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Show V. ii . ! i t.i. . December 12, 1952 The Western Mineral Bnrrejr, Salt Lake Glty, Utah 2 V Wider Use of New Metals f Field Enlarges Prospecting Just as "oats make the mare the ores from which Production Ybrmgtbn Deal Of Copper Antimony they come? go, so do metals make the Then there are antimony and Pushed Ahead world go. Until man learned to bismuth, barium, Dery Ilium and Insufficient Yerington, Nev. mine and smelt ores and work . One-fourt- the resultant metals into useful boron, cobalt and cadmium, gallim, germanium shapes, he was a sorry creature, little a on on so and indeed, living plane through the alphabet higher than that of wild ani- to zirconium. All are emerging mals. Now we have reached a fast from the status of laborastage where metals have re- tory curiosities. In fact, the whole group, from placed wood in part for numer-ou- r traditional applications. the old stand-by- s to the strange Even metal houses are making new ones, are in brisk demand. a bid for publics approval. After a. thorough study, the of so a Presidents socalled Paley ComNot quartet long ago and lead mission reported that an unmetals iron, copper, our zinc took care of most of precedented needs. Today the list of those expansion program is in progused commercially is long. Even ress in the United States mining laymen handle and are familiar Industry and predicted that by with aluminum, nickel, tin and 975 production of minerals will chromium. Manganese, magne- exceed current output by 90 per sium, molybdenum and tung- cent. As regards individual sten are yet to reach that cate- metals, the report foresees ingory, although they are impor- creases in demand ranging all tant industrially. Titanium, tho- the way from 8 per cent for tin rium and uranium are much in to 324 for. titanium and cadmithe news these days, but how um, 344 for cobalt and a stumany ersons have actually seen pendous 1845 for magnesium. either the metals themselves or Compressed Air Magazine. , . . . . two-billion-doll- ar - plant superintendent said L PROMISE S. BENSON GEORGE By . President Harding College. Searcy, Ark. . The people among us today who were bora in 1850 or before could almost be counted on the fingers' of .our two. hands. Although Arkansas holds ' the record for. the longevity; of its people, I know of only, two or three people now livingi who are. 102 years. old. - Yet, .if we could .all. vividly see life in America as.it was lived in 1850 we could better understand the amazing progress that has . occurred, and.. what, brought, it about.;. It would.be good for, all of us to have this better understanding. Lets use as: an example the glass bottle.. .It was not a necessity. of life in 1850, but it was beginning to be a useful article in demand. How was it made in 1850., A man holding a long pipe , to. his lips,, blew and. twisted and twirled a. glob of molten glass into a bottle. The glass blower was a skilled artison. With the assistance ..of a helper he could turn out bottles at the rate of 50 per men per hour. Today one machine in a bottle manufacturing man, plant, tended by one hour. turns out 4000 bottlesan , . ......... : . , PRIMITIVE . PRODUCTION.. In 1850 grain was. ground by a miller witha grinding stone; most of the nations, metal work was. done in. black smith shops; land was plowed by .the. horse and man; transportation of peo, acple and goods was .largelywagcomplished. 4n . Conestoga facons. There .were a. few machine tory.,. centers and the, had begun, to show., its prowess in the production ..and process185Q the ing of goods. But in horse and oxen, still provided 50 per cent of the power energy in the realm of. production; man contributed 20 per cent powmachine power ,30. . , And the living, standard of. most of to the population was primitive, of had none say the least.. We life. . todays niceties of . ,.was however. The . machine, Indusown. , coming . into . its .it. to tries were formed to putindus work. From 1850 to 1900 . . . . . pro- gress was on schedule. Millar estimated daily production would be 11,000 tons yielding 60 million lbs. of metal a year, that ore reserves amount to 35 million tons of oxide ma- terial and a substantial underlying sulphide ore tonnage. ratio was put at 1:1, copper content at 1 per cent plus cut-of- f point at 0.6 per cent Ore-was- te copper. . Stripping equipment includes shovels with dippers and n trucks. The statement said the company completed excavation of leaching vats each of holding 11,000 tons of trial production swiftly expand- capable crushed ore and is now concreted. In the period the and preparing to erect steel amount of goods one man could ing for crushershop and turn out with the help of im- buildings acid plant. Jt estmated total cost proved machinery doubled. And at heres the important fact: With Millar further reported good this increasing industrial proin progress readying the Leviaduction, and steady improve- than opening sulphur mine in ment in