THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY
DECEMBER”, 17, 1984.
BURIED TREASURE
OF EMRIRE
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CANADA'S VAST WEALTH NOT YET DISCLOSED
(BY W. SHEPHERD, F.G.S.)
▼TE live on the sing-heap of posits in the world.
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some unfamiliar rocks in which wero. "streaks of glassy deposita, iridescent with gleams of red and green and yellow," mineral-Cadmium is another metal which was onto considered tho
raro
4 vasi amelting-furnace. These were detected by two air- The continenta Are the corthy men who were prospecting over refusedrosa-floating on a semi-Mackenzie, when they noticed molten, metal ball. Our puny mining activition are but the scratching away of a little rust from the surface of an almost limitices quantity of wealth, over half of which is most vasily accessible within boundaries of the British Empire. The continent of Africa is estimated at 23 mila thick, but even the top mile contains auf-chromium. It is ficient metallle ore to supply the work for many thousands of years. Though the exploitation of this prodigious store has hardly begun, it has already provided us with counlicas household con- veniences and, luxuries,
ciontine curiosity, but it le now coming into use for plating, its colour resembling bluish white
also used making fusible alloys. When mix- ed with other metals it imparts to them 'a very low melting-point.
for
AUSTRALIA'S CONTRIBUTION
Though formerly imported from the United States, cadmium is now produced on n-large scale
Aus- tralia, where even richer deponits of the ore are being exploited.
Yet another valuable metal in modern industry is manganese, small quantities of which are added to
Most of the chromium of your car, bicycle, buttons, taps, and other fittings cams from South Africa and (more particularly) Rhodesia, which was a few years sgo furnishing three-quarters of the world's supply. Even the
MARKETING OF GOODS diamonds and gold of
steel for high-speed one of the Commissioners who, for this summer. British Africa are likely to be eclipsed by tooling. An alloy of it has been the last eight months or so, have
AN EXACTING LIFE
Potato growing is now being the untold wealth of more useful used in making the 35-ton pre-been in charge of Labrador and
practised on a large scale, and in- -minerals, such na "blue asbestos,pellers of the Queen Mary, Man- Newfoundland, it was stated that
Though there may be sign of dustrini work of various kinds is Kunene steel, being exceedingly in every department there had been
an expansion in financial returns, improvement in the state of Labra being developed. The great task tough and hard, is employed ox- tansively for making burglar- Sir Wilfred has also been Indor under the Commission, It wasis to market the goods, but when
that two and armour plate, formed prouf vaults
planes have obvious from the slides and cine- they are marketed the profit goes and enormous deposits of various arrived in Labrador-the first matograph, pictures which Sir Wil-directly to the individual. Hooked manganese res have recently pinnes officially to be received by fred showed that the lot of the mata, now made of discarded silk an exacting one. stocking, worked Into various been discovered in India.
Britain's oldest colony. They will inhabitants, is mean a great deh in the way of Many of the pictures illustrated artistle patterns and pictures, form helping on the work,
the schools, hospitals, and other part of the industrial scheme, and Institutions which Sir Wilfred has Sir Wilfred told how one of his workers started the founded. From one of the hos-volunteer pitals, a view of which he showed, slogan. "If a silk stocking starts to direct ran let it run to Labrador:" "And and it is only 1,600 miles in
When the 200-edd New York City hunger marchers who planned a two-day convention in the state capital to formulate their demands for ralia! this Winter reached Albany, police were on hand to turn them back. In the battle that ensued at the Hudson River bridge, the marchers lost, an is obvious from the picture above. Injured men are shown being hel sed into patrol wagons. Three want to the hospital, 70 want to fall..
a more valuable variety than the asbestos which once came solely from Quebec.
But Canada can well afford to Joso its monopoly of asbestos, for
On the island of Elba, where Napoleon was banished, German and Italian interests are filming Mano- lini's “Life of Nápoleus" with two separate companies of actori and
actresses.
in both Ontario and Qúches Are
In 1983, India produced as much manganese ore as all the rest of the world put together, 'excepting Jonty Russia, whose figures are
doubtful,
Aboul 67 metals are known to Fcience, apart from the numerous alloys possible, and of these only about twenty nre well known, Science has so far touched only the fringe of the rich metallic garment which Mother Earth; weaves and wears and which she. has so shamefully allowed to be- come taked over with mud hut cindera.
Who can guess what strange alloys may not be made and put into common use within the next few years? We have already adapteri stainless metal furniture, while cloth of woven metal has been suggested as practical pro- position.
NEW METAL
The very latest metal to find its way into the ordinary household is rhodium-ons of the platinum metals. It is rarer and diarer than platinum, because it is cap- able of being deposited on silver In Incredibly thin sheels, and Is A precious metal-itaolf. It is being employed for rendering silver ab-
by far the largest known depositssolutely untarnishable.
of beryllium workable on a com- mercint acalo.
