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Show Smelters Pave Way For Mining Utah's Low Grade Ores f lis ' v - - I f ' 9- Ks 7i ' ill r ; ' t " " i r ' ! a 1 r i , ' t : 'U L . : ki t it ' vi-'' & a J Considered waste years ago this ore is now being moved from one of Utah's mines as a result of improved smelting practices. Without Utah's smelting industry, indus-try, the state's mining industry would be comparatively small, but together they make the world's leading non-ferrous mining and smelting center. Utah's smelting plants are located in close proximity to Salt Lake valley. val-ley. They are the Midvale plant of the United States Smelting Refining Re-fining and Mining company, the Murray and Garfield plants of the American Smelting & Refining company, com-pany, the Tooele plant of the International Inter-national Smelting & Refining company, com-pany, the Stockton plant of the Combined Metals Reduction company. com-pany. In addition there are the two large milling plants of the Utah Copper company at Magna and Arthur, but these are not custom plants treating only the production of Utah copper. All these companies maintain large research departments, from which has come some of the most important improvements in smelt ing and refining practices developed in the past 30 years. As new economies have been made these savings have been passed along to the producer until today ores can be produced and shipped that 20 years ago was considered waste. In reality these improvements have virtually saved the metal mining industry of Utah as there has been a marked downward trend in the grade of ore produced in recent years. These companies maintain geological geo-logical and mining departments to assist operators in bringing prospects pros-pects into the producing stage. Every Ev-ery effort is made to assist both small and large concerns in exploration. ex-ploration. A number of exploratory campaigns have been carried on in Utah and surrounding states by these companies. In some instances important ore discoveries have been made which have added materially to our mineral resources and industry in-dustry and employment. |