Springville Herald | 1949-04-28 | Page 3 | Valuable Carnotite Mine Located in Emery County

last year has yielded 3,500 tons of carnotite which has been trucked 154 miles to the Monticello processing proces-sing plant. Operated by Byron Howard and Tom Skidmore, Price, the men have announced that the famous motion picture news feature, "The I&arch of Time" "will gather feature fea-ture material in Emery county soon which will result in this section sec-tion being brought into the national nation-al spotlight. Mr. Howard declared that the ore used by Madame Curie of France in her experiments which led to the discovery of radium came from Temple mountain area in the 1890's. Valuable Carnotite Mine Located In Emery County Emery county probably has the largest producing carnotite mine in the state carnotite yields uranium ur-anium and the mine is the largest lar-gest contributor to the Monticello carnotite processing plant. The mine is on Temple mountain moun-tain on the east flank of the San Rafael Swell and since July of