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Show KENNECOTT TO BUILD RESEARCH CENTER SOON The University of Utah Board of Regents has approved a proposal pro-posal under which Kennecott Copper Corporation will construct con-struct a research center on the university campus. The building and equipment are estimated to cost $1,250,000. Plans for the structure are practically completed and it is expected that construction can get under way in the near future. About a year will be required to complete the building. Building of the research center on the camps will have many advantages ad-vantages for the university according ac-cording to Louis Buchman, vice president of Kennecott Copper Corporation and should enhance the prestige of the university's College of Mines and Mineral Industries. Kennecott's research personnel will be available for student seminars on technical subjects. Company officials added add-ed that the structure will be of a type that will be in keeping with the beauty and dignity of the campus. When fully staffed, the research re-search center will employ approximately ap-proximately 50 people and it is expected that most of the staff will be Utahns. The new research center will engage in basic studies relating to mineral recovery problems of all of Kennecott's Western Mining Min-ing Divisions. In addition to the Utah Copper Division, these include in-clude operations in Nevada, Arizona Ari-zona and New Mexico. It is also expected that a regular part of the laboratory's work will be investigation in-vestigation of the treatment of ores and minerals from many parts of the world in connection with Kennecott's expanded exploration ex-ploration activities. In addition to the laboratory facilities, the new center will have pilot plant equipment in which laboratory results can be verified on a larger scale. This is the first time in the company's history that Kennecott Kenne-cott has built a facility of this type away from its operations. Company officials feel that the research center's work can be done to better advantage by divorcing di-vorcing it entirely from regular production problems. In charge of the laboratory will be S. R. Zimmerley, who recently resigned resign-ed from the Bureau of Mines to become Director of Research for Kennecott's Western Mining Divisions. Di-visions. Ashton, Evans and Brazier, architects and engineers, are designing de-signing the new structure. In the meantime, one of the barracks-type buildings at the university has been moved to a location near the College of Mines and Mineral 'Industries and will be used for temporary quarters. Research work in the temporary building will begin as soon as the structure can be remodelled re-modelled and the initial equipment equip-ment installed. After the new research re-search building Is finished, the remodelled and improved temporary tem-porary structure will be vacated and will be available for use by the university. " |