production per man county, California 60 mihour, the living standard for the Alpine of the Yerington site. west les whole nation kept pace. It imis expected to yield Leviathan proved an average of two per 600 tons of ore per. day to be cent per year from 1850 to 1900. trucked to the Yerington acid INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS plant to produce sulphuric acid .: From 1900 to 1950 mass prowhich will be used to leach oxide duction techniques were devel- ore. The ore will be treated by oped by such men as Ford, Fire- the Fluosolids process, resultstone, Swift and. Sloan to aug- ant gases going to a 500-toment the growing might of the contact plant. machine. In this period the amount of goods one man could turn, out, tripled. The av- Exploration Work erage improvement in the living New standard was three per cent Developing per year. We call this improve- Uranium Deposits ment. technological progress. About 2,500,000 feet of drilling It means that . .the genius of has been carried out by private American workers, and the industry. in the ..U. S. . ini the improving mass produc- search for. uranium. and in adtion techniques have combined dition, private., industry, has carto bring about the production of ried out extensive prospecting three per cent more wealth per both on the ground and from man day each year than wa3 the air. The efforts of private inproduced the year before. dustry in the. search; for ... uraour of The sparkplug progress nium have been., supplemented 0 century by an exploraduring the incentive to tion program,' participated in by was incentive profit Everyone wants- to im- geologists and engineers on the prove his- lot. Thats natural commissions staff, by cooperatThats the reason a 'machinist ing government agencies and in a factory pinches pennies and by , private contractors. saves enough to open his ' own Since the AEQ .drilling prosmall shop and expand his earn- gram began, in 1947; it has comings. As he expands his earn-- , pleted approximately -- 2,250,000 ings through more production feet of: drilling. Its. geologists all of us benefit. indirectly.. For and. : engineers ..have walked he has created some new, add- thousands of miles of. rim; have itional wealth. .Ur. J.il.. examined more than 5,000 ON THE THRESHOLD mines and prospects; have flown American people . stand, on airborne counter equipment for the threshold of an' amazing more than .60,00Q. flight miles, and. have examined more., than new era of - production is energy Atomic, 40,000 samples of f rocks and prosperity. . uranium-bearinother the ores submitted and great here. 'It have that the new.- developments , public and by its staff. by industrial progour come from ress give mankind the. greatest years has. been shouldering. so promise of ...plenty jthe.. surest many, of its citizens., personal responsibilities. . The essence :of hope of security. ... In the next imshould we article , was - that progress the 25 years certainly to prove productivity-- enough at had stopped in Australia..; The writer said that no . Industrial raise the living standard t least i.four,, per. cent each year expansion, no visible- ' improvedoubling everybodys , economic ment in commerce had been do made in the last 10 or 15 years. welfare. But we can only, our priintact we For years Australia was govkeep this if its and erned by advocates of big govvate enterprise system basic rights to own, property, ernment, the Socialists. They to go into business for .profit, to installed so much government have freedom to get ahead, free- bureaucracy r that it : seems to dom ..to create, to produce,: to have permanently, crippled the nation. We. mustnt Jet this compete. on article an Ive Just readi happen in America : Qur own Australia, the country injyhich welfare and happiness is at the government for the past 25 stake. 5-y- d. 25-to- $38-mUfio- NON-POLITICA- h of 10 milion tons of overburden has already been removed from the Yerington copper site, A.E. Millar, Anaconda general manager, announced at a recent meeting of AIME at the San Francisco Engineers Club Millars statement, read by A.J. Gould, 50-ye- ar THE n. , 50-ye- ar con-sant- ly - . . , 1850-195- . . AEC-sponsor- ed . - - v - . . . , . . . - - Canadian Gold Mines To Get Aid Primary antimony will be in critical short supply next, year in this country and throughout the free world unless prompt action is taken to reverse recent trends, the Idaho Mining Association points out in a release this week. In view of the low U. S. in this metal and the deterioration in the free world supply picture, the association recommends in the interest of national security that: ' (1) The proper governmental authorities review the antimony situation thoroughly. (2) The national strategic stockpile goal on antimony be raised to a realistic figure and steps be taken immediately to build, up bur dangerously inadequate stockpile (according to industry estimates, the stockpile self-sufficien- cy contains approximately 20,000 tons only six months emergency supply based on the World War II peak rate of consumption.) (3) The domestic antimony mining and smelting industry be encouraged to resume continuity of production (one method of doing this would be by guaranteeing floor prices for mine and smelter products for a period of several years.) Since .the shutdown of the major domestic antimony producer, Bradley Mining Companys Yellow Pine mine and smelter at Stibnite, .Ida., last summer, the Diilted States has been .almost 100. per. cent' dependent on foreign supplies of : i , primary antimony. The latest U. S.