| OCR Text |
Show A ''T. - TxiE T. CiikixjiAS 2sEvS ...... - 'I DECEMBER SATURDAY ' .... 13 ' 'ij - lim ' ' Survey of Important Mineral Production in Tamisiasa Twe-pla- nts of bentonites and firs clay which ive csm.lndee were reported to be operhave sot yet been developed. I The geologic formations that ating ts California and one la Utah for have yielded oil in commercial with n combined production 1.121 tons for quantities in adjoining states are these two states of c extensively represented in Utah. While drilling has been conducted There are some (2 uses listed i many places with consldarable for this material end the principal encouragement, no important com- ones are the following: mercial flow of oil has so far been 1) Manufacture of adds and developed. Perhaps to compensate for this apparent deficiency, the chemiealn (for fer(2) Superphosphate state is provided with thousands ' of square miles of oil bearing shale tilizer). , this of commercial thickness. As (I) Pulps and paper industry. material will yield around 4 gal(4) Rubber. lons of oil per ton, it has been escorrec- (5) -Agriculture timated that there la a sufficient are.)amount of it to produce some 41 billion barrels of crude oiL How(I) Explosives ( ever, since tbe cost of obtaining oil For some purposes such as soil Urns this wells Ices than is from at corrective. Insecticides, chemicals, recovering it from oil shale, the etc., pure or elemental sulphur is resources required, whils for sulphuric acid development of these will naturally bava to be postponed and many other uses pyrile (a minto some later date,' eral' combination of sulphur and - -- a. r Iron) Jr equally good and often 4 FERTILIZER MADE much less expensive. One of the most Interesting reAs is generally known, main- sources of the state la the large taining the productivity of the soil alunite deposit of the Marysvale die requires the urn of fertilisers which trlct Alunite is n mineral containare usually compounded of potassium, phosphorous, nitrogen, etc. ing aluminum and potassium. In the northern part of tbe state, Although aluminum- M the most abundant of" all metals, the entire and in n part of Cache county, production is at this time being there are large areas of high grade obtained mineral the from calcium phosphate or phosphate beauxite which contains usually berock suitable for the manufacture tween 5 and per cent alumina of the principal (tbe name given to aluminum oxide fertilizer now in us, which Is made which in turn contains around 52 by treating finely ground phos- per cent metallic aluminum). The phate rock with, sulphuric acid. metal cannot be recovered from Ths principal source of the beauxite direct but the ore must . at the present time is first be treated chemically to re the Anaconda Copper company' iiov IK .varioui impurities: The ' plant at Anaconda, Montana. It purified ore Is then reduced te is interesting to note that in the metal with electric current. ... treatment of copper and lead ores Should Utah aiu-l- te maintim hi the Salt Lake Valley, enough sulphur is- driven Into tns air- every an average grade of 25 per cent day to make the add required for alumina probably about 200to tone satmany hundred tons of super pec day would be sufficient isfy ths present world demand. phosphate. Potash for fertilizer li available Considerable research work on and occurs In several parts of the new nses for gypsUm haw continstate. At Marysvals It Is associat ually increased the demand for ed with aluminum In the mineral this mineral. Among recent devai. alunite. while in the Great Salt Lake has been a lightweint Basin there 1s on of the largest opments cellular wall board weighing o.iiv areas of potash In this country, about a pound and a quarter per the' salt occurring as potassium foot. Gypsum covered sawchloride In strong brine. During square dust. also a comparatively lies tbe World war considerable potash product, to finding market as an was recovered from the lake aggregate Ingredienta used for firebrine, and It was also during this proofing. While the production and period that it was discovered these fabrication into plaster of Utah brines carried magnesium chloride gypeum has not been apparently to the extent of twice the potas- extensive to warrant publisium content. Magnesium chloride cation ofenough statistics, the separate to that main source of the metal to of very good quality production magnesium. Magnesium alloys are and tbe Industry to important. the lightest known, and are Portland cement is the- - result finding wider application. The reduction of this metal to de- of heating almost to the point of fnslon. and then grinding, a m x- on to ns cost low It pendent power a n profit. Re treatment of these dumps Was began daring The rise hi the price of gold from $M.dT to W an Man the esse lib it lime. alumtnia and silica. The avdeal products. -resulted hr reiDlfhatton of many OM mining camps, ooe of which erage annual value of the cement Just below the dumps a new shaft to being sunk to explore! 4 In this state between 19 new Above produced shows below district view y esriy-daThe ora. tbe the at of an a Manning MUCH producer gold was Mercur, famed SULPHUR depth.. and 193 waa around 32. 