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Show September 21, 1956. Page 7 THE WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY Potash Output Salt Lake To Welcome Mining Men Continues Climb, Mesa Elects Directors, Rocky Mountain Minerals Notes Drilling Work Confab Opens Wednesday At the annual meeting of the subsidiary of Mountain Mesa stockholders of Mountain Mesa Uranium Corp. held on July 12, the following directors were elected to serve for the ensuing year; H. O. English, Louis England, P. G. McManus, Sr., Richard R. Bostwick, William A. Rader and Gerald- LEstrange. Mr. English, Mr. England, Mr. MacManus and diMr. LEstrange were hold-ove- r rectors. - At the directors meeting held in the company offices on Sept. 11 the following officers were elected: II. O. English, president; William A. Rader, vice president; Louis England, secretary-treasure.The board was advised that the beneficiator (mill) on which the research laboratory has been working will be ready for testing at the Cal Uranium mine in the Big Indian District, San Juan County, Utah in the next two weeks. This beneficator as reported by the research laboratory from previous tests, increases the met appreciably taken from the San Juan ore body owned by Cal Uranium Co., a wholly owned r. to-b- e Ura- nium Corp. The drilling and exploratin program that is now in progress in the Gas Hills properties is progressing according to plan. There has been apporximately 4,500 feet of drilling completed, most of the work being done on the Sunset claims. s of the Approximately holes were mineralized on radio-metri- c loggings and indicated a commercial grade of ore. Final results of this drilling cannot be de termined until. such time as the assay reports have been received from the assay office and correlation has been made between the radiometric logs and the assay reports. Mountain Mest is preparing the information for the application of a Defense Minerals loan to complete the drilling in the Crooks Gap area. If the program is approved by Hidden' Splendor, the application should be filed with within the next 30 to 45 days. Mr. MacManus has been in the (Continued on Page 8) two-third- Reports Note Production of marketable potassium salts continued its upward trend in the United States in 1955, again reaching a new high, six Salt Lake City will be the site of the 1956 Rocky Mountain per cent above 1954, according to Minerals Conference which is scheduled for mining men Sept. reports by producers to the Bu26-2- 8 reau of Mines, United States Deat the Newhouse Hotel. of the Interior. Sponsored by the Utah Section of AIME, the conference partment features a variety of prominent speakers from the mining world. Both sales and apparent conSessions begin Wednesday morning at 9 p.m. with a discussion sumption of potassium salts inof Pressure Leaching and Reduction at Caleras Garfield Re- creased four p6r cent in 1955, compared with 1954. Stocks in profinery by J. Stanley Mitchell, plant superintendent, Calera ducers hands at the end of 1955 were 20 per cent above the prevMining Co. Other talks to bie given on the opening day include; Coal ious years and totaled 630,962 short tons with a K-- 2 O content of Mining by Mechanical Methods, Pacific Northwest Pipe- 373,195 tons. John Paparakis, manager, Kaiser president, Steel Corp., Sunnyside Division; line Corp.; The Production of Both imports to the United V. N Oil and Gas Possibilities of the Elemental Phosphorous, States and exports from this counGreat Basin Area, Dorsey Hager, Antaki, staff engineer, Westvaco try of potash materials increased Manage- Mineral Products Division, Food in 1955, 46 and 95 consulting geologist; per cent, respecand Chemical Corp.; ment Measures an Engineer, pan- Machinery West East Gertively. Germany, el; Iron Mining in ' Southwest Israel Phosphates Deposits, many, France, Spain and Chile, Utah, Robert F, Loer, superin- Charles R.Sweetwood, staff engi- respectively, supplied 37, 25, 23, 6, Simplot Co. tendent, Deseret Mound Mine, neer, J. Gov. J. Bracken Lee will be and 6 per cent of the total imCedar Columbia Iron Mining Co., ports of potash. City ; Transmission of Natural guest speaker at the luncheon Gas in the Rocky Mountain Area, Wednesday, and John C. Kinnear The major portion of exports Fulton Copp, assistant to the vice Jr., chairman, Extractive Metal- (65 per cent) were to countries lurgy Division, AIME, will be in the Western Hemisphere, with guest speaker at Thursdays lunch- 26 per cent to Asia and 8 per cent eon. MINING HI-LITto New Zealand. other on talks various Eight NABOB SILVER-LEAap- Manure salts and both grades phases of the mining industry are a sizeable and have will parently scheduled for presentation Thurs- of muriate have been combined to avoid disclosure of individual profitable mining operation when day. its new winze is completed and company Only one Friday morning's session wil company operations.production ore of stopes prepared. High-grad- e reported a symposium on Loading 0 cent contiues iii the shaft bottom at the feature three muriate and per and Transportation. 110-fopoint and smelter returns Four field trips are scheduled companies reported manure salts. from development much totaled for New Mexico, California, and Friday afternoon: more than $10,000 in August. Utah continued to supply the ma1. Calera Mining Co., a cobalt FIVE KELLOGG MINING of domestic potash FIRMS, Caledonia, Nancy Lee, production plant situated on the jor portion with New Mexica supproduction, New Era, Signal and CDA Silver shores of Great Salt Lake near 91 per cent. The National plying Giant, said they will make a stock Garfield, Utah. This plant uses Potash Co. was developing its Ura- one of the most modern distribution of Utah-Idah- o mine in New Mexico during the 5. nium share October The basis techniques for meta year. will be 20 shares for each' 100 recovery. held except for Caledonia which . The world production table has Utah Oil Co. will show a colbeen revised in this repart to show will' give out 30 shares for each or2..movie of the latest refining K-- 2 100. O content of crude ore protechniques. COM-PANduction and K-- 2 O content of SUNSHINE MINING 3. Western Phosphates, near marketable production. upped ore production in tons to from 16,578 August Julys Garfield, produces phosphate fer13,772 tons. tilizers from Idaho phosphate OIL NEWS LETTER rock. Free on request. Includes map 4. Vitro Uranium Mill, about five miles south of Salt Lake, will showing recent successful well describe the process of uranium completions, new field, discovermilling. A tour of ies, etc. Also drilling wildcats sections of the plant is included. and their progress, oil and gas Busses will take the conference-goer- s news items regarding an area out to the various tours. 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