| Show worlds first gilsonite injection plant at bonanza two major development to come out of the american gil company operation operations at bonanza tile the past year have been I 1 instigation of 0 open cut m mining ining processes and the converting of ril gil Kils into petroleum products practical methods of mining by use of an open cut method h have ave been developed develop ed in the int interest erest vrest of lafety lately and lower production costs as explosives s ive lve can be use used d without tear four of injury to workers lare dare large scale machinery has been installed by tile the company I 1 tile the past post year they now op erate crate their own trucking line for hauling bulk gilsonite to craig crall colorado there in a new modernized plant it Is packed in P pound aund daperl paper sacks lacks and shipped to eastern markets raw haw gilsonite is used in such products as floor tiles paints varnishes insulating com compounds underwater and electrical cabie cable coatings and insulators and brake bands its immunity to acid has prompted its use as lining for chei chel chemical storage tanks and battery boxes Ilo llo however wever more uses for gil must be found as increased freight rates and cheaper substitute materials are arc greatly shrinking the traditional gilsonite market this is the prime objective of the Ame americal american gilsonite company it E nelson salt lake city assistant to the president explained problems to be ironed out in the experimental injection plant are mechanical only he said and these are presently being eliminated when the mining costs are reduced and a market for gilsonite Ils lis gilsonite onite products la Is assured aten then only Is the time when major processing plants in evolving large c expenditures r ot of will be considered purpose of injection plant at the present time mr nelson said the experimental in ejection plant is used to sell gliso gilso gilsonite nite Alte as a heavy fuel oil to help defray costs of mining research for every dollar earn ism imp V 4 V V J ab A 0 ae 4 A R 0 ak lle 41 e I 1 SLUSHER BLUSHER used at bonanza gilsonite mines lo 10 elevate ore to surface by open cut eathod method method now being employed employee for first firt time timo cd ed by the company this year 1 there mi llau iv has 10 been over v five dollars expended for plant and equip ment mn erf erp mr nasr Nl nelson sr declared that the production of fuel oil from gilsonite only provides a dumping place for the ore while ve loping larger scale mining methods the use of gilsonite gils onite in fuel oil however hs many a ad d i vantages such as a red reduction action in the sulfur content of the fuel oil a lower pour point a high nigh cr er BTU value etc a Gils onite I 1 alone is worth much more separate than if mixed with crude oil and sold as fuel oil the company is jointly owned by standard oil company of california and the barber oil corporation gilsonite is almost a pure hydrocarbon hydro carbon and when dissolved in crude oil from the rangely langely field loses its identity it also is processed as crude upon its a arrival r at the salt lake refining company injection infection plant process the process of dissolving the is something as follows gilsonite is ground to in the pilot plant or plant recently at a cost somewhere where near it is then mixed with crude oil and sent to slurry tank from which it is up to 1200 pounds and introduced into a of hot crude oil the two are arc mixed in a soaking quenched A with cold ran gely crude and injected into the lake rangel langely rangely pipe line oil shale mr air nelson pointed out produces only from one half i to ia one ohe 0 barrel barrei of L crude cud oil gilper per ton while gilsonite gilson tte produces upwards of five to six barrels per ton gilsonite is found only in the uintah basin in commercial d deposits posits and during the past year some 50 00 to tons were marketed there is now roughly estimated to be 30 million tons still untouched r much buc h of which occurs in very verv narrow veins Aleth methods of extracting the gilsonite gils pils onite in these narrow vel vei veins have not as yet bee been n devised u object of the companas comp anys cur rent research is to prove that gilsonite can be mined at a cost that will permit the construction of large processing da dianas i n ts that are inherently expensive and thus establish a major industry in tile the uintah basin |
