Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1914 — Molybdenum Wanted. [ARTICLE]

Molybdenum Wanted.

There is a big demand for Molybdenum, and the price of this valuable mineral has gone soaring. It is eaid that a French firm, which offers to take 100 tons a year at prices scaled, from $6 per unit for low grades up to sl2 per unit for the highest grades,, wants it as a base for smokeless powder.

There has not until now been a thoroughly satisfactory method of treating molybdenum ores, but a writer in the Engineering and Mining Journal says Its recovery is now as simple as it was formerly complex. It is now profitable to treat some three per cent ores.