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Show War Spurs Metal Search : Utah has become the center of a search for minerals, and I many men such as these are testing areas for strategic metals. Development of new industries in Utah looms as the result of. recent discoveries of Sheelite ores 1 In Beaver county in Southern Utah, and Manganese in other sections. Sheelite Is the ore which carries tungsten, which is used in the process pro-cess of hardening steel and other uses. It is a valuable metal and not found hi large quantities in any part of the United States, although al-though it is not classed as a strategic strate-gic metal. It is a "dead" appearing ore, but when placed under certain flourescent lighting it gives off a beautiful silver color. Due to this peculiarity, It Is best to prospect for the metal with apecial built lamps at night. So If you see a number of peculiar looking lights in the hills at night, it may not be just fire flies, it may be prospectors looking for sheelite. A number of discqveries have been made in the vicinity of Mil-ford Mil-ford In Beaver county, Utah. Some ore is being mined, but up to the present time the situation is chiefly in the testing stage to determine if the deposits in this area are large enough and rich enough to warrant the construction of a plant for the reduction of the ore. Several large companies have sent their engineers into the field and some testing has been conducted con-ducted by the government to determine de-termine the value or possibilities of the area. Manganese ores have been found near Delta and other sections of the state. |