AUSTRALIAN IRON ORE
ENGLISH FIRM’S LEASE. SYDNEY, June 12. Negotiations are well under way to develop iron ore deposits at Yanipi Sound, North-West Australia, leases having been acquired by H. A. Brassert and Company', Ltd., a British company of consulting engineers, whose representative, Mr T. V. Salt, has arrived at Sydney' on tlie liner Mooltan en route for Japan. He estimates that the output will be more than half a million tons of iron ore annually. The main buyer will be Japan. Mr .Salt said that his company was dealing with very responsible and important interests in that country. Employment would be given to a large number of Australians and the venture had the approval and co-operation of the Commonwealth and West Australian Governments.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 165, 13 June 1936, Page 9
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124AUSTRALIAN IRON ORE Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 165, 13 June 1936, Page 9
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