Show rare metals in oregon Is hard problem for inventors medford Med tord ore billions of dollar I 1 worth of complex metals lie in the ground of southern oregon but the master key tor their extraction is lacking southern oregon has more rare than any other district in th world besides large quantities of the commonly used commercial but they are all mixed together declared one expert these rare metals sell from 19 to 75 an ounce the mining of them remains as a challenge to the metallurgical lurg ical world they are so mixed with each other and with baser metals that their full value never has been properly appreciated but it Is agreed among mining an thorit les familiar with the region that the chemist or metallurgist who devises a process of separating the precious metals not only will build him self a great fortune but will cause oregon to become the most important mineral producing state of the west cm hemisphere or perhaps of the world millions of dollars in placer gold al ready has been taken from southern oregon soil and millions more will be taken A vast project financed by eastern capitalists and calling tor de of the rich mount emily and grave creek deposits on a 50 year basis was recently launched large quantities of gold have been taken from pockets or from oil dozed tree milling ores but as soon as these ores went below the oxidized zone complex sulphides sulp hides were and were rejected as too corn plex or refractory to treat the experts declare that southern oregon holds vast deposits which corn pound together chrome iron gold platinum pal adlum osmium ruthenium tan and other rare metals ores that ran from 10 to 20 pounds of tan a ton have been reported |