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Show U OF, 4 , Features Mining , Oil, Financial VOL. 24, NO. 44. , Salt Lake City, Utah, October 30, 1953 One Year $3. 5 4 : j 7-V Major Uranium Producer Described In Bureau Report How a mine in the Big Indian mining district, San Juan County, Utah, became one of the major producers of uranium ore on the Colorado Plateau in the relatively short period of four months is told in a Bureau of Mines report released today by Secretary of the interior Douglas McKay. Discovery of the ore body in July 1952, the formation of a company to exploit it, and its development into a ore withwas producer accomplished out government financial assistance. The first borehole penetrated high-grad- e ore 14 feet thick, says the report. Sinking of a development shaft began in October, and Highgrade concentrate.; or sixty W03 along with gold and percent on the first shipment left the mine black sand ara being produced 1952. December 6, Ore production, from new the tungsten milling setas recorded on located of Delta, Utah on West sheets received by the company up held under lease from to July 15, 1953, totaled 16,000 property Mineral Valley Mining Company tons, the grade of which was about twice the average grade of by Rare Metals Mining Company. uranium ore mined in the ColoThe new milling plant is provrado Plateau regiun. satisfactory to The report was prepared by ing sufficiently installation of an additionprompt Charles A. Steen and George P. al large concentrating table to inDix, Jr., respectively; chief geolo- crease production, company offigist and field geologist of the Utex cials announced in Salt Lake toExploration Co., Moab, Utah, to- day. gether with Scott W. Hazen, Jr., Current activities are being diand Russell R. McLellan, Bureau rected toward completion of buildat mining engineers stationed to house the two level mill, Denver, Colo. Bureau represen- ings with tatives visited the property at the along deeper exploratory invitation of the company. sampling. A recent test run of five The report deyotes considerable yards of gravel is reported to have attention to the geology of the de- yielded in excess of five ounces of posit, including discussions of the gold and an excellent run of tungv v structure,, and stratigraphy . of the sten concentrates. area' and presentation of two At the companys recent stocktheories of ore deposition. Miner-alogic- holders meeting held in Salt Lake, data also are presented, plans were formulated for an exand the exploration and develop- pansion program at the property, ment work done at the Utex mine including installation of a dragare described in detail, as are the line which would enhance mining mining methods used and the of the deeper gravels. present plant. Mineral Valley has long been A free copy of Information Cirknown as a substantial source of Opcular 7669, "Uranium-Minin- g erations of the Utex Exploration gold, tungsten and other valuable however, commercial Co., in the Big Indian District, minerals, has been curtailed due production, San Juan County, Utah," can be to of lack efficient volume recovfrom the Bureau of obtained methods. Present ery operators Distribution Mines, Publications are efforts their toward directing Section, 4800 Forbes Street, Pitts- installation of will that equipment burgh 13, Pa. It should be identi- effect and satisfactory recovery fied by number and title. also handle a largo volume of gravel. Mill Proving Efficient At 2,000-ton-a-mon- th Delta Project ore-settleme- nt South Fork of the Boise River, near Mountain Hr Ome, Idaho is scene of a quietly conducted mining operation that is directed toward modern development at depth of one of Idahos early day properties. Mines Co. the project has made rapid strides since its inception of May of Conducted by Index-Dale- y this year. Shown above is the housing facility for workmen at the mine. t Foreign Sale Qf Titanium Causes Stir ' Discovery that large sales of taniumin .fabricated, form are being, made to Great Britain by Titanium Metals caused something close to a furor in the investigating committee headed by Senator Henderson a week ago. It was also revealed that later sales were made by Great Britain of the metal in finished products to private sources rather than to the government, which afforded the loan to the titanium company. Rollin Smith, head of Titanium Metals, questioned by Senator Malone, admitted that Titanium Metals is selling large quantities .of the material through its New York offices in fabricated form to Great Britain. The metal is later in finished products from Great Britain, with most of the products going to private firms and little or none to the U. S. government which is underwriting , kLm (Continued on Page 2) Memoir Story Zosell, Montana Mining District Dr. J. R. Van Pelt, Director of the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, announces the release of Memoir 34 by the Bureau of Mines and Geology. This memoir, entitled "Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Zosell (Emery) Mining District, Powell County, Montana" is by Forbes Robertson, Associate Professor of Geology on leave from the Montana School' of Mines. It describes the geology and ore occurrence, in the Zosell or Emery mining district,. which has been a noted producer of ores. The total value of precious and base metals produced is said to be not less than $2,175,000,. but, production has been very intermittent The principal