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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1953)
i. 12 tSc. 2 StaUimazu Salem, On. Sundry. Aug. 15, 1S53 J. If. S Billion Tons pv Iron . i;- re. Locked Jn:;RocK, Aivaitsemovar Plan Late Harvests - By JAMES KLOPUCHAK ! : BEAVER BAY, Minn." UB The steel industry is betting jmiHioM pf dollars that marble - sized, mah made pellets of iron ore will pro vide vast, continuing: source of raw material when present reserves of high grade ore are gone, if ; These pellets are concentrates bf (he tiny specks of iron found in an extremely hard rock called tacon ite. The small amount of iron, in taconite and the bard' rock's tight grip on tbe iron makes the material unusable, in blast furnaces. i With the end of the rich ore only 20 or 30 years away, the problem is to find a way to concentrate tbe iron in taconite at a cost which Is commercially practical.' ; J i The money and energy wliich var ious steel companies are pouridg into that job show theyj think it can ' be done. , .; .. , 1 j . ' Taconite reserves are huge since they completely surround the rela tively little pockets of high grade ore in the Lake Superior area which have kept the steel" industry going for M years. f I Some experts estimate, taconiie reserves at five billion: tons. About . two billions of rich ore have been consumed since 1884.; r Experiments on concentrating ta conite began at pilot plants in the late 1940' s. Their work shows there is no question that taconite can be converted into an ore. with a higher iron content than the natural' ores how being shipped. Expense Factor The hitch is in the expense. Ta conite contains only;, about 25 per cent iron while the iron-making blast furnaces - require l ore with ja 50 per cent content orbietter. Arid about three tons of "tacenite must be processed " to get one ; ton of usable ore. . j ; The concentrating process de mands a maze of crushers and magnetic separators to poll the irtin specks from the rock. Q takes it least three times as many workers to produce a ton of concentrated ore as it does to handle a ton of natural ore. ;M When the country's high grade natural ore is gone, taconite will have to compete with natural oee now being tapped in places like Labrador and Venezuela. That ore. : while rich in iron, must undergo a long voyage which adds to its cost And the foreign ores . might be cfat off in war time. ! ' j Three pilot plants, owned by sep arate interests, are turning out ta conite concentrates. They are the plants of Reserve j Mining Cd., owned by Republic j aid Armco Steel; Erie Mining Co. affiliated with Bethlehem Steel, ijoungstown Sheet and Tube, Interlak Iron, and '.Pickands-Mather; and the Oliver Mining Division of U. jS. Steel Corp, lVtvate Railroads made hreakwaters link the main land with i small islands to form a harbor from which pellets will be shipped t Dlast furnaces in the lower Gerat Lakes region. 1 By 1955J a 47-mile railroad will connect Beavfer Bay and Babbitt where Reserve s taconite deposits are centered.! Taconite crushed at Babbitt will be further processed at Beaver Bay. ; j To Expand Plant f -i '.v f : The Erie Company plans to ex pand its present pilot plant at Au rora into a full scale operation with an annual capacity or between 5 and 10 million tons. . Oliver. the largest ore producer in Min nesota, recently opened an experi mental plant . but appears to ' be holding up expansion plans. ! Reserve and Erie began pushing taconite research in the 1940' s when Prof. E. W. Davis of the Univer sity of Minnesota developed a (pel letizing process. That cleared the final hurdle and gave the industry a practical way of extracting iron from flinty rock. , . Simplified, taconite conversion can be divided into three steps. First the tough rock is systemati cally mauled by a series of crush ers to break it down into a fine powder. Then electromagnets separate the iron grains from the waste. Next, the iron-rich powder remaining is mixed with water, rolled in a rotat ing drum and deposited as small pellets. ; Pelletizing is necessary ' because the blast of air in a blast furnace would blow fine grains of iron right out of the furnace. The little blue pellets are large, enough to resist the blast when packed into a blast furnace and hardy enough to resist crushing under the pressure. The steel companies have mil lions wagered that the pellets also will be strong enough to stand the competitive gaff when the time comes. Reserve and Erie, furthest vate- rafl- e to Lake aavanced. Doth plan ; pi roads to haul their tacon Superior s north shore; i f l: Reserve has built prefabricated towns at Babbitt site of its pilot plant and at Beaver &fy about 50 miles north of Duluth. orf Lake Su perior. " , ! , Beaver Bay is one of the eyf popping engineering jobss of recent years. A-veritable wfldqhness two years ago, Beaver BayjTfill be the site of a 'taconite conversion plant expected to produce It million tons of taconite pellets a yeaif, The pel lets will be about 65 pep jcent iroij. At Beaver Bay, giant siovels and drills are tearing at the tocky lake Shore to build a site for the full scale conversion plant! two man- i i , , Floyd P. Shaw Dynasty Ends VENTURA,! Calif. The Floyd P. Shaw dynasty has ended with Floyd IV. He has named his son Robert Lawrence Shaw. - Informed of the break, Floyd P. I, 95: Floyd P. II, 72, and Floyd P. III. 50, expressed disappoint ment Friday. Said Lt. Floyd P. Shaw IV, pub lic information officer at Parks Air Force Base, Pleasanton, Calif.: "I think the thing had gone far enough." to Ease Unemploym Unemployment , continues at wen above recent ; summer pe riods despite increasing calls for late harvests, food processing plants and other seasonal lines. the State Unemployment Compen sation Commission reported here this week end. : Claims reported by local em ployment offices for the first week of August numbered 1211 comparing witn KJvi a year ago and 71Z3 in 195L New layoffs in plywood and furniture plants in creased initial claims to ,2177, highest-at this time for several years. . . ; . Payments to those unable to find jobs last' month were $687,- 602, third highest July in the 16-jear history of tbe unemploy ment compensation, law. Last year s figure was $469,156 while in 1951 only $358,130 was dis tributed among the unemployed. The number of job seekers re ported from 26 employment offi ces on Aug. 1 was 24,565, about 900 less than a month ago. It was the highest at this period since 1949. Of the total 9261 were wom en, an increase - of . 1519 from June 1. Unfilled, job openings also fell off. from 1474 in July to 1290 this month, the lowest in four years. Portland GI Died in Red Prison Camp PORTLAND UB Cpl. Brunko R. Mil jus. listed by the Commu nists Friday as dying in a North Korean prison camp, was a resi dent of Portland. His wife, Mrs. Leis E. Mil jus. and a son, Steve. 4, live here. His father, George 'Mil jus, lives as The Dalles. Miljus served in the Army for a few months at the end of World War II and was recalled to active duty from the reserve on Sept. 10, 1350. Three months later he was sent to Korea and on Feb. 12, 1051. he was reported missing in action. Mrs. Miljus said she has had no information about her husband since being notified be was missing. 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