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Competitive Punch. In keeping with the times, penny uranium stocks have had a boom all their own (TIME, April 5). And on the Big Board such companies as Vanadium Corp. (up 83%) and Climax Molybdenum (up 44%) have risen as they have got into the uranium business. Other big gainers: oil and rubber (up 37%), insurance (up 40%), office equipment (up 43%). Of 35 major stock groups, only the tobaccos have declined since September, and their 16% drop can be traced directly to the lung-cancer scare...
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...