IRON ORE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 7

IRON ORE

IMPERIAL MINBRAIi RBSOUROEB • .;■*■:•.;..:. ■,■:■ :;BUHJEAU,. ; :: ;.■-■::':.' f/^-,';: ■ ■ ■.. (nwM-ODi' own caiMmnm's* r.iU. :■: ' :':'>•':■;■ ;V:>V;:liONDON;:;i3t}.:;July;--V The Imperial Mineral.Resources Bureau is now issuing ;a odmprehensive series of ; ybluines on the iron; ore deposits, of "the; 5 would. .The first five volvunas are- to deal with the resources of.the-Britisli Empire, and three volumes will deal with the ore; Lof foreign countries.'' "Alrtady, Beveral': of the booklets baye been puNwhed. ;0f these the first treats on.theresbui'ca* ofGreat Britain, ;and> the fifth on' the; ».'■ sources of. AustralSi andVNe\v' Zealand::.; : '

The scope; of thework' if^widor ;th»B !:: \V that of: the ordinary ■ digests iaued. bystbe ;: ■ • bureau relative, to -othar minerals; ,-;.TWb -''■'. to rendered\practicableby<:the^ financial :, assistance .given by the National•FeUera-: :V:; tion. of; Iron and Steel , Manufacturers, : ; : who wwhed to havs';;Mler' in£pria*tioh ; than it would otherwise • have been, ipbs- • > sible/to obtain. In the first part of the ;^: series, the Iron and Steel Committee of the Bureau has. deemed it desirable to \ inolude a few; introductory notes on tho nature of iron ores, the geological age'»of . the chief deposits, the - different types of ■'..-.■;' deposit*, the method* in u»» for lmprov- ■.■/:.-;, ;ing' th« quality of orude ores,before they 'r 'are7smelted;'; and the . various:^'factors ■'"." - which determine the value of iron-ores;: 'The New Zealand section is ohieny devoted to the deposit* at Parapar* and the bod* of ironßand on.or near the* •hoiia', at many localities.; along the western oowt of the Nerth Island, theise being the oqly two. grpups at present: known to bo;of ■ economio importance.. The *»rie« of »olume» will, no doubti prove of rteat yajije in disseminating a much-needed know- ■„•'■ ledge Qf:'tl«f i«?«mroe» inrido'the Ep»pi»e. : ■ N