Show BUREAU OF MINES DEVELOPS UTAH UT A 1 RESOURCES I q U Testing strategic ores at Salt Lake City station Bureau of M Nines Mines meso Establishment of or the Bureau of ot I Mines station adjacent to the Uni University University of Utah campus In 1940 Is proving pro to be of outstanding benefit bone bene tit Lit to the war effort and to the state tate Situated In the heart of Western mining this plant Is operating day and night to meet the many problems problems lems that have hac arisen out of the war war- Operations of oC the plant have not been confined to Inside laboratory labora labors tory work but to numerous field examinations and more recently to actual development of oC strategic and critical minerals When a large arge percentage of ot the United States Imports of was cut off oft by the closing of the Burma Road in Chin the bureau Immediately set about to augment the rapidly diminishing stocks of the much needed metal Showings at the Cupric mine In the Milford section of ot Beaver Deaver county were drilled and recently an actual development de de- d development program was launched A tunnel has been driven a distance of oC feet at the cupric and several everal several sev sev- eral hundred feet more work will wUl v bo be e done in an effort to determine the production possibilities of the area In the same region the tho bureau has started work to reclaim the old Tasso shaft of the Wah Wah mining min ing company Diamond drilling Is also being belne conducted at Iron Mountain l near Cedar City CItro At Marysvale Utah an extensive program Is s being conducted on Alunite properties Sampling and Investigation work has been completed at Alta Aita Utah and a number of projects also have been undertaken throughout Wyo- Wyo |