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Show EcSxVS a an Vol. 25; No. 39 Salt Lake City, September 27, 1954 S Long-Ter- m To Stop Directs Miller Urges Enforcement of US Program To Determine Ore Mining Laws To Prevent Abuses U-Be- endence U One Year $3.00 va long-terThe Federal Govemmeys d Representative A. L. Miller (R. Nebr.), chairman of the mineral stockpile objectives are intended to eliminate where posHouse Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, told a mining consible the dependence of the United States upon all but vention in San Francisco that the mining laws have stood the test foreign sources in time of emergency, E. H. I lntensve exPloraRon and de- - of time and that the mining industry has respected these laws Weaver, Assistant Director Raw Materials, Office of Defense to determine and urged their enforcement to prevent abuse by unscrupulous The advances made by your velopment program Mobilization, declared last week on acquired ore bodies persons who have circumvented the intent and meaning of the at a session of the 1954 Conven- ndustry are remarkable, Weav- potential Beaver in and the San property laws to grab sites for dude $1 per share (5c). tion and Exposition of the Amer- er told his audience of mining Rafael areas. ranches, filling station locations, with respect to other revisions men from all over the United ican Mining Congress. continued series motels, recreation on a Showings areas and even of the mining laws., He said that For the purpose of calculating States. A good example is the of hills in the Beaver area, leads the Mining Congress has recogtimber indusrights. achievement long-terno of the copper these objectives, belief the from the that, surface, nized the problems of other users an address He in out, ores pointed supplies are assumed to be avail- try. Whereas some years ago to a depth of 300 to 400 feet, before the American Conof the public domain and of the 2 Mining able to the United States in war- mined averaged per cent in antinite U3 08 is in large devarious agencies of Government of the that major portion time except in the case of that copper content, today some of the posit, available for an extended gress resources mineral the countrys administering the public lands. limited group of countries to larger properties treat ores con- milling program, accessable, and doare It has sought to be helpful in within located the public which wartime access can be had taining slightly more than mined in quantity. easily one eliminating the abuses of the main, which constitutes about of one percent of copper, he with the same degree of reliance Below this level, rich deposits fourth of the mining laws without disturbing lose declared. Most people sight of concentration are expected to as afforded by sources within he basic principles of those laws. of States. United area land the of this great accomplishment occur in the veins. As a matter our country, Weaver said. While are declared He there that there has been some unjust tons 100 of cop- of million to whereby ODM is currently-workin- g officials claim ore occurs those in the nation who would and undesired fact, publicity charging define the necessary levels of per ores are handled to produce on all five groups of the Com- build a China Wall around he mining industry as a whole about 800,000 tons of domestic domestic production pany claims, the Hand H; H the public lands, particularly with using mining claims for othcopper metal. should be maintained in peaceBand H; The Canaries; K. O., and in the Western States and er than mining purposes, I Of the 75 materials in the natime in order to insure a rapid Bonanza, in the Beaver area.. the Mining Congress has Alaska, and prohibit the explorand orderly transition to the tional stockpile, he declared, Recent visits of engineers to ation and development of any done a good job in letting the about 55 are metals and minerals. the production of materials for dethis conclusproperty, verify discovknow minerals that be that the public might industry the minimum ion At the present time fense, he declared. done. The ered there. Such contention he does not condone abuses of the work with along The mobilization agency is objectives are valued at a little Company has negotiated with a decried as being contrary to aws, and has stood ready to asworking with other government under $7 billion, with more than reliable milling group (their the national interest. sist the Government in eliminatiagencies to insure that wartime $5.3 billion actually in inventory process approved by the AJE.C.,) enMiller the ng such abuses, he declared. said that Rep. mobilizatin plans give adequate or on order. The minimum ob- to start immediately, installation actment at the last Rep. Miller told the Convenof legislation recognization to the importance jectives have been attained on of an upgrading mill on Beaver, session of Congress tion that had previous adminfor providing of the domestic mining industry, approximately 40 of the items in property, with a 300 ton capaistrations of enforced .the existing multiple mineral development Weaver said, and we must be the stockpile, he said. city. the public lands was one of the mining laws there would have sure key technicians and skilled From official tests and Flow biggest steps forward taken in been no occasion for criticism mining labor force are not indisof these laws. Sheets, upgrading can take place recent years. criminately drafted into the He complimented the Mining from actual test, .18 to 1.46 per He congratulated the American armed services. cent, and recovery out of the ore Mining Congress for its forthright Congress and other mining assoWeaver said ODM is starving is' successful to a 97 plus de- support of this measure and for ciations for their steadfast oppoto develop expansion programs the fine attitude it has taken sition to moves