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Show Hecla Reportedly Leases Claims Near Moab Hecla Mining Company has reportedly leased 2,375! acres of Grand Co. uranium uran-ium holdings from the Butte Gas and Oil Co, with a drilling clause effective ef-fective early next year. - The announcement was made in an interim report by Butte for the period ending June 30. 19G7. John 'Boreta, president of the company, said Hecla was obligated to drill four exploratory ex-ploratory holes prior to March 1, 1968, to a sufficient suf-ficient depth to1 test the Chinle formation. The property is reportedly report-edly above Gold Bar Canyon, Can-yon, Northwest of Moab. Other uranium reports this week were that Home-stake Home-stake Mining Company has joined the list of other operators op-erators in Grand County in a drilling program. One spokesman said a number of companies would be drilling in Grand County in areas never before be-fore tested. The drilling will be away from outcrops, out-crops, where depths range from 400 to 1,700 feet. 7-mile and the Big Flat areas, and the downthrone side of Lisbon, will be drilled 1,800 feet or more. There will be more drilling drill-ing activity on the down-throne down-throne side of the Northeast North-east Moab Fault system (which extends Northwest through Moab. The Northeast North-east area is generally deep er drilling, it was noted. Most of the drilling activities ac-tivities in the Moab area go unannounced, and an accurate account of uranium uran-ium industry progress is hard to come by at the present time. FROM DENVEER ' Former Moabites, Mrs. Jay Mayhew and son, Bob of Denver, visited- with .'friends in Moab over' the weekend. Bob was enroute 'to Flagstaff, Ariz., where Ihe is enrolled at Arizona (State University. His brother, bro-ther, Allen will fee a freshman fresh-man student at Yampa (Valley College, at Steamboat Steam-boat Springs, Colo. Both (boys are former Grand bounty high school stud-fents. stud-fents. v |