations. Butte Hill operations of the Anduced in Montana in 1951 cent 31 about. per aconda Copper Mining Co. actons) was cent 57 per. counted for about 93 per cent of was copper ore, zinc-lea- d ore, special waste, and- the states silver, output. manCOPPER dump material. 11 per cent r rema'.n-deore, and the ganese-zin- c of copper ore and The tonnage was largely gold ore.., The special waste mined in the state tonnage of copper ore and spe- in 1951 (1,197.572 short tons) cial waste .mined was slightly was only Slightly higher than more than that mined in 1950. the .tonnage,' mined in 1950.(1,-192,78- 9 ore, The tonnage of short tons). A greater matewaste and dump special in copper: ore producIncrease. rial mined and nulled in 1951 tion was prevented by. the strike increased about 381,223 tons or ip August and September. Opcent more; than erations were limited also by an nearly and milled in inadequate mined amount the supply of skilled 1950. The tonnage of mangane- miners for the mines at Butte. ores produced in the The se-zinc output of copper, 55,613 Butte area decreased nearly 16 tons in 1951, exceeded the outper cent -- from' the tonnage put of 54,478 tons .produced in .mined in 1950. 1950, by about 2 per cent. MILLING AND SMELTING LEAD The Anaconda Copper Mining Montanas output qf lead in Companys copper concentrator, 1951 increased to about 21,736 zina concentrator, manganese short tons or 2,119 tons (11 per concentrator, copper smelter and .cent) more than the 19,119 short electrolytic zinc ' plant at tons produced in 1950. The larger conda and its electrolytic zinc output was due mainly to an plant and copper wire plant at increase of about 470,654 tons Great Falls were operated most in the quantity of zinc-lea- d ore, of 1951. The electrolytic zinc special waste and dump materiplants treated approximately al mined by the Anaconda Cop'448,152 short tons of zinc Mining Co. from its Butte fume and other mate--ri- per Hill properties. This output of containing about 474,024,974 the Butte Hill mines accounted pounds of zinc compared with for approximately 76 per cent of 46G.699 short tons of zinc mate- the total State output. The re494,909,180 mainder of the lead produced rials containing 1950. zinc in of came principally from the Mike pounds Mining Anaconda The r Copper Horse mine in Lewis and Clark Companys slag fuming plant at County and the Jack Waite mine East Helena treated, during 1951, in Sanders County. ZINC about 203,140 tons of current hot cold old produced and slag total The State output of zinc slag and increased from 67,678 short tons American Smelting the by sme- in 1950 to about 84,205 tons in Refining Companys lead old slag 1951, a gain of 16,627 tons or lter and mined from cold and hot this From nearly 25 per 'cent. The substandumps. of tons 35,292 about tial increase in the price of slag, fume were obtained. All zinc and greater demands for fume was shipped to the elec- the metal were mainly responsitrolytic zinc plant at Great Falls ble for the larger production. for further treatment. During Zinc-lea- d ores, special waste and old tons and of hot materials' from 'the Butte 1950, 222,892 dump and 37,754 werdfUrned Hill mines of the Anaconda cold slag tons of fume were produced. Copper Mining Co. and manga- . . i ; Wyoming Metal Yield At Low Level . ; ; i j i - ! : . , . ; . zinc-dea- - . 17-pe- r . con--centrat- es, 4 al -- . bag-hou- se : j j ; The Wyoming output of gold in 1951 was 9 fine ounces valued at $315 and that of silver 2 fine ounces valued at $2, all produced in July.' No copper or lead was produced in the State in the years 1947 through 1951 and no gold or silver in 1950. In 1951 the White Horse Mining Co. shipped some gold ore from file Diana group of mines in the Atlantic City district, Fremont County. At the Copper King property in the Silver Crown or Hecla district 22 miles west of Cheyenne, Henry E. Fergu-- ; son and Patrick W. Dinneen, Sr., cleaned out 157 feet of shaft tun-- i and opened up a 600-foo-t net During the period from 1867 through 1951, Wyoming produced copper valued at at valued $5,684,372, gold valued silver at $1,909,728, t $51,914, and lead valued at $f,486. No recovery of zinc from ores mined in the State has been reported. ore, special waste and from the Emma material dump mine of the Butte Copper and Zinc Co. supplied about 94 per cent of the "States zinc output. The remainder came largely from old slag dumps at: the East Helena Lead smelter and from the Mike Horse mine. SILVER BOW COUNTY Production of ore from mines in Silver Bow County increased to about 3,718,939 tons in 1951 compared with 3,387,270 tons in 9 1950, an increase of about tons or a gain of nearly 10 per cent. Gold output decreased from about 23,163 ounces to ounces, a loss of nearly 38 per cent; silver decreased from 6,123,549 ounces to 5,622,049 ounces, a loss of 8 per cent, copper increased from 107,793,-30- 0 pounds to. 109,773,307 pounds, a gain of 2 per cent; lead increased from 31,358,800 pounds to 32,996,280 pounds, a gain of 5 per cent; zinc increased from 127,021,000 pounds to 158,046,440 pounds, a gain of over 24 per cent. The total value of the five metals in 1951 was approximately $66,199,794 or nearly 30 per cent more than- the total value, $51,044,252 in 1950, The value of the Silver Bow County production was nearly 93 per cent of the value of the State total production. The mines of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in Silver Bow County, in 1951, produced 50 per cent, of file State gold, 93 per cent-othe silver, 99 per cent :of the copper, 76, per cent of the lead and 94 per cent of the nese-zin- c 331,-66- 14,-3- . - . f zinc. . UI Mel I J AMS Work Plans Described By