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MONDAY, MAY 17, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THIRTEEN Hunt For Valued Uranium Now On In Canadian Areas Ottawa, May 17 -- (CP) -- A half-century after the Yukon gold rush of '98, hunderds of prospectors are combing Canada's soil for Ur- anium -- the new glamor metal in the realm of mining -- and several private firms are nearing the 'pro- duction stage. The hunt for this major source of atomic emergy has hits its stride in many parts of the country two months after the government threw the prospecting and development of radio-active materials open to private individuals. Spurred on by a government gua- minimum price for the next five years, it is a hunt broken into three phases by regulations of the atomic energy control board, fuarfian of the known ur- anium deposits in the hemisphere: 1. No special order is needed for prospecting as long as no minerals 4p than samples for analysis end hand are removed. Hun- dreds of prospectors are engaged in the search. In one week, 'more than 100 chunks of klack, heavy minerals that had given radio-active reac- tions were mailed into geological survey headquarters of the mines department for assay. Others go to provincial laboratories 2. Specific orders are needed for exploration by diamond drilling, surface work, test pitting and pre. liminary 'underground work. A re- lative few -- "not in the dozens'-- have passed into this stage. 3. Further orders are needed for mining. So far, no private firms have entered this phase but "sev- eral are getting near the edge and one iy very near," officials said to- day. One of these is at Wilberforce, near P h. The others are in the northwest territories, site 'of the government's pioneering Eldor- ado Mine on Great Bear Lake. Ottawa cannot disclose any pri- vate development, but the persons involved now can do so themselves, The hunt is only vaguely reminis- cent of 98. The sourdoughs panned their gold from the river beds 'in one general area. 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