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Show Page 4 The July 27. 1956 Western Mineral Survey. Salt Lake City. Utah Fabulous Happy Jack Mine Purchased Geological Survey Projects 1957 Program, Budget Texas-Zin- c in for Unknown Sum By The famous Happy Jack mine in White Canyon has been Minerals Corp. from Joe Cooper purchased by the Texas-Zin- c and Fletcher and Grant Bronson, Monticello. Purchase price was not disclosed but is believed to have been between $15 and $25 million. The sale of Vernon Picks Delta property for $10 million to the Floyd Odium interests is the largest uranium mining deal OULi CUT MOTOR previously on record. Included in the Happy Jack 'deed are 33 whole or' partial claims. Although the property has been under development for years, its potential has hardly been scratched. It was purchased by Cooper and the Bronsons for tions consist of a number of drifts $1,000 in 1946 for the purpose of and cross cuts. The greatest penmining copper. An estimated 500,000 tons of etration points at some places are some 1,800 feet due south of the high grade uranium ore have been blocked out through more than main portal. two and one-hamiles of drifts Just last week, the Atomic Energy Commission announced that iji the mine. More than 50,000 tons of ore, Texas Zinc Minerals Corp. had averaging .40 per cent uranium contracted to construct and operoxide, was mined and shipped ate a uranium .processing mill near Mexican Hat on the San during this exploratory period. Juan River in southeastern Utah. to recgovernment According Texas Zinc is a jointly owned ords, the ore formation at the Happy Jack is 16 feet thick at the corporation of the Texas Comoutcrop and increases in thickness pany and the New Jersey Zinc Co. to approximately 40 feet behind On two other occasions, reports the rim. Present mining opera- - of the sale of the Happy Jack mine have circulated and have not materialized. Neither Texas-Zin- c nor the Happy Jack owners would disclose the sale price. The National Mining and Milling Corp. once proposed paying up to $30 million for the Happy Jack properties. Estimated commercial clay deThe last reported sale of Happy posits in northern Idaho could Jack fell through earlier in the make that area the leading clay when negotiations between field in the northwest, according year T. R. Gillenwaters, representing to a report from the Idaho Bu- the owners, and the Texas Co., reau of Mines and Geology. New Jersey Zinc and the Shat-tuc- k Some 500,000,000 tons of comChemical Co. were not satismercial clay may lie within the factorily completed. boundaries of Latah County, At the time, reports indicated Idaho, while Kootenai County has that the purchasers were willing clay deposits totaling an estimat- to pay $25 million for the Happy ed 1,577,000 tons. Jack claims. 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MEANTIME, FOLLOW THESE PRECAUTIONS: Department of the Interior appropriation act for fiscal year 1957 has provided the Geological Survey with $28,095,000 for conducting its activities in the fields of mapping, geology, topographic water resources investigations and supervision of mineral leasing, Secretary of th& Interior Fred A. Seaton announced today. Fiscal year 1957 will see the . start of many new projects in each ..of the four operating divisions. Funds have also been provided for additional building construction at the Surveys Pacific Coast Center in Menlo Park, Cali-forni- a. ' The new work of the Geologic Division in fiscal 1957 will be directed mainly toward new geologic mapping and investigations of both potential and producing mineral and mineral fuels areas, and toward research aimed at developing new geologic concepts and new techniques in geochemistry and geophysics. The amount appropriated for geology for fiscal year 1957 is $6,778,000. The geologic program is long-rang- e and . concerned primarily with such continuing activities as geologic mapping; appraising the mineral and mineral fuels resources of the Nation; research aimed at developing better understanding of the geologic processes by which minerals and fuel deposits are concentrated; and developing new and better methods by which to search for additional resources. The larger proportion of new -- the dertaken, for example, Humboldt, Stillwater and Snake Ranges, Nevada, and in the Bullfrog area of that State.. These operations will be carried out in cooperation with the Nevada State Bureau of Mines. Another project is designed to map the Mt. Pinchot area, California. Also to be mapped is a strip of country west of the Shasta copper mining district of California. These projects will be done in cooperation with the California Division of Mines. Plans also call for starting geologic investigations in the Republic district, Washington, the Yellow Pine and Mackay districts in Idaho, and the Duck Creek Pass area, Montana. A start will also be made on a restudy of the Bingham Canyon copper mining district, Utah. In the eastern States, mapping operations will be started on selected areas in .the Blue Ridge and in the Piedmont regions of North Carolina, and three parties will commence work in the large hitherto unmapped portion of northern Maine. In the field of fuels investigations, oil shales and their lateral sandstone equivalents will be mapped ini northwestern part of New York State, and detailed geologic mapping and studies of petroleum-bearinPennsylvanian and Permian rocks in cenrtal Texas will continue. Subsurface studies of the McAlester Basin in ' o eastern Oklahoma and of the Basin of western Oklahoma will also continue, as will geo- - ' logic- mapping in the Ouachita Mountains of northern Arkansas, and subsurface studies of the g Ana-dark- field investigations to be started in fiscal 1957 will be concerned with areas that are of interest as potential sources of minerals and geology of Wilson County, Kansas the latter in cooperation with metals; but the work will also include the investigation of areas the Kansas State Survey. primarily of interest as sources of Mapping will be started in the Dome area, Monmineral fuels (coal, oil and gas). Sumatra-Alic- e A tana. of the tertiary, de: studyGeblogic mapping in support of mineral exploration will be un (Continued on Page 5) - - |