utah cyprus mines and consolidated gold fields limited its location makes it relatively accessible to the japanese market and once long-term ore sales contracts are established construc tion of mining and shipping facilities for the removal of these direct shipping ore reserves will begin this year the company formally concluded its stretch-out agreement for the deferral and extension of uranium oxide sales from the gas hills and shirley basin areas of wyoming to the atomic energy commission the amended contract effectively spreads u;,o deliveries originally scheduled for four years through 1966 over a six-year period through 1968 and provides for the sale of additional concentrate through 1970 while the present annual rate of earnings from uranium has been reduced by the amendment adversely affecting current earnings utah will benefit in total profits from a substantial increase in total forward sales the additional years of production guaranteed by the new program provide a further benefit in that they reduce or eliminate the interval between the suspension of government uranium purchases in 1 970 and the commencement of substantial nuclear fuel purchases by the electric utility industry pima mining company utah's 25%-owned affiliate produced copper 60,000,000 pounds of copper equivalent at its arizona open pit mine and milling facilities during 1964 this represented a 45 increase over the prior year with the completion of an expan sion program in late 1963 the plant now has the capacity to mill in excess of 7,000 tons of copper ore per day approximately twice the original daily rate of 3,600 tons with the increased production and strengthening copper prices utah's share of pima's earnings after allowance for distribution taxes was 702,233 compared to 537,888 in the preceding year during 1964 the third and largest generating unit of arizona public service co became fully operational and utah is pro viding the utility company with coal from its four corners navajo mine at an annual rate approximating 2.5 million tons per year while the current rate of scheduled fuel deliveries to aps already ranks navajo as the eighth largest coal mine in the country the four corners reserves of some 600 million tons arc sufficient for the production of power at six times the current rate for the remainder of the twentieth century photographs show several stages of ore processing at utah's lucky me uranium mine and mill operations in the gas hills district of wyoming 1 . view of main pit area lucky me mine 2 self-loading scraper 3 dragline used for digging dewatering ditches 4 taking samples of truck load of ore to deter/nine f.-ios content 5 ion exchange section lucky me mill 6 ten-millionth pound of uranium concentrate produced at the lucky me mill july 1964 7 instrument panel for controlling automated milling ill s - - i hi coal