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Show A .... . fyt ,Ct "' f f Sr : : . - .- (I Scrap iion is ilumvd into those hu. tanks whore copper replacement takes place before liquors are dumped into recovery por.d and final "copper ce-mr-nt" recovered for shipment to Nevada for re fining. Over 000,000 pounds of this copper cement, 85 per cent pure, were shipped during the past month. T-I photo feature on Keystone-Wallace operation op-eration on Patf.- B-l of this issue. Keystone-Wallace Area Copper Operation Extends Reserves, Wears Mil! Capacity Bob Dalton, general manager of Keystone-Wallace in Lisbon Valley, came here from Canada several months ago to supervise the operation which now employes over 100 men. Manager Bob Dalton and heavy equipment equip-ment operator, Pat Buckingham, pause beside large caterpiller truck which A joint venture formed only last October on copper cop-per properties in the Big Indian Mi'.iing District south of Moab, is now approaching full production produc-tion and facing prospects of a much longer life than earlier anticipated. The Keystone-Wallace copper mine ana mill complex, com-plex, on the same location in the Lisbon Valley area as previous copper operations oper-ations that go back in history for nearly half a century, is now processing proces-sing around 2.000 tons of copper ore daily from its acid-leach mill, with the ore being mined from open-pit operations in the same vicinity. The finished product, copper cement, is being trucked to Ely, Nevada, where it is sold through Keystone Mining Company Com-pany (to Westinghouse Corporation, and is custom refined at the Kennecott trundles loads of ore of up to 35 tons . from mine to mill. Copper Co. refinery in Ely. The "cement" shipped ship-ped from the San Juan County mine is around 83 per cent copper when it leaves the local complex, according to Bob Dalton, general manager of the operation for Keystone-Wallace. Keystone-Wallace. Joint Venture The venture, entered into in-to by the Keystone Mining Min-ing Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., and G. M. Wallace of Denver last year, took over ov-er properties previously .. worked bv Cliffs CoDDer- Co. during the year prior .. to 19G9. Most of the mill,; equipment has been replaced re-placed with more efficient equipment, however, and new equipment is being added daily to both the mill and mining operation. With total employment now running just over one hundred, the Keystone-Wallace Keystone-Wallace operation is tak-, ing its place as one of the major employers in Southeastern South-eastern Utah..' Most of the employees are 'from the Moab area, . Although a number have' been placed from Montiello and the LaSal area? . , Sales in Nevada Shipments of copper cement ce-ment to Nevada last month totaled 600,000 pounds, according to Mr. Dalton, who arrived only two months ago from Canada, to take over management of the complex. Operation of the mill is under the direction of R. W. "Dick" Unger, lon'-time resident of the Moab area who has been associated with acid-leach acid-leach milling processes in ' area uranium mills, for many years. Mr. Unger stated that improvements are being made in the mill process from week to week, and he soon hopes, to reach a milling capacity capac-ity of some 3,000 tons of raw ore per day. Ores being be-ing mined in the immediate immed-iate vicinity by Keystone-Wallace Keystone-Wallace are running around ar-ound one per cent copper. Production is currently from two mines not far from the mill. The Costan-za Costan-za pit and the School Section Sec-tion pit are now produc- ing copper ore from a thirty-foot vein by open-pit open-pit methods, with large dozers ripping up the ore and a fleet of large trucks making the short haul to the mill. Two New Pits Two other pits, the West Sentinel and the High Lime will open soon. The latter mine is owned by Milt Nielson of Monticello and will be test-mined to see if the product can be economically milled by Keystone-Wallace. It is anticipated that' it will be taken over by the joint venture in the near future Continued on Page Bl "jris - v.-imvum l The Keystone-Wallace copper mill is located in Lisbon Valley, on he site of other copper operations which have milled Southeastern I Utah copper ores over the past half-century. Keystone-Wallace is I sow processing an average 2.000 tons of ore per day, with the fl "A v' -"-.. ' - Dick Unger, long associated with" flotation ore recovery re-covery milling in Southeastern Utah, climbs aboard large acid-leach tanks to check operation of Keystone-Wallace mill. - of the two opn.pit mines now being workec 1 tc . produce ; 0r the Keystone Wallace mill is this Schoo Sect. nP .t finished product, copper cement, being shipped to Ely, Nevada for refining. The product, as it leaves the local operation, is around 85 per cent pure. . - ' Mill superintendent, Dick Unger; general gen-eral foreman, Lee Chambers and Manager Man-ager Bob Dalton discuss improvements to be made to the acid-leach mil) in the near futur.s- to up production. K Til" 'O 'W-s. -fZZ-Ar --Y--. if -j .'- V. - ; . v '-' - ry 1... jrsutrr- m ' - f -fev4 20-hour per day shift running the ore the few short miles to the mill. Equipment in left of picture is removing over-burden to expos; ex-pos; the vein down-structure. K-W Copper Venture Optimistic About Future of Operation Continued from Page 1 to add to growing reserves reserv-es of copper. Aside from these properties, prop-erties, Keystone-Wallace is currently conducting an exploration program all over Southeastern Utah, acquiring copper properties proper-ties which can ultimately be added to company re-, serves and extend the operational op-erational life of the plant. In addition, Keystone-Wallace Keystone-Wallace will soon be offering of-fering a custom-milling facility, and holders of small copper properties are being invited to discuss dis-cuss possibilities of opening open-ing or reopening properties proper-ties that might be economically econ-omically mined due to the availability of a nearby milling facility and the current high price for copper. cop-per. Exploration Program In-company exploration is being conducted primarily pri-marily under the direction of Chief Chemist Keith Bai-rett and Plant Engineer Engin-eer Harold Haslam. These two, plus other crew members mem-bers have been picking up copper claims and looking at other properties proper-ties some as far away from the operation as west of Moab Valley. Preliminary to entering into custom milling agreements agree-ments with other operators, operat-ors, the management has been checking ore samples samp-les coming in from other operators, and currently is in the process of pre- paring a scale-house facility fa-cility and custom-milling ore-storage area at the Big Indian site. Production last month and a half averaged about 75 to 100 tons per hour, according to mill superintendent, superin-tendent, Dick Unger. With refinements in the crusher crush-er portion of the mill, however, it is anticipated that production can reach 3,000 tons per day quite easily. Westinghouse Sales Keystone Mining Company Com-pany has a current sales commitment to Westing-house Westing-house of 600,000 pounds of copper per month. That commitment was met last month, but local officials are hoping to go higher than that during coming months to make up for commitments not made LUlIllIULUltillia iiuu inciuc during the development phase of the operation. The newly arrived general gen-eral manager, Bob Dalton came to the Moab area from British Columbia, where he was associated with Newmont - ASARCO on the Granduc Project. Trior to that he has worked work-ed in the Western United States, South America, and Canada in a career extending back nineteen years. He is not, however, a newcomer to the area. Mr. Dalton was born in Moab, and was educated in the schools at Monti-cello, Monti-cello, at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. He and his family moved into a home in Walker Subdivision in Moab. General foreman, Lee Chambers, who recently arrived from Nevada, is also a resident of Walker Subdivision. Given only a short life expectancy by some observers ob-servers when the project first started last fall, Keystone-Wallace is aggressively ag-gressively extending reserves re-serves and looking forward for-ward to the future, according ac-cording to Mr. Dalton. "We feel that with the right combination of milling, mining and sales efforts, dozens of small copper properties with good, but limited potential in Southeastern South-eastern Utah can be economically econ-omically produced," Mr. Dalton stated, |