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Show RADIO TALKS TO BE . GIVEN ON UTAH MINING OVER KSL With the decrease in the value of ' silver and the base metals and the J consesuent paralysis of the mining : industry of Utah, many mining men men of the old school of "take-a-chance" mining as well as modern mining engineers have turned their attention to the quest, of gold. Much material of interest to would be gold seekers is contained in a paper pap-er prepared by Professor Arthur L. Crawford and Frank J. Netick of the University of Utah -and given last Saturday at the autumn meeting of the Utah Academy of Science at the Brigham Young university. Numerous old cyanide dump" throughout the state are frequently thought to contain gold but as yet an economical means of recovering the precious metal from the dumps has not been found despite repeated investigations. in-vestigations. In the researches of the University of Utah investigators, carried on chiefly in the Camp Floyd mining district of Tooele county, it was shown that much of the gold in these abandoned dumps is present in the form of soluble cyanides, "concentrated" "concen-trated" by the partially decayed or "carbonized" brush and plants buried beneath the dumps. Samples at the bottom of the dump were found to contain a much higher gold content than those taken from near the top. Roots in the soil beneath be-neath were assayed and found to carry gold properties valued up to as high as $65.00 per ton. What had taken place, according to the report, re-port, was that the gold had been "absorbed" "ab-sorbed" by the roots. Seventeen University of Utah professors pro-fessors and graduate students took part at the two-day meeting of the Academy, along with many contributors contribu-tors from both Utan State college and Brigham Young university. The Academy has outlined a series of radio talks to be delivered over station K. S. L., Salt Lake City, every Sunday morning until May 14, 1933. |