Show I 1 MANGANESE IN COLORADO AND WYOMING during 1917 and 1918 when there was a shortage of manganese ore and a possibility lity of greater shortage the deposits throughout the country were mere actively ex plotted ed and every one reported was examined in order to determine its probable size and the grade of material it would yield geologists of the state and national surveys examined about 1200 deposits some valuable deposits were discovered but many that were examined can not yield much ore the united states geological survey of the department of the interior has just published two reports that describe manganese deposits in colorado and wyoming the only deposit that was known in wyoming in 1918 consists of manganese oxides in limestone and lies near the head of sheep creek albany county thirty eight miles north of medicine bow A small quantity of rather high grade ore was shipped from this deposit I 1 nine groups of deposits in colorado were also examined and seven of them are described in one of the reports just issued reports oti on the deposits of ore at leadville and red cliff have already been published four groups of deposits deposit slie lie near salida calida chaffee chaff ee county one near lola iola gunnison county one near moffat saguache county and one near cedar sin san miguel county ore has been shipped from some of these deposits and others could yield small quantities of high grade ore but probably none can be worked with profit except when as in 1917 and 1918 a great shortage exists and prices are much higher than those now offered |