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...stripped six inches of soil off a 2-sq.-mi. area, replaced it with soft turf and a specially constructed water sprinkling system. Buckets of bugs were carried away, and the entire site was sprayed with DDT. Into the Queen's two-bedroom tent went a white-lacquered zinc bathtub, hot-water plumbing, and a flush toilet-equipped with a red velvet seat cover for comfort in the early-morning chill. An airstrip was constructed; access roads from Katmandu, 160 miles away, were widened and improved. In high grass four miles from camp, workmen set up a "hunting ring...
Despite these high prices, many low-yield U.S. silver mines proved unprofitable and shut down. Today about three-quarters of all silver mined in the U.S. is a byproduct of lead, zinc or copper mining. In the past decade the world's consumption of silver has oustripped production, although the supply is increased by melting down and reusing the metal...
...close to self-sufficiency in food. But with a per capita income of only $84, capital is lacking to move the economy beyond its present agricultural base. Tin, columbite (for jet-engine alloys) and coal are all being exported, but there is no money to develop the lead, zinc and iron ore that have been found in quantity. Abubakar dreams of building West Africa's first steel mill and a huge dam on the Niger. But the big hope is oil. After 25 years, Shell finally hit a gusher in 1956, figures the Niger Delta swamps contain reserves...
...Bunker Hill Co.'s lead and zinc processing plant, where 80% of Kellogg's breadwinners earn their livelihood, has been shut by a strike since last May. More than 2,000 wage earners are out of work; the town is going broke, its population bleeding away to find other jobs elsewhere. On the brink of winter last week, negotiations for a settlement came to an abrupt, bitter halt...
...Common Sense. Kellogg and Bunker Hill had few labor difficulties until 1958. Then a depression in the lead and zinc industry forced Bunker Hill, the nation's second largest lead producer (first: St. Joseph Lead Co.), to cut its work force in Kellogg-the first time management had had to exercise the layoff clauses in the contract with the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union. When the contract expired May 6, 1959, a deadlock ensued over job security, grievance procedures, seniority, safety regulations and shift schedules...