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Show Tungsten Showing looks Promising' Although exploratory work is in the early stages, a deposit of tungsten ore near Milford in Beaver Bea-ver county, looks "promising", Ira B. Joralemon, San Francisco mining min-ing engineer, said Wednesday upon his return from an inspection trip to the property, says the Salt Lake Tribune. Mr. Joralemon, an official of several western mining companies, is now devoting most of his time to being a consulting engineer on tungsten for the Metals Reserve company, a ' government agency connected with the Reconstruction Finance corporation. He also does consulting work for the war production pro-duction board in aluminum and magnesium. The Vanadium Corporation of America is diamond-tdrilling and trenching the tungsten deposit at the Cupric mine near Milford. This deposit of scheelite "looks very interesting" Mr. Joralemon said. He explained that he examines tungsten prospects and makes suggestions and recommendations. If the prospect is promising and needs financing, the Metals Reserve Re-serve tries in every way to get the deposit developed and helps the operator get an RFC loan. Efforts to increase the domestic domes-tic production of tungsten by developing de-veloping new deposits in the west are showing good results, he declared. de-clared. Mr. Joralemon is president of Desert Silver, Inc., of Nevada, and is associated with the Bralorne Mines of British Columbia and other mining companies. He will leave Thursday morning for San Francisco. |