Show A Spot In The Mountains I That a Became An Industry F 1 ry 6 A t i Y i. i S l V y 4 New Air View of Utah Copper Pit at Bingham The metal resources o ot of a state are often otten erroneously considered in view of or the sum total of or the metal present This mistake can readily be seen If It we take tho the case of or the metal metal aluminum or magnesium whose silicates and oxides in large quantities are present in Utah Nevertheless for economic reasons only an part o of this metal can be mined at a profit Most of the other useful metals are also present in quantities but mining like any other Industry can only produce when the cost of or production can be maintained below below be be- low the market value of or the prod prod- A huge mountain of or low grade copper bearing ore was known to exist at Bingham by bj the early Pioneers Plo Pio yet for tor near nearly forty years it was considered valueless Early prospectors tunnelled Into the Dingham Bingham Bing Ding ham Mountain through the low low- grade copper in search of other metals Like the aluminum deposit of today this great deposit of copper copper cop cop- per was of no economic value Not until men o of broad vision capable of organizing and financing a company to maintain production on a large scale did copper become a resource of great value to Utah Thus a mineral deposit unworkable unworkable able for economic reasons by individuals indi and small operating companies companies com com- became the source of a working Industry of or Utah when operations were consolidated into large operating units and the cost of oC production reduced to a mini mini- mum Only by large scale production can this great porphyry continue to maintain its equilibrium Its future life lite Is la dependent upon operating costs because as costs rise the grade of ore are mined must be raised and the low grade that is passed up now will probably be left for for- ever In the beginning Utah Copper was started on an ore are 2 per cent copper Today the company com com- company pany Is la mining copper ore containing contain contain- containing ing one half of one per cent copper You see the tonnage of one half of one per cent copper is Js greatly more than the tonnage of 2 per cent copper Yes lets continue to mine the lowest grade possible at the great Bingham mine |