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...been impracticable because Idaho's 6,000,000,000 tons of phosphate rock contain only 500,000 tons of vanadium, a mere one-tenth to one-fourth of one per cent vanadium. This concentration would be too low for practicable extraction, were it not for the fact that Anaconda Copper Co. is already processing over 100,000 tons of phosphates a year as fertilizer. From this tonnage some 200 to 250 tons of vanadium can be extracted as a byproduct. This is enough to supply about 25% of the annual U.S. demand...
When OPA and Metals Reserve Co. offered a 5? premium over and above the 12? ceiling for increased copper production last winter they deliberately set the base quota on which no premium will be paid so high that they not only froze out the big three (Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge, which produce 85% of U.S. copper) but also froze out all but one of the other 15 companies which with the big three produce 98½% of U.S. total...
...Anaconda's vast Butte mine lost 1,000 men to other jobs in the first five months of this year (a third of them in May), could replace only...
...Republic Steel is already using New York State iron; and Anaconda Copper and Vanadium Corp. are mining Montana chromite...
...seven-day operations can mean different things. Anaconda miners now work six days but on overlapping shifts so that the mines are never idle. Phelps-Dodge had planned to put its miners on a straight seven-day week, but crashed head-on with the C.I.O. The Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union's complaint: a man's efficiency declines rapidly if he is overworked. The union's proposal: increase the force and use three full 40-hour shifts, then install air-conditioning for still more efficiency...