THE TUNGSTEN INDUSTRY.
INDISPENSABLE WAR MATERIAL. Tungsten is one of the most precious metals m the world to-day. A pound, which could be put m a phial an inch and a half m length, costs six shillings. Tons of it are being sent from Widnes to Sheffield every week. The amazing thing about this metallic powder, so essential to the carrying on of the war, is (says the Daily Mail) that before last year practically the whole supply of pure tungsten came from Germany^ This fact was one of the little-known difficulties that faced the Government when war broke out. The stock of tungsten m England was very limited, and theire was no plant to make it. The Government acted promptly. After experiments by steel experts and chemists the means were) found to manufacture the powder. The wolfram ore mines, which supply the raw material for tungsten, andl on whidh Germany had her grip, are now largely under British control. , Lord Moulton, m referring to the success of the enterprise, urged the importance of making preparations for ! th« after-the-war struggle. We had to fight for permainent .'industrial peace and freedom just as we had to fight for freedom m a political and a national sense.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14196, 13 January 1917, Page 6
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205THE TUNGSTEN INDUSTRY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14196, 13 January 1917, Page 6
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