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IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTION SOUTH ISLAND POTENTIAL NOTED PA -WELLINGTON, Oct. 12. Answering questions in the House of Representatives to-day on Onekaka, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr Nordmeyer, said the scientists who had carried out the recent ironsand smelting tests were completely satisfied with the results. It had been demonstrated without doubt that by the electric smelting process, and by the use of char from Waikato coal, we could produce an iron almost entirely free of titanium, and there was really no technical reason why iron and steel should not be made from New r Zealand's ironsand deposits. The question was now one of economics. To make the quantity of iron and steel New Zealand would need would use 50,000 kilowatts of power, and the Government's advisers were now considering whether it would be economic to transport the iron concentrates from the North to the South Island, where the power potential was much greater. The high capital costs at the present time were another factor the Government would have to consider before setting its seal of approval to this project.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27210, 13 October 1949, Page 7
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