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Show '-- racss7 (AS A- RaecKraa VOLUME 2 NUMBER 15 25 Cents Per Copy JUNE 8 1970 Air pollution stories misinterpretation9 says KGC Kennecott Division Copper has Corporation's Utah termed as a misinterpretation statements in recent issues of the Wall Street Journal and Purchasing Week magazine saying that the Utah Division would close down in mid-Jun- e due to tough new air pollution control laws. The statement, apparently picked up by Purchasing Week from the Wall Street Journal, seems to be a misinterpretation of our May 18 statement that we could not meet recently announced sulfur dioxide Gary Hansen, KCC regulations, public relations officer, said. The May 18 statement said in part: The code (sulfur dioxide code announced by the Utah Air Conservation Code May 13) adopted varies so materially and substantially from the standards as to initially proposed a constitute wholely new regulation. The code adopted...is so restrictive as to constitute a practical and effective proscription of operations of the Utah Copper Division. The letter continues: ...standards contained in the new code are arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable, constituting the taking of property and the practical closing of division operations in Utah. The Utah Attorney Generals office is currently studying the KCC statement, according to Dr. Grant S. Winn, exeuctive secretary, Utah Air Conservation Committee. Winn said that it is now up to the attorney general Continued on Page 2 Oil industry asks import quotas to continue G T ON Oil industry spokesmen, contending it is dangerous to rely too. heavily on the tinderbox Middle East for petroleum, have argued capability must remain strong to retain the freedom the United States now has from foreign diplomatic coercion, Ikard argued. imports. They urged the House Ways and Means Committee, studying foreign trade legislation not to follow the recommendation of a Cabinet task force majority for substituting a tariff system on Philadelphia, board chairman of the Sun Oil Co., said consumers probably would pay higher prices under a tariff system. He W A S H IN for continuing quotas on imported oil. Rep. Silvio 0. Conte, told the committee domestic industry efficient an But could handle our national petroleum needs in the event of crisis. Moreover, he said, it is highly unlikely that all of our import sources would ever be cut off at one time. . . Robert G. Dunlop of said the plan would cause investment in domestic petroleum exploration to be halved. We believe that the most realistic approach involves some form of quantitative limitation, Myron A. Wright, board chairman of Humble Oil & Refining Co., told committee. Herbert D. day of HIGH GRADE COPPER ORE from this new open pit at the Big Mike Copper Mine south of Winnemucca, Nev., is en route to processing plants in Europe. Ranchers Exploration and Development removed approximately 2.8 million tons of primary overburden to expose the ore. Ranchers Big Mike copper ore on way to Europe WINNEMUCCA, Nev. The The high grade copper ore the first trainload of copper ore will be processed in Germany. New York, president of the National Fuel Gas Co., and spokesman for American Gas Association, the The transition from an oil Brice OBrien said Congress import quota system could be should require that energy made over five years, he said. the future be held to in Frank N. Ikard, president of imports the American Petroleum their present percentage of energy' considered as Institute, cited the growing adomestic whole oil, gas, coal and Russian presence in the Middle uranium-Arathe- r i than ,l ',h in its East.' individual segments. Domestic petroleum from the Hg Mike mine south of here is on its way to Europe, according to a story in the Anderson said Ranchers has already sold most of its Big Mike ore at favorable prices. He said COUNTY some 20,000 tons of ore were in HUMBOLDT . BULLETIN. transit by the end of May. Maxie Anderson, president of Average grade of the sulpiride Ranchers Exploration and ore mined thus far is running Development Corp., said the slightly higher than expected, first 1 ,200 tons left Winnemucca Anderson said, and should reach via Western Pacific May 26, or exceed the 10 average arrived in San Francisco May 28 estimated for the sulphide land was! loaded aboard a deposit which contains about freighter for smelting in Europe. 100,000 tons of ore. The Big Mike Mine is 30 miles south of Winnemucca in Pershing County. Anderson announced at the same time that Ranchers has sold approximately 80 of the production from its North Carolina tungsten mine and mill from August through IXvember 1970. The mill is expected to approximately 20.000 units, of tuniMcii trioxide during the period from Continued on Page . produce short ton |