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Show BUREAU OF MINES DEVELOPS UTAH RESOURCES 1 :'.-.-.. . ; ; 1 ;- ' - - -4 - i I I I l I I i.i , at n (ii , , , , 4 " 4 .. ' v-: , '. " s;i f ?i: k-, i- ' 4 - i ' . . ' 4 J . - ' : ' . . . . - v. : - 1 - ' li . r , - f (vs ,i " rK "-".,4 I r , n - , ui 1 J Testing stratocjic ores at Salt Lake City station Bureau of Mines Establishment of the Bureau of section of Beaver county were Mines station adjacent to the Unl- drilled and recently an actual de-versity de-versity of Utah campus in 1010 is velopment program was launched proving to be ot outstanding bene- A tunnel has been driven a distance lit to the war effort and to the of 100 feet at the cupric and sev-3llM-1' . eraI hundred feet more work will Situated in he heart ot Western be done in an effort to determine mining, this plant is operating day the sheelite production possibilities and niKlu to meet the many prob- of the area lems that have arisen out of the i n, , . war. Operations of the plant have hoi , t same region tha oureau not been con lined to inside labora " lwS ?W tory work, but to numerous field ta-" comSinv examinations and more recently to 1 lany' actual development of strategic Diamond drilling is also being and critical minerals. conducted at Iron Mountain near When a large percentage of the Cedar city-Uulted city-Uulted States imports of sheelite At Marysvale, Utah, an extensive was cut off by the closing of the Program is being conducted on Burma Road in China, the bureau Alunite properties. Immediately set about to augment Sampling and investigation work the rapidly diminishing stocks of has been completed at Alta Utah the much needed metal. Showings and a number of projects also have at the Cupric mine in the Milford been undertaken throughout Wyo- |