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Washington, D. C. . . .
House Interior Affairs committeemen
have killed a Senate-passed bill
to change the law relating to mining
claim assessment work. Chairman Murdock
of Arizona reports that any extension
of time for doing past year's
assessment work is "out of the window
now." But he expressed hope that the
committee may later approve a bill to
change the date for completing future
annual assessment work. — Mining
Record.
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Lovelock, Nevada . . .
Grading has been started and shipment
of iron ore from the iron district
on the east side of the Humboldt range
is expected to get under way in September
at the rate of 1000 tons daily,
according to latest reports. The operator
will be the Mineral Materials
company of Alhambra, California,
which plans to employ 30 men in getting
out the ore for shipment to a
Pacific Coast port.—Humboldt Star.
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Salt Lake City. Utah . . .
Four hundred pounds of uranite,
running 10.91 per cent uranium oxide,
have been delivered to the Vitro
Chemical company from the claims of
Magnolia Lead and Oil company in
the Sinbad area of the San Rafael
swell, a company spokesman has disclosed.
Analysis of the find was confirmed
by the U. S. Bureau of Mines.
The ore discovery was made about 58
miles southwest of Greenriver, 45
miles northwest of Handsville while
bulldozing roads on the company's
claims. Shipments, which are expected
to reach 100 tons a month, will run in
ratio of one truck load of high grade
ore to six loads of low grade ore. The
company is also reported planning to
ship ore from stockpiles on claims in
the Temple Mountain area. — Humboldt
Star.
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Hawthorne, Nevada . . .
Additional information concerning
the Maxine group of copper claims
recently located in central Mineral
County near Hawthorne was disclosed
recently by H. Victor Burgard, Carson
City mining engineer and consultant,
who has visited the site and obtained
samples for assay. Nine smelter assays
of the ore show values ranging from
a minimum of 2.43 percent copper
and 1.80 ounces of silver up to a
maximum of 37.75 percent copper and
17.50 ounces of silver. — Mineral
County Independent.
Denver, Colorado . . .
An increase from $35 to at least $42
an ounce for gold was predicted by
Robert S. Palmer, director of the Colorado
Metal Mining Fund. A hike in
national gold prices. Palmer said, may
be necessary to trim the flow of the
precious metal from this country —
exports of which reached an estimated
250 million dollars a month last year.
Much of the gold was stored in this
country for safe keeping during the
last war, but is now being sold on the
free market in other sections of the
world, where it will bring as high as
$95 an ounce.—Pioche Record.
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Wickenburg, Arizona . . .
Wickenburg began to take on some
of the enthusiasm of old-time mining
days recently when the first carload of
copper ore from the Unida mine on
the Constellation road moved out by
Santa Fe Railroad headed for the
Magma Copper Smelter in Superior.
Lynn Hersey, engineer for the United
Mine Operators, Inc., owners of the
mine, predicted it won't be long before
production will be upped to two carloads
per week or more as the mine
develops.—Wickenburg Sun.
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Carson City, Nevada . . .
Nevada will supply more than 200,-
000 long tons of iron ore this year as
a part of the million or more tons being
shipped from the U. S. to keep
Japan's iron industries operating. Japanese
iron mills formerly received the
major part of their raw ores from
Manchuria and Korea but the war has
cut off the supply lines. Other small
quantities were obtained from the East
Indies, but the quantities were insufficient
to keep the mills in operation.—
Pioche Record.
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Beaumont, California . . .
One of the oldest tourmaline mines
in California has been relocated and
is being worked by Paul Walker and
Dick Gilmore of the Collectors' Mart
at Beaumont. The old mine, formerly
called the Columbian, but now recorded
as the Desert Rose, is on
Thomas Mountain in Riverside county.
At about 6500 ft. elevation, it overlooks
the Hemet Valley. The vein is
40 to 50 feet wide. In some places it
is composed of pure feldspar or feldspar
and quartz. In other places it consists
of soft mica schist and loosely
consolidated rose quartz with some
smoky quartz and occasional pieces of
asteriated quartz.—Mining Journal.
Salt Lake City, Utah . . .
Complete report on possible radioactive
mineral deposits in the Mountain
West is available for study by
uranium prospectors, according to the
U. S. Geological Survey. Copies of the
report are at the Atomic Energy Commission
offices in Grand Junction,
Colorado. The agency drilled more
than 500,000 feet of holes around the
Colorado plateau to compile its study.
The findings are described as an "important
guide" to mineral seekers, both
amateurs and professionals. — Salt
Lake Tribune.
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Virginia City, Nevada • . .
Formerly operated on silver and
gold ore, the flotation mill at Consolidated
Virginia Mining company is
being revamped to process tungsten
ore. It was leased recently by Fred
Vollmar, former Silver Peak mine operator,
and associates for a four-year
period and will handle scheelite from
property in the Pyramid Lake region,
northeast of Reno.—Humboldt Star.
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Washington, D. C. . . .
Defense Minerals Administration
has announced that it has granted contracts
to 12 mine operators to help
them finance exploration for vitally
needed minerals. The contracts are
part of a DMA program under which
the agency will put up from 50 to 90
per cent of necessary funds to finance
mining projects essential to defense.
DMA officials said 461 applications
for assistance have been received since
the program began last April. Of the
12 contracts entered into so far, the
government's share of the cost totals
$791,776.—Humboldt Star.
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Lovelock, Nevada . . .
Rube Nicolay, Tungsten miner,
drilled a hole 15V4 inches into a solid
granite boulder in five minutes to win
the $175 prize in the drilling contest
July 4 in Lovelock. Al Ramociotti
won the $60 mucking contest with a
time of five minutes, 10 seconds, and
Frank Quilici took $40 second money
with five minutes, 19 seconds.—Humboldt
Star.
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Bishop, California . . .
With supplies down and demand up,
a serious tungsten shortage has developed.
Mining men say the current
U. S. tungsten boom may see the
4,240-ton output of 1950 doubled by
early next year. The shortage has shot
tungsten prices up from $23 a 20pound
unit last year to $65 today.
Veteran prospectors and an army of
eager newcomers are scouring the back
country of the west from Montana to
Mexico.—Mining Record.
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