Word: djebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...served, but in any case now it serves nothing. Surely they can, if they want to, continue outrages, set up ambushes on the roads, hurl grenades in marketplaces, sneak into villages at night to kill a few unfortunate people. They can hide in mountain caves, go in groups from djebel to djebel and hide arms in rock crevices to use when the opportunity arrives. But the outcome is not there. Nor is it in the political dreams and eloquent propaganda of refugees abroad...
...discovered rich Hassi R'Mel field (estimated reserves 700 million bbl.), only 280 miles from Algiers, and the 20 boreholes in the Edjelé field (capacity 700 million bbl.), where the oil is only 1,350 ft. underground. The same applies to the huge natural-gas reservoir at Djebel Berga (2,000,000 cu. ft. a day) and vast storehouses of industrial metals in other areas of the Sahara (TIME, July 1). Plans for railroads and pipelines tapping these resources and bringing them to the sea have been drawn up, but they wait a settlement of the Algerian political...
...Manganese-ore deposits of 1,000,000 tons with 45% metal content were found at Djebel Guettara, south of Morocco. France calculates that with an investment of only $2,000,000, she could economically mine 50,000 tons a year...