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Show Fife Inly 20. 1956 The Western Mineral Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah 2 New Copper Shape Shipped By A . Kennecott Corporation distinctive and new copper shape which will enable the copper fabricating industry to produce longer sections of continuous rolled or strip copper and copper foil, is now being produced and shipped according to an announcement by the Utah Copper Division, Kennecott Copper Corporation, Garfield, Utah. The facility, a $2 million vertical casting wheel, was created by the world s largest single producer of refined copper to meet increased customer demands for larger sjzed cakes and billets. As a result of this investment, we are now able to produce 40 molds for the cakes. Thus, the molds on the tons per hour of high grade, dual ballet-cakfwheel eliminate the need for in electrolytically pure copper e cakes weighing 2,000 pounds, states L. F. Fett, general manWhile the wheel is ager. to 4,000 pounds we have not, as yet, poured that size in regular production runs. Within a few months, billets in diameters of three to four inches, will be coming from the same facility in the plant. The casting facilities of the refinery, situated on the shore of Great Salt Lake, originally built at a cost of more than $17 million, have heretofore been confined to output of copper ingots, slabs and wirp ham With the addition of these two new shapes, the Utah Copper Division is able to meet copper fabricators needs for cakes which go into plates and thin sheets (they end up in a variety of products from salt shakers to home building hardware) and billets. The latter copper form is fashioned into copper tubing through the technique of metal extrusion. In order to produce these new shapes, it was necessary for the engineers to design and build this unique, vertical casting wheel which weighs well over 500 tons. It is the first unit of this nature to have been installed and placed in operation in this or any other country. The wheel rotates around a substantial shaft and is powered by a heavy-duthydraulic motor. Operating differences Its principal difference, from other vertical casting wheels, lies in these areas: 1. Molds for billets are attached to the same wheel as are the y changing molds. 2. A total of 28 cakes and 28 billet molds are carried on the wheel at the same time, making it larger than other units employed by electrolytic refineries. 3. Instead of ull immersion in a bath of water to cool the red-ho- t copper at .its pouring temperature of 2,150 degrees F. a cooling chamber, equipped with fine water spraying nozzles is employed. The fine spray device is metallurgical recognition of the physical fact that the cloud of steam, generated and surrounding hot metals in a bath, is itself an insulator against rapid temperature drops. This is analagous to the manner in which the earths cloud formations protect us, in part, from the full effects of bright summer sun. 25-fo- ot High Pike RegisteredBureau 1- -3 New Mexico Survey New mines registered with the New Mexico Mine Inspectors office include the High Pike Nos. 1 and 3 by the Primary Atomic Minerals, Inc, The mines were registered as underground operations in Section San Miguel Counin Willow Creek Mining the ty, District. The Hornet Mine, a big lead-zin- c producer in the past, will be reopened by Harvest Queen Mill and Elevator Co. The mine is in Grant County, six miles east of Hatehita. The WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY is Expanding Its Classified Ad Section MILLION CASTING WHEEL Growing diversification of products Of this Refinery, sit- uated on the shores of Great Salt Lake, is re- fleeted in the completion of a $2 million invest- ment which Is now producing 40 tons per hour of electrolytically pure copper in 2,000 pound and 105 pound billets. Pictured here is the new vertical casting wheel in operation at Ken- necott Copper Corporations copper refinery, Garfield, Utah. This facility, weighing well over 500 tons, is the first of its kind to be installed, $2 . and placed In operation In this or any other country for the purpose of forming cakes of refined copper. It will enable the copper fabri- eating industry to produce longer sections of continuous rolled or copper strip and foiL lets and cakes, respectively, are the source shapes from which copper tubing is pierced or extruded and copper sheet is rolled. Bil-cak- . es C. T. Kappler Begins Job Uranium Found In Crooks Gap of the Armstrong, Chair- kow, Attomey-in-Charg- e Salt Lake City man of the Securities and Ex- Commissions change Commission, today, an- Branch Office. nounced the transfer, effective Since June 1955, Mr. Kappler August 6, 1956 of Charles T. Kapto of has been on the Commissions pler, Jr., Washington, D.C., the Commissions Regional Office staff as an attorney in the Diviin Denver for assignment as As- sion of Trading and Exchanges, in sistant Attorney to Edward Ra- - Washington, D.C. Commercial uranium has been ing program begun by Phelps-Dodg- e Corp. on Wyoming Uranium Corp. property in. Crooks Gap, Wyo., under a lease option agreement. i As S L C Attorney J. Sinclair The six holes span a distance of 3,200 feet. Closest hole to Wyoming Uraniums Shinkalobe ore body was 600 feet away. If ore in that hole in indicative of extension of the judicial recognition that railroad a include will greatly add mineral it Shinkalobe, land grants to the of two of in title value the deposit. rights awarding sections in McKinley disputed County, N. M., to Uranium Co. The land contains what the company estimates at WESTERN MINERAL $180 million worth of uranium. SURVEY Colo. Plateau Suit Settled By U.S. New Mexico Survey Bureau An OPPORTUNITY For Buyer & Seller To Get Together ' o For ot Sabre-Pinio- n ' QUICK RESULTS LORRAINR NXWS ECONOMICAL o A suit which threatened to cloud many titles on the uranium-rich Colorado Plateau has been settled by a U. S. district judge in Santa Fe, N. M. U. S. Judge Waldo Rogers took 600-fo- International Smelting and Refining Co. RATES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION WHITE OH CALL 31 PRIM - CUtCULATIOX Church Street Box 2608 phone DC ADVDmSDfO DC Belt Lake City, Utah 49 Entered na aeeond due matter at Salt Lake City, Utah, under Act ol Kirch 3. 1139. for two yeare; Subacrtptlon ratea:-$9:0for one year. Pleaaa mention Weatern Mineral Survey when wrltlntr to advertlaara. Adver tiatny ratea on application. 13.00 WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY - P. O. Box Advertising Dept. Salt Lake City I, Utah PHONE EMpire 4-36- 40 2608 ' . F. A. WARDLAW, General Manager i 818 KEARNS BUILDING Phone EL 5-34- 01 Salt Lake City HABKY B. KIUJEB REX L. 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