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Show r July I. 195S i The Western Mineial Survey, Salt lake City, Utah Page row Survey Report to Readers Mines Bureau Announces 1956 Program Editors Note: The complete re- alloted for controlling fires in in- gas to Federal and purchasers. port of the Department of the active coal beds. MARBLE SITE IN Coal Studies Interior on the Mines Bureau Utilising facilities at the new The new appropriation like- Rare and Precious Metals Explans for the fiscal year of 1956 is here reprinted for Survey read, wise will enable the Bureau to periment Station at Reno, Nev., e ers interested in all phases of the ntensify efforts to learn the the Bureau plans to increase eftars uses for of and develop forts to separate the rare earth mineral industry. metals such as cerium, lanthaproduced during the carbonization of coal. This num, and neodymium, and to deFunds totaling $18,863,000 will termine their properties and poenable the Bureau of Mines to work, together with stepped-uwill on coal research research new tential uses. on gasification, proembark of effective more durResearch has shown the rare operation pemit grams and long range plans new Clarhe Appalachian Experiment earth metals to have potentially ing the fiscal year of 1956, at of Station Morgantown, W. Va. ence A, Davis acting secretary great value as alloying materials on In addition, experiments in the steel and light metals inthe interior, disclosed today. coal underdustries. It also will devote more gasifying unmined The Bureau plans numerous re- ground will be resumed at Gor-ga- study to the metallurgy of thorsearch projects and programs to Ala., in cooperation with in- ium, the most important radioincrease and efficiency, promote dustry. A new method of open-n- g active metal other than uranium, minthe in and safety economy passages in the coal bed will which is associated with the rare eral and allied industries, Acting be studied. earth metals in monazite desaid. Davis Secretary Work on both surface and un- posits. Another urgently needed unThe appropriation approved by derground gasification is espeSecthe Acting dertaking that the appropriation the Congress and signed into law cially important, because pro- will make possible. Bureau of explained, by President Eisenhower is ex- retary Mines Director J. J. Forbes duction of actly that requested by the De- monoxide synthesis gas (carbon plus hydrogen), hydro- pointed out, is a study of modem partment of the Interior. It repmethods. synthetic methane is the resents a $6,637,000 reduction gen, orcost in recent years in factor synDevelopments making from the 1955 appropriations, major references classic T. or fuels B. the made thetic have high liquid which included $6,000,000 in con- U. there is and on from coal. obsolete, mining pipeline gas struction funds for new helium Other studies on coal will pro- need for compiling data on methplants. on the present scale, as will ods and costs that will assist the Uranism properties of Markle Canyon Uranium Co., are located Of the total appropriation, the ceed with in on those natural coping todays petroleum and industry only a few miles from Utah's famed Lee's Ferry. They are apBureau will use $6,603,870 for its on the reInformation In this Assistant gas. connection, problems. state line in Cocon-int- o the proximately 30 miles-froprograms on solid, liquid and methods new achieved with sults Davis out, Secretary pointed gaseous fuels, $300,000 for con- some of the Bureau's coal re- and country. Lee's Ferry is said to be the original point at which will be collected equipment decoal inactive in fires the river was crossed by ferry in pioneer days of Utah. trolling search and a substantial part of and made available to industry. on studies for posits, $5,989,130 fiMining and Metallurgical min- its oil and gas research are metallic and . orResearch nanced by cooperating private Holmes Safety Association chaperals, $5,000,000 for its health, ganizations The Bureau will continue its 8afety of mining western and by other Governters anil councils and local minstudies inspection ment agencies. safety, and further and program of mining P14 rock, programs, and $970,000 for generfluorine recover to means ing associations. and metallurgical research, and Petroleum Research e al administrative expenses. These While no change in the amount phosphate-morat waste gas Research to be conducted on investigations directed toward from activities will be directed from of money available is involved, exploitation of processing plants he Washington headquarters and petroleum production, including mineraleffective Director called attention to the resources and the event- recovery will provide The Bureau will continue its the opening of a new experimentcarried on in experiment stations, secondary data that will aid in the most ual commercial development of activities as a agency al mine near Pittsburgh, Pa., that laboratories, pilot plants, offices, efficient use of the domestic mineral deposits now to potential data the Bureau will use for studies fundamental mines and operating provide throughout energy of oil and gas mixtures marginal or submarginal. Studies per-o-f defense war and needed the continental United States and in of controlling the health hazards the basic mechanics of block sonnei by reservoir rocks underground defense with Alaska. major of airborne dusts. He also preto achieve maximum yield, foster will be stepped up, with and essential to dicted that the recent detail of The Bureau will continue responsibilities the purpose of making this lowest the application of full development of the a United States Public Health search and analytical work on fields where thfa la cost underground mining method planning in 0 resources, Director Service medical officer, Dr. R. H. coal, including, the analysis and more