CO129-576-3 Geological Survey of Hong Kong by officers of the University of British Columbia 11-12-1939 - 9-2-1940 — Page 6

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There have been at various times quite a number of

enquiries and applications for prospective licences

for various metals and the Colonial Government is

more or less hampered in dealing with such matters only by

complete ignorance of whether or not the metals

in question exist. Apart from the iron mining

which is now almost defunct, there is fair activity

in wolfram mining on a small scale and a more or less

well equipped lead mine which is now producing

quite