Show 1957 Uranium Concentrate Production Revealed by The Atomic Energy commission operations office in Grand Junction Junction Junc Junc- tion lion announced Tuesday that at atthe atthe atthe the end of 1957 domestic uranIum uranium uran uran- ium lum concentrate production had reached an annual rate of tons of uranium oxide Concentrates Concentrates Concen Concen- produced d in the United States and received by the commission com corn mission during the calendar year 1959 totaled tons of uranium uranium uran uran- ium lurn oxide Included In this total are tons which were produced as a product by-product In the chemical pro pro- ceasing of phosphate rock In FlorIda Florida Flor Flor- I Ida ida and Illinois from the treatment treatment treat treat- I ment meat of Idaho euxenite at the St. St Louis plant of Chemical Company and from re reprocessing reprocessing reprocessing re- re processing of refinery residues at Vitro Corporations Corporation's Cannonsburg Pennsylvania plant the stated Receipts by the ABC from foreign sources were tons ton of uranium oxide December estimated esti estl mated making a total for tor both domestic and foreign of ot tons At the beginning o 0 there thero were twelve operating mills In Inthe the western United States Four additional mills came Into production pro in 1957 1057 Additional statistics statistics sta sta- on domestic uranium production pro in 1957 1951 will be published by the commission within a few I weeks as soon as reports are r received from mill and mine mIme o oera operators op era tors throughout the west These wilt will Include statistics on onore onore ore are production rate rete of processIng processIng process process- Ing lug ore reserves stockpiles and related data c. c |