Word: vanadium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RICH new ore deposits have been found by the Union Pacific Railroad, 25 miles northeast of Laramie, Wyo. Proven reserves are at least 50 million tons of iron, 12 million tons of titanium, and possibly 2 million tons of vanadium, used for strengthening steel. U.P., which owns or controls 60% of the claims, will run in a spur line to the deposits...
Rosin does not think that the extreme dilution of most elements in sea water is an insuperable obstacle. Sea water contains so little vanadium, for instance, that no chemical test will show it. But certain sea animals manage to concentrate vanadium in their blood. If they can do it, so can human chemists...
...life. In forests where 50 years ago there were no roads because the wheel was unknown, no schools because there was no alphabet, no peace because there was neither the will nor the means to enforce it, the sons of slaves dig for the raw material (copper, uranium, vanadium) of the Atomic...
...time the area turned out half the world's supply of radium. (The uranium in the waste tailings from the mines was thrown away.) When richer radium-bearing ores were found in the Belgian Congo, the mines closed. Later, the area became a major producer of vanadium, also from carnotite, a metal used to harden steel. But not until World War II did its biggest boom develop. Tailings from radium and vanadium plants provided uranium for the first atom bombs...
...years, the parched, mountainous wastelands of the Colorado Plateau were known for their scattering of dinosaur bones and the ruined homes of prehistoric cliff-dwelling Indians. But now the area is known for something far more important: uranium. At Uravan, Colo. last week, the U.S. Vanadium Corp., a subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon, gave a fillip to the wastelands' glamorous new reputation and the boom under way. U.S. Vanadium opened the biggest uranium refining mill in the U.S.; by using a new process, it hopes to extract uranium from ores heretofore passed by. Spotted within a 200-mile radius...