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Report Indicates Renewed Interest
In Tapping Alaska’s Mineral Deposits
By FRANK VAILLE
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Special
interest in Alaska’s minerals —
at a low ebb since World War II
— is picking up rapidly.
The Bureau of Mines so reported
yesterday, saying development of
the helicopter and possible new
markets in the Pacific Northwest
were responsible.
The report was prepared by
Alvin Kaufman, supervising com
modity analyst at the bureau’s
station in Juneau, prior to the
granting of Statehood. Statehood
may bring still more interest in
Alaskan prospects.
Despite a past production val
ued at some 250 million dollars,
Alaska still contains an abundance
and variety of untapped mineral
resources, the report indicated.
It said the helicopter has sim
plified access to the rugged and
heavily forested terrain typical
of Southeast Alaska.
Kaufman expressed belief that j
iron ore is one of the most prom
ising prospects in the region.
“The very large size of the ti
taniferous magnetite deposits,
their favorable location near deep
water and apparent amenability
to ore - dressing techniques,
coupled to expansion of the steel
industry on the West Coast of the
United States and a growing need
by Japanese steel mills,” he said,
“has resulted in greatly increased
interest in the iron ore deposits
of Southeastern Alaska.”
Alaska sources would offer
Japanese buyers a saving of ap
proximately two days’ shipping
time, he said, over that now re
quired to haul ore purchased in
Utah and Nevada.
Japan also was seen as a more
promising market than U. S. smel
ters for the nickel ore of which
Southeast Alaska has a substan
tial portion of the nation’s re
serves.
Other known minerals in the
region discussed by Kaufman are
antimony, barite, copper, garnet,
gold, lead, zinc, molybdenum, ti
tanium, tungsten and uranium.
The report devoted several
pages to discussion of possibilities
for hydroelectric power develop
ment. Kaufman said such power
would be a major incentive to de
velopment of such mineral indus
tries as aluminum and magne
sium reduction and electric smel
ting of iron, copper and zinc ores.
“Such plans, using local ores,
would produce high quality' elec
trolytic products capable of com
manding premium prices,” Kauf
man said.
“M o s t metals available in
Southeastern Alaska can be re
fined by electrolytic processes; in
addition, large scale hydrodevel
opment would result in low-cost
power.”
Kaufman added, however, that
the “development of large-scale
hydropower appears unfeasible at
this time because of political
factors.”
The potential in this field, he
said, includes some 200 sites capa
ble of a total average production
of some 752,144 kilowatts.
Montana Senator
Invites Canadians
To Brighten Border
WASHINGTON, (#)—Sen. Mike
Mansfield (D-Mont.) says many
custom and immigration stations
along the Canadian border need
modernization ad improvemet.
In letters made public yester
day he asked the Customs Bureau
and Immigration Service to re
view the stations’ needs.
Mansfield wrote that “you can
be assured that any request for
funds for such construction that
is submitted to Congress will have
the wholehearted and enthusiastic
support of the Montana Congres- ,
sional delegation.”
Icelanders Again
Foiled In Attempt
To Board Britisher
LONDON, OT) — The Icelandic
gunboat Thor tried to put a
boarding party on the 397-ton
British trawler Red Lancer Mon
day night as the codfish war off
Iceland flared up again, the Brit
ish Navy reported.
An Admiralty communique said
the destroyers Hogue and Lagos
and another British trawler —
the Arctic Explorer — chased the
Icelanders away.
The incident broke a lull of sev
eral days in active Icelandic at
tempts to arrest British trawlers
fishing inside Iceland’s new 12
mile seacoast limit.
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