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Show Inly 20. 1956 The Western Mineral Survey, Salt lake City, Utah Page 2 New Copper Shape Shipped Kennecott Corporation ByA distinctive and new whidh will enable the copper shape copper fabricating industry to produce longer sections of continuous rolled or strip copper and copper foil, is now being produced and shipped according to an announcement by the Utah Copper Division, Kennecott Copper Corporation, Garfield, Utah. The facility, a $2 million vertical casting wheel, was created world s largest single producer of refined copper to meet the by increased customer demands for larger sped cakes and billets. MAs a result of this investment, ' we are now able to produce 40 molds for the cakes. Thus, the molds on the tons per hour of high grade, dual bdllet-cakWheel eliminate the need for electrolytically pure copper in 'cakes' weighing 2,000 pounds," changing molds. 2. A total of 28 cakes and 28 states L. F. Pett, general manager. While the wheel is billet molds are carried on the to 4,000 pounds we have not, as wheel at the same time, makyet, poured that size in regular ing it larger than other units employed by electrolytic refinproduction runs. eries.. Within a few months, billets in diameters of three to four 3. Instead of full immersion inches, will be coming from the in a bath of water to cool the t same facility in the plant. copper at .its pouring The casting facilities of the re- temperature of 2,150 degrees F. cooling chamber, finery, situated on the shore of a fine water spraywith equipped Salt Great Lake, originally built is nozzles cost employed. of more than $17 million, ing at a The fine spray device is metalhave heretofore been confined to output of copper ingots, slabs lurgical recognition of the physical fact that the cloud of steam, and wire bars. With the addition of these two generated and surrounding hot new shapes, the Utah Copper Di- metals in a bath, is itself an invision is able to meet copper sulator against rapid temperature fabricators needs for cakes which drops. This is analagous to the go into plates and thin sheets manner in which the earths (they end up in a variety of cloud formations protect us, in products from salt shakers to part, from the full effects of borne building hardware) and bright summer sun. billets. The latter copper form is fashioned into copper tubing 1-3 through the technique of metal extrusion. In order to produce these new shapes, it was necessary for the New Mexico Survey Bureau engineers to design and build New mines registered with the this unique, vertical casting wheel which weighs well over New Mexico Mine Inspectors office include the High Pike Nos. 500 tons. It is the first' unit of this 1 and 3 by the Primary Atomic nature to have been installed and Minerals, Inc, The mines were registered as placed in operation in this or wheel other The country. underground operations in Secany San Miguel Counrotates around a substantial shaft tion Willow heavy-duta Creek Mining and is powered by ty, in the District. hydraulic motor. The Hornet Mine, a big lead-zin- c Operating differences Its principal difference, from producer in the past, will other vertical casting wheels, lies be reopened by Harvest Queen Mill and Elevator Co. The mine in these areas: 1. Molds for billets are attach- is in Grant County, six miles ed to the same wheel as are the east of Hatchita. : e red-ho- 25-fo- ot High Pike Registered y The WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY is Expanding Its Classified Ad Section .. Growing $2 MILLION CASTING WHEEL diversification of ' products bf this kefinery, sit- uated on the shores of Great Salt Lake, is reflected in the completion of a $2 million investment which is now producing 40 tons per hour of electrolytically pure copper in 2,000 pound cakes and 105 pound billets. Pictured here is the new vertical casting wheel in operation at Kennecott Copper Corporations copper refinery, Garfield, Utah. This facility, weighing well over " 500 tons, is the first of its kind to be installed and placed in operation In this or country for the purpose of forming cakes of refined copper. It will enable the copper fabricating industry to produce longer sections of continuous rolled or copper strip and foiL Billets and cakes, respectively, are the source shapes from which copper tubing is pierced or extruded and copper sheet is rolled. . C. T. Kappler Begins Job As S L C Attorney of the J. Sinclair Armstrong, Chair- kow, Attomey-in-Chargman of the Securities and Ex- Commissions Salt Lake City change Commission, today, an- Branch Office. nounced the transfer, effective Since June 1955, Mr. Kappler August 6, 1956 of Charles T. Kappler, Jr., of Washington, D.C., to has been on the Commissions the Commissions Regional Office staff as an attorney in the Diviin Denver for assignment as As- sion of Trading and Exchanges, in sistant Attorney to Edward Ra- - Washington, D.C. e Uranium Found In Crooks Gap Commercial uranium has been ing program begun by Phelps-Dodg- e Corp. on Wyoming Uranium Corp. property in. Crooks Gap, Wyo., under a lease option agreement. The six holes span a distance of 3,200 feet. Closest hole to Wyoming Uraniums Shinkalobe ore body was 600 feet away. If By ore in that hole in indicative of New Mexico Survey Bureau a railroad extension of the judicial recognition that land grants include mineral Shinkalobe, it will greatly add A suit which threatened to rights in awarding title of two to the value of the deposit. cloud many titles on the urani- disputed sections in McKinley um-rich n Colorado Plateau has County, N. M., to been settled by a U. S. district Uranium Co. The land contains what the company estimates at WESTERN MINERAL judge in Santa Fe, N. M. U. S. Judge Waldo Rogers took $180 million worth of uranium. SURVEY Colo. Plateau Suit Settled An OPPORTUNITY For U.S. 600-fo- Buyer & Seller To Get Together For ot Sabre-Pinio- SSll kORHAINB QUICK RESULTS ECONOMICAL HEWS International Smelting and Refining Co. RATES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION min ob mil r any-othe- 31 - PHD CIRCULATXQH Church Street phone EM ADVERTISING Box 2608 XU 49 Salt Lake City, Utah Entered aa eecond daae matter at Salt Lake City, Utah, nnder Act of March 3, 1119. Subscription ratee: .18:00 for tvo jean; for one year. Pleaao mention Wee tern Mineral Surrey when writing to advertlaara. Adrer-tlaln- s ratea on appUcaUon. 13.00 WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY Advertising Dept. - P. O. ' Box 2608 Salt Lake City I, Utah PHONE EMpire 4-36- 40 ' F. A. WARDLAW, General Manager i 818 KEARNS BUILDING Phone EL 5-34- 01 Salt Lake City HARRT B. MILLER REX L. McARTHUR PtAUahar Adv. Manager All newa appearing in the Western Mineral Survey la obtained from aonreea believed to be reliable but no rsaponalbU-it- y la assumed for necoracy of statements. Reproduction of any material from thla publication muat have written pennlaalen from the publisher. - |