- Bureau ..of Mines statistics show that during the month , of September, 1952, domestic mine production amounted to- only three tons, as compared ;, with primary anti- - . mony consumption , of 1,399 tons. The .Yellow Pine, mine had been supplying, about 20 per cent of U. S. requirements but discontinued operations due to the heavy liquidation of foreign antimony inventories at depressed prices. These foreign inventories h&d accumulated toward the end: of 1951, .because, world; production had been higher than normal that year, owing largely to expanded output of South Africa. Since then there, has. ..been .a i . - sharp curtailment of output by the principal .free world .producers of antimony and, .during 1952, supplies have in large, part been coming from declining inventories. U. S. industrial stocks of primary, antimony are now at the lowest point , in several years, and have been falling off rapidly hi recent months, (stocks declined 20 per cent during the seven-mont- h period ending September 30). There is also evidence that foreign inventories are being depleted. , Canadas gold mining industry, which , has long been. between rising production costs and a fixed price for its product and was more recently hit by the premium value of the Canadian dollar, will rehard-presse- d' ceive some additional financial relief from the Canadian government beginning in 1953, according to reports from Ottawa this . week. ... . Effective January 1, subsidy payments on gold production will be increased by about a year, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced Monday in the House of Commons. He said he hoped the increase would halt the procession of mine shutdowns. Legislation will be introduced during the current session to revise payments under the emergency gold mining assistance act. The increase, official estimate, will average about $1 per fine ounce of gold produced, boosting the governments average payment in 1953 to about $3.80 per fine ounce from $2.80. This about 538 per ounce in 1953, if will give the average produce; the exchange value of the Canadian dollar remains at the present level This compares with about $38.50 per ounce in 1950, when the Canadian dollar was about 10 per cent below par. After the Canadian dollar was freed, its value climbed to over four per cent above par and the squeeze on the gold producer became greater, because the official price of gold remained at $35 per fine ounce in .United States funds. On Monday evening, in Toronto, Franz Pick, publisher of a world currency reporting service and recognized monetary authority, predicted that the official price of gold would be raised to 52.50 an ounce next year un54,-000,0- 00 . der American-leadership- . - V Sri . 4 jiK' Golden Cycle i V. t. Yields High Grade Ure " J. J 1 Cripple Creek, Colo. - .More good ore from the : thirty-fir- st level of the Ajax Mine of Golden Cycle Corp. has been settled for at the mill One lot of screenings, went over $200 to the ton, while a large lot of coarse settled for $140 in gold to the ton. The two lots of ore were about 38 tons each, which would make ther gross ; value, of the screen. , . ings about $9980 and the coarse ore., ii for $4320 i V i ;This, ore came from .cutouts blasted in .a hot spot along .the Bobtail vein line of drive.. Two $maU lots .of dollars to ..the pound high grade had already been shipped. .. i , Last week, C. H. Carlton, mine manager , for the Golden Cycle Corporation, reported .the .Jiot spot, had . pinched out .There is still .. ore on the heading, but no work has been done on this since the cutout work started. A very productive stope of ore .will be taken up in. the future t between the thirty-fir- st and thirtieth levels. . Then, too, ore in the bottom. there is still a.. Meantime, the stope on the. thirtieth level continues to look good, with some of the ore high grade. . - Oil Drilling Slowed . ii.Mt Pocono, Pa. Oil operations in the Gulf .of; Mlexico are virtually at a standstill because of . the i ,tldelands- ownership controversy, J. G. Pew, Sun Oil Oo.s vice president in charge of production, told the Pennsylvania. Petroleum Association meet- . , ing, here.-- . . - i. . ., Exploration and drilling were going: ahead .with remarkable success! before the federal governments claim threw. the operations into: low gear, and eventually brought them almost to a ; , halt . low-gra- de . . , . . J , . 11-ch- ute , |