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Show Lex Wilkinson, Local Chemical Laboratory Supervisor, Attracts National Attention A, new method of iron ore analysis ana-lysis developed by Lex P. Wilkinson, Wil-kinson, supervisor of the chemical chemi-cal laboratory of the Columbia Iron Mining Company of Cedar City, has drawn national attention. atten-tion. A paper prepared by Wilkinson relative to his method of spec-trochemlcal spec-trochemlcal analysis was published pub-lished In the Journal of "Applied Spectroscopy," which is published publish-ed by the Society of Applied Spectroscopy and distributed throughout the world. As a result of the publication of the report in the December 1962 Issue of the journal, inquiries in-quiries have begun to filter back to the Cedar City, office. At the present time he has received inquiries from interested chem ists in Canada, eastern United SttCS r,d "rOITi Hungary. Assisting in the development of the method of analysis were San Mitchell, formerly with the organization in Cedar City and now director of the chemical laboratory la-boratory at Lander, Wyo. and D. C Parry, who is a spectrosist in the chem lab here in Cedar City. According to Wilkinson, spec-trolgraphs spec-trolgraphs have been used extensively ex-tensively In the industry for the analysis of trace elements but as far as it Is known the method developed at the Cedar City laboratory la-boratory is the first to utilize the spectrograph for analysis of both major and minor constituents constitu-ents in Iron Ore. The method was developed over a period of approximately one year and has been utilized since 1958. Tests, it was indicated, indica-ted, result in an average pre cision of three percent. Preparation of the paper, which has been published and which was first requested by an equipment equip-ment supplier, was developed over ov-er an approximate two-year period- Wilkinson said. The technical method of the analytical process has-two important im-portant features which were basically ba-sically developed at the laboratory labora-tory here, Wilkinson said. The first innovation was the development cf a method to put ore completely into solution so that it can be applied to spec-trochemlcal spec-trochemlcal analysis. The second se-cond development which makes the method complete is the development de-velopment of a system of calculation calcu-lation the information derived by the spectrography results. i I LEX P. WILKINSON |