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...representative was Cornelius Francis Kelley, president of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and Copper Exporters, Inc., chairman of Copper Institute and spokesman for 25 big U. S. producers. From Belgium there had come M. Fernand Pisart, managing director of the Societe Generale des Minerals, Belgian outlet for the Katanga Mines in the Belgian Congo, and his associate, Camille Gutt...
While consumers waited, producers conferred. In Manhattan was M. Fernand Pisart, managing director of the Societé Génèrale des Minerals, the Belgian outlet lor the Katanga mines of Africa. Although producers insisted M. Pisart's visit was merely a routine one, many observers interpreted it as a crisis in the affairs of Copper Exporters, Inc., international price-controlling combine. When Copper Exporters was organized, its president Cornelius Kelley of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. optimistically stated that its purpose was to keep the price adjusted to day-to-day conditions in Europe. European consumers, long unwilling...
While U. S. Producers were conferring with M. Pisart last week, executives of African copper companies were gathering in London. A major topic was coöperation in smelting. Katanga (Union Miniere Haut Katanga) is now the only African Company with smelting facilities but Roan Antelope is building a smelter, and three other companies (N'Kana, N'Changa Mufalira) expect to follow...
...members of the British House of Commons made an astounding insinuation last week-that the private Belgian concern, Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, which manufactures 90% of the world's radium under Belgian Government control, was restricting that valuable metal's production. The Belgian pitchblende mines, whence the related radium, polonium and lead are refined, are at Katanga, Belgian Congo. Those mines have far outdistanced the Jackinov mines in Czechoslovakia where Becquerel and the Curies got their first pitchblende supplies. Other, but at present little used, sources of radium are autunite deposits in Portugal, betafite deposits in Madagascar...
...Belgian Congo, just where it touches Great Britain's colony of Northern Rhodesia (so named after its exploiter, Cecil John Rhodes). Between Elizabethville and Port Franc-qui (named after the rehabilitator of Belgium's currency, former Finance Minister Emile Francqui) lie the Katanga Mountains, rich in copper, and over them runs a 660 mile long railway which King & Queen proceeded to inaugurate. Local copper executives dolefully informed His Majesty that their Blackamoor miners have tribally combined to enforce a ruinous wage of 12? per day - the standard pay for such labor elsewhere in the Congo being...