Show BUREAU OF MINES DEVELOPS UTAH RESOURCES it 2 A 0 I 1 va nl A S aw ma f X 1 Z ip va 14 F V igo r C WAX lt V Y g tl 4 testing strategic strat esc ores at salt lake city station bureau of mines establishment ot of the bureau ot of mines stat on adjacent to the university ot of utah campus in 1940 is provin proving g to be ot of outstanding benefit to the war effort and to the state SiLlia situated ted in the heart of western mining this plant is operating day and night to meet the many problems that have arisen out of the war operations ot of the plant have not been confined to inside laboratory work but to numerous field beld examinations and more recently to actual development ot of strategic and critical minerals when a large percentage tage ot of the united states imports ot of she elite was cut off by the closing ot of the durma burma road in china the bureau immediately set about to augment the rapidly diminishing stocks of 0 the much needed metal showings at the cupric mine in the milford section ot of beaver county were drilled and recently an actual development program was launched A tunnel has been driven a d distance of test feet at the cupric and several hundred feet more work will be ba done in an effort to determine the she elite production possibilities ot of the area in the same region the bureau has started work to reclaim the old tasso shaft ot of the wan wah wall wah mining company diamond drilling is also being conducted at iron mountain near cedar city at marysvale Marys vale utah an extensive program is being conducted on Alti nite properties sampling and investigation work has been completed at alta utah and a number of projects also have been undertaken throughout wyo |