Show URANIUM AND VANADIUM discoveries in emery county utah awakening widespread wide spread interest the increasing demand for the rare metals uranium and vanadium has revealed the fact that deposits of these minerals exist in quantity in emery county utah and the interest being taken in the development of these deposits is becoming so widespread wide spread that foreign countries are not only investigating but are also obtaining possession of some of the leading mines of that section the dispatch of green river utah has the following to say regarding the urani uranium urn industry of that portion of the state uranium and vanadium deposits located a dozen miles southeast and west from green river have recently been under inspection spec tion by kirby thomas of new york one of the best known mining engineers in the west thomas made the examination in behalf of eastern capitalists who have extensive holdings here thomas would not talk about what he found he said however that he found some very rich uranium ore and evidences of vanadium these fields are attracting a good deal of interest as right now there seems to be an unsatisfied demand particularly for uranium said mr thomas this ore makes in the bedding deposits in the sandstone sometimes near the lime just why this demand for uranium and what is to be done with the metal I 1 am at a loss to say the vanadium is now being extensively used in the steel business removing the oxygen and greatly strengthening the metal since the car of uranium and vanadium joint oxides was recently shipped from this city to liverpool there has been much speculation throughout the country as to what vanadium is used for upon looking the matter up we find that vanadium is used in fine cutlery factories as an alloy to handle the steel and it is probable that the product of this section will be used in the cutlery factories in england and wales remarkable claims are made for the toughness added to steel through the use of small quantities of the metal vanadium according to a report of the united states geological survey it is declared that after treatment with vanadium steel has great resistance si to the strain or as it is termed the fatigue caused by constant bending it is now stated that the recent ore shipment from here was found to contain a high per cent of the precious powder so no doubt other shipments will be made in quick succession as there are immense quantities of the joint oxides within twenty miles of this city only in two other places in the united states has vanadium been found before that being in pennsylvania at one mine and in the superior lead fields it is in white powder form chas A leu manager of the denver company headed by dr hassenplug who are operating uranium vanadium mines near the forsman ranch is making good headway with a force of five men including himself and last sunday they hauled a ton and a half of the ore to town where it is being stored for shipment they will soon get out enough ore for a carload shipment mr leu states that they have struck first class ore of equal values uranium and vanadium already and will start development work on a larger scale soon three larger tents have been put up and the men are very comfortably housed at the camp he thinks that a mill would prove a moneymaking proposition here |