Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COPPER PINCH will be eased by a large-scale U.S. mining expansion in Chile. In a $100 million program, Anaconda Copper will spend $53 million to get its newly discovered Indio Muerto mines into production, expects them to add 100,000 tons of refined copper to the free world'...
¶ Reserve Mining Co., owned by Republic Steel and Armco, will have its 3,750,000-ton taconite processing project at Babbitt and Silver Bay, Minn. in full production by May.
Beneath the forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula lie vast iron deposits that have long resisted ore-hungry steelmen. The ore is jasper, a diamond-hard rock that blunts ordinary drills, is too low in iron content (about 33%) for conventional refining methods. Five years ago Cleveland-Cliffs Iron...
¶ Erie Mining Co., jointly owned by Bethlehem, Youngstown and two smaller companies, has operated a pilot taconite plant near Aurora, Minn, since 1948, is building a $300 million plant that will start up in 1957, will have a 7,500,000-ton annual capacity.
Lausche is justly proud of his conservation program. After a bitter struggle with the mining lobby, he pushed through a law to force the strip miners of eastern Ohio to cover up their eroding handiwork after a mine is depleted. Under his direction 27 million trees have been planted to...