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Show Utah Mining Ne ws The UtahMiningAssoci-ation UtahMiningAssoci-ation announces that "A mineral shortage Is coming on us so fast and so overwhelmingly over-whelmingly it may soon dwarf the oil shortage." Dr. Laurence H. Lattman told an Energy and Public Lands seminar in Utah earlier ear-lier this month. The dean of the U of U Collges of Mines and Engineering told federal and state officials to make every effort to facilitate fa-cilitate development of all energy and mineral resources. re-sources. Our of the nearly 5 million mil-lion acres of BLM land in Utah which were studied for potential wilderness characteristics, char-acteristics, some 3.2 million mil-lion acres have been dropped drop-ped from further study and approximately 1.7 million acres are being proposed as Wilderness Study areas. A total of 68 WSAs are being proposed, mostly In southern Utah. Public comments are being Invited Invit-ed until June 30th. A 11 com -ments should be sent to: Wilderness, Utah BLM State Office, 136 East So. Temple, SLC, UT 84111. |