difficulty encountered in operation is said to be the complexity of the ores. , New Tunnel Making Time it Index-Dale- y Property at again . Development operations are progressing properties Mines the Index-Dale- y Company, near Mountain Home, 'more County, Idaho, following a costly fire that swept through ; surface buildings on Sept 18. Vork was,, started ,, at.' the property in May of this year directed toward the driving of a 4200 foot development and drainage tunnel which has. now been extended a distance of some 1200 feet. The tunnel is being driven from a point on the South Fork of the Boise river and projected to deBecause of the increased intervelop at depth the old Daley Con- national tension and technological solidated property. The old Daley strides attributed to the Soviet was worked as early as 1888 and Union, the need for vastly increascontinued in operation for many ed uranium, lithium and germanyears. During its early history, ium production was stressed today the mine produced a substantial by Maurice B. Mumford, president amount of high grade gold along of the Uranium Industry AssociaRec- tion. with , ores. ords of the early production were "Our national defense effort destroyed- - in a fire in 1946, how- and the demands of our booming ever, old timers in the area report private institutions which utilize that the mine was an important atomic energy will not permit idle producer. uranium properties. It is vital,! Previous operations were con- the uranium expert continued, ducted through the Daley shaft "that we maintain our atomic enwhich had a depth of 440 feet with ergy lead and exert all our efforts laterals at various levels. The new to increase our world-wid- e superitunnel now being driven will come ority in defense production." under' the bottom of the old shaft The Uranium Industry Assn." at an additional depth of 350 feet. its president declared, recognizes This will not .pnly open up vir- this urgent need for more uragin territory but will also serve as nium and lithium and has establishdrainage facility for the upper ed the machinery to cope with inworkings. There are a number of formation requirements throughveins traversing the property on out the industry. the tunnel side of the shaft that Prospectors desiring information are expected to be cut as the adit concerning the latest techniques, and progresses. The first' of these is equipment and locations, expected to be encountered in the claim holders desiring assistance, near future. mine operators and Others within now the at the property industry with production or Equipment comother Denver 2 Gardner of consists problems which are inhibitflow of uranium and other the 2 loaders, jumbo drilling ing pressors, and automatic drifters strategic ores may contact the Asequipment, sociation at its headquarters, 553 in a Mancha electric locomotive, necesaddition to other equipment Washington Bldg., Washington, D. A private C.. for assistance. sary for operations. in from been run has line power tiie newly completed Anderson by stockholders of Mountain Mines Ranch dam on the South Fork of Company, American Metals Minthe Boise River. ing Company and Idaho Birthday Index-Dale- y has. a 99 year lease Mines. Offices are in Salt Lake on the old Daley Cons, mine and City.; has also acquired properties of A grapefruit is a lemon that had the Index Mining Co. at Spruce Nevada. chance and took advantage of it a. Mountain, Index-DaleAuthor unidentified. y ty owned .. Stock of p: New Group To Aid Miners Of Uranium lead-zinc-copp- er . : al Ore Shipments Week Ending Oct. 24, 1953 BINGIIAM DISTRICT,' UTAH 85-to- Combined Metals Reduction-1- 10 tons. U. S. Mines 7937 tons. Utah Copper (Kennecott) 960 n cars daily average. PARK CITY DISTRICT, UTAn New Park Mining Co. 1280 tons. EUREKA DISTRICT, UTAH 39 ore Chief Consolidated cars. clay 19 Dragon Consolidated 1 Mines ore car. Empire Mammoth ore 2 cars. PIOCHE DISTRICT, NEVADA Combined Metals Reduction Co. lead concentrates 10 cars. Per lite 16 cars. Bristol Silver lead ore 1 cars. Copper ore 1 car. (J. A. Hogle & Co. Mining Dept.) Appointed To Team Paul H. Hunt, director and consultant, United Park City Mines Co., has been appointed a member of a three-ma- n bureau of land management survey team which has been asked to make recom. the promendations for cedures and methods used by the bureau in handling cases involving public lands. re-writi- ng , Safety Cede Issue Endorsed and acepted by anthracite mine operators and union officials, a new federal mine safety code for anthracite underground and strip mines was issued today by the Bureau of Mines, Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay announced. This follows closely the issuance on October 8 of a revised safety code for bituminous coal and lignite mines by the Bu- reau of Mines. The new anthracite code, designed to modernize the safety rules and practices in the anthracite industry and to keep abreast of rapid technological progress made m recent years, takes the place or the old Bureau of Mines "Safety Standards for Anthracite Mines," promulgated in 1948 and used since then as a guide in making Federal inspections. Development of the new anthra- cite code represents many months of study and the joint efforts o the Bureau of Mines, the United Mine Workers of America, and representatives of the Penns'l-vanl- a anthracite operators, Secretary McKay pointed out. and tfc code has been approved by all three groups. " . |
