Show Million Tons Listed as Uranium Ore Reserve by The U U. U S. S Atomic Energy Commission Wednesday announced announced announced ced monthly and total statistics states statis tics on domestic uranium production pro for the first six months of calendar 1959 Included were figures on uranium concentrates domestic ore production rate of processing ore fed to process ore stockpiling re reserves and Initial production bonus pay payments ments meats Domestic ore reserves were estimated to total million tons on July 1 1 In addition ore stockpiles totaled dry tons Ore receipts at all private private pit vate plants and government purchase depots in the six month period totaled dry short hort tons and ore fed to pro cess ecu totaled tons with an average grade of 25 per cent 1308 Uranium concentrates con received at the Grand Junction depot totaled ons of in the six month period As of June 30 1959 there were 23 uranium processing I mills In operation Including the r single owned government mill mUl at Monticello Their combined rat e ed daily dally capacity was tons of ore per day and their total estimated capital investment was about vo Two mills mils with total rated capacity of 1 I tons of ot ore are per day cia were under construction in 10 Fremont and Natrona counties Wyo i Uranium concentrates received ed at the depot in Grand Junction totaled tons ton of The average price paid by the government for tor the con was per pound or approximately million An additional 92 tons were produced as a product by-product in the chemical processing of ot phosphate plies ph phate ate rock in Florida and Illi nn Illinois nois and from the treatment of ot Idaho euxenite at the St. St Louis plant of tit Chemical com comry y Total ToW U S. S production in the six month period was tons February was the big month for processing During that month an average of tons tong per day was listed by the nations na milling miffing facilities Through June 30 SO a total of had been pt paid d on 1050 certified properties as in production bonus under the terms of ot Domestic Uranium Program Circular 6 6 New Mexico led the states in hi measured indicated and ard infer inter interred red ore reserves Total reserves lore Ie estimated at tons with the breakdown by states as follows New Mexico 57 million Wyo Wy Wyoming ming mingo 15 million Utah 59 million mil lion Colorado 45 million Arizona Art Ari zona zone 16 l million Washington Oregon Nevada 25 million North and South Dakota thousand and other states state totaling to to 18 million These figures are determined In accordance with the definitions defini for measured indicated and inferred Interred Ol ore reserves as adopted 1 by the U. U S. S Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines Mina and include only material amenable amenable am am- enable to treatment it was WetS pointed out |