Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-19 | Page 3 | Bureau of Mines to Unlock Great Riches

ByialFiiESTi UMLOGK GREAT ESlGHES Working to Make Available Values in Low Grade Magnetic Mag-netic and Complex Ores WASHINGTON. Jan 19. Western stations of the United States bureau of mines were working continuously to unlock thc riches In low grade mag-1 netic and complex ores which will be made available when commercially 1 feasible treatment processes arc worked out. Director Mnnning said in a statement. Solution of these problems, prob-lems, he said, would benefit every citizen citi-zen in the. country. The statement, commented on thc work of the Minneapolis station which he said had proved one process for treatment of magnetic ores from the Ouyuna rango as metallurgically possible. pos-sible. Such ore in Minnesota alone amounts to -10.000,000,000 tons, he said, and continued. 'Tn the west vast quantities of low grade complex ores will become available avail-able as soon as commercially feasible processes are devised. Many of the problems Involved, which arc being attacked at-tacked at the Golden, Colo., station; the Salt Lake City. Utah, station; thc Seattle, Wash., station: , the Tucson, Ariz., station, and the Berkeley, 'Cal., station are of such a nature that the small operator can not afford to attack at-tack them, and the large operator finds them outside his field. "Today, through thc efforts of men at the Golden station, there is an 'American radium Industry. Formerly Former-ly the low grade radium bearing ore cli WilSlUU, lilt" Ul'Sl ui liiv; uii; io bought by foreign concerns at ruinously ruinous-ly low prices, and the radium was I shipped to this country at excessively h-'fih prices. i "At more than a dozen mills in the west engineers from the stations are Iworkmg directly with the mill men on various problems, and the results they i already have obtained more than warrant war-rant thc existence of the stations. Success Suc-cess in solving one problem may cas-ilv cas-ilv be worth millions to thc country"