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Show o GOOD RE8ULT8 AT U. 8. BUREAU OF MINES Attention of mining men and ' metallurgists throughout the country 1b bolng directed toward Utah bo-: bo-: causo of tho work bolng dono on the chlorldo volltllizatlon process by tho Department of Matollurglcnl Research and tho U. S. Bureau of Mines at tho University of Utah. This process, when perfected, will mako posslblo comploto extraction of low grado ores. Tests aro now bolng mado on a commercial com-mercial scale to provo tho smaller laboratory experiments. Tho Department of Metallurgical Research was established by legislative legis-lative enactment In 1013; tho following follow-ing year a co-operativo ngrooment was mado with tho U. S. Dureau of Mines and n building was orocted on tho unlvor3lty campus with class rooms, olllcos and laboratories for both departments. de-partments. A microscopic laboratory In malntnlned for tho uso of tho people peo-ple of this stato and for tho other western mines stations. Utilization of tho oil shalo of tho stato Is another an-other problem bolng worked on In tho laboratories at the stato institution. institu-tion. This work of tho Unlvorlsty Is supervised by Thomas Varloy, metallurgist metal-lurgist In chargo of tho Dureau of Mines and Dr. Josoph F. Merrill, head of tho stato school of mines and engineering. |