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Show 'HF ITY vrV f0 - U LIBRARY 1 . IliMipBiU " r 01 VTA Features Alining, Oil, Financial lwJ(J Str.r Vol. 24, No. 29 r 'r--- : Salt Lake City. Utali; ! W If. 1953 One Year $2J0 ; Nevada Mine New Source Of Manganese PIOCHE, Nevada For it years now in Congress would provide for a sliding scale import tax on lead and zinc giving protection to domestically producing operators of these essential metals. Shown above is a portion of the Big Cottonwood area in Salt Lake County, Utah, where de- While reports of new uranium finds is now the hottest news in the country, there are still vitally important lead, zinc, copper mine? that are endeavoring to stay in business in the face of lower settlement . prices, legislation is being pushed in an effort to offer these companies an opportunity of survival. Bills velopment operations for such metals are actively underway. Change In Mine Laws men say the depression in PICHER, district, which In Offing ing could permanently knock out this zinc Legislation to minimize supplied from a quarter to half of the countrys Prices Threaten U. S. Industry Low Deep Shaft Exploring Uranium Lead-Zin- c Okla. . Mining min- lead-zin- c mining tri-sta- te domestic-mine- d JUNCTION, Colo. to some degree matchSheldon P. Wimpfen, manager of through two world wars. And its paralysis is Mines U. S. have shut or curthe zinc in in area ed mining every the Granc Junction Operations Office, Atomic Energy Commis- tailed operations in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Tennessee and shaft of Arkansas. sion, said the 650-foGolden Cycle - Corp, at Uravan This district consists of about 30 will be the deepest ever sunk for square miles of prairie land, that uranium in this area. the corners of Missouri, over-lap- s GRAND (R.-Mont- ot New Mexico Kansas and Oklahoma. Its older Mines Hurt mine workings in the northeastern section, around Joplin, Mo., are largely filled with water. Ironic- By Imports N. M. Nonferrous ally, only two years ago, when the The depth of the shaft will require a large capital investment he said. Another large mining company turning its attention now to ura- Korean war created a zinc and CARLSBAD, metal imports are having nium, Mr. Wimpfen said, is Shat-tuck-De-nn disas- (R-Pa.- nt nt - er Co.-Pewa- Co.-Keam- ey ot 20-m- an Zinc-Hanov- R.-Dem- II .1 i t- - ft , ft, u I H u ft! '1 n, os. Climax Moiy .), unanimously approved by the House - interior committee, ' has been temporarily delayed by the House rules committee to permit completion of hearings on another .) measure by Rep. Hope which would make basic changes in the mining laws, the American Mining Congress reports. Hearings on the Hope bill before the House agricultural committee were scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Repre sentatives of the mining industry were expected to present their views in opposition to the measure recently. The Hope bill, a companion of the Anderson bill in the Senate (R.-Kan- A lead shortage plans were consid- trous effect in New Mexico. of Bisbee, Ariz. submitted ered to drain that section at a bill, by Rep. Simpson This firm has obtained an AEC cost of about $600,000. ), would set a base price of lease several miles roughly west" 15 Vi cents a pound on both lead of the La Sal Mining Company Now the same watery fate and zinc. For the first cent the Its threatens the areas chief remain- domestic market price dropped properties near Uravan. lease also will require a shaft ing active section tariff the Picher below that base, a two-ceseveral hundred feet deep. The Field on imports. For (eight to 10 square miles) would be imposed cent the domestic additional each company has a complex in the southwestern part of mine near Prescott, here price dropped below 15 V4 cents, an the district Ariz. additional one-ceimport tax would be imposed. Operators have already closed The Golden Cycle Corporation The 'following important lead-zin- c more than 85 miles and are shutone of Colorado's veteran gold mines in New Mexico, are mining firms, Max Bowen, vice ting more daily because they can- closed down except for pumping president, confirmed that his not profitably dig ore at todays and some- exploration Kennecott-Oswald- o company has obtained an Atomic low zinc and lead prices and high No. 1 and Oswaldo No. Energy Commission lease on At- wage and equipment costs. Water 2; A. S. & Mine; kinson Mesa near Uravan. pumping is being continued to New Jersey Zinc A contract has been signed with keep most of the closed mines Mine; Peru Mining Eugene Bishop of Boulder to sink dry. But if they remain idle for Mine; New Mexico Consolidated Mine. shaft to the ore deposit, an extended period its question- Mining a 650-foMr. Bowen said. The shaft will able how In addition there are many long operators would be crew. be sunk by a 15 or small operation? which were able to shoulder this expense; it closed that were shipping zinc-lea- d They are now moving to the site. Continued on Page 2 ore to custom mills. These Golden Cycle will take over acare largely fhujdown. New Jertual mining as soon as the shaft is fi Mill and Peru-Demisey completed. Prices A. S. MiU'areydosed. Three other AEC leases given E&MJ Average & with MilFis running JUNE, 1953 out during the past few months to care tabs small production went to Sinbad Mining Company, Copper, domestic refinery. 29.688 very Cottonwood Mining Company, and Copper, export, refinery... 