Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...search for yellow gold has sent Freeport Sulphur Co. deep into the marshes of the Mississippi delta country, drilling from rigs floated atop steel barges or straddled on a forest of pilings. The risks of searching for sulphur are high (the company lost $1.5 million drilling into one barren offshore salt dome last year alone), the costs of mining it even higher. But willingness to take the risks built Freeport into the second biggest producer (first: Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.) of the mineral that is used in the production of everything from fertilizers to detergents, steel and rubber. Last week...
...start in 1960. But Freeport must first spend about $30 million in mining equipment and port facilities. To pay off its investment in Grand Isle Block 18, Freeport must mine 500,000 to 600,000 tons there every year-almost one-tenth of the total U.S. sulphur production of 6.9 million tons...
Ignoring the caterwauling protests of Governor Earl Long, the Louisiana house of representatives last week left ol' Earl's incendiary tax proposals (TIME, July 2) in ruins. Rejected by the legislators: Long-backed measures to boost state levies on sulphur, natural gas and pari-mutuel betting. Scheduled for similar treatment: an administration bill increasing taxes on timber and pulp...
...Soak business (in violation of campaign pledges of no new taxes) by jumping state levies on natural gas by 250%, on sulphur (Louisiana is the nation's second-biggest sulphur producer) by 200%, on timber by 100%. When industry spokes men warn that such taxes will stifle Louisiana's economy, Earl challenges them to go some place else if they don't like...
Mine the Rock. Fortunately, Dr. Brown says, ore deposits get bigger as they fall in grade. Clay, which is everywhere, is a low-grade aluminum ore, and sulphur can be extracted from plentiful calcium sulphate (gypsum). Even ordinary rocks can be processed for their minerals. One hundred tons of an average igneous rock, e.g., granite, contain eight tons of aluminum, five tons of iron, 1,200 lbs. of titanium, 180 lbs. of manganese, 70 lbs. of chromium, etc. Dr. Brown believes that the time may come when rock is refined into 20 or 30 products. Rock reserves will last indefinitely...