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Show cc C0 u!j ULJ "Oor u& vfi itfcJt i(jHificaHce in Tt id tiitHikf Wcrtd" Mt. CO V ?V r. Vol. 28; No. 20 Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday,.' . 7. - e? I liouse Committee Lead, Zinc The House WASHINGTON has Committee Means and Ways set hearings for Aug. 1 and 2 on the administrations proposed sliding scale tariff for helping out d domestic lead-zin-c the industry. This was announced Tuesday by Rep. William A. Dawson (R., Utah), chairman of the committee of representatives from lead and zinc producing hard-presse- "Under rules of Congress, only the Ways and Means Committee can initiate legislation dealing with taxes and tariffs so the way now is clear for the Senate Finance Committee also to make plans for holding hearings on the lead-zin- c program. Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R., Utah) said he was doubtful the Senate Finance Committee, of which Sen. Wallace F. Bennett states which has been urging (R., Chairman Jere Cooper (D, Tenn.) hold Utah) is a member, could hearings about the same of the Ways and Means Committime as the House sessions. tee to schedule the hearings. It is now up to the mining industry to get its material together and make a good case for this legislation, said Sen. Watan Lisbon Uranium Shipments Hit Monthly Record Aerial view of Rio DeOros Dysart Mine No. 1 Lisbon Uranium Corp. is shipping between 3,000 and 3,500 tons monthly of uranium ore from its Ike shaft In the north end of the Big Indian District, A. P. Kibbe, president, reported Tuesday. The Salt Laker, who heads the firm controlled 74 per cent by Atlas Corp., 'New York investment company, said the average ore grade of these shipments since their commencement in March runs from 0.81 to 1.25 per cent uranium oxide. We have some lots which ran high as 1.9 per cent U308, he in rich Ambrosia Lake Area north of Grants, N.M. as said. Mill Contract Underlines Metals Industry Future Park City Mines Co. Reports New Iron Ore Discovery Industrial Physics and Electron- the point of dumping of the ore ics Co. of Salt Lake City was in piles served by underground metal mining Utahs awarded a contract recently that automatic conveyor systems, that industry was animated with reto tiie revolutionary haul the feed to the crushing depoints ports of what might be a signifinow under way in the partment. changes cant discovery of ore bn the 1,900 western metals industry. autoare and sizing Sampling foot level of the old Daly-Wes- t The company was given the job section as is the grinding area of the Park City District of perfecting automation and matic, control devices record and where of United Park City control systems for the weights and specific grav- properties uranium mill which Home-stak- e control Co. Mines of the overflows for the beneNew Mexico Partners will ity of the central panel operators. Vice President F. A. Wardlaw construct in the 'Ambrosia Lake fit also pilot the cirControls Jr. confirmed that after firing area of Hew Mexico. load in the ball culation two rounds, and ore face about The partnership is made up of units. feet wide was opened. six Co. Homestake the big Mining Automatic specific gravity mefinancier and others, including ters will control the flow, and He said that while it was much Floyd B. Odiums Rio de Qro ura- temperature meters the heat, in too early to determine the extent nium mining concern. Pachuca tanks, where the of the deposit, which appears to Carl M. Marquardt, Industrial the in a be fissure in nature that partial ground ore is Physics president, said that the hot leach. corbanate bedding into the limes, that mannew. mill at Grants will involve Coming out of the leach, control agement was encouraged. installation of 10 separate control will monitor the clarifisystems, all attached to central systems of the There was some discussion in pregnant solutions control panels, much as in modern cation mining circles that this ore showg liquors). of a oil refineries in the Salt Lake (uranium-containina control ing might be an extension be even will There 1,700-foot areas growing petroleum processon the sizeable system for the filtration and dis- level in deposit secOntario famous the ing industry. ' is This of importailings. posal will The new Homestake .mill of the property. But Mr. tant to the conservation of water tion Wardlaw believes this theorizing employ on an operating basis no (although is somewhat more than 17 or 18 persons com- in the arid district, premature at this there is ample water in some of time. pared to 100. to 150 persons in the mines). similar establishments on the ColAnother control system will faIn any event, the values report" orado Plateau. of the ed for the first round ran seven cilitate yellow recovery as Everything will be made sodium ounces the cake of silver and about seven hydroxthrough modern and controllable as ingeeach of lead and zinc. cent ide process. conprecipitation per nuity ran devise in this new counter-curreValues to not at is picked up after second It present planned tinuous, varbonate leach, was fired were at seven round seven more than operating decontation producer of have about 10 per ounces of five silver, and on the day shift uronhim oxide, Mr. Marquardt men 14 per cent to Mr. cent lead and two on up men the other shifts, said. said. Mr. Wardlaw zinc, Automation commences from Marquardt relates. non-ferro- us . . . 850-ton-a-d- ay mill-classifi- er air-agitat- ed , nt The ore goes to the Moab mill of Uranium Reduction Co. Mr. Kibbe also said Boyles Brothers Drilling Co. had completed the Columbia shaft in the district to a depth of about 550 feet and that Hidden Splendor Mining Co. was cutting seations. Hidden Splendor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlas Corp., is handling the mining operations on these claims for Lisbon. Mr. Kibbe said production of ore from deposits surrounding the Columbia shaft would start next fall and hit full stride during 1958. On the basis of present output from the Ike shaft, he estimates that Lisbons gross cash flow from Big Indian District uranium operations during productive months of 1957 should hit about $300,000 monthly. Lisbon continues in active exploration of uranium properties in northern Wyomings Big Horn Mountain area and on the San Mateo venture in the Ambrosia Lake district. A wildcat prospect is under way in Wyomings Gas Hills dis- kins. I am also hopeful the administration will come forth with some top flight witnesses, such as Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton who is well acquainted with the ails of the lead-zininand who played an imdustry portant part in getting administration approval of this proc gram. Meanwhile, Rep. Dawson point ed up the plight of the lead-zin- c industry in Utah by reading on the House floor a letter from Mrs. Anne H. Brunyer, welfare director of Summit County in which Park City is located. Should the mines close again, our town, like many other mining communities, will become a ghost town, wrote Mrs. Bruyner. Homes which our miners have worked and sacrificed for during a good many years of hard work will be abandoned. As director of welfare in Summit County, Mrs. Bruyner added, I am very close to these people and to their problems and the heart-breakin-g days when are forced to they give up their homes and leave to seek employment in other places. Two New Wildcat Locations Filed For Paradox Basin Two more wildcat locations for the Paradox Basin of Grand and San Juan counties were filed this week with Utah Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. The Texas Co. will drill another venture in the Ismay (East t Aneth) pool area. Its Hermosa test will be located in the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 17, Township 40 South and Itange 5,650-foo- 26 East. J. E. Menor and George Aubrey "We also have resumed explora- have filed location for what they wildcat tion in the Big Indian district," describe as a 4,100-foo- t test formation. of the Paradox the Salt Laker said. The well No. 1 would be located He said that by August management will have some idea, in southeast quarter of southwest based on current discussions, of quarter of Section 21 Township ratios of exchange involved in 22 South and Range 19 East, Cresthe merger of Lisbon and Hidden cent Junction area, of Grand County. Splendor Mining Co. Meanwhile, Shell Oil Co., anA number of Atlas and Hidden connected firms ere nounced location of another deSplendor at North scheduled to be merged into Hid- velopmental well, 41-1den Splendor, which company Desert Creek, San Juan County, would then become a publically one of the fastest expanding oil pools in the basin. held corporation. trict. 3, |