BURIED TREASURE
OF EMRIRE
"THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. MONDAY DECEMBER
CANADA'S VAST WEALTH NOT YET DISCLOSED
(BY W, SHEPHERD, F.G.S.)
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Vast "amelting-furnace, These were detected by two air The continents are the earthy men who were prospecting over refuse-dross-floating on a semi-Mackenzie, when they noticed molten, metal ball. Our
some unfamiliar rocks in which mining activities are but the were "streaks of glassy deposits, scratching away of 'ittle rust iridescent with gleams of red and. from the surface of an almost xreen and yellow." Umitican quantity of mineral wealth, over half of which is most eually accessible within the
WAR
Cadmium is another metal which onco considered a.... raro scientific curiosity, but it is now
bluish-white
colour resembling chromium. It is Blлo used making fusible alloys. When mix. ed with other metals it imparts to
very low melting-point, AUSTRALIA'S CONTRIBUTION
for
boundaries of the British Empire.coming into use for plating, its
The continent of Africa' is estimated at 23 miles thick, but even the top mile contains suf- ficient metallfe are to supply the world for many thousanda of reare. Though the exploitation of this prodigious store has hardly begun, It has already provided us with countless household con- veniences and luxuries.
Most of the chromium of your car, bicycle, buttons, taps, and other fittings came from South Africa and (more particularly) Rhodesin, which, was a fow years go furnishing three-quarters of the world's supply. Even the diamonds and gold of British Africa are likely to be eclipsed by the untold wealth of more useful minernia, such as "blue asherton," a more valuable variety than the asbeston which once came solely from Quebec.
But Canada can well afford to lose its monopoly of asbestos, for
Ол the island of Elba, where Napoleon was banished, German and Italian interests are filming Musso- lini's "Life of Napoleon" with two _separate _ companies._of_actors_and.
actrum.
in both Ontario und Quebec are by far the largest known deposita of beryllium workable on a com- mercial scale,
GREAT VALUE
White in colour, a third lighter than aluminium and so hard that it will scratch glass, the metal beryllium,is kely to prove of inestimable value in the construc- tion of aircraft. It ruins a high polish in air Indefinitely and hardens with heat-
Its chief ore la the precious stone, bory, from which it takes Its name, and the nation possesя- ing its mest abundant deposits
may very easily find itscif one day in virtual control of the world's aircraft.
This wonder metal is already coming into industrial use, for it is not only employed regularly for the "windows" of X-ray tubes and the electrodes of neon signs, but a light, strong alloy of it is being
head for the pistons and connect- ing rods of petrol engines,
The mineral wealth of Canada is only beginning to be discovered, It long enjoyed world-monopoly of nickel is but a foretasts of the vast hoards of treasure concealed-
In its rocks. It is already known
to be the lucky possessor of the world's largest oilfield.
It is callmated that in the bit
minous sands of Northern Alberta there are Bity billion cubic yarda of oil-enough to supply the world for five hundred years at the pre- sent rate of consumption. This is a burled trousure which has so far hardly be touched.
HELIUM SUPPLY
In Southern Alberta there are Jargo supplies of hellum—the non-. infiammablo gas used for airships in the natural gaɛfields, and tho Reparation of the hadium by liquefying the other gases presunt has already been begun on a semi-
them
Though formerly imported from the United States, cadmium is now produced on a large scale în Aus- tralia, where even richer deposits of the ore are being exploited.
Yet another valuable metal in modern industry is manganese, of which are mall quantities
When the 200-add New York City hunger marchers who planned a two-day convention in the state capital to formulate their demands for relief this Winter reached Albany, polica wara on hand to turn them back. In the battle that ensued at the Hudson River bridga, the marchers fosk, na is obvious from the picture above. Injured men are shown being hel sad into patrol wagons. Three went to the hospital,
70 want to jail. ́.
✈ EXACTING LIFE
MARKETING OF GOODS
Pelato growing is now being practised on a large saale, and In
added to steel for high-speed one of the Commissioners who, for this summer. tooling. An alloy of it has been the last eight months or so, have
and in making the 85-ton, probeen in charge of Labrador and! pellers of the Queen Mary. Mun- Newfoundland, It was stated that Thurk there may be signs of dustrial work of various kinds is ganese atcel, being exceedingly in every department there had been- tough and hard, is employed ex- an expansion in financial returns.improvement in the state of Labra-being developed. The great task tensively for making burglar. Sir Wilfred has also been in-dor under the Commission, It was is to market the goods, but when proof vaults and armour plate, formed that two 'planes have cbvious from the slides and cine- and enormous deposits of various arrived In Labrador--the first matograph pictures which Sir Wil manganese ores have recently planes officially to be received by boon discovered in India.
