Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This wealth consists of high-cost, low-grade ore reserves, mostly scattered throughout the West. Five years ago the U.S. sneered at the absurdity of autarchic economics when the Hermann Göring Works was built to use Germany's low-grade iron ore. The U.S. then had more rich ore than it could smelt. But in wartime every paper resource may be a real resource, and price is no object. If the U.S. is in for a long war, Ickes' adventure into autarchy may mean the difference between victory and defeat...
...Done. Technologically, the proposal is not absurd. It consists of a hundred or more specific projects, from exploring New York and New Jersey iron-ore deposits to mining chromite and smelting manganese in Montana, all of which have been tested or recommended by engineers of the Bureau of Mines, Reclamation Bureau, Geological Survey or other agencies in recent years. The minerals to be dug or processed are either scarce, getting scarce or imported (and ships are scarce). Ickes outlined his scheme in terms of three bottlenecks it would break...
...Much U.S. ore, either low-grade or in small deposits, is untouched because no hitherto commercial methods* of treating it have been developed. Ickes proposes to turn small scattered iron-ore deposits into sponge iron by the gaseous reduction process, smelt the sponge iron in electric furnaces...
...Many a humble-priced ore, now of great strategic importance, has never been thoroughly prospected in the U.S. Ickes wants the Bureau of Mines and the Geological Survey to explore for more copper, iron, zinc, chromite and lead. His experts know of promising copper sites in eight States, lead in seven, zinc in twelve, chromite in four, and Alaska iron...
Farewell. In Roseburg. Ore., guests at a farewell party for George Grimm left at midnight, wondered why Grimm had stayed away, learned later nobody had invited...