widely and uniformly ap- - Forbes added. to increase practicable recovery fuel economy services to other of Flinn, to head the Bureaus' further, and pro- plicable. health activities will aid its efgovernment agencies that form motepetroleum Health and Safety Programs the use of Improved seconImportant elements of the pro-- 1 to promote healthful condithe basis of the entire Federal forts The appropriat.on carries the methods in old gram are related to such ferro- dary recovery also It program. fields. This work will alloy materials as manganese, same amount for the Bureau's tions among employees in the, will continue studies to develop stripper continue at about the same level tungsten, molybdenum and vana- - health and safety programs as mineral industries. This appo.nt-mentg methbetter and safer he said, emphasized the e as in fiscal year 1955. the 1955 fiscal year $5,000,000. dium; the utilization of ods. close cooperation that always has domestic materials as substitutes Director Forbes said that these During the year, the Bureau for Coal preparation and utilizaexisted between the Bureau and bauxite in a alum- - funds will be used to continue tion research will be directed to- will continue its program of ob- inumimported the Public Health Service. s production; study of the the programs of research, ward improving methods of wash- taining accurate values for the e of magnesium, and im- tigations, training and ing, burning, coking, and gasi- thermodynamic properties of hy- proved methods for to lower the drocarbons producing inspection designed fying coal to enable the coal in- stances foundand related sub- ductile titanium and zirconium, rates of mineral and acicdent the dustry to develop new uses for for the chemicalin pertoleum, and e to studies are all.ed start industries, compounds that at a coal and to operate at a level copper property to develop be "Although no new programs manufactured may from pethat would provide an adequate methods are that will mining make contemplated in this field," troleum components. mobilization base. to it mine he a possible much said, "there will be greater This information enables larger The Bureau has been named to of ore the than proportion can be emphasis upon preventing Heavy Hauling to inaugurate a research program in- methods develop more efficient methods in fall by accidents, particularly for currently inoperations that tended to broaden the usefulness Machinery Movers used. coal mines.1 of Pennsylvania anthracite by volve chemical changes. Winch Rigging - Erecting e d The inspection Recovery- of metals from scrap The Bureau also will intensify developing methods for using Home Moving other discarded products and gram, including enforcement of this high-ran-k coal as foundry studies on the fundamental causthe of as the of certain provisions procesmandatory byproducts e es for deterioration of gasoline and fuel. Coal Safety Act, will be Federal ses is as of Phone 84-76growing importance The same amount as in the and distillate fuel oils in storage, the relative quantity of scrap pushed vigorously, the Director previous year, $300,000 has been one of the perplexing problems R. CLYDE ASHWORTH compared to primary metal pro- - declared, confronting manufacturers and duction He added increases. that the Bureau's The Bureau users of these fuels. Facets of is Res. Phone e will intensi-- a as attention inspectors giving increasing this problem to be attacked dure effort to Improved fy their efforts to stimulate d R. C. ASHWORTH ing the year include factors that new methods for recovering terest in accident - prevention promote instability, the effect of of metals in training in the mines they visit, Res. Phone controlled oxidation, the types of greater amounts DETECTR0N FISHES mine with more and forms. useful manage-Amoncooperating products formed, the chemical purer BISMUTH C0UNTEBS problems in the field ment and labor, State mining f 1526 So. 6th West substances that result in instabilBu-such and nonmetallic ficials, as ORACLE the FISHEB organizations minerals, ity, 'and characteristics of the reau of Mines will seek - GEIGER C0UNTEBS ways deterioration products. for the nations depenreducing Fiskei Detection Universal Helium dence upon imports of such maDRILL HOLE COUNTESS The appropriation for research terials as asbestos, mica, and in250 Ft. to 1000 Ft. Units on helium, of which the Bureau dustrial diamonds. This will inMINERAL LIGHTS is the sole large-scalproducer, volve search for methods of TITLE Field Portable Models e is $90,000, the same as for the utilizing domestic de' TRANSITS-LEVE1955 fiscal year. This work is posits and efforts to develop or ESCI0VS designed to locate new sources synthesize acceptable replace$39.50 and np e of helium-bearinnatural gas ments. 'Other (activities to be Service BOOKS PICKS GOLD PANS to more on efficient carried and the develop during year Terms Rental Repaii methods for extracting helium new sources of reSECURITY TITLE CO. from present sources. Actual pro- fractory materials in areas AND AFFILATED COMPANIES duction of helium will be fi- threatened with shortages, con45 EAST 4th SOUTH nanced, as in previous years, out tinued development of a mining 220 Sontb State Salt Lake City, Utah of a revolving fund derived from machine called "a planer" to reSalt Lake City, Utab sales of this inert, Ugiitweight duce the cost and increase the non-Feder- al COCONINO j na-ur- low-temperatu- re p s, ore-minin- g Utah-Arizo- na non-metall- ic ge phos-long-ran- 1 coal-min- e fact-findin- g I re-cavi- ng pressure-maintenanc- e fuel-purchasi- coal-minin- low-grad- inves-alloy- coal-min- - ASHWORTH TRANSFER CO. Long-rang- in-dust- ry roof-recovere- coal-min- - pro-an- blast-furnac- 31 6-63- coal-min- Scintillators 6-47- g of-o- 1 e low-grad- MINING ABSTRACTS INSURANCE R g 60 in-an- long-rang- State-wid- Grand Jewelry 41 53 |