Leonora Continued from Manganese Page 1 Phoenix, Ariz. Conferences land in this area amounts to will be held in Phoenix this 5,000 acres. One block of 160 week which, if successful, will acres has been to the result in the immediate opening Utah Southern assigned Oil Company, of a score or more new mangareserving d royalty of 4 per nese mines in the west central cent. This part of Utah, located part of Arizona. Otto G. Klein, along the north shores of Great regional director, General Serv- Salt Lake, is getting special atices Administration, and J. H. tention, by major oil companies, East Jr., regional director, U. and should see considerable acS. Bureau of Mines, Denver, within the year. will be in Phoenix to confer tivity EMERY AND WAYNE with Charles F. Willis, state COUNTY, UTAH secretary, Arizona Small Mine Leonora The holdings in this Operators Association and the area 12 per cent inof consist Govof of the Board chairman ernors, Arizona Department of terest in a block of 5,459 acres, Mineral Resources, relative to located in Townships 26 and 27 details of the program. The dis- South, Ranges 13 and 14 East, cussion will center around plac- Salt Lake Meridian, on what is known as the Sweetwater ing a government manganese structure. This structure was Wen-den purchasing depot at either drilled many years ago, and or Aguila. oil strong showings were reWhen Russia announced more ported. .Insufficient than a year ago that it would seem to be the cause ofdepths their stop sending manganese ores to failure. This part of Utah is rethe United States, a desperate ceiving more than usual attensituation was faced because of tion by the major oil compa-- , the absolute necessity for that nies. This area is now being metal in the manufacture of tested by the Equity Oil Com-- i e steels. The coun- being made to get this block become had dependent upon pany and others. Efforts are try Russia for its supply. This ul- developed. timatum was immediately folOTHER HOLDINGS lowed by the announcement of Other holdings of the Leoa purchasing program by GSA nora ento Company in the State of in July, 1951, designed to have potential Utah believed doof courage the production oil and within gas possibilities mestic ores. While there have folas and deTownships Ranges been many known possible lows: posits of manganese ores in the United States which had never 1 Davis County T 3 North, R W, 245.71 acres. been opened up for production, Lake County T 1 N, Salt because of the availability of 2 R W, 240.02 acres. the. metal from abroad, they Grand County T 26 S, R 21 have never 'gotten a good start. 218.92 acres. E, A survey jfof the Arizona manDuchesne County T 11 S, R ganese possibilities and poten- 10 E, 320 acres. tial production was made by Juab County T 17 S, R 2 W, the Department of Mineral Re- 169.66 acres. sources and copies of the surJuab County T 15 S, R 1 vey, with, maps and other data, W, 77.26 acres. were submitted to the proper San Juan ' County S, R authorities in Washington. 20 E, 158.11 acres. LEONORA'MINE Later, W. D. McMillan, mining ' Leonora S. U. Bureau the for Mine, located in the engineer Star these of Mines, checked Mining 'District, Beaver reports reif sufficient to determine County, kUtah. Only the necesto were available sary assessment work was done serve tonnage justify the station. The present as required. The work consistmeeting is apparently the result ed of extending -the Miners of favorable action oh this re- Dream tunnel 40 feet. This tunnel was projected to cut port. - beds below old Assurance had previously workings which has produced been received from Washing- richdead-silve- r ore in 'the past ton, through Jess Larson, ad- Efforts will be made to comministrator, Defense Materials plete this prospecting within Procurement Agency, and How- the year. ard L. Young, deputy administrator of the minerals division, that the station would be obtained if investigation showed that the tonnage and grade justified. Senators Hayden and McFarland worked closely with those locally interested, to see that the situation was properly Trading on the Spokane Stock presented to those in author- Exchange last month was at a ity. more brisk rate than in the preBuying ores under-- the price vious month; but well below the schedule set up in July, 1951, and beneficiating the ores with- pace set in January a year ago, in the area to a product mar- according to figures released by ketable directly with the steel Brokerage Information Service. industry will mean the immeVolume last month was 3 diate opening of 20 to 30 new shares with a value of $801,-06- 4 mines producing 300 to 400 tons as compared with 669,825 a day. shares valued at $475,917 in DeOpening up new manganese cember. January, 1951 volume mines in west central Arizona was 1,710,888 'shares, value will be of tremendous econom- $957,244. ic importance to the states, Leading traders in January, in commented Charles F. Willis, terms of share volume, were A.S.MO.A. state secretary, in Whitewater with a 84,900-shaaddition 'to its important con- turnover, Jack Waite, with 83,-- ! tribution' to the national de- 300, Grandview, with 83,150, and fense. If they are operated Independence with 82,500.. long enough to get well under Pend Oreille headed the list way before defense operations by a substantial margin in dolStop, it may mean a permanent lar 'volume, as $169,106 worth of manganese industry in Arizona stock changed hands during the that will challenge all except month. Hecla was second With a the copper industry for volume of $91,145 ' and Sidney third with $67,970. ' 1 (3,-801,1- 92 . JL' 99 high-grad- i T-2- 8 -- ore-beari- ng 1 Trading On Spokane Mart At' Brisk' Rate 998,-49- re I |