Britain's oldest colony. They will mean a great deal in the way of helping on the work,
În 1943, India produced as much manganese ore as all the rest of the world put together, excepting only Russia, whose figures nre doubtful,
About 67 metals are known to science, apart from the numerous alloys possible, and of thes, only about twenty are well known. Selence us so für touched only the fringe of the rich metallie' garment which Mother Earth woayes and wears-and, which she has so shamefully allowed to he come caked over with mud, and cinders.
Who can guess what strange alloys may not be made and put into common use within the next few years? We have already adopted stainless metal furniture, while cloth of woven metal has been suggested as practient pro- position.
NEW METAL
The very latest metal to find its way into the ordinary household la rhodium-one of the platinum metala. It is rarer and dearer than platinum, because it is cap- able of being deposited-on-silver- in incredibly thin sheets, and is a precious metal itself. It is being employed for rendering silver ab solutely untarnishable.
Rhodlum is a by-product in the refining of platinum and, nickel, and come to us in about equal Canada and proportions from
Russia, though New South Wales and South Africa are known to possess its orea,
Molybdenum la another rare are metal, compounds of which employed for colouring leather and rubber. The orca of this grey metal occur in Australia, Canada, and in smaller quantities in the United States and Europe. It is used for hardening steels, and the as cylinders which were made for the experimental recently omnlbuses run by the Birmingham Corporation were made of nickel- chrome-molybdenum-steel,
Though the walls of these cylinders are only a fifth of an Inch thick, they can stand a pres sure of well over 3,000 pounds per square inch!
It has even been suggrated that in outlying villages, where oll is still used for heating the lighting, bottled gas
may prove a boon.. Quite a moderate-sized bottle, of gus would keep a stove going for two or three months, if economi
ally used! Such a project would be an utter impossibility except for the extraordinary properties of this alloy, all four constituents of which are found within Empire,
the
BETTER TIMES FOR LABRADOR
EXPANSION OF OLD LOLONY'S TRADE
SIR WILFRED
commercial scale. Canada and GRENFELL'S VIEW
the United Status, possess the only considerable supplies of feltum in.
the world.
Good news of Labrador, with which his name is so closely asso
On August 6, n, gigantle plenicciated, wan announced by Sir Wil was held on the Great Bear Lakefred Grenfell, to a large audience by Yellow-knife Indians, Eskimos, in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, re- and minors. They were celebrat-cently,
ing the discovery of what are In a latter which had just ar hrobably the biggest radium derived from Sir John Hope Simpson,
fred showed that the lot of the inhabitants is an exacting one. Many of the pictures illustrated the schools, hospitals, and other Sir Wilfred described how the institutions which Sir Wilfred has people of Labrador had a little founded. From one of the hos while ago been losing their Spanish pitals, a view of which he showed, and Greck markets for Ash and it is only 1,600 miles in 26 direct
they are marketed the profit goes directly to the individual. Hooked mats, now made of discarded silk stocking, worked into Various artistle patterns and pictures, form part of the industrial scheme, and Sir Wilfred told how one of his started the volunteer workers slogan, "I-a silk stocking starts to run let it run to Labrador," "And
At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Sweden will be represented by a strong body of athletes, not the least outstanding members of which are of the type pictured above, 2,000 of whom are trainin; for the Games,
York.
losing also their inspiration for tine to Galway, while it is 3,200 work. About a year ago, he said, milca from the hospital to New the country went bankrupt, and the colony asked the Government to give them a dictatorship in the form of a Commission.
they have been running to Labra dor ever since," he added.
One of the most interesting films shown was that of a wreck off the Labrador coast and the way in. which the cargo or a good part of it was salved and appropriated for the use of the island. Shortly afterwards the ship sank.
Sledging with huskies, ski-ing, footballing, battling with Nature He explained that the reason why in many directions so as to produce Labrador had not been self-support food and the commodities which ing was that no money had been will purchas the needs of life, put into it; money had been taken (make up the work and play of the Lord Polwarth, who presided, out of it. It was, however, rich in dwellers in Labrador. The fun of sald that he knew no better example natural resources. Salmon, cod a life like that, said the lecturer of what was called, practical Chris- fish, and halibut abounded, and, is that every thing challenges you. tianity than the work of Sir Wil- there were whales and seals. A You are always being challenged to fred Grenfell in Labrador, carried beautiful ore, which had never been do something and Improve on out as it was on a long stretch of worked, had also been discovered ¡ talugs as they exist.
coast.
Shattering all recorda for årsaracatinental rail travel and setting several now upsed marke, the Canary coloured; aluniinlaba alloy train of the Union" Facific linsä, säub nosed like a bullet, ruhched New York from Los Angeles in 56 houre and 50 minutes to landguralaɖa' new.ars of railroad transportation.
The train is shown here on the underground tracks of Grand-Central station.
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