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Show Independent Miners Meet in Nucla A meeting of the Western Wes-tern Uranium Association Associa-tion (a group of independent inde-pendent uranium ore miners and mine operators oper-ators of Utah and Colo rado) was held Mondaq evening at the San Miguel Mi-guel Power Company's auditorium in Nucla, Colo., with approximately approximat-ely 150 in attendance. The purpose of" the meeting was to elect officers of-ficers for the ensuing year and to discuss the uranium - vanadium ore market problems confronting con-fronting the producers. The officers elected were Ernest Anderson, of Grand Junction, president; pre-sident; Dave Blake, of Norwood, v ice president; and John I. Schumacher, of Grand Junction, sec-new sec-new board of directors ker. Norwood: William S. Dawson. Grand Junction: Junc-tion: James Walker, of Moab. and Keith Andrews. An-drews. Nucla. Representatives of three major uranium-vanadium uranium-vanadium milling companies com-panies were present. They were Albert E. Dearth, of Atlas Minerals; Min-erals; Jerry Sharmin of Union Carbide, and Don Little, of Cotter Corporation. Corpor-ation. Mr. Dearth discussed the problems encountered encounter-ed by Atlas in proeeed- ing with its proposed extended milling plans, largely due to new licensing li-censing requirements of the Environmental Protection Pro-tection Agency. In this connection, it was the prevailing opinion of those present that by each member communicating commun-icating directly with his Congressman, a great deal of help could be generated gen-erated in the matter of eliminating a lot of misunderstanding mis-understanding between environmentalists and those working on proposed propos-ed new milling facilities. Mr. Sharmin, of Union Un-ion Carbide, could offer no encouragement as to the early improvement in the uranium-vanadium ore market. Apparently, it was his opinion that any such hoped-for improvement im-provement was some distance in the future. Mr. Little, of Cotter, also stated that he could envision no early improvement im-provement in the uranium uran-ium ore marketing situation. sit-uation. Mr. Tom High, representing rep-resenting the Colorado Bureau of Mines, made an extended talk on the good and bad angles of environmental entanglements. entangle-ments. There was also considerable con-siderable discussion as to the announced early release, ty the Atomic Energy Commission of the ore blocks held in reserve for several years in the Uravan Mineral Mi-neral Belt bv the A EC. Further information as to plans for this proposed pro-posed release and the acquirment of said various var-ious ore blocks have been promised for the near future. Howard Balsley (Mo-ab's (Mo-ab's Mr. Uranium) was thanked again for his many helpful contributions contribu-tions to the uranium industry. |