00.000. cyanide plant which was enlarged to 1,000 tons capacity per day The to a Tirw of tbe old Consolidated Mercur femps, value of tbe 1933 production containing Sulphur occurs in Tttah In large to not for the purpose of treating era from the Mercur district as wcB available, but It will probns elemental sulboth quantities, now can he aa treated which tons material of miles to the ,000,000 Manning, sooth, approximately phur and . as sulphur combined ably be around 31.0.04t. with Iron, copper, lead and line. to etc. value not The total While million about a doltors annually. About 77 per cent of tbe total with the result that a largo' per- ishes. Japans, large, tbo production CSIMO A XfCHOLS Thgre are also said to be a nura- - domestic production for 1933 was centage of tlie lead bullion produc- of the production for 1928 of these. .important, the estimated- value of output frequently- reaching1 ber of large commercial depoeits produced in Texas and the bulk of ed In the state to being refined and bitumens amount to about 81.400,-sit tok Hr. Ttak. (Adv. made directly available for ahip-meto the ewist or other nearby The production of iron In tbe markets. The gold and silver re- state for 1933 was shout 70 per covered from tbe. lead In this re- rent of that for 1832. - The entire fining operation are sent to the tonnage of iron ore used came mint. from Iron county, where a large Among the more Important portion of. the pig iron produced deposits of the state are was fabricated on the ground into the large deposits of asphalt and a very good grade of cast-iro-n pipe. eclated bitumens found In the The coke production for 1932 Uintah Basin. Some of these bi- was about (5 per rent of that for tumen are not found elsewhere tn 1912. and about a third of that for this country in commercial quanti- 193. The principal consumer or ties. and arc likewise rare outslde this, materfajja the metailurgica) Of theTSiited State. industry. The state contains. In addition, Among these unusual bitumens are gilsontts. ozokerite and elater-it- e many, very excellent- - deposits of which find wide use in tbe day which to Used for stoneware, manufacture of high grade varn tile, terra-cottrefractories, etc. Reviving; Aft; Old Miniftg Camp Mineral Output Totals Third Of Wealth in State State Planning Board Figures Show stock Comes Second in Point of .Wealth Produced ' Live-- , realized that Utah it one of tl most ini l porlanl producers of valuable minerals, but only those bo ""Save m fondness for deTving into statistics appreciate the ex!ent to which this is true. Effen in78 per cent of that of 1921. Of the ... or the fourth year of the de- - y u, produced 78 percent came ihirom lht err Inilted prestion, 22 per cent from crude lead V p r o d n e tions and Five mines yielded ore smelted. of j limited by vart-- A (( per cent of the total output the state. The prodi,'jn, accordoua eodea under ing to countlea wa as folio's: ft R Aii 1 1 tho-Salt Lake County mines some I and 1.7 Summit County ......12-Tooele County operating only Ctah County 1 to - keep their Others. In this country In Lead consumed was distributed as 0 r sanitations, the year-11' intact, thia state follows: ft second Cable covering ranked .....25. .....21. in the United Storage batteries W Mr. Tobrii H-l White Lead 'Stales in the production of lead, Building Suppiiee , Bed Lead mod Litharge second in silver, fourth in J.S fifth in gold and sixth in Solder The balance was used by the aine. Industry and the railin recent economic (tody made automobile roads, and in the manufacture of s'hjr the State Planning Board. foil, bearing metal, typemetal, calkUtib's primary source of wealth ing, etc. Lduring 1SS1, and the proportionate- The production of gold for llii Rvalue of their product to the to- was about half that of llii, a deyrial wealth, were found to bo oa crease being ahown In the gold confollows; c ores and a small 2? Percent tent of from copSt.S increase in that obtained Mining . The source waa about SS.S per ores. t-- Livestock 1J.I as follows: Agriculture . ft VaJue added ty Manufactur- SI .3 Silldoua Gold Ore and Old IOC ,,.41.(7 Tailings J44.0 Copper Orea ...............12.5 Ores .....11.4 This comparison Indlcatea that Lead-Zin- c 1.21 of the primary Lead Ore and Old Slug , hearty not genwaa la tfao obtained an fact state It wealth of interesting from the mining inductor. While erally known that the Utah Copper prodoctionfigures for 1831 are not company is the largest individual a Tillable, it is assumed that they producer of gold In Utah, the metal rill bear approximately the mime occurring with the oopper and ratios as those gives a bo vs for the counting for about n third of the ysar J8I1. In nny rase they 'would entire state production. - Of the reshow that mining is one of ' the mainder about per cent was obmore important. If not the most tained from silicious ores and some e 2 important industry In the state. per rent from tbe The Mineral Yearbook. 1)2,' ores. The entire production of which contains the annual statistics placer rold was for this same perStale, iod only 142 ounces, or less than compiled by the United Bureau of Mines, supplies much of one per rent. It can valuable and interesting data. In be seen that when conditions warthis ws find that la 112 the more rant an Increase In copper producimportant of the recorded produc- tion. the gold production will also tion of tbs mineral industries of materially Increase. Utah wera as follows: To n citizen of the state the pro- ... .. v Total Average Unit Value : Valuo Quantity Coal . . 