Word: deposit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leached away their uranium content, but that underneath there lay a treasure trove of uranium ore. Joubin told Joe Hirshhorn his theory, and Hirshhorn agreed, with associates, to put up $30,000 in 1953 to take core samples in the area. The cores proved Joubin right. The uranium deposit lay in a body extending 30 miles northward to Quirke Lake (see map). But since the discovery lay close to Canada's well-traveled Highway 17, and to the tracks of the Canadian Pacific, Hirshhorn would have to stake his claims in a hurry before the word...
...their biggest rival, the huge Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., the world's biggest sulphur producer. Texas' well in Mexico was its first find after four discouraging years of drilling at a cost of $6,000,000, and even then it was not a large deposit. Says Bill Brady with a shrug: "You work like hell to find it. If you don't, you don't. [We had] the luck of the Irish...
...With congressional permission, the Mellon grant was deposited in the Treasury and guaranteed 4% interest. The Library of Congress gets 4% on a similar deposit, and the Smithsonian Institution draws...
...built-in stabilizers (social security, farm program, deposit insurance, widespread ownership of liquid assets including U. S. bonds) help to ensure against collapse. For expansion, however, an active program is needed including lending and guaranteeing operations by the government (housing, rural electrification, etc.), public investment projects (resource development, power, roads, health, education, etc.), tax rates low enough to ensure that full employment savings will find adequate investment outlets; and finally, a monetary policy that will ensure low rates of interest and ample liquidity for a growing economy...
...haul 53 tons of ore down the mountain and freight it to the processing plant at Salt Lake City. After three anxious weeks, Fred heard from the AEC. In the envelope were two $6,000 checks and a top-grade assay. Fred's mine was a vein deposit of high-grade uranium ore (only one other major vein deposit-in Marysvale, Utah-is producing...