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Show February 3, 1956 Page 3 The Western Mineral Survey. Salt Lake City. Utah Atlas Buys Ore Processing Mill MOAB, Utah risif'C ' T1 'W-i- ' v, Atlas Uranium Corp. disclosed here today the company has purchased a processing mill and now is moving it from California to Colorado. lead-zinc-silv- J. er C. Burgess, Atlas president, said the mill will be set up on company property in Gunnison County, Colo, as soon as weather conditions permit this spring. Announcement of the mill purchase revealed for the first time that Atlas has acquired interests In the Gunnison area. Burgess did not disclose the exact location of the company's lead-zinc-silv- properties, er but described them as extensive' and said they had been acquired quietly over the last MOVING AIIEAD At Big Bend the loader works from the No. 4 tunnel. Second opening is No. 3. DRILLING THROUGH Upetco miners use compressor on large ore face inside Big Bend tunnel The Atlas mill will have a capacity of 100 tons per day, Burgess said, and will be set up so that capacity can be increased if production warrants. It will be stored at Montrose, Colo., until snow clears in the spring. Atlas holdings now include base metals in Gunnison County, Colo; a $2,500,000 copper deposit in San Juan County, Utah; oil and gas interests in La Plata County, Colo.; and numerous southeastern Utah uranium properties. UPETCO . . . (Continued from Page 1) out ore. On the present trend the drift will miss the blocked out ore by 15 feet to the right. The direction of the drift is north 45 degrees west. One round, on the hanging wall, a distance of about 90 feet from the adit, showed an ore roll to the left of the present drift. Angle holes drilled in the to fare showed four and one-hal- f five and one-hafeet of high grade ore. The ore occurs in a conglomerate bed, that lays Just above the contact and Just below a carbonaceous seam, and is approximately five feet thick. A three compartment ore bin is near completion. It requires only to secure guy supports and back fill around the bin base. It will handle 40 tons. lf Daybreak Collects $35,000 From U. S. DAYBREAK URANIUM got a $35,000 check from Uncle Sam. it was an initial production bonus for the first 10,000 pounds of uranium oxide from the Daybreak mine near Mount Spoopen-pi- t kane. That amount of U308 was contained in the first 19 railroad cars of ore purchased by the Atomic Energy Commission. With more than $44,000 previously received by the firm for the ore, the 19 cars returned the company more than $79,000. The firm has shipped about 75 cars to date. properties. No 3. several months. Rim ore exposures get worked FULL VIEW over by the heavy equipment on the Upetco Upetco Co. to Mine Big Bend Ore Body James Angel of Fredonla, Arizona for $3000, the report said. Eight well located claims, known as the Big Windies, were also reported to have been staked by Pinder at Silver Beef expense. Upetco entered into a leasing agreement with Big Bend Uranium Co. to mine the Big Bend ore body located on the Nona Bee claim No. 1, Emery county, Utah. The Nona Bee claim No. 1 is located 16 miles southwest of Green River, Utah. According to a report prepared by Davis and Davis, consulting geologists, Salt Lake City, there Is a blocked out ore reserve of over one-haa million dollars. The report said the Big Bunch claims are adjacent to the Blue Jays on the west and, at the present time, Lisbon Valley Uranium Company is drilling on property that joins these properties on the south and east. The geologist said these claims could be valuable in the future. lf Drilling of the ore body has not been completed. The large undrilled portions of the claim, in ELECT volved in the leasing agreement, leaves room for additional ore dol rolls making a multi-millio- n ore body more than possible, lar John C. Kinnear was elected Further drilling on the property Mining Engineer John ONeil ore ship- honorary president and Norman will be aimed plans to have a n at a target of this ment ready for Tuba City in a E. Hanson was of order named magnitude. president few days, to be used to test amin-abilit- y AssociaNevada the by Mining to their process. The report disclosed purchase tion this week. of 30 claims known as the Big GAMMO The two were elected at the Hunches by a Mr. Finder, on beannual meeting of the Associa-- j half of Silver Reef. The claims were bought from tion. Drive Carefully Save over-burde- n dian. The engineers and geologists of Co. are workto determine a on program ing the most economic and expedient methods of mining an ore deposit of this type. Shipments in excess of 1000 tons per month are anticipated. Upetco plans to commence shipping ore as soon as the stripping operation permits. All of the ore mined will be shipped to Vitro Uranium Corp. of Salt Lake City. Vitro has agreed to pay for freight costs. Uranium-Petroleu- m METER vice-preside- nt A Life retary. (WE NEVER CLOSE) MGR. Phone EL 9-77- 66 The recent membership of the association is announced as 32 regular members, 28 affiliate members and 230 associate members, a total of 290. The association announced that (Nevadas mineral production in 1955 was the largest annual production in the history of the state. A preliminary report by the U.S. Bureau of Mines, gives the value of the 1955 mine output as approximately $105 million of which metals accounted for about $90,-000,0- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH and Lindner & Wood WHITE MOTOR SALES The Greatest Name In Trucks for More Than 50 Years non-metalli- $15,000,-00- cs Phone EM SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 4-84- 34 00 0. Elected to the board of direc tors for 1956 are: L. N. Grindell, Nevada manager, U. S. Lime Products Corp., Henderson; Roy A. Hardy, consulting engineer, Getchell Mine, Inc., Golconda: Norman E. Hanson, assistant to the president, Basic Refractories, Inc., Gabbs; John C. Kinnear, Jr general manager, Kennecott Copper Corp., Nevada Mines Div., Me Gill; F. A. McGonigle, vice presi dent and general manager, Man ganese, Inc., Henderson; A: E Millar, general manager, Anaconda Co., Yerington Mine, Weed Heights; Charles H. Segerstrom, Jr., president, setts Co., Tungsten; J. J. Strutzel, Jr., vice president and general manager, Wah Chang Mining Corp., Lincoln Div., Tempiute, and Black Rock Division, Bishop, Calif., and S. H. Williston, CorNevada-Massach- 712 SOUTH 2nd West ly 80,000 yards of prior to commencing an open-pi- t mining program similar to Continentals Rattlesnake Mine successful pit operation at Big In- Also elected was F. A. McGonb gle, first vice president; Roy n and Hardy, second Louis D. Gordon, executive sec-- j Wagstaff Truck Center 1775 Beck Street HANSON NEW CHEIF 40-to- The Life Yon Save May Be You Own GENE NELSON, NEVADA MINERS Upetco, at this time is inviting bids for stripping of approximate- u- dero Mining co., McDermitt. Model 707 - $795.00 Automatic alarm, the sounding of a buzzer every time a anomaly is recorded places this instrument in a class by itself. 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