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Show rounng Metal ! I J - ; - -s The moulten metal being poured 'trom this crucible at one of Utah's melters is the life-blood of Utah's Industrial and business life. It requires re-quires thousands of hours of work and the expenditure of millions of Idollars to keep this small stream i pouring and the crucible hot. It has ben estimated that over j47 per cent of the state's emploved '.people are dependent directly and Indirectly upon mining and smelting smelt-ing in Utah. Hundreds of tons of ore must be mined and shipped to the smelter to provide enough moulten metal to fill the huge .erucible pictured above. Metal in this form has not yet finished its business and industrial , fusing powers. In fact it is Just the beginning. After this moulten tre;im Is solidified into bars of crude metal, it is shipped outside the state for refining. Then it again goes into huge plants for fabrication into finished products which are sold to the public. Utah is indeed fortunate in being situated as it is in the center of western mining. Ores from several sev-eral surrounding states are sent here for milling and smelting, thereby controbuting to the state's payrolls. Smelters are continually conducting con-ducting research to aid the miner and out of these experiments have come some of the greatest advancements advance-ments in the mining industry. It is safe to say that if the smelting practices of 15 years ago were put back into force, most of the mines would be forced to close d.nvn. In recent years many advancements have been made, making it possible pos-sible to produce at a profit a lower low-er grade product, thereby increasing increas-ing the profitable ore reserves of the mines. |