Show Willing Milling Begins On Oi Ore Milling Milling began Friday on Friday on the first truckload of low grade platinum ore brought out of a newly claimed square mile stake near Craig In the barren northwest Colorado area Denver attorney Marshall Q representing 12 men holding the Ule claims said reports indicated milling would produce about 50 in platinum from each ton of ore processed The recovery would be about aboul one U third rd of a troy ounce of platinum platinum num a ton said based on the current world price of oC to a troy ounce 1150 lIe said the Illinois Institute of Technology as well as labor labor- atones In Denver D nver and Salt Lake City had run about tests on ore lre samplings from the area Mining of the or ore would be a ely comparatively simple process involving no tunneling or deep digging said lie He said the theore theore ore could be removed by bull bull- bulldozers dozers and trucks The initial m milling would be bein bein in Denver said and the next step will be to set sel up a amill amill mill at the site Th The platinum can be separated ed through water reduction but the sandstone and shale in which the minute particles of the precious metal are trapped would have to be first said The claims ms on the public landwere land landwere were filed over last weekend at atthe atthe the Moffat County clerk and re- re recorder's recorder's corders corder's office according to the Craig Daily Times The original discovery was made macle six years ago go by Howard Tonic Tonn of Ever Ever- Evergreen Evergreen green while hunting coyotes the newspaper reported Tonn had staked d most of the claims by hor horseback eback because there are only a few unimproved dirt roads Into the area near the Wyoming and Utah borders above Dinosaur National 1 I ment emphasized that the group known as Howard Tonn an and Associates was not trying to raise money and not We are not trying to sell stocks or to interest t anyone in inthis this There is enough money to togo togo go ahead |