Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million Hughes guided-missile plant and a Douglas Aircraft experimentation plant at Tucson, industry" new plants at aviation, Phoenix, electronics and a and brand-new, "smokeless $120 million Magma Copper mine, mill smelter and town at San Manuel, Ariz., to mine the newest and biggest proved deposit of copper ore in the U.S. (see color pictures...
...calls for an extra tip." Eventually, the taxicabs got under way, carrying 16 American girls dressed in flowing silver-grey silk and toting violins, violas, cellos and a string bass; their conductor, Boris Sirpo, and a few assistants. In sum total they were the Little Chamber Orchestra from Portland, Ore., and their destination was the National French Television studio in Rue Cognacq...
...through the uranium country in the Western states, ore has piled high outside the mines as production outsped the expansion of uranium refineries. One of the biggest stacks of ore lies outside the rich ($60 million in proved reserves) Mi Vida mine of Charles Steen, the onetime oil geologist who discovered Mi Vida when he was almost penniless, thereby touched off southeast Utah's first big uranium strike (TIME...
...Ore has been collecting at Mi Vida's portal at the rate of 15,000 to 20,000 tons monthly, now lies in heaps 40 ft. high. The sight of such idle riches disturbed Steen, so he decided to build a mill himself. Last week he signed, for his Uranium Reduction Co., a contract with the Atomic Energy Commission to build an $8,000,000 to $10 million uranium-reduction mill, the biggest...
Steen's mill, the eleventh in the nation, will go into production next summer, will refine ore (by the sulphuric-acid leaching process) from Mi Vida and other mines in the Big Indian Wash district, as well as from AEC's nearby stockpile. To finance construction, Steen will borrow $3,500,000 from New York's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, $6,200,000 from the New York Life Insurance Co., thus bring a major insurance company into the uranium business for the first time. Steen need not worry about customers: AEC will take the mill...