Show fig ibe RE I 1 ne orm firm opens 1 ens utah property expanding its operation to develop additional utah resources and produced more metal for the war effort the ohio copper company of etab utah last year opened up and placed in production the big indian mine situated near la sal in san juan county after checking the tonnage and grade of ore available and satisfactorily facto rily completing metallurgical tests construction of a treatment plant was undertaken in the spring of 1943 the milling plant has a daily capacity of tons of copper ore construction of the mill and related buildings was com plated late in 1943 and the breaking in period was started df difficulties f in starting the new plant were encountered and resulted in an operating loss of fo for r the year the dig big indian mine operation is in addition to the companas comp anys regular operation in the Ding bingham liam district where copper is produced by teaching leaching in place methods by this unique method ethod In copper is extracted from the water that percolates through the low grade porphyry ore in the mine the additional mining such as has been undertaken by ohio copper results in more metal more payrolls and added buil business neis for smelters shelters sm elters railroads and other industries dus tries throughout the state in encouraging 0 this type of 0 development of resources the long term position of the state Is improved |