Territorial Dept.
Of Mines Bulletin
NOVEMBER — 1954
2nd Division Mining Activities
A second shipment of tin con
centrates from the Lost River op
eration of U.S. Tin Corp., amount
ing to 138 tons valued at $150,000,
has beeh made to the Texas City
Tin Smelter.
Coplin Consolidated Enterprises,
a gold dredging operation on the
Nuikluk River at Council, is an
other recent applicant for Terri
toril tax exemption as a “new
operation.”
Rodioaclivities
The TDM was called upon to
look into a recently reported ura
nium strike at Shirley Lake, 110
miles northwest of Anchorage.
Remembering the sad experience
of the “Fishwheel’ gold strike on
the Yukon in 1949, and a portion
of the Territorial law establishing
the TDM, which says it will “pro
tect the interest of the investor,”
an examination was made of the
area in question. A word of cau
tion was extended, through the
local press to those people im
properly equipped and not aware
of the very unique properties of
raidoactivities and the special
knowledge required to effectively
evaluate findings, to "tread with
caution.”
The general area investigated
does give a radioactive count
above “normal” or “background,”
but commercial grade material
had not been found nor had any*
minerals causing the radioactivity
been identified.
Since the Shirley Lake investi
gation, several other “discoveries”
in Alaska have been reported by
the press, but the TDM wishes to
remind the general public that ur
anium exploration and mining is
a very specialized field. Once a
true uranium-bearing mineral has
been located and identified, it re
quires someone with plenty of
capital and know-how to develop
a prospect to the point where com
mercial grade material has been
“blocked out” and returns may be
realized by the locator.
Uranium
This is the most talked about
element in the- Territory today.
Although uranium is one of the
•'newer” elements, several helpful
pamphlets have been published
which are useful to the prospector
in his search for this very import
ant source of energy. Prospecting
with a Counter, July, 1954, for 30
cents and 'Prospecting for Ura
nium, October, 1951, for 45 cents
are available from the Superin
tendent of Documents , U.S. Gov
ernment Printing Office, Wash
ington, D.C. Prospecting for Ura
nium in Canada, 1953 is available
for 50 cents from The Prospectors
and Developers Association, 67
Yonge St., Toronto, Canada.
In the search for radioactives,
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Betty Hutton Gives
Tearful Final Performance
Before Weepy Audience
LAS VEGAS, I/P)— Betty Hutton
bade a tearful farewell to show
business last night. Her night club
audience wept, too.
“This is my last show and I’m
retiring from show business,” the
energetic blonde star said at the
close of her four-week engage
ment at the Desert Inn here. “This
is my farewell.”
The capacity crowd of about
500 was on its feet with shouts
of “No! No!” An observer of the
scene reported:
“It was one of the most emo
tional things I ever witnessed. I
never saw so many women weep
ing. Waitresses cried. Everybody
cried and had a wonderful time.”
Please Get Off My Back, Madam
KING’S LYNN, England, I/P) —
Mrs. Evelyn Wright, a 56-year-old
landlady, told a judge yesterday
she captured a burglar by trip
ping him and then sitting on him.
Mrs. Wright weighs 210 pounds.
The flattened suspect, Robert
Taylor, weighs 135.
Taylor, 40, was held for trial
on a burglary charge.
one of two types of counters is
generally used: either the' Geiger
or scintillation counter. The heart
of the Geiger counter is the Gei
ger tube which is a metal-walled
tube filled with one or more
gases, such as helium, argon, or
krypton. A positive charge of
about 1,000 volts is applied be
tween the metal wall of the tube
and a center wire which acts as
the other pole.
Radioactive elements emit alpha,
beta and/or gamma rays. Both
types of counters measure, in a
relative sense, the emission of
gamma rays from a sample or
material “in place.” The Geiger
tube is discharged, or affected by,
only about one per cent of the
gamma rays which penetrate it,
while the scintillation counter usc-s
a different type of “detector”
which reacts to 50 per cent more
of the gamma rays.
The “detector” in a scintillation
counter is a sodium iodide or po
tassium iodide crystal which pro
duces tiny momentary flecks of
light (scintillations) when pene
trated by gamma rays. It can be
seen, therefore, that the scintilla
tion counter is 50 or more- times
as sensitive as the Geiger counter. |
LEONARD SEPALLA HONORED
BY NORWEGIAN GOVT.
The famed dog musher of the
early Alaska days, Leonhard Sep
pala, has been awarded another
honor by Nordmanns Forbundet,
“The Norseman’s League’’ of Oslo,
Norway. He has been given a
medal for the part he played dur
ing the early days in Alaska, as
a worthy citizen of the great and
wonderful U.S.A., and a member
of the League.
Norwegians who “make good,”
no matter where they live, are
honored by their fellow country
men in Norway for outstanding
deeds of valor, achievements in
science, literature or the arts. A
Norwegian is always proud of his
ancestry wherever he may reside
at the present, and strives to hon
or his native land. The re-cogni
tion given to their fellowmen all
over the world by the government
is a most commendable attribute
of gratitude.
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