Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DOUG BAKER Portland, Ore...
URANIUM mining and milling have increased about 400% since 1950, with a projected 1,100% increase slated for 1956, says the AEC in its first announcement of production statistics. Ore reserves have already jumped 1,100% since 1950 and are still soaring...
...build a $168 million pipeline from New Mexico's San Juan gas field to West Coast markets (TIME, Dec. 27). Workmen laying pipe through uranium-rich eastern Utah-western Colorado plateau area will be equipped with Geiger counters so that Pacific Northwest will not risk bypassing any promising ore vein...
URANIUM SHORTAGE will slow down peacetime power developments unless new domestic sources are found, says Atlas Corp. President Floyd B. Odium. By 1965 the U.S. will need as much as 5,000,000 tons of uranium ore annually, and the demand will increase rapidly after that. By 1975, predicts Odium, the U.S. will have a generating capacity of nearly 40 million kw. (38% of the current total) of electric power from nuclear fuels alone...
...Railway, Anaconda. He joined Anaconda's legal department full time in 1943, and within eight years was general counsel and a vice president. Recently, Glover skillfully helped resolve thorny difficulties over taxes and exchange rates with Chile, where Anaconda mines Chuquicamata, the world's greatest single copper ore body, winning considerable financial relief for the company, and Chile's Order of Merit for himself. By company rule, Glover may serve four more years before reaching the compulsory retirement age of 68, can continue thereafter at the board's request...