| Show y Gold 0 Content on tent ToBe To ToBe Be Investigated With the decrease In the value of silver sUver and the base metals and the consequent paralysis of thc the mining Industry of Utah many ninny mining men men men-men men of the old school I of take chance mining as is well wen wellI as modern mining minin engineers h hex turned their attention on to the slues ques of gold Much material J of t Interest t t. t the tho would-be would gold seekers Is 13 contained in a paper by Pr Professor f Arthur L L. Crawford and Frank J. J eUck of the University of Utah and given last Saturday at the auttumn meeting ot of fhe the Utah Academy Ac Ac- Academy adem ademy of Science at the BrIgham Young University Numerous old cyanide dumps throughout the state are frequently thought to contain gold but as yet et etan an economical means of recovering tho metal from the dumps has not been found despite repeated repeat repeat- ed investigations In th the researches of the University sity of or Utah Investigators carried on chiefly In the Camp Floyd mining nun min mi ing lug district of ot Tooele county countr it was shown that much of at the gold goltl goldIn In these abandoned dumps is pre ont in tho form of soluble cyanides cyanide s concentrated by the partially de decayed decayed decayed de- de or carbonized brush and burled buried beneath the dumps Samples at the bottom of the tho tho dump were found to contain a much higher gold content than those taken from near the top Roots In the soil beneath were assayed assayed assayed as as- sayed and found to carry gold properties valued up p to as 35 high as 65 per vel ton What had taken place according to the report was that the gold had been absorbed b bY y I the roots t I Seventeen University of IU tig tah professors and graduate students student I took part at the two day of the Academy along long with v many contributors from both Utah Sta State college and Brigham Young Un The Academy has outlined s I series of radio talks to be foe deli e d dover I over station It K S S. iL tL Salt Lai Lak r City every Sunday morning uati May 14 11 1933 |
