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Show Anaconda Needs Gas ForJC Alumina .PlSht 4 t SPECIAL AMERICAN MNWG CONCRESS WE 'f IN- - - The uranium ore processing of Vitro Uranium Co., in Salt Lake City, will undergo a 70 per cent expansion during 1956. Officials of the Vitro Corp., of America made this announcement in Salt Lake City last week. In Salt Lake for a board meeting was J. Carlton Ward, Jr., Vitro president, Dr. John R. Dunning, dean of the college of engineering, Columbia University, director and, George White, New York, director, as well as other Vitro officials. The plant already is under a 50 per cent expansion program. Pres. Ward said, and a new pilot plant goes into effect Monday. The new pilot plant, according to Director White, will develop better, more economical ways to get more uranium out of the ore. and develop processes to get closer to the reactor use. Vitros Salt Lake processing plant is the first in the uranium industry to go on this process. In Riverton, Wyo., Vitro Minerals operations are noted a3 the largest uranium mining operation ing Wyoming. The subsidiary, Vitros newest venture, is working claims in two major areas, the Colorado Plateau in Utah, and Wyoming, and in the Blind River district of northern Ontario in Aanconda Co willerect a new multi-millio- n 11 for prodofidr ducing alumina from?'' days in the Spokane perimeter if an adequate supply of natural gas can be supplied. This plan was revealed .last week by C. Jay Parkinson, Salt Lake City, counsel for the Anaconda Co. before a special power commission in Washington, D.C. The Anaconda Co., Parkinson said, has been searching for clay materials in large quantities and has been conducting research to determine necessary processes for developing acceptable grade alumina. These materials have been found, he noted, in the Pacific Northwest tributary to the area serviced by the Pacific Northwest Pipelines Co. The next step, Parkinson continued, will likely require the construction of a pilot plant to further test our processes, looking toward the eventual construction of a large plant to beneficiate such clays on a commercial scale. The largest uncertainty, he said, is our requirement for a large supply of natural gas.' As the company cannot stand a long freight haulage, they are interested in negotiating for gas requirements from Pacific North west in the Spokane, Washington area. Canada. terial for production of alumina door-yaris of grea importance to insure future defense requirements of this very vital metal . . . and to Insure uninterrupted prime source of min, eral in time of peace. Colo-radi- d Steen Mine To Use Gismo 9 LAS VEGAS, NEV. The Utex Exploration Co., Moab, Utah is Introducing into its famed Mi Vida uranium mine the Gismo system of mining which has proved successful in Washington and Tennessee sine mines. t, Virgil Bilyeu, mine Tuesday will tell super-'.intenden- about the machinery to the delegates attending the 1955 Mining Congress here. The Gismo equipment, which consists of drilling, loading and transport units, will be used to attain greater production he said. It perper mits greater mechanization in mining small ore bodies. man-shif- t, Aluminum Plant Told For Oregon Construction of a $65,000,000 aluminum producing plant has been announced. The plant will be located at The Dalles, Ore. Building the structure will be the Harvey Machine Co., Torrance, Calif. General Services Administration in Washington signed with the Harvey company for con struction of the plant. The newest aluminum plant plans to produce 54,000 tons of primary aluminum annually. Terms of .the contract call for production and sale of 270,000 tons of metal by June 30, 1963. . o Uranium ores from the Plateau are processed at the Sait Lake cite. The modernized plant buys uranium ore from independent producing mines in It is our judgment, he contin ued, that a domestic source ma in our own Vitro Corp. To Expand 70 In Coming Year SOMETHING NEW DAILY The Virto Co. plant in southwest Salt Lahe City Unniui is now tiying