ALUMINIUM ORE
JAPAN BUYS FROM BINTANG
CLOSE TO SINGAPORE
(Received May 3, 1 p.m.)
THE HAGUE,-May 2. It is reported that a Japanese aluminium company, operating > in Formosa, has agreed to take nearly 24,000 tons of bauxite yearly, yielding 6000 tons of aluminium from the Dutch Nibam company, working deposits in the island of Bintang, near Singapore, enabling Japan to be largely independent of America in the preparation of aluminium for aeroplanes. / . .The island of Bintang is only a few miles across the strait from Singapore. Bauxite is the chief ore from which aluminium is electrically smelted.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 11
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97ALUMINIUM ORE Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 11
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