Show NEW metallurgical PROBLEMS AT U OF U in order to work out the possibilities of using the vast amounts amount of salt that are available in utah in the metallurgical lurg ical treatment of large deposits of low grade and complex ores as well as other problems six fellowships have been awarded by the university of utah department of metallurgical research six out of thirty five applicants were awarded the fellowships these were the men with the highest scholarships and best references and they represent the states of new york pennsylvania iowa missouri and utah the work of these men is supervised by the department of the university in cooperation with the united states bureau of mines the research workers will study problems which involve the possibilities of developing more of natural resources these included the production of low grade oxidized silver lead ores the recovery of oil from the larg large e oil shale deposits of the state and the use of famous deposits of alunite in bitite piute county the latter mineral is now being used for its potash contents accord according inz to Tho thomas liias varley head of the flie united states bureau of mines at th 2 university but it is hardly paying enough to compete with the german potash production if we can find how t to 0 recover the agui aluminum binum fram this alunite a large industry industry y can be developed there mr varley says experiments have been conducted at salt lake city by the bureau of mines to determine the effect of water vapor on the volatilization of zinc as metallic chlorides the data obtained so far indicate that for a low percentage of zinc and high percentage of salt a much larger percentage of zinc is volatilized than when the percentages of salt are lower than those of zinc in the charge water saturated at apparently has no effect on the volatilization as compared with dry air the difference being in favor of dry air |