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Africa's contribution in raw materials and manpower to the United Nations cannot be in proportion to its size, but what resources Africa has are precious. The Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia are the world's principal sources of cobalt, used in hard steel for toolmaking. Vanadium and manganese, also necessary for steel, come from the Gold Coast and South Africa. Tin comes from Nigeria, industrial diamonds from the fabulous Transvaal mines, rubber from Liberia, copper from the Congo...
Startling exception to the elaborate vagueness of most reports was the description of an important new process for extracting vanadium from phosphates-as a by-product in the making of fertilizers. Vanadium is a rare metal badly needed by U.S. arms plants for hardening steel. The new method climaxes four years of research by Chemical Engineers J. Perry Morgan (of Standard Oil of New Jersey) and Arthur W. Hixson (of Columbia University...
Beside the long-abandoned Maclntyre iron mine in New York's Adirondack vacationland-of all places-National Lead Co. last week put the finishing touches on a mill that will make the U.S. independent of imports in two critical materials and crack wide open two war-effort bottlenecks: vanadium and titanium...
...Vanadium. National Lead got a windfall in the vanadium at Maclntyre. It hopes to get 3,000,000 Ib. a year, worth $2.90 a Ib. as ferro-vanadium. This white metal is vitally needed to increase the tensile strength of steel. As such it will be snapped up like soda pop at a ball game; sale of this by-product alone will rake in almost as much cash in one year as National Lead has spent on the whole Maclntyre development...
...Vanadium, used to make steel alloys harder and more durable, has heretofore been mined chiefly in Peru and the western United States. Under war demands, new reserves are in urgent demand...