Show west has large ore reserves to meet bricis non ferrous metal mining Is probably unique in what it can offer in the current emergency the mining industry has been crippled somewhat during the past few ew years but bat it can rebound almost instantaneous to any stimulus mining booms take place overnight over night and there Is sufficient smelting smelling sm elting capacity existing in utah to take care 0 of almost any emergency the lead zinc smelters shelters sm elters only used about one third of their capacities in 1941 due to the lack ot of ore production from smaller mines in order to more clearly visualize the situation tor for the reader let us take the case ot of the metal lead the reserves ot of lead ores are measured by the metal content ot of theore of course it must be remembered that he ores ore s of 0 this re region gion virtually all contain certain amounts ot of gold silver copper lead and zinc but using the production of 0 lead it Is found that at 6 5 cent lead only a few ew othe high grade mines mine can operate at 6 cent lead more mines can operate and the high grade mines can tu turn rn t to 0 larger production at 7 cen cent t lead additional marginal producers can be b brought into production and the mines minea already in production product io n ca can is increase the volume of thea i output at eight cent lead vast new reserve of low grade ores can be opened up to production this nation Is not lacking in ore are reserve fineable Mine able ore reserves or what can be called ore reserves reserve 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 0 of f mechanized chani zed warfare |