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Show of "Jcr ;V' 0V ' :g$$cakce.it fhe Oil and lUining World The Western Vol. 27; No. Delhi - Taylor Oil Venture IF i)ajo or rs or or or off-du- ty In Colorado The U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Union Carbide Nuclear Co., a division of Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation of New York, have signed a con- tract providing for the construction an doperation by UCN of a new uranium processing mill at Rifle, Colorado, and for two new ore receiving stations and chemical upgrading plants on the Colorado Plateau, it was announced by the Grand Junction operations office of the commission. One of the upgrading stations Cross-Bow.Rang- er To Explore Mine in Emery w Utco Uranium Corp., Denver, Golo. this week reports a gross income of more than $100,000 for a three month period from ore shipments made from the Navajo Indian reservation open pit operation in Coconino county, Ariz. The company shipped, according to John H. Alff, treasurer, 3,000 tons of ore to the buying station in April and received $49,259 in payment. We anticipate shipping 4,000 per cent uranium oxide with ore tons during June, Alff adds. Utco lists its Navajo operation, thickness from two to 24 feet in sur23 miles southeast of Cameron beds two to 40 feet below continues. the report Ariz., as its most successful op- face, of ore to Tuba City, Shipments a eration in recently published Ariz. buying station started on annual report. 15. Feb. According to Treasurer A proven ore body developed Utco initially shipped 1,500 In the mineralized zone is approx- Alff, tons and increased in February imately 1200 feet long and 600 to 2,000 tons in March. Utcos feet wide, the reports notes. Values range from .08 to 1.37 current quota is 2,500 tons. meetAt a recent stockholders ing in Denver, Mason W. Rankin, general manager of Utco operations, outlined plans for operating mining permits of Foley Brothers, Inc. which Utco will operate. These permits will be operated American Gilsonite plans to under terms of a contract which sus- will be mutually beneficial t to call for bids for an across White the the Bros, and Utco, Navajo pended pipeline Foley river in eastern Utah in about a tribe, George S. Casey, Utco month, officials of the company president .informed stockholders. In the Utco annual report com' have announced. The line will bridge the pany officials noted expenditures White river canyon, of $41,081 on exploration and deabout 18 miles east of the Gilso- velopment of properties in Arinite mines at Bonanza, Utah. It zona, Utah and Colorado. The company discontinued work will extend from the mine to the Gilsonite refinery now under con- on Carpenter Flats claims in Colostruction west of Grand Junction. rado and on East Canyon, Dry A 3,180,000-galloreservoir and Valley property in Utah. Utco also pumping station is being built dropped an option on the Corral near the mines to push the min- group B, consisting of 92 claims eral through the pipe line in a in San Juan county, Utah, when water solution. Water pressure they failed to receive a DMEA will carry the ore 70 miles loan for exploration. In explaining the development through the pipeline. An affiliate of Standard Oil of of the Navajo properties the reCalifornia and the Barber Oil port said that the first acquisition Corp., American Gilsonite expects was from Charles and Lena o start operation of the refinery Huskon on 105 acres in the Cameron district. by the spring of 1957. Since that time, our holdings The new $12 million refinery will produce 1300 barrels of pe- have been expanded to 851 acres troleum products and 265 tons of of land in the area. Less than ten metallurgical coke daily from gil per cent of this land has been Amer. Gilsonite Calls For Pipe 1800-foo- Union Carbide Plans Mill Cross-Bo- $3.00 Pei Year Inne 15, 1956 Utco Uranium Ups Ore Shipments From Navajo Reservation Open Pit -o-- op FARMINGTON, N.M., June 11 v .vajo Indians employed Oil Corp. during exploration and development by Delhi-Taylwork on the Navajo Reservation will be eligible for benefits under employee education plan, the company disclosed here today. Delhi-Tayland the Navajo tribal council recently signed a contract under which the company will explore and develop up to five million acres of the reservation. Now before the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for final approval, the contract stipulates the Navajo tribe will receive all other minerals and all water found beyond immediate drilling requirements. It is expected many Navajos will be employed by Delhi-Taylduring development of the area, the company statement said. We will need clerical assistance, roustabouts, and men to lay and maintain lines and machinery. The statement said