Show West Has Large Ore Reserves deserves to Meet Non Non metal mining Is probably probably probe abl ably unique in what It can offer In the current emergency The mining Industry has been crippled somewhat during the past few years but It can rebound almost Instantaneous to any stimulus Mining booms take place overnight over and there is sufficient smelting capacity existing in Utah to take care of almost any emergency The lead zinc lead zinc smelters only used about third one-third of their capacities In 1941 1911 due to the lack of ore production from smaller mines In order to more clearly visualize the situation for the reader let us take the case of the metal lead The reserves of lead ores are measured by the metal content of the ore Of course it must be remembered that the ores of this region virtually all aU contain certain amounts of gold silver er copper lead and zinc But using the production of lead it is found that at 5 cent lead only a few of the high grade mines can operate At 6 C cent lead more mines can operate and the high grade mines can enn turn to larger production At 7 cent lead additional additional addi marginal producers c can cau n be brought into production and the mines already in production can increase the volume of their out out- put At eight cent lead vast new reserve resene of low grade ores can be opened up ull to production This nation Is not lacking In ore reserve ore reserves or what can be called ore me reserves however are based upon what is paid for the metal Mines of Utah and western United States can and will meet any emergency placed upon It by the demands of mechanized mechanized me me- warfare |