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...Nowata, and hired a fleet of "gamma" trucks to scout the area. Reported Climax: some of its oilwell filters were indeed radioactive. But on the basis of its gamma reports and the general geology of the Nowata area, the company did not believe that there was any uranium lode on its land. It speculated that the uranium, spread throughout the oilfields in small quantities in the rock, was leached out by the water and deposited in the filters...
...COPPER LODE in Peru, one of the biggest ever found, will be developed by a combine of four big U.S. firms calling themselves the Southern Peru Copper Corp. The new company will be run by American Smelting & Refining Co. with 57¾% of the stock. Others: Cerro de Pasco Corp. (16%), Phelps Dodge Corp. (16%) and Newmont Mining Corp. (10¼%). The company will spend $200 million within five years to develop deposits at 10,000 ft. along the western flank of the Andes, with more than 1 billion proven tons of copper...
Cold weather recently stopped the official digging, and police are frustrating the free lancers. Spina, the mother lode of the treasure, has not yet been found. Perhaps it lies under the mud not far away. There is a rumor that Professor Arias knows where it is, but is keeping mum. Sophisticates in nearby Ferrara do not believe this. "When Spina is found," they say, "the Comacchiesi will find...
...Palace makes a bright pendant on any hotel chain. Opened in 1875 by Mrs. Johnston's grandfather, U.S. Senator William Sharon, who made millions in the Comstock lode and never got over his miner's habit of carrying a pistol, the $5,000,000 Palace was then considered the most luxurious hotel in the world. It had 800 rooms, and the smallest was 16 ft. square. Sarah Bernhardt stayed in an eight-room, suite with her parrot and baby tiger; General Grant came as a Civil War hero, had to mumble speeches when he lost his false teeth...
...ashamed of-she could hold up her head with the worst. She had been christened with a bottle of whisky, and her intemperate citizens used to ventilate each other with six-shooters until the drafts became unbearable. At Virginia City, on Nevada's silver-veined Comstock Lode, local mishaps and bonanzas were recorded by the Territorial Enterprise, as freewheeling and free-shooting a weekly as the U.S. has known...