29.699 of custom ore. This leaves in opRe13.413 eration the U. S. Smelting, H. S. Worcester, of Montrose. Lead, common, N. Y. & Co. mill. These Milling Sinbad is a partnership compos- Lead, common, E. St. Louis 13.213 fining are all in the Central operations 88.690 London ed of five Blanding, Utah, men; Lead, prompt (g). District and Deming millMining Curtis W. Jones, Howard B. Neil-se- Lead, London, (g).. 84.363 ing area. Joseph Sherman, Keith C. Zinc, Prime Western, 11.000 E. St. Louis Jones, and Calvin Black. Their district Zinc, London prompt (g) . .70.851 lease is in the Cottonwood west of Blanding. ' Zinc, London, (g).. 70.670 85.250 The Climax Molybdenum Co. Cottonwood Mining Companys Silver, N. Y., per oz 74.000 mine at Climax will be the lease is in the same area. The Silver, London, per oz firm is also a partnership, with H. Sterling exch., checks.. 281.366 worlds second largest under92.899 ground metal mine upon compleL. Bigler, F. A. Brinker, M. F. Tin, N. Y., Straits 99 cent N. Bradford and Tin, Y., (e). 91.899 tion of the current expansion per Sylvester Layman, U. S. .. of Cortez participating. ' oz., Gold, per price.. $35,000 program, company officials said WorN. Mr. obtained The lease Y., per Quicksilver, yesterday. by An average of 23,000 tons of ore ...$191,923 cester is directly south of the flask, 76-l- b N. 37.970 is where boxed Golden Cycles but in a spot Y.,. being removed each day from (d) Antimony, 34.500 Bartlett Mountain at present. Antimony, blk f.o.b. Laredo mining will be shallower. Co.-Hanov- abuses of the federal mining laws introduced by Rep. DEwart which has already been ng (S. 783), would separate surface and mineral rights on mining claims in national forests and would restrict patent as well as claims to mineral rights only. The bill would also wipe out existing or future claims for failure to seek patent within 10 years after location. Mining men contend the biU would abrogate many existing rights and would seriously impede and retard the steady growth of Continued on Page 2 Gold Mines Claims for $2,500,000 damages caused by the U. S. order closing of gold mines during World War II have been filed in the Court of Claims of the U. S. at Washington, D. C., on behalf of five companies operating in the Cripple Creek, Colo., district. Merrill E. Shoup of Colorado Springs is president of the firms, which include Golden Cycle, Cres-so- n United Gold Consolidated, Lee Mines, Empire Mining and Gold Johnson Mining ComJerry pany The claims are based on the fact that the gold mine closing order constituted a taking of property for which compensation must be paid under the war powers act and the fifth amendment of the constitution. Similar suits have been brought by Homestake Mining and Idaho Maryland Mines. has been known that large bodies of sulphide lead-zin- c ore deposits existed in Pioche district, but the metals were so closely combined, whence came the name Combined Metals, that they could not be separated economically by any known method. In thirty years E. H. Snyder and associates developed a method of fine grinding and differential flotation to separate and concentrate the lead and zinc from these sulphide ores, according to the Pioche Record. The Combined Metals Reduction Company was organized in 1923 and a 150 ton per day plant was constructed at Bauer, Utah, for In treating these Pioche ores. 1928, five years later, the Bauer Plant was enlarged to three units, the capacity of the plant increased to 1000 tons per day. In 1940 a flotation plant was built at Casel-to- n, near Pioche, Nevada, with a capacity of 600 tons per day. Like the sulphide, lead, zinc, and iron ores, men have known that large bodies of manganese ores containing lead and zinc, also existed in the Pioche District, but the manganese, lead and zinc were even more closely associated than the metals in the .iron, lead, and zinc ores and offered more difficult problems to separate and concentrate them. - Over these years the staff of the Combined Metals Reduction Company has developed methods of economically separating and concentrating the lead, zinc and manganese as it did the metals in the iron sulphide ores. In 1944, Caselton flotation plant was increased to two units, and in 1952 to three units, and a heavy media zinc float plant was added. The third flotation unit was built especially to handle manganese, lead and zinc ores. The Caselton plant today has a capacity of 2500 tons of ore per 24 hour day. During the 30 years that the Combined Metals Reduction Company has been mining sulphide lead zinc iron ores, it has developed several million tons of manganese lead zinc ores containing from eight to 20 per cent manganese. With a flotation plant to separate the metals, and a metallurgical plant to handle the manganese concentrates, these ores become commercially valuable. The Pioche Manganese Company was organized in March, 1951, and the kiln plant built at . Continued on Page 2 Ore Shipments Week Ending July 11, 1953 BINGHAM DISTRICT, UTAH Combined Metals Reduction Co. 220 tons. i U. S. Mines 220 tons. Utah Copper (Kennecott) 1870 n cars, daily average. PARK CITY DISTRICT, UTAH New Park Mining Company-14- 90 tons. EUREKA DISTRICT, UTAH ore 43 Chief' Consolidated 80-to- cars. Dragon Consolidated clay 25 cars. Empire Mines ore 2 cars. PIOCHE DISTRICT, NEVADA Combined Metals Reduction Co. Zinc cone. 9 cars. Lead cone. 3 cars. Perlite ganese J. 2 12 cars. Man- cars. A. Hogle & Co. 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