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...search of the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado beat a trail along the San Pedro River in southeast Arizona. Coronado never found the fabled wealth of the cities. But in recent years, evidence of other riches-in the form of big copper and molybdenum deposits-has been found by prospectors along the San Pedro. During World War II, the Magma Copper Co., seventh biggest U.S. copper producer, took out an option and set up a subsidiary, the San Manuel Copper Corp., to explore the deposit. In the past seven years, Magma President Alexander...
...since the Government is willing to provide a guaranteed market at a price which will probably assure the company a profit, McNab is sure he can get the money. If he does, he estimates that by 1958 San Manuel will annually be turning out 140 million Ibs. of copper, an increase of 8% in U.S. production, and 6,000,000 Ibs. of molybdenum, a boost...
...trouble with this method is that the bodies dry flat, squashing down to thin, distorted films. Last week Professor (of biophysics) Robley C. Williams of the University of California told of a better method. He puts a film of collodion on a copper disk cooled with liquid air (temp. ~377-6° F.). Then he sprays his microorganisms on the cold film. They freeze solid in a flash. When he pumps the air from around them, their moisture passes directly from ice to vapor, leaving their empty husks in the exact shapes they had at the instant they were frozen...
Fifty years ago, says the report, the U.S. produced 15% more raw materials than it consumed; now it produces 9% less than it needs. Once a big exporter of copper, lead and zinc, it is now the largest importer of those metals. Assuming the traditional 3% annual growth in the economy-and a population rise to 193 million-the nation's raw-materials output by 1975 will fall 20% short of filling estimated needs...
Died. William Harold Hoover, 63, president (since 1949) of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., the world's largest copper producer, who last year launched Anaconda into the aluminum business, making it fourth in the field (after Alcoa, Reynolds, Kaiser); of cancer; in Butte, Mont...