Show OIL r INDUSTRY BUSINESS NEWS VS Local Company Enters I Powder Metal f Industry I BY DON ROBINSON N After Aft r eight years of experimentation Micro Copper Corporation Cor Cor- C r- r is looking forward to a place In the expanding powder powder powder pow pow- der metals industry President Dick Mohler told Moab Rotarians Ro Ito Monday The former uranium company has developed a process of producing microscopic powder of copper from ores In the Lisbon Valley area of Jt San Juan county The process is Ideally suited to making small copper deposits like the historic Big Dig Indian copper find economical The product when refined licks the former transportation problem encountered Previously 90 per cent of all copper powder produced was from scrap Now powder Is being made horn from low grade copper ores and the industry has shown a 50 per cent Increase over the past five years The desire of Micro Copper the executive executive executive ex ex- ex- ex said Is to reduce powder prices to a competitive level with Ingot production To do so the company is hoping for additional companies to enter the field Their addition would encourage a trend toward more fabrication of articles from copper powder Micro employees 10 persons Pt t their Lisbon Valley mill and eight men in Colorado mining operations The present mill is set up for tor 1000 pounds of powder production pro pro- per day but another mill In engineering study that would produce pounds r e r Atlas Minerals nas has offered altered their loading facilities at the north portal of the potash spur tunnel to Interested companies at small cost The recently constructed loading area would be of special value to firms trucking all the way to Thompson Thomp Thomp- son by cutting the distance 36 miles The offer was confirmed Tuesday by Atlas executive Roy C r e eThe The locating of ot a lumber curing and mill mil in the Moab area is motivated by a 40 35 day extended drying period due to better weather here an employee of the Employment Security office stated Tuesday No date has been disclosed for the construction Employment planning Is for tor 40 35 men ranging from managerial lI to laboring openings |