WEALTEI FROM SEAWATER
Scientists in charge of a bromine plant on the Atlantic coast of America i say that, in the past, twelve months, j more than £25,000,000 worth of ntin--1 erals have passed through their pipes. Unfortunately, they have not been able , Io extract more than a fraction of litis I store. . In that period they dealt with 158,I 735.000,000 gallons of water, and all ' they could extract was several thousand tons of bromine for use in the treatment, of petrol. But they know that in Hie water that escaped into Hie sea was £lO.OOO worth of gold. £7OOO silver. £BOOO common ' salt, enough magnesium to build too.- i I (top aeroplanes. potassium chloride Io fertilize a million acres, 1311 lons of iodine, us well as considerable Epsom salts, calcium chloride, strontium carbonate, iron and. copper.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)
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137WEALTEI FROM SEAWATER Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)
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