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Show Bulk Hate L. N'Ot MIDLAND, recent events may have hastened the day when oil shale may become a . coipmercial fuel source, Nash J. Dowdle, chairman of the board of Western Oil Shale Corp., stated in the 1968 annual report. These events are the recent increase in crude oil prices which has narrowed the competitive Vol. l No. gap between conventional and oil shale recovery processes, the oil leakage into the Santa Barbara channel' off California and Secretary of Interior Walter Hinkels strong urging relative to more stringent rules and penalties may reduce interest and will increase 'costs in operations. The results should be increased interested' in the recovery of "oil from shale.' off-sho- re 7 The Postage I A I is third event recent 0Rst n Western Oil Shale has retained CER Geonuclear Corp., Atlantic-Richfield- s expenditures for Las Vegas, Nev., to evaluate the the acquisition of oil shale suitability of a site on the and Colorado. company's acreage for an properties experiment for fragmenting oil WESTERN OIL SHALE, the shale with nuclear and annual report revealed, owns retorting the shale energy particles in 76,453 net acres of oil shale leases and is the largest holder of place. The preliminary report on State oil shale leases in the Uinta this project, called Operation Basin of Utah. Utah," is favorable and the data $24,000,000 in-Uta- h Salt Lake City, Utah - - - 1 must now be verified by a core hole which will be commenced this summer. The annual report shows the company's net worth increased during the year from $896,551 to $2,521,234 and as of December 31, 1968, the company had current assets of $2,060,798, current liabilities of debt. $24,911 and no long-term April 14, 1969 vYV Anaconda plans I) e Cilv, Uah Ll Commercial oil shale near Tex.-Th- ree S. y, c ? ..s-- '; ' beryllium mill SALT LAKE CITY-Ut- ah's mining community perked up it; ears this week with an announcement by the Anaconda Co. that it has started planning for a beryllium ore concentration plant in the Spor Mountain Area of Utah. It appeared as a mere mention in the Anaconda annual report, but it was the first time Anaconda has made public the possibility of constructing a mill. ANACONDA has no mine yet. It has been exploring in the area for several years and how has some 175 claims. Brush Beryllium Co. already has leaped into operations in the Spor Mountain Area. It began stripping operations at its mine and construction of a mill last year. The bulk of Anacondas claims lie south of the Brush pit and the rest are to the east and north. The relative position of the two in the Spor Mountain beryllium race has been subject to much speculation. The brief Anaconda note mentioned in part: The plans are based on a unique process developed by the company's extractive metallurgical research division. The tentative location for the plant is at or near the mine site. In a separate section on Geology," the Anaconda report note;: A closely spaced grid pattern has been drilled at Spor Mountain, Utah, to develop; further beryllium ore reserves. Trenching and preliminary stripping have exposed ore for further testing consideration." and SPOR MOUNTAIN is a rocky prominence looming from the western Utah desert in the central part of Juab County. The beryllium discoveries, PRELIMINARY STRIPPING operations are shown in an aerial photc of Brush's open pit in based on the . work of the late central Juab County, Utah. Anaconda has just announced it is mulling construction of a mill Dr. Norman Williams, are considered to be the largest in the western world, if not the whole world. talents as metal: It has high mining its Spor Mountain claims into a beryllium hydroxide The Spor Mountain deposit strength to weight ; it maintains when it announced late in 1967 concentrate. The concentrate occurs as a tuff invisible to the its strength at high temperatures it would build a mine and mill. will be shipped to Brushs Since then it has constructed eye but susceptible to large (in the early 60s it was touted Elmore, Ohio, plant for scale mining and process as the space age" metal); it has its open pit west of Spor metallurgical processing. excellent ceramic and ' alloying Mountain and its mill is nearing operations. . The ore will be trucked from Heretofore, beryllium has characteristics; it has use in at railhead at the been imported .from beryl ores nuclear reactors. At the present completion mine to the mill at the rate Millard County, 42 Lyndyll, in Africa, India and South state of the art, it is a miles by crows flight to the of some 12 to 15 truck loads of America. The beryl, occurring as fantastically costly metal. 30 to 40 ton loads a day.' The southeast. was crystals, is literally hand-picke- d Brush, however, THE ORES .will get plant will process some from its host rock. to $2,000,000 persuaded sufficiently obviously grinding at the mill, $1,800,000 in BERYLLIUM HAS fantastic oi tne economic benefit of preliminary ore. yearly then will be chemically leached AEC to explain Project Rulison GRAND JUN CTION The U.S. Atomic Energy of the Commission, Department the Interior's Bureau of Mines, Austral Oil Co., and CER Geonuclear Corp., will conduct public meetings on Project Rulison in five Colorado communities during the week of April 14. Project Rulison is the second experiment in the AEC's Plowshare program to investigate the use of a nuclear explosion to increase the recovery of natural gas. It is a cooperative government-industr- y research and development project calling for .detonation Qf a 40 kilo ton (equivalent to 40,000 tons of TNT) some 8,400 feet underground in the Mesa Verde natural gas-beari- formation. April 16; and the Mesa Junior. The detonation, planned for College Auditorium, 1120 North May 12, will take place about 12 air miles southwest of Rifle. The meeting in Rifle will be at the Esma Lewis Elementary School on Monday, April 14; Glenwood Springs High School on Tuesday, April 15; Meeker High School on Wednesday, Avenue, in Grand Junction, on Thursday, April 17. All meetings are at 8 p.m. A session is planned at 3:30 p.m. April 14 at the Grand Valley High School. Subjects to be discussed at the public meetings and the briefing for state officials include nuclear test operations and safety, off-sit- e safety precautions, potential of nuclear stimulation of gas reservoirs, purpose and anticipated results of Rulison, and nuclear effects. There will be a question and answer session after the presentations. Rio Algom to drill S.L. mining firm .claii SALT LAKE CITY-Gen- eral American Corp. of Salt Lake City has entered into a drilling contract with the Rioamex Division of Atlas Alloys Inc., a United States subsidiary of Rio Algom Mines, a major Canadian uranium producer, listed on the American and Toronto Stock Exchanges. Rio Algom Mines is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Zinc, American, stated We had London-baseand one of the optioned to Rioamex a uranium largest mining organizations in prospect comprising 675 acres the world. In making the announcement, situated 10 miles north of Moab. Dan Meyer, president of General Utah, for a period of three yean. d, If the option is exercised after drilling and the property is brought into production, royalty payments based on production will be paid to' General American." |