PLATINUM FIND
BELT SEVENTY ftIiLES LONG
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Press Association-—By Talojraph—Copyright.
LONDON, January 7, (Received January S, at 9.55 n.m.)
Professor Sir Edgwortlp .David (of Svdney University) has arrived in Lon don. .lie visited the South African mines on route, including the Lydcnburg platinum find. Ho described this amazing discovery as comprising a belt of seventy miles long and from 4ft to across. Samples disclosed - to (kiwi of alloy per ton. Up to the present the belt has been tested only at intervals, but if it equals expectations it will control the world’s markets and mean a. considerable reduction in prices. —Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19142, 8 January 1926, Page 5
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104PLATINUM FIND Evening Star, Issue 19142, 8 January 1926, Page 5
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