Show I 1 lofty quest ouest for uranium EVEN MORE dra dramatic matle tha dep the 0 fold gold rush day days la Is america americas quest tor for uranium ore now under wy y W high 9 h on the th rutted rugged clomad plateau at bravar uravan below f mined in the th li Is reft refined ned town wax was named for or lura wa ain in uranI umi ivan van la in vanadium 1 low M ftak ONCE processing 18 coin com pitted uranium below has ha a black blak tacky sticky form drying reduce reduces the material to powder SANDSTONE near this tm leal teal mining structure yield yields from it are d do rived traces tracts ot of uranium anre re MOUNTAIN CLIMBING international trucks one of 0 which if Is shown in background back round below haul the ore to mills from nearly inaccessible mines miners examine ore lor for yellow streak proof pt of uranium I 1 A A I 1 L aka bill expected to expedite uranium mim mining washington jidy judy 10 sen wallace F dennett B n utah said saturday that he pacts a bill to be reported soon clart lying the of ur UM mining claims in utah and other western states fow four identical bafs are ing during the final we weeks ol 01 I 1 the uie congress the lawmaker noted with S 1397 introduced by colorado Colo raft senators ed johnson and eugene D meui km kin getting most of the attention in the senate these bills would provide that the prior application lor for or issuance ot of an oil or gas gus prospecting berndt would not prevent entry exploration dish dl covery and location of mining claims for fissionable materials mater iala subject ot a course emu pe q to the rights of prior oil and gag gas per miters both the department ot of the interior and the atomic energy commission seem to favor the hills sen bennett said its hist just a matter of details and semantics now I 1 have high hopes that same some spewing out of policy will be possible before this oes gussion sion ends most of the contusion confusion he noted comes irom the different unarmed jn in which miners and gas and oil prospectors file irs under rn 4 the mineral mir ra leasing act of 1920 gaa gm and oil prospectors file lease lem applications and leases with the nearest bureau of land management office while other file mineral entries and locations with the nearest county recorder this overlapping of course ds is the condition the legislation is primarily aimed at sen bennett said staid in many indana ea es a ura uranium nhun miner has filed an application properly and has proceeded to develop the land lid only to find out that an earlier granting of a oil or gaj gas lease or perhaps just the filing for one precludes bis his entry and activity m the land the utahn said he was pleas td d with the way in which the oil and gas men and the nit miners iners had tried to work out their problem with getting into any major hassles uranium mining particularly paTt kul in utah and colorado has brought the problem lern to a head sw sm bennett said in the interests of fatmen and oar national defense I 1 think we should work out to the next three weeks a procedure which will all allow the roulo use of 04 the land |