Show some believe bungles job of ore Stock Is he the atomic romels ston ion buntline bun pline irling the job of handling the huge stockpiles stock piles of uranium ores failing because of poor planning to gt got g t the raw to the mill that question Is 18 being asked by prominent industry men there are huge piles of uranium ore at monticello and moab utah file according to some should have been milled long ago some sonic even claim that winds hinds blow away aay much of the uranium material on these stock piles thus there is a loss to the taxpayers others claim ahr loss is negligible but that if lq only one side of the question and 0 one ne loss s A more 0 serious I 1 loss 0 so some m e alps persons r ns who h re will ero us not per permit nit them themselves elves to be quoted d directly irti y say Is the loss of development of aton atomic jc energy for peaceful pursuits during the late months of last year there was considerable discussion cu slon and negotiation between the aea AE and vanadium corp of america for erection of a mill at hite utah to handle the white canyon ores these negotiations bogged down in disagreement ovar metallurgy then a salt lake city firm minerals reduction engineering co started dealing w with I 1 t h the tor for a mill in iee the alite ite area has the final word on who sh shall all build a 1 mill and who shall not and most company officials are therefore reluctant to b be e quoted on their problems either they are getting along and they say as much or they say nothing for direct quotation but off the record they will tell what they think without any encouragement said one prominent mill man it is our idea that the will stran strangle le in its own stock stockpile pae of uranium ore th ahn n they will ag agree r ee to cut clit out all the red tape and call in the major mining companies to solve their problems another company executive declared that the is attached to one certain program of metallurgy for use in reduction of non van vanadium allum type ores it spent millions of dollars oh on this program it intends to ram it down the throat of any private operator building a mill in utah in attempting to defend the on these charges one runs up I 1 against the stopper that any detailed discussion of the subject would lead to disclosure of classified information which is probably quite true but the raw materials office Is 1 quick to sa aai that ri feels strongly itron Kly that tha the fixed prie for convert irate would place ibe 1 ni ncr ner in hc the of iiii opler it also wis s that fill the ninny many types type of ore belne forked today it mould IP be and unfair to set a fixed ailee pi ice for such concentrates itts and so it anis that the conflict between millers and arid thi the over oer who ho will do the milling of the present of uranium ores and the price to be paid for concentrates concen dates may continue for some time to come meanwhile the question of whether or not the is actually bungling the job of handling these stockpile stockpiles stock piles of getting them into concentrated ye yellow alom cake remains officially unanswered |