Show uranium miners renew charges at moab of inaccurate sampling system by BURT MEYERS moab grand junction sentinel independent uranium miners renewed charges here thursday night that inaccurate sampling methods employed by pr processing mills are robbing them thel of fair returns on their ore more than persons crowded bethany hall to hear a summary of recent activities of uranium ore producers association the as association s ocia tion is deman demanding dinc supervision of sampling plants a revision in ore prices changes in in leasing policies for withdrawn public land and recognition as representatives of the independent miners IV W E haldane Hal president of the association traced the history of the vanadium uranium industry there is no doubt that the g government 0 v exploration program has made this count rys uranium supply what it is today mr haldane said the U S is reported to be second only to the belgian congo among urani uranium urit prodoc ing nations mr haldane said the th small miners have assumed mos bosl t of the risk in uranium mining the processing companies he said have had the advantage of free uranium from tailings worked prior to the develop development men t of the atomic bomb and assured ore supply and secret p prices r ices for the refined uranium 0 oxide i de jack jones supervisor of the V grand junction J u n c ti 0 n exploration branch said the area in which uranium bearing ore has been produced is being constantly expanded he described new methods enveloped to aid the search for ore and said the new gype gamma ray logging unit tested here is credited with several ore discoveries not detected by other methods including core analysis development of reserves of uranium irani urn ore is the primary incentive for future development he said other speakers were vance thornburg president of the thornburg mining co victor G pett utah state mine inspector robert palmer secretary of the colorado mining as association sociaL on george burck mayor of moab E E morrill director of the utah department of occupational occue a 11 0 n a 1 health utah senator donald T adams monticello and K V turner secretary of the uranium producers |