| Show huge dep deposits of strontium ore located in millard county utah the existence of a huge deposit depos i t of strontium carbonate ore has resulted from investigations recently made by F L byron of delta millard county utah the mineral is reported to be exceptionally high grade and as the deposit covers an area approximately one mile long feet wide and feet high above the surrounding marsh land in which it is located there evidently must be millions of tons of the ore exposed the deposit is located in southeastern millard county about five miles west of the little town of meadow some twelve or fifteen miles southwest of fillmore and thiry five miles south of delta it is about twenty miles by wagon road westerly to clear lake station on the los angeles 8 salt lake railroad from the property this unusual deposit of is owned by hy Col colby colbye byA A L larsen 0 A potter and F L byron though the latter it is said has recently sold his interest for delta real estate negotiations now are pending for the sale of the property to eastern capitalists whose identity has not been disclosed it is said to bethe expectation that in case the pending deal is that chemical works will be erected at some point not remote from the property and that an industrial enterprise of considerable magnitude will be established nature of deposit only recently Deter miend it was not until last spring that any one paid particular attention to this deposit of E early arly in the year while mr air byron was prospering cing around millard county with an idea of determining the possibilities of oil production in that portion of the state he was asked to inspect the reef comprising this deposit and while lie he was unable to say just what it was without the aid of chemical analysis he realized that the deposit was evidently of value and therefore went to the trouble of taking samples and having them tested and tried out by various assayers results were conflicting and it was not until quite recently when lie e submitted samples of the ore to prof R G bell a member of the educational staff of the delta high school the material was quickly identified as strontium carbonate of high gh purity and the great value of the deposit was thus established this deposit according to mr byron has formed a reefred reef remote note from any other rock formation in the section where it is located this reef was formed by the action of a large hot alkaline spring the spring is now extinct but the crater in the middle of the reef is stil intact and measures feet in width with the rini rim standing thirty feet high agh around it the enclosure thus formed has been used by cattlemen for many years as a corral in which to impound stock and it is known for miles around as the the rock grock correl characteristics of strontium native strontium carbonate erco Sr COg is an all orthor on ambric ibric pale green white gray or yellowish mineral in masses of radiating needle shaped or spear shaped crystals in ill fibrous massive massive forms etc chemically it is described as a bivalent metallic element of the calcium group always naturally combined chiefly in carbonate and sulphate it is isolated by electrolysis of the fused chloride as a yellowish metal similar to calcium but harder when pure it is silver white strontium compounds color the test flame carmine and some as the nitrate are used in fireworks the various salts obtained from the ore have many uses there is a strontium process of refining sugar etc quoting from mineral resources of the united states 1917 part II 11 james M hill domestic strontium ores were used by makers of strontium chemicals to a considerable extent during 1917 prior to 1916 most of the salts made in this country were products of imported in 1917 however the domestic deposits supplied over 70 of the domestic requirements detailed notes on the known occurrences of strontium ores in the united states were given in the report for 1916 apparently few new commercial nier cial localities have been found though extensions of the strontium area n near ear barstow san bernardino county calif are reported difficulties of transportation continue to hinder the development of some deposits of that appear to be of promise production market and prices from the best information available to the united states geological survey it would seem that short tons of strontium ore valued at about of which about 10 was strontium carbonate and the remainder strontium sulphate was mined in the united states during 1917 this ore was mined in california texas and washington by far the greatest production was made from california deposits approximately 1700 tons of english was imported in ill 1917 for use in this country T the he principal market for and is in the east the largest buyers apparently being the foote mineral co of philadelphia pa and the E I 1 du pont font de nemours co harrison works of philadelphia there is a small market on the pacific coast among makers of fireworks and carbonate prices reported by sellers of ranged from 20 to 22 a short ton but for ores prices from 35 to 90 a short ton were reported the foote mineral co on july 14 1917 was selling ground 90 arso at ac a pound 40 a ton and ground 83 sr at ac a pound a ton |
