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Show UTAH'S MINING FUTURE BRIGHT Probable presence in the area of the Utah Copper open pit mine of productive limestone deposits not previously suspected was announced an-nounced at the September 11 session ses-sion of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Engin-eers in a technical paper presented present-ed by James A. Marsh of Copper-ton, Copper-ton, company geologist. Other papers giving A.I.M.L. members a complete picture of the mammoth Utah Copper enterprise en-terprise were those presented by Louis Buchman, general superintendent superin-tendent of mines; E. W. Engel-mann, Engel-mann, general superintendent of mills; A. G. Johnson, metallurgical metallurgi-cal engineer. John M. Boutwcll, Salt Lake City geologist and consulting engineer, en-gineer, in his talk indicated that a wide range of mining opportunities oppor-tunities is still offered in Utah, although it now ranks as one of the chief metal producing states with 56t per cent-of the population popu-lation basically dependent upon mining. "A long and successful future for the mining industry in Utah" was foreseen by Mr. Boutwell. Reduction of costs in operation by mechanization is as important as steady chemical and physical advances by develop- mfinl ff n run mathnrc rf i m treatment, he said. Mr. Buchman stated that electrification elec-trification of power shovels and transportation, increased mechanization mech-anization and improvement of equipment have made possible reduction of mining costs from 24 cents per ton to less than 8 cents a ton. ' Extraction of molybdenum from Bingham Canyon ores has been improved until the process employed is 95 efficient. Mr. Buchman also noted that the company currently handles 70,000 tons of ore and 90,000 tons of waste daily, a total of 160,000 tons of material. The full session Friday morning morn-ing was devoted to an inspection of Bingham mine. |
