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Show Soviet Process Could Spur Alunite Mining besides imported bauxite, the principal ore. The Beaver County deposits of alunite and kaolin clay, both used in making aluminum, are located in the Wah Wah Mountains Moun-tains west of Milford. The Times report indicated that because of a shortage of high-grade bauxite ore, the Russians Rus-sians have pioneered in the use of other minerals, usually of lower grade, in the making of aluminum. A Soviet process fcr making aluminum from the mineral alunite, may be used in western west-ern Beaver County according to a story in the Salt Lake Tribune last Friday. An executive of National ' Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, told a New York Times Reporter Theodore Theo-dore Shadad that National is negotiating for a Soviet process that may help cpen up large deposits of alunite in Southern Utah. (Earth Sciences, a subsidiary subsid-iary of National Southwire- and Colorado General, has been developing de-veloping these resources for the past year or more and working on a process to make alumina. ' Chappell Chandler, vice president presi-dent of National's aluminum subsidiary, said in the New York Time interview that the Soviet process "looks very good and may result in a commercial operation" in Utah. Alumina is the Intermediate product in the making of aluminum alum-inum metal. The Soviet process, using a mineral called alunite, would provide the U.S aluminum alumin-um industry with a significant domestic raw material supply. |
