Show Al unites of the Marys III armale vale dist kasi I 1 mr daudo daude is a mining engineer aho js g makit makary g surveyor survey of this district ind and the arricola was contributed tu to t e richfield richfield reaper ana printed last week editor not far from richfield in the distl district I 1 let is located a min arai fermat mat ion on consi stiner of enor m i ous oua alunite deposits dao i is ifs which in the ilie near future wll wil arv prove e of great commercial I 1 I 1 importance to this territory 9 as the deposits of bi among the largest argest in the united states State sif if not in the world alunite commonly called alum stone sione belo belongs figs to the potassium group of af sulphates and card carries as average chemical constituents about per cent sulphur trioxide 71 elumina IU ITA potash and an d 13 w water a i e r it i is s distinguished among aulph ates by its fusibility in aulph lirly acid V without farming under chemical tests a jolly jelly alu ore bare usual jy w with ith old igneous formati ona and nd so found jn in the united states brido britis columbia abia italy nad hungary where they illey are present in comin eucial quantities ii ia a great chemical man mineral its potash is ii in the form of potassium which has many important chemical uses in the industrial world when this constituent Is the sulphates become solvable able the alum is dissolved soi ved ana anden evaporation stalia es 03 from th the fluid in cubic crystals this form 0 of f alum which potassium P ota is very valuable in the dye industries arid used extensively expensively in n englard as well ai as in ih tny united arat wi ewa as of e peivi far i ir qui this is alt alom m I 1 is s the abse abee rice hee f from ro m it of iron in hav ahny ahem chemical i cal combination eom while iron is suay n present presen tAn in common alum the use of potassium salts in mhd dye and other chemical industries iw is too large to be treated here in detail but is wet wel worth while to be studies by those interest in iii the elopement developement dev of this natural natu ral resource of thesta state teOf 0 f utah in its potash constituent nt the crude crudO alunice contains una a natural unnatural tural value lor for conditioning and fertilizing soils when ground to a fine bo flour ur nod and property prope arty used in the so soil a according cc ti the individual need of the soil it will produce remarkable resul tsin plant growth I 1 am of the opinion that alunite in the vl very ry near future will prove to bf i the most 11 fertilizers and soil conditioners I 1 am lead to believe this his t because because of the uniformity of their pora sh constituents and because oes not bc corre reaf retroactive coactive cherni chemically caly when used in in sols asdoor panic ganic fertilizers and because it cabbe can be used sn in proportionate compound with calcium sulphates wherever the soil needs such a combination I 1 handle a great deal of soil research work all aff over the west and know that soil cond conditioning lilo ning by mineral e ral fertilizers is is a coming economic feature in and is ia bei being rig IV used more and more of course as all soils varr van in their chemical composition po as well as in the use uce to which they are put it is necessary to analyze analyse each respective soil before any fertilizer or soil conditi conditioner brier is used so the mineral conditioner and nd fertilizer can be applied accord f ang nar to what the soil needs considering that al alu nitea unites have an important place in agriculture ar a i well as industry and add that richfield is the center of a rich tural area and that marysvale Marys Mary vale ivale district is I 1 s so near to us and located on tha rail railroad rondi these deposits could and should chomth command aad markets of ft a wide in the industrial as well as agriculture territory of 0 the west the potassium constituents of the alunite alg nite are used also 6 commercially in compounding pounding Medici medicinal nil soap for skin du ses jn in canada potassium from the nl al unites for the hie I 1 re 9 m leht ll Ht c no ther commercial use is ia in compound ing in g insecticides tors toes praying fira ying fruit trees which doe with the danger connected with the present we use of arsenical and mineral cpr apr ays from experiments I 1 conducted in 1917 1 I learned that the potash eun con of alunite can be biell mellin in combination with calcium for foe insecticide pur purpose in which from it can be valuable also