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Show OK MNE TO BE OPENED MARCH 1; SHIELD WELL AHEAD OF SCHEDULE By Bart Steely The lid is coming o.'f the OK Mir.e March 1, two months ahead of schedule. And the mill will be ready to prccess the cpper ore thorn the mine in April. This was announced by Ralf Keine, general rran-:gcr rran-:gcr cf the Shield Development Co., Utah Division. "This was made possible by the speedy renovation of the miU," Mr. Kleine sa'd. "At f'rst we thought it might be May or June before we could gcv the plant completely ready. Eut the wea'her has helped us move faster than anticipated. anticipat-ed. And my mill crew has done a tremendous job." Equipment for the mill and mine is being shipped by rail-roaj rail-roaj from Elliot Lake, Ont., cast of Sault S!e. Marie, Mich. P I . 'he m;:ch'nc y was manufactured manu-factured in the Unit.d States and has been used at the mines and mills operated by ths Shield Company in Canada. Mr. Kleine a'so announced the appointment of Troy Ennis of Terlingua, Tex., ai superintendent superin-tendent of the mill. He w'll arrive in Milford March 1. Jack Bour.dy is consultant and in the absence of Mr. Kleine will be in charge of operations. ! The laying of cement for the 1 tunnel in wbioh a conveyor system will feed the ere in'o the nvll Ibegan Tuerd y, w'th the Wiseman Ready-Mix supplying sup-plying " the ro"C-ete. It will take more than a week to complete this wrk. "We had planned to go down ; about 200 feet into fh- OK fo: the ore," Mr. Ke;ne raid. "Now , it looks as if we might go down farther than that, de- pending cn the amount of ore we find." j ' WThen the bottom of the barrel bar-rel has been scraped rf cop-; cop-; per in the OK. the Sivcld com-: com-: pany will have completed Phase 1 of its extensive three-phase three-phase project in the Milfo-d ; 'area. j The present mill has a 750-ton 750-ton capacity. "When we get through revamping it we could stretch it to 1200 tons, if the ore piles up on us too fast," Mr. Kleine said. |