all permanent Delhi-Taylemployees are eligible to participate in the companys employee education plan. Under that plan the company pays all tuition for an educational courses pertaining to an employees job. Half tuition is paid for courses related to but not a basic part of an employees job. Delhi-Taylo- Mineut-Survey- . Uranium Co., a Utah will be near Slick Rock, in San Miguel County, Colorado, and the other at Green River, Emery ' County, Utah. The new Rifle uranium mill will be situated about two miles down the Colorado River from the present plant. A lack of space and the tailings disposal problem ed to the decision to build an entirely new mill at Rifle instead of expanding the old one. The two new ore receiving and upgrading stations at Slick Rock and Green River will consist of facilities for receiving, crushing, sampling, and beneficiation of crude ore by means of processes developed by Union Carbide Nu- 500-foot-de- ep The Silver Standard Mining Company, a Utah Corporation of long standing and listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, entered into a operating agreement with the Mineral Mountain Mining Co., recently The Silver Standard Company has agreed to mine for prod'stion the following uranium cl3nn: Storm 1 to 12 (Fremont County, Wyoming); Christ 11 to 30 (Montezuma County, Colorado); Star-firSaber, Wart, Skull and Thun-derj(San Juan County, Utah); Mac 19 to 30 (Grand County, Utah); Mac 53 to 104; Nokota 1 to 10 (Garfield County, Utah); Sum-kot- a 1 to 20, (Garfield County, Utah) ; Orphan Boy 1 to 8 (Emery County, Utah); Depression No. 5 (now in production in Mesa County, Colorado); and Al Roger 1 to 2 (San Juan County, Utah). Under the terms of the agreement Mineral Mountain Mining Company receives 40 per cent of the net profit of mining, after the payment of mining costs, prior royalties, it was disclosed in a progress 'report of the Mineral Mountain Mining Company e, et n clear Co. The product then will be sent to the Rifle mill for processing to an acceptable uranium concentrate for sale to the Commission sonite, a solid hydrocrabon. under the terms of the contract. Construction of the new mill and ore receiving stations is expected to start right away. In addition to relying on company controlled ore reserves to supply the new facilities, Union Carbide will purchase a certain amount of amenable ores from independent producers in the re- corporation, announces that negotiations are being conducted with Ranger Uranium Exploration and Development Co. for the joint exploration, development and operation of Cross-Bow- s Dolly Mines located in Emery County, Utah. There are several producing mines in the immediate area. spective regions. Union Carbide Nuclear Co., for Other operations in the immediate vicinity include the Green merly U. S. Vanadium, is one of Vein Mine, which lies two miles the oldest uranium mining and to the north of the Dolly Mine, milling companies operating in the s This Colorado Plateau region. and the Hertz Mine of a mile to the north. As of company operates the Uravan and March, 1955, the Green Vein has Rifle, Colorado, uranium mills, as produced approximately 625 tons well as extensive uranium mining of ore averaging 0.63 per cent properties. U308, and the Hertz Mine, 500 tons overaging 0.32 per cent of U308. Consolidated Uranium is Lizard Surveys also operating in the same area, Blue about 2 miles to the north. Officials of Blue Lizard Mines, On the Dolly Mine an adit Inc., plan to spend several days approximately 40 feet in length at the mine location 70 miles west has been driven into the south of Blanding, Utah surveying rim along the trend of the min- equipment needed to step-u- p proeralized channel. Mineralization duction. was . encountered throughout the The company has also anlength of the drift as well as in the side of the adit entry. From nounced the appointment o this drift 76.40 tons of ore were Wayne B. Garff of Garff, Ryberj shipped to the mill with assays and Garff to the Blue Lizard board of directors. averaging 0.19 U308. Silver Standard, Mineral Mount Enter Agreement See UTOCO Page 7 Name Change Due New Mexico Bureau The Uranium Corp. of America recently voted at a stockholders meeting in Santa Fe, NM., to change the firm name to Malco Exploration Co. New directors elected are Bryan Beck Jr., Beaumont, Tex.; A. O. Trigo, Dallas, and Dr. Samuel Zeigler, Espanola, N.M. Malcolm I. Cole, president, and L. Los Alamos Cole of Margaret were to the board. D. re-elect- re-nam- Cat Clears Gypsum Overburden three-quarter- v OVERBURDEN GOES Gypsum mining, one of the wests important industries, uses the same techniques as uranium and other mining opera- - jL v. tions. Here a caterpillar tractor strips overburden on gypsum mining operations near Blue Mountain, Nevada. |