2.(10.00 tons f (mine) I5.S72. lb. Elect roly) 4,709,12 Copper T3.58r.l3 lbs. Lesd .. tons 2.7c lb. (8t. Louis) 4.S42.91S Gold .. 109. ISO oz. 25.5 oz. (Mint) 2.789,251 Zinc 29.745 tons Jb. 2,498,544" Louis) Silver. . ,(9.1 97 oz. ox. 24. (e 1,948.219 (Mint) -. Oilsonito 21.029 tons 24.11 ton (Mlnc)877,718 . .Iron -- . 41,00 tons IS. ton (Mine) 454.06 Coks 285.55 T7,lrfons Ml ton (Ovens) . tons S.T7 ton Clay lt.152 141,87s (MIbc) Balt . M.SOS tons ton (Plant) 141.23 Is generally - 0 - cop-j-zp- er, - lead-iin- .... ly -- one-thi- rd -- lead-zin- nt two-tent- . ' i.titoiat T.c (t. a, . Source: U. 8. Minerals Yearbook ductlon of gold In tbe principal A 1904. except those Indicated by counties will be of tinterest: ,() . ft !SP Salt Lake County 57 Utah County 2- 17. J Juab County Tooele County 5 U Summit County 2 The balance to distributed among M 12 of the remaining 24 countlea. jag There was a slight increase in ST the recoverable sine produced In 1923 over that In 1933. but nearly a all the sine produced in the state F c in 1933 came frotn ore milled or sine ore smelted. all of the sine concentrates produced In Utah are shipped to.hd tbe electrolytic zinc plant ef the Anaconda Copper company at;tf Great Falla. Montana: The source hf ' of tbto was about as follow; which were estimated. ; the Coal, It Is observed, lead list In order of value. Mot only does one of the largest known deposits of high grads bituminous eeal occur in tbto state, but it has been authoritatively stated that of ths entire area nearly ef tbe gtate to undertoln with beds coal workable' of thickness. As sf one-six- th to present capacity to several times the present' production, some method for increasing consumption should be devised. One of thi might be the production of a smokeless coal which would doubtless find an extensive market In Utah's export trade. Another increase tn consumption might be brought-- , about by supplementing Salt Lake County installations Summit present County with modern steam plants, which Yooele ,, County .. . . are stated to be equally economicThe largest single item In ths cost to have approximately the of al, to making electrolytic zinc power, is same capita! cost, and to be productive of greater ultimate revenue If power could be delivered in this hf atm cost comparable to that valley te the (.ale. la Montana, then not only more 2f zinc orea. but other ores containing I rine, would bs mije available U COPPER OUTPUT 4 through tbto reduced cost of treat - ft lead-zin- Prae-tlcal- ly ' hydro-electr- - 'Jf . V y ic ......... j j rf w ' Capitalization : Th production of copper, which to second tn value in the list given above, was Increased slightly in 1I31 ovre that of 1935. but Is tlli only 22 pee cent of the production In 1929. This to due principally to the fact that the one and only Important producer in ths state Is limited by the code in Its output. According to fourties, the sources o! copper In 1931 were a follows: mJlrUi u.,,1,1.,.,. Power Lines Thtd Telephone , , 5T (ft of thi more lm - 2f v The distribution portent use of zinc in at follows: Galvanizing Brass Boiled Zinc .... 191 y OFFICERS: ev ...3. Jf ..:,..l........:i.8 ..... .... 4.5,hf ;.i. Fit Lead-ur- n I.If STj g -Lead ore and old slag Silicious ore and old tailings 14! ft Copper ore 7. The Sliver King Coalition. United Sf States Mining A Smelting; TinticjM ................ ft Eureka Standard and the ft . 3jh Copper Company art credited,! President IRA D. TRA VIS Secretary, L. H. STOHR General Manager, JAMES W. WADE -- DIRECTORS: Ira D. Travis, Harold E. Raddatz, Janies W. Wade, G. L Becker, Charles C. Henry, L. H. Stohr, Roy M. Jacobs. i WllTl Per cent of the total ststr as J - .prod net ich . The distribution T Sf counties to as follows: ! ft and Telegraphs Other wirs Automobile Manufacture 9.1 5.8 Casting Copper s Buildings . Manufactured for Export 7.4 Other Uses .......13.2 $1.00 were bjf Casting The production of sliver, sixth In -value on the above list of Utah ft mineral production, waa in 1933 Sg only about 31 per cent of ebst of 11!. or approximately- - 1.366.601 ft ounces less thus causing the state to as drop to second place following: Idaho. Silver was mined from the, I different ores as follows: Percent Salt Lake County 9.4 Utah County i.. 1. Summit County 1.0 balaooe wa distribute J oier ", other Note counties. of the eight copper produced in ths state is refined or fabricated here, but is shipped to the Atlantic seaboard Distribution of the uses ot copper in the United States tn was as follows: t3 ' 1,175,000 Shares Par Value -- meat ................9.8 .... Sait Laky County Summit County .......... ................ Ltah County .... Tooele County ......... Juab County Principal Place TValkcr . 4 - -- ' c -- . I- v. . e; ....5. ,, -- - lead-ancoi- N. II lilt A. TOBELMANV. BY HENRY v. in Utah f Zg It wlyht bo atated bora that dur j- 2 Fh onlPut o! recoverable lead tng 1933 the United States Mininz Ift la 1933 declined from that in 1932.:Smeltlnr. AM tho production was only about! . of Business Bank Euildutg Salt Lake City, Utah. O |
