Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RONALD H. BAYES Umapine, Ore...
...Korea, reflected the booming expansion of Canada's economy to meet the needs of Western defense. Since the beginning of the year, the value of listed stocks on the Toronto exchange has climbed from $10.2 billion to $12 billion. Last week, with the announcement of a new ore discovery, Quebec Copper soared from $1.35 to $2.95. Canadian Pacific, Canada Cement and the Aluminum Company of Canada all hit new 1951 highs...
...years, if his plans hit no snag, Harvey hopes to be turning out 108 million Ibs. of aluminum a year (7% of U.S. production) at Kalispell, have his own plant at Everett, Wash., to make alumina (aluminum oxide), and to have his own $3,000,000 fleet of ore boats to bring in bauxite from Dutch Guiana...
Violent Reaction. U.S. military production desperately needs titanium as a substitute for columbium, a rare metal which makes steel fit to stand the 1,600º hellfire inside a jet-engine combustion chamber. Almost all the world's supply of columbium ore comes from primitive mines in Nigeria; the U.S. was able to get only 1,727,000 Ibs. last year. Since world production of columbium cannot be stepped up for another three years, the U.S. has turned to titanium. Luckily, it is one of the most abundant minerals in the earth's crust, and the U.S. abounds...
...problem does not faze Allegheny Ludlum's Chairman Hiland G. Batcheller. As the world's biggest producer of stainless steel (210 million Ibs. shipped last year), his company has long had its eye on titanium. When National Lead, the biggest U.S. supplier of titanium ore, suggested a partnership two years ago, Batcheller jumped at the chance. Their co-owned subsidiary, using Allegheny-Ludlum's mills, has already been processing small quantities of the metal. But total production-including that of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.-this year will be only 500 tons. And the average...