by previous Adgree. wherever needed which will help ministrations to vitiate the minThe Canary Group is being us in achieving our stockpile obasked have Financiers ing laws. He told the industry it opened in Beaver Area with shaft of jectives and which will iBt the must for continue to guard gnnt holdings, amplified reports work definitely following a fissame time help us broaden our finaim with of the any such moves which might reproviding sure vein lead, satisfactory in mobilization base. It is our deances for future development and sult in bringing mining to a The Rocky Mountain Mining & ore occurrance and permanent sire to carry forward programs Development Company relected structure. halt on our great public domain exploration. that will encourage whenever Douglas J. Hanks of Salt Lake taken from and thus weaken the backbone of Assays In the Green Rivfer area an claims possible the development of City, as President at a recent refrom .08 to 2 and our security. vary sources of critical materials with- organization meeting. All officers intensive program of drilling anc should get into a heavier con22 in the United States and thereby oi the company were centration with depth, in the decrease and prevent wherever eluding Darwin L. AUop, of five engineers on the Rafael Uplift and in opinion possible a dangerous and costly president and Willard A. Day, the Old Channel area. Adjoining property. The mine contains an ore body dependence of the United States secretary-treasureon foreign nations for supplies of The company will resume property already drilled shows a 50 feet and 100 feet deep these materials at time of nawork in the next two weeks high percentage of discovery of dilfused autinite on the H. and tional emergency.1 having been idle since July for These ore bodies are being open- H. Group. The ore goes into solued into commercial ore by severa tion Weaver said his agency is in the purpose of installing ventivery readily. accord with American Mining lation equipment and ore re- leases. registration statistics Recent inspection by engine- published June 13 in the Salt moval equipment Congress policy urging that the Mr. Hanks, intimately known ers indicates the property in' ex- Lake Tribune give Capitalization Government afford domestic mines at least the same price as DJ by the members of the cellent U308 area, with surface $300,000 Colorado Plateau uranium ores 6,000,000 shares at I adand and in considerations held 3,000,-00other sandstone type? deposits conhis possible outcropping cents per share par value; closely company, during apd I should which into a large number of uranium, tain as are of develop vantages shares outstanding. Securities given foreign prospecting, located an dings commercial 1 uran-uranium, offered 299,000 shares common at vanadium and copper minerals outcropping of low grade production by our Government in a variety of oxidation states, He said he cotild. enumerate ium ore in the Henry Mining Robert M. Garrels of the U. S. many cases where domestic pro- district of Marysvale. He leased, ten claims in the! duction is given important adGeological Survey today told ' ' of this over delegates outcropping vantages attending the 1954 Conforeign production proximity vention f and and in the interests of maintaining three and Exposition of the years ago formed American the mobilizaa strong and effective Mining Congress here. Company comprised ' This complexity can be exof neighbors and friends. About ' tion. ' Y' '$ : 910 feet of tunneling has been acplained, he said, on the assumpt tion that a relatively simple set complished into the side of the - ; v. ' of reduced uranium, vanadium mountain. At this point a shear ' w'wjend copper minerals was IntroNevada Baseline Sees zone appears 310 feet below the duced into the sandstone and then outcropping.' New Uranium Interest surface oxidized to various degrees by The company was incorporated vy Utah shares in of for 100,000 $1.00 weathering. Uranium in the Nevada Base , t 4 ? . v In the A stock split on a stock. ores, A t line and Southern California basis has i .! the chief minerals been making probprimary approved has created intense . interes 5c ably are pitchblende, chalcocite, par stock but not altering the among U.S. Government geoloOf the covellite, chalcopyrite and pyrite, company. capitalization of gists, according to Walter C the Garrels said. The oxidation prodstock split approximately Hankins, of Riverton, Utah. ucts are chiefly hydrated oxides, 800,000 shares are outstanding. ! remain-carbonates and sulfates or uranTwo young men who came out Of the 1,200,000 shares ium, copper and iron. of Washington state to Esmeralda ling in the treasury of the comHe said the primary assembl-ab- e a limited for pany, public offering County, Nevada, purchased in the vanadium - uranium in be near made will taxes the future. Silver the $960 delinquent ores is presumably pitchblende, Two years ago Mr. Hanks conPeak Mining District, comprising area the tended reac coffinite, mantroseite and pyrite that Marysvale atownship,. after they had The above photogiaph was snapped at the Ubeva Uranium Comand the oxidation products are had the true structure vetervein an andent pamphlet by a only H and H group ol claims, it shows a 5 (Moot lacing ol uranpany's state Utah. of an minerologist entitled Urani- of uranium in the vanadates, ium that has been uncovered. Ubeva has uncovered three such vanadium and iron oxum in Rheloite at Silver Peak. His theory was substantially supel lacings ol ore, showing a splendid snriace ides, and Ohe ore acquired proved of com- ported by the recent AEC semtto ol visitors workmen and the mine. In the ioreground is a group annual report. mercial value, Mr. Hanks said. m recently-announce- immed-iately-accessib- le 1 m one-ha- lf two-billion-ac- that . be-iev- e Rocky Mt. 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