Show I BUREAU OF MINES DEVELOPS UTAH RESOURCES S. S rl b ray x Testing strategic ores at Salt Lake City station Bureau of Mines Establishment of the Bureau of or Mines station adjacent to the tho Uni Uni- University University of Utah campus In 1940 is la proving to be of outstanding benefit bene bene- fit to the war effort and to the state Situated In the heart of Western mining this plant is operating day and night to meet the many problems problems problems lems that have ha arisen out of the war Operations of the plant have not been confined to inside laboratory laboratory labora labora- tor tory work but to numerous field examinations and anti more recently to actual development nt of strategic and critical minerals When a large percentage of the United States imports of was cut CUI off ocr by the closing of the Burma Road in China the bureau immediately ly set about to augment the rapidly diminishing stocks s of the much needed me metal meal a Showings at the Cu Cupric mine in the Milford i section of or Beaver county were drilled and recently an actual development de program ram was launched A tunnel has been driven en a distance of or feet at the cupric and several sev eral hundred feet more work will be done In an effort to the production possibilities of the area In the same region the tile bureau has started work to reclaim the old Tasso shaft of the Wall Wah Wah minIng mining min min- ing company Diamond drilling is also being conducted at Iron Mountain near Cedar City At Marysvale Utah an extensive program is being conducted on properties Sampling and investigation work has been completed at Utah and a a. num number er of or projects also have been undertaken throughout Wyo |