| Show Off Plateau Uranium Hunts Pay Dividends to Searchers Systematic long range exploration exploration tion on programs on and off the Colorado plateau are paying dividends div- div dividends to uranium miners In Wyoming miles north of the uranium rich Colorado plateau Loma oma Uranium of Denver has an an- pounced that more than feet of of- exploratory drill holes I have been completed in that state P. P Is I.'s Uranium Information reported re- re ported that extensive aerial and ground round reconnaissance programs have lave been completed and will continue Lomas Loma's reward is commercial uranium production n north of Douglas Wyo and good Indications indica indica- ons of more ore ore are on properties In n the Crooks gap and Cedar Ceda r ridge dge a areas of Fremont county First shipments of ore from th the e ed Converse county mine contained contain d 42 2 per cent uranium well above the he minimum requirement for commercial ore Uranium Information Information In In- formation said that more drilling and surface work will be done on the Crooks gap and Cedar ridge acreage Similar exploratory operations are paying off for Loma in Utah where aerial and ground work has indicated the presence o of uranium bearing formations o on n leases held by the firm in Garfield Gar Gar- Garfield field f county New drilling will begin begin be be- gin here within 30 days Copper Coppe r properties in Cochise county Ariz also are being surveyed by bya a company field crew Other firms are finding similar r rewards as a result of scientific c searches for uranium Uranium Corporation of America shipped the first load of uranium ore fr fra from froma om a new area southeast of Lander Wyo The firm drilled extensively extensive extensive- ly over some claims in this area during the summer months months' according to the Denver report New mines on the Colorado plateau in established producing areas also are ready to begin shipping as a result of drilling programs that have outlined outline uranium benea beneath the surfs a Kirk Basin Uranium Grand Jule Juno Ct tion and Four Corners Comers Exploration tion Grand Junction and Grants N. N M. M each have mines near the producing stage In the Colorado area of the Colorado plateau Four Corners Exploration also Iso 1 is readying shipments from a mine min near Grants on the southeastern rn edge of the plateau Here again the he bonus of uranium production productions Is s a result of a systematized ex ex- exploratory program |