to rat process te get closer to reactor use in nraninm processing. The plant to be enlarged during 1956, buys ore iron uranium companies throughout the Colorado Plateau area. "Wkati (jciHf Oh" Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Mon-an- a and Arizona, Including the Marysvale, Temple Mountain and other parts of the San Rafael Swell, areas. Vitro Corporation of America in a number of diversified activities. Subsidiary companies include Vitro Manu-- : acturing Co., Vitro Uranium Co., ' fttro Rare Metals Co., Vitro .laboratories, Vitro Engineering division and Vitro Minerals Corp. s engaged Here's Complete Congress Program GARFIELD MONDAY, OCTOBER 10 8:30 AM. REGISTRATION. New Frontier Hotel and Silver Slipper Silver Slipper Ballroom MOTION PICTURE Nevada and Its Natural Resources (U. S. Bureau of Mines) 10:00 AM. NATIONAL POLICIES AND THE MINING INDUSTRY Chairman: Howard I. Young, Pres., American Zinc, Lead & Smelting Co., St. Louis; President American Mining Congress. The Department of the Interior and the Mining 9:40 A.M. PRE-SESSIO- N L. J. Randall, Pres, Heda Mining Co, Wallace, Idaho; National Chairman, Program Committee J. W. Overstreet, Pres, National Electric Coil Co, Columbus, Ohio; Chairman, Manufacturers Division, American Mining Congress L. C. Campbell, Vice Pres, Coal Div, Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates, Pittsburgh; Chairman, Coal Division, American Mining Congress Introduction of Distinguished Guests Ramona Room, New Frontier Hotel PM SEES PLANT GROWTH Garfield Chemical and Manufacturing. Co. is keeping up with the rai-iexpansion of the western mining and mineral industries. d A $2 million expansion program in the sulphuric acid manufacturing facilities at Garfield, Utah was announced by the company this week. MOTION PICTURE The third expansion of the This Earth From And Garfield plant since the end of Industry Resources Committee, Utah World War (Natural II will include a conHon. Douglas McKay, Secretary of the InChamber of Commerce) tact acid unit with 250 ton per terior will bring to 1,000 It day capacity. 2:00 PM LABOR AND MANAGEMENT Mobilization Progress and the Mining Intons daily output of the plant. PROBLEMS; PUBLIC RELATIONS dustry Chairman: Denison Kitchel, Attorney, Phoenix, Hon. Arthur S. Flemming, Director, Office of New acid will go to Defense Mobilization Ariz, Chairman, A.M.C. Labor Relations Com- two sources. supplies Uranium mills in mittee Reports of Resolutions Committee:: the Colorado Plateau area are Public Relations in the Mining Communities General Policy users of sulphuric acid. Acid Hon. Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator from large Government Reorganization will also supply increased outArizona put of phosphatic fertiliers proAct 12:15 PM. WELCOMING LUNCHEON Developments Under the 1955-5by Western Hon. Philip Ray Rogers, Acting Chairman, gram during VENUS ROOM, NEW FRONTIER Garfield. Phosphates, Inc, National Labor Relations Board HOTEL Trends in Labor Relations This particular expansion proPresiding: Roy A. Hardy, Consulting Engr. In Rufus G. Poole, Attorney, Washington, D.C. gram will utilize available sulCharge, Getchell Mine, Inc., Reno, Nev.; Trends in Employee Housing and Townsite phur dioxide from the eight conChairman, Western Division, American Minverters in AS&Rs eopper smelter Development and Financing ing Congress Gerald H. Galbreath, Jr, Vice Pres, John W. in Garfield. Any future sulphurWelcome to Nevada Galbreath & Co, Columbus, Ohio Hon. Charles H. Russell, Governor of Nevada ic acid making will employ gases Hon. Rex Bell, Lieutenant Governor of Nevada from roasters at the smelter. Reports of Resolutions Committee: : Monsanto-LeonarLabor Relations Responses: Howard I. Young, Pres., American Co, of MonMine Safety santo Chemical Co, St. Louis MisZinc, Lead & Smelting Co, St. Louis; PresSocial Security souri will set up the new unit ident, American Mining Congress PROGRAM to be completed in spring, 1956. ON PAGES (SEE COMPLETE CONGRESS 1:40 PRE-SESSIO- N Taft-Hartle- y 6 v d 12-1- 3) |