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Show KASYtLQUS MINERAL DE- POSITS AT GREEN RIVER Only fcfrty miles from Green River it is claimed that one million dollars worth, or 17,000 tons of vanadium ore actually measured on the surface, is in sight and this will require the building of a reduction plant. As Green River is the nearest point to the field, it is likely that a reduction plant will be built there. A Grand Junction minerologist states thai the vandium ores are found in ftratas, rather than veins, lying flat nd the average lines are plain on account ac-count of the positions of the stratas between layers of sandstone.. Without development of any character one of these deposits shows itself plainly a distance of 190 feet in width and over 2,000 feet in length. The thickness of the strata is from two to four feet. It is believed that it extends back from the rm of the gulch over 500 feet. Assays made to determine the value of the deposits would indicate that it would average in excess of four per cent vanadium; which would meanjthat 'hesurface tonnage, now in sight, would Possess a value of over $700,000, gross ora net value, after a charge for mining, transporting and marketing of $23 per ton had been deducted from the gross, of over $350,000. Properly reduced at the mill the charge against the ore would be less and it is estimated estimat-ed that the ore in sight now would represent a net profit of over ?1,250,00Q. According to a recent press dispatch a vanadium-carnotite factory for the treatment of carnotite ore and the Production of ferro-vanadium will probably be established i l Green River within the next few months. Three process chemists, four analytical analyti-cal chemists and forty workman will employed. The works' capacity will be twenty thousand pounds contained I . vanadium in the form, of an alloy carrying 30 per cent vanadium, the remainder being largely iron, and an output of uranium salts equally large, per month. For over a year experts have been working on carnotite ores on a works' practice scale and it is announced they have evolved a process both Bimple and officient that will utilize fully all in the carnotite ores. The decision as to location of the factory will depend largely upon the final reports of the engineers who have been quietly investigating the carnotite deposits in Emery and Grand counties, aswell as adjacent territories, and as the larger deposits seem to be located along the San Rafael reef, it is likely that Green River will furnish the site. Green River Dispatch. J |