Show Efforts Continue To Blast A-Blast Shale For Oil in Area Plans to determine the feast feasibility of a nuclear test on a large oil shale block near Vcr Ver nal are being quickly acted up- up upon upon on it was announced Monday by Nash J Dawdle Dowdle president rt of the Western Oil Shale Corp The firm is searching for fori i in addition to its hoped for oil producing nuclear ar means This will require a core I drilling program Previous drilling in other shale lands has revealed the sodium alum mum magnesium min min- mineral eral erah The possibility exists that al- al aluminum might be produced more cheaply from r than from present methods us- us using using ing bauxite This process could help offset the cost of obtain obtain- obtaining obtaining I ing oil from the shale he ex- ex explained explained Western Oil Shale proposes a test lest on its acre block leas leas- leased ed from the state some 50 miles qualities south of here Physical ies of the site appear to meet Atomic Energy Commission re- re requirements re for a heavy over over- overburden burden to contain the nuclear blast and it is some distance from oil and natural gas opera opera- operations which might be affected by the test Mr Dawdle Dowdle said |