plant in Saline County. Alcoa also was one of the Nation's two producers
of tabular alumina. Reynolds Metals Co. operated underground and open pit
bauxite mines in Saline County and was a close second in production of crude
ore. Reynolds announced plans to increase alumina capacity at its Hurricane
Creek plant also in Saline County by 2,F50 to 2,300 tons per day. American

Cyanamid Co. mined bauxite by open-pit methods in Saline and Pulaski Counties,
then calcined the bauxite for chemical uses at its plant near Benton in Saline
County. Alumina produced in Arkansas was used primarily for ah~iminum production;
however, significant quantities were consumed in abrasives, chemicals, refractories,
ceramics, cements, and a host of other industrial applications. 
Table 16.—Bauxite mine production and shipments from mines and processing
plants to 
consumers 
(Thousand long tons and thousand dollars) 
Abrasives: 
 Arkansas Abrasives Inc Mine and plant - - - ~1arland - - - - Hot Springs,
Ark. 
 Arkansas Oilstone 60., Inc do do  Do. 
   Norton-Pike Mine    do Littleton, N.H. 
Barite: 
   Dresser Minerals Mine and plant~. Hot Spring Houston, Tex. 
   National Lead Co do do Do. 
Bauxite: 
 Aluminum Company of Mine and plant - -  Saline Pittsburgh, Pa. 
  America 1* 
 American Cyanamid Co    do    do Wayne, N.J. 
    Do Mine Pulaski    Do. 
 Porocel Corp Plant Pulaski Menlo Park, N.J. 
 Reynolds Mining Corp.' Mine and plant~. Saline Richmond, Va. 
 Stauffer Chemical Co.' Plant Pulaski New York, N.Y. 
See footnotes at end of table.134 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mine production  ShipmentsYear  — 
 Crude   Dry Value  As   Dry Value  equivalent  shipped equivalent 
 1963 1,771 1,478 $16,701 1,725 1,483 $17,543 1964 1,864 1,562 17,431 1,773
1,531 17,859 1965 1,911 1,593 17,974 2,100 1,803 20,786 1966 2,060 1,718
19,439 1,986 1,708 20,258 1967 1,943 1,571 18,269 2,137 1,815 21,927 
Porocel Corp. and Stauffer Chemical Vanadium.—Union Carbide Corp. con-

Co. produced activated bauxite from tinuéd development of its vanadium
de 
stocks of crude ore at plants in Pulaski posit in Garland County. The vanadium

County. Plant products were used for a ore is found in association with an
intru 
number of filter applications. sion of alkalic igneous rocks that pene 
 Mercury.—Mercury output, recorded trate sedimentary rocks comprised
esfor the second successive year, was higher sentially of novaculite and
shales. The than in 1966. The high price paid for company mined and stockpiled
ore for 
mercury led to renewed interest in the processing at its new plant near the
mines. Two ore bodies outlined by drilling wereArkansas deposits. mined by
open-pit methods and the ore 
 
 Pike County was the center of activity, hauled by truck to the plant. Construcwhere
Great Southwestern Mines, Inc., tion phases of the plant were completed,
mined and processed cinnabar. The mer- and at yearend the company was completcury
ore is associated with strongly folded ing adjustments in the mill flow circuits

and fractured beds of sandstone. to improve efficiency of operations. 
Table 17.~—Principal producers of metals, minerals, and fuels 
Commodity and company Type of activity County Address