GREAT VALUE
White in colour, a third lighter
than aluminium and so hard that metal it will scratch glass, the beryllium is likely to prove of inestimable value in the construe, tion of aircraft. It retains a high polish in air indefinitely and hardens with heat
Its chief ore is the precious stone, baryl, from which it takes its name, and the nation poßevas- Ing its most abundant deposits may very easily find itself one day in virtual control of the world's
wircraft.
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This wonder metal is already coming into industrial use, for it is not only employed regularly for the "window" of X-ray tubes and the electrodes of neon signs, but light, strong alloy of it is being used for the pistons and connect- -ing reds of petrol engines,
Rhodium is a by-product in the refluing of platinum and nickel, and comes to us in about equal proportions from Canada and Russia, though Now South Wales and South Africa are known to possess its eres.
Molybdenum is another rare metal, compounds of which are employed for colouring leather and rubber. The ores of this gry metal occur in Australia, Canada, and in smaller quantities in the United States and Europe. It is used for hardening steels, and the was cylinders which were made recently for the experimental omnibuses run by the Birmingham Corporation were made of nickel- chrome-molybdenum-ster),
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 suggested that in outlying villages, where oil is
The mineral wealth of Canada still used for heating the lighting,
Futiled gas may prove a boon.
is only beginning to be discovered. quite a moderate-sized bottle of Its long enjoyed world-monupoly
af nickel is but a foretast of the gas would keep a støvp going for
two or three months, if economi-
vast hoards of treasure concealed cally used! Such a project would
In its rocks. It is already known
to be the lucky possessor of the
world's largest oilfield.
be an utter impossibility except for the extraordinary properties
It is estimated that in the bitu of this alloy, all four constituents
minous sunds of Northern Alberta
there fire fifty billion cuble yards
of oil-enough to supply the world
for five hundred years at the pre-
sent rate of consumption. This
of which are found within Empire.
BETTER TIMES
the
is a buried treasure which has FOR LABRADOR
The hardly boon touched,
HELIUM SUPPLY
by
In Southern Alberta there are large supplies of hollum-the non- Inflammable gas used for airships -in the natural gasfields, and the separation of the hilum
hiefying the other gases present has already been began on a semi- commercial scale. Canada and the United Stats possess the only considerable supplies of helium in the world.
On August 6, a a gigantic picnic was held on the Great Bear Lake by Yellow-knife Indians, Eskimos,
EXPANSION OF OLD COLONY'S TRADE
SIR WILFRED GRENFELL'S VIEW
Good nows of Labrador, with which his name is so closely asso- clated. was announced by Sir Wi- fred Grenfell, to a large audience
in the Usher Hall. Edinburgh, re-
and minors. They were celebrat-cently,
ing the discovery of what are In a letter which had just ar probably, the biggest radium derived from Sir John Hope Simpson,
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Sir Wilfred described how the people of Labrador had a little while ago been losing their Spanish and Greek markels for fish
work,
-At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Sweden will be represented by a strong body of athletes, mut me that outstanding members of which are of the type pictured above, 2,000 of whom are training for the Games.
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losing also their inspiration for line to Galway, while it is 3,200 they have been running to Labri-
About a year ago, he said, miles from the hospital to New der ever since," he added. the country went bankrupt, and the York.
One of the must Intereating films shown was that of a wreck off the colony asked the Government to give them a dictatorship in
Sledging with huskies, ski-ing.Labrador const and the way in form of Commission,
footballing, battling with/Nature which the cargo or a good part He explained that the reason why in many directions so us to produce of it was anlved and appropriated Labrador had not been self-support- fond and the commodities which for the use of the island. Shortly ing was that no money had been will purchase the needs of life.afterwards the ship sank. put into it; money had been taken make up the work and play of the out of it. It was, however, rich in dwellers in Labrador. The fun of resources. Salmon, cad a life like that, wild the lecturer natural fish, and halibut abounded, and is that every thing challenges you. there were whales and asals. A You are always being challenged to beautiful ore, which had never been to something and improve on worked, bad also been discovered things is they exist.
Lord Polwarth, who presided,. rald that he knew no better example of what was called practical Chris tianity tizan the work of Sir Wil fred Grenfell in Labrador, carried out as it was on a long stretch of coast,
Shattering all records for transcontinental rail travel and settlög several nów speed marks, the canary coloured, aluminium alloy train of the Union Paulic jinde, shup abiad like a bulla reached New. York from Los Angeles in 58 hours and 56 minutes to inaugurate a new era of railroad transportation.
The train is shown here on the underground tracks of Grand Central station.
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