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Show UTAH COPPER CO. y PRESENT OUTPUT FIGURES TOLD Colonel D. C. Jackling, president presi-dent of the Utah Copper company, com-pany, gave interesting statistics 1 l! A A 1. -1 1 on prouuciion ai ine ismgnam properties following his inspection inspec-tion May 14. He said: Each and every second of the day and night, seven days a week, the huge open-pit mine is producing pro-ducing ore equivalent to 20 pounds of copper; Utah Copper mine is producing in excess of 600,000,000 pounds of copper per year, a new all time peak; Every 24 hours 215,000 tons of ore and waste are moved off the hill; of this 90,000 tons is ore; With a normal capacity of 70,000 tons of ore a day. Magna and Arthur mills are taking care of 90,000 tons of ore a day; Utah Copper is producing 30 per cent of all newly-mined copper cop-per ore in United States; Utah Copper's molybdenum output has grown in six years from nothing to an annual rate of 18,000,000 to 20,000,000 pounds, 27 per cent of world production; Dissemination ore properties are now responsible for more than 60 per cent of the copper produced on earth; Utah Copper was the pioneer that led the way. O |