| Show ONLY LA Y MINERAL WA WAX u r IN IT U us S so IS FOUND FOUN Two IN UTAH UTA soldier summit and colton utah and galicia in austria supply all the used in the world in only one place in the united states has or mineral wax been found in appreciable apreci able quantities and that place is in utah concerning the product W 11 a farren writing in mining alining and scientific press says may be characterized as a mineral wax or paraffin occurring in veins in the earth usually usually Y i in the vicinity of bituminous and petroleum deposits it varies in color from brown to blackann black blac kand and harthe has the appearance and consistency of wax spermaceti or paraffin analysis gives approximately 85 per cent carbon and 15 per cent hydrogen its specific gravity is to and its melting point 50 to 70 degrees centigrade the fact hat it is lighter than water and melts at a lower temperature than water volatilizes plays an important part in the process of separating the wax from the rock gangue with which it occurs while can be put to practically all of the uses to which paraffin is applied being essentially a paraffin are some uses for for which there is no substitute sti tute such as is in the manufacture of certain kinds of shoe blacking and insulating material and making phonographic records it is refined into ceresin to be made into fine candles ointments pomades po mades floor wax and similar objects or to be used as a substitute for beeswax it is found in paying quantities in two localities only in galicia in austria and in utah in the united states the galician Gali cLui deposits deposit have shave been and still are the principal source of supply the wax occurs there in in bearing sandstones and sandy clas clams of the tertiary age stringers of wax along the stratification of irregular fissures the ore is mined by lessees working small blocks of ground af after ter sorting out the waste the ore is boiled in water in kettles the wax rising to the top and being skimmed As a result of the les lessening ening yield of this field the price of high grade crude has risen in late years from G 6 to 16 cents per pound Ozol erite is found in the vicinity of soldier summit and colton utah on the denver and rio geande gi ande railroad one hundred and twenty miles south of salt lake it is botev orthy irthy that it occurs here her under the same geologic conditions as in far away aay galicia in sandstones and of the tertiary period I 1 and contiguous to great drobits dp obits its of carbons and I 1 ahe he va ax is not found in the strata to the same extent as in galicia but in vertical figures that cut the strata ohp o fissures form shear zones one wall of naich is usually perfect while the other is coarsely broken or the wax is found as sheets or films between the alls ails and as F ingers throughout the brecciate mass for a fe c feet away from the main wain fracture it also aloo occurs 1 permeating the ground up mass mas I these sheets are usually a traction of an inch in thit thickness kness but have been known to v iden to form pockets of wax two or three feet across in the museum of the california state mining alining bureau san francisco is a sheet of wax three quarters of an inch in thickness that was taken from a utah mine which shows the characteristic occurrence of 1 t e these mineralize fissures are generally of cicat length and it is presumed of depth albo au but uncertain a to width and percentage of wax plants for extracting have been erected in utah resulting in the production of several hundred tons of wax none of these is now operating the reason that more has not been done is simple no e bodies of commercial ore have been found it is impossible to say just what percentage of wax the present known bodies contain but it can be understood that with at 16 cents per pound in new york city 2 per cent wax w be valuable prospecting for oo is being carried on in many localities |
