Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheap & Easy. No one knows exactly how much sulphur lies under Mexico's narrow neck, but the deposits are estimated to be immense, second only to the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast deposits. So far, the three U.S. companies have spent $10 million on plants, roads, pipelines and port facilities to tap deposits on 30,000 acres, only a fraction of their leaseholds. Mexican Gulf Sulphur Co. has built a plant with a 200,000-ton annual capacity; Pan American Sulphur Co. has put up another worth $5,000,000 with a 500,000-ton capacity; Gulf Sulphur Corp...
What makes Mexico's sulphur doubly attractive is the fact that the deposits are located in gigantic salt domes, which can be mined by the Frasch process, the cheapest method known. (Superheated water is pumped into the ground to liquefy the sulphur, which is then pumped to the surface.) Costs range from $7 to $20 per ton, as low as one-tenth the cost of other methods, and far cheaper than the world market price...
Into the Jungle. The men largely responsible for the boom are three genial, Louisiana-born brothers named Brady-Lawrence, 58, Ashton, 56, and William, 54-who have become wealthy by a combination of brainy prospecting and luck. They found the sulphur, and now own Gulf Sulphur Corp., plus an exploration outfit called Amican Sulphur Co., S.A., and have sizeable stock interests in both Pan American and Mexican Gulf Sulphur. Working as a team, brothers Lawrence and Bill run the administrative end; Ashton is the geologist...
...Brady brothers, who have worked on and off as contract drillers for oil companies, got their first hint of Mexican sulphur 15 years ago when Ashton picked up a 1904 Shell Oil Co. exploration report. It told of salt domes on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a geological formation that often indicates sulphur. It took six years before they could prove their hunch. Starting to drill near San Cristóbal in 1942, they were slowed down by the war, by an unfriendly and suspicious local population, even by the malaria-filled jungle itself, where torrential rains turn everything into...
...ltipan area they found a great dome that may be the world's biggest, surpassing even Texas' famed Boling Dome, which has yielded 40 million tons. This time the Bradys turned over production rights to a group of Texas oilmen who formed Pan American Sulphur...