as a killer of grubs so often present pit sent in form farm soils and damaging farm pro ducts sulphuric acids are manufactured from afie al unites and in fsr es this makes the potash more beneficial 6 en efi cial the present in the elonite equates in sai some m e proportion the bet be t bauxite ores or es from which aluminum in metals s are now being produced alum aluminium metals are being u used moze more extensively frouday from day to day in motor car and airplane stir pane manufacturing and the worlds supply of ores carrying aluminum ni is com berdal me r lil al quantities qu anti ties is i s fast f ast being u sed up this adds a great value to the all important chemical mineral so ab abundantly it n present in all 11 the worlds formations but seldom found in commercially possible quantities except in bauxite and alunite al unile the highest type of airel airplane ane aluminum is Isi produced in canada from alunite ores with Electrometric the electro metric process nonbeing now being universally used jn in the extraction of aluminum from non M I 1 me balica a market is ii guaranteed g ua granteed ran teed to ores bearing commercial quantities of agui binum and alunite held a high place in thit respect 4 the the di district t are i in the e bushor s ar range ranee where also some of the famous gold compson comp utah located it occurs around bullion and little cottonwood canyons south of the little Cottonwood 1 north of belknap and again east and northeasterly of marysvale Marys vale while long known to kopro pro spec specters tors commercial notice of the deposits was not had before 1910 anal analysis ysis of alunite of the marys vale district tested by us in 1917 and this summer shows about the following averages a per ton per percent cent potash 1116 ferric oxides d traces sulphuric in phurne anhydride phosphoric anhydride ahda baten above beg C 1120 plus 1250 water below deg C minus now the same raw material being produces about the following results chemical in cons tit per ton potassium as 2000 sulphuric hydride anhydride an as 2000 as Al Maff agnesia nesia as ferric oxides as IOS silica as then when the r raw aw material ma te ial is le ached it will gi 91 ve the foiling r results I 1 J potassium S sulphate as kaso S Sul phat as insoluble residue in which is included most of present as it does nt leach but slightly these ex example amplo 3 serve f fco 0 illustrate the reduction value of alunite oreb ore to the commercial use of its constituents in tle the es for extracting aluminum no other constituent is is reduced eo co that the only onik extraction record nr NEWS WS then poa able aible under under 1 that method m metal etal exclusively so that in covel conclusion we maist admit that these alunite aln nite deposits sila a appearing ap pp CR r I 1 ing I 1 in n the mar la y ivvle L irea r VAI have value e commercially to the he town of richfield and its ita district and atre are wo worthy arthy of the best efforts of all nl to aid in their development and the results are bound to bobene bevc at Rich neld and marysvale Marys vale authorities odthe of the U 9 geologic al survey who hawe studied the alunite deposits dep OBits of the Nary district di areas follows follo wo B S butler batler 1149 H S gale G F loughlin Loughl ln alt all very great authar authorities itier on mineral deposit balides the al alu nitea unites of the mar mair r covale district the folian fo liin m minerals mine in era ralp are worthy af of study and develop ment in ifie the district egold agold 2 allver 3 S mercuric rase used in ele electrical appliances 4 zine sulphides Sulp hides anic enri 6 copp capper er pyrites cula G sylvanite JR A telluride e of GOW and silver 7 S B eluo fluorite rite cafa this ie a very important mineral and exists in in I 1 the upper reaches of the tushar range as feen by roc me in 1917 9 orthoclase KAISi RATS 1308 this thia important 0 od the great se serice rieti to important to fo the finding of goi dand silvor silver IO 10 appears as aa inthe in the orea of the district is an important con contact tact mineral for 41 lB berf arite it t basat fiall blum m snip ate fm important briant faitt he found in comfere commercial fal I 1 in thi oris ores ot the 06 ct f 1 imbie make mention lofb of luf 6 f a few minerals found in the tushar range of which the marysvale Marys Mary vale avalle district is a part and from a mineral res resource onree standpoint this is well worthy of the attention of capital capita ss it cove ra r a vast mineral empire |