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Show of Hear U o KEEP e POSTED ON URANIUM "? u& fticJt Significance in The Oil and Mining Wctld' The Weitem Mineral Survey. Sail Lake City. Utah Vol. 26; No. 50 February 3. 1956 Vitro Tops Output Record in January In Riverton Area Vitro Minerals Corp. broke all production records in January in the Riverton, Wyo. area, when the company shipped 3,509 wet tons of uranium ore. ' The quota was 3,500 tons plus one load. The company made the quota handily, despite winter weather. Jack Horton, general manager, said the company is now stockpiling in Riverton, ready to ship to the Riverton buying station. The December quota of 2,500 tons was shipped during that month. The quota was increased to 3,500 tons for January. The management expects to receive a decision from the Atomic Energy Commission after Feb. 10 in regard to an application for a DMEA loan for about $60,000 on Desert Queen property near Green River. An AEC field man visited the 75 claims of Desert Queen Uranium Corp. near Green River on Jan. 10 in company with Vitro Minerals management. Vitro is working the claims for Desert Queen. U-O- re Production Soars on Plateau URANIUM OUTPUT on the Colorado Plateau increased 150 per cent in over Utah Oil Discovery Another Utah oil Report discovery of major proportions is reported to have been brought in by the Texas Co. on property of the No. 1 Navajo Tribe of Indians in southeastern Utah. The well is reported to have flowed Monday at the rate of 45 barrels an hour during a drill stem test. After the test ran open for two hours, gas is said to have come to the surface in four minutes, flow-fee- t pering ing at the rate of 1 million cubic feet per day. In 30 minutes clean oil is said to have come to the surface. Texaco geologists said it has not developed into anything one can even define as a big well by any means. We have had soipe e favorable tests but a attitude would be wise. Location of the well is in San wait-and-se- Juan county, ANDREW FLETCHER . . . Zinc problem tense IIAROLD E. STASSEN . . Peacetime uranium . Upetco Mine Samples Show High Grade Ore Valfemine clearly apt)roacheS meeting the test of effectiveness, automatic operation, -- Two Utah Buy Okla. Lease U-Fir- ms 80-ac- re c 6e New Mexico Bureau The Atomic Energy Commission has announced that a uranium ore buying station will be opened three miles northwest of Grants, N.M., about April 1. The AEC said the station will have a limited capacity, requiring that deliveries by each producer will be limited in order that as many as possible may sell ore. -- fairness and feasibility, Fletcher told hundreds of mining men atconfab. tending the three-day Important Washington authoriUranium ore samples taken from Upetcos Sun ties and mining leaders .from at Marble Canyon, Ariz. assayed 1.04 per cent and 1.96 per cent throughout the U. S discussed the uranium, a memorandum report by Geolost Jay P. Mackenzie problems and policies of all of Upetco, revealed today. Mackenzie said the samples result- phases of the mining industry. ed from an amenability test at the laboratory of the Rare Metals Harold E. Stassen, assistant to Corporation of America, in Murray, Utah. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the program with his Mackenzie in his report to Chief Geologist A1 Buranek, said highlighted address Uranium in a Peaceful the laboratory in Murray had informed him that, in their opinion, World. the ore would be acceptable to the Tuba City mill process. On the social side of the conA final decision on this matter events will be reached after Upetco has ferenceas itinerary were the Sowbelly Dinner, such shipped an initial 40 tons to Tuba scheduled Saturday in the New Mackenzies Mile City this week-end- , Center building. CharHigh report stated. les Steen, owner of the MiVida Uranium 1.04 The Mine, is chairman of the which sample assays Two Utah uranium companies fete. cent 2.09 uranium showed oil per have purchased an vanadium. The sample assayTechnical sessions dealing with lease . in Oklahoma and the new ing 1.96 per cent uranium ran lead, zinc, silver, fluorspar, tungowners expect to start drilling 9.01 per cent vanadium. sten, manganese, gold, selenium, within 30 days, according to inThe lithium, thorium and other induswas Sun mine Valley Frank P. DeLarzelere, president of United Uranium Co. of Tulsa, spected by Geologist J. P. Mc- trial minerals continue through Kenzie and E. M. Garrick from Saturday. Okla. Foremost among the problems Jan. 18 to 22, when a complete Utaco Uranium Co of Moab and machinery and mine supply in- discussed early in the conference question of low Ranger Uranium, Exploration ventory was made. The report concerned the lead-zincodomestic in the new prices and Development Co., was as follows: industries. both were owners of the lease, The mine employs four mines, Said Mr. Fletcher, The dorepresented by Donald E. Kivett. one shift boss, Abe Bonham ana mestic producer cannot completeUnited Uranium Co. handled one mining engineer, John ly satisfy the domestic market, the deal, which involves two ONeil. The drift was 154 feet except when demand drops serquarter sections: NE SE and drifting toward blocked iously. That is why excessive de-in long and SE SE See ACTION Page 8 See UPETCO Page 3 Wagoner County, Oklahoma. ll-ln-1- 6e miles north of ORE STATION DUE AT GRANTS EXPERT ASKS BOLDER ACTION FOR U S. MINING INDUSTRY ILLS the 1954, 12 Desert Creek" where Shell Oil brought in a big discovery well last year. CHARLES A. STEEN . . Sowbelly Dinner host "The immediate problems of the domestic mining industry and the lead-zin- c branch of Atomic Energy Commission re- it, in particular have only been concealed temporarily, not eliminated, and their resolution for ported. There were some 1000 pro- better or worse should not much longer be postponed." ducers on the plateau during the year. An estimated 6000 persons Andrew Fletcher, president of the St Joseph Lead Co., New York made this statement were directly engaged in uranium in an opening meeting of the annual National Western Mining Conference. which;opened Thursmining operations in the western ' states. day in Denver. "'V It seems clear to me that an w most 1955 Big Zinc Decline Said Due To Foreign Production Dependence on other countries for metals and minerals has liquidated more than 150,000 tons per year the domestic zinc pro- - duction. Otto Ilerres, chairman of the National Lead and Zinc Committee, noted this dependency trend in a panel discussion at the National Western Mining Conference today in Denver. Mr. Ilerres, who is also vice presidet of the Combined Metals Reduction Co., Salt Lake City, spoke on Protecting the Consumer. Chairman of the panel was Frank A. Wardlaw, Jr., president of International Smelting & Refining Co., Salt Lake City. The problem. panel dalet with the nations lead-sinIlerres address is reprinted in full for Survey readers interested in the future of the zinc-lea- d industry in the U. S. k BY OTTO HERRES Record Breaking Production In the year 1955 of otherwise booming prosperity, output of lead and zinc from the mines of the United States again, as was the case in 1954, remained at the lowest level since the years 1931-3- 4 of the great depression. But this low state of mining was not caused by any falling off in use of the metals. Late Reports . . . Uranium Industries, Inc., an Oklahoma corporation and Vagabond Mining and Leasing Corp. today announced completion of a merger with Uranium Industries the surviving company. K. C. Mittry, president of Uranium Industries, said Vagabond will put 37 claims into the merger. Claims include five thorSlab zinc production and consu- ium claims near Salmon, Idaho; mption-reached peaks. 30 claims of cinnebar (mercury) Lead consumption was at a very at Pilot Mountain, Nev. and two high level. Demand for both lead claims at Temple Mt. in Utah. and zinc was strong and supplies were tight. O. D. Quinlan, Western Mineral to contrast But in stranger the Survey feature editor, is in Denrecord production and mounting ver this weekend covering the c ores National Western Mining sales, output of See ZINC Page 4 all-tim- e lead-zin- P V Library |
