MINING IN THE COMMONWEALTH

Southland Times, Issue 23346, 2 November 1937, Page 8

MINING IN THE COMMONWEALTH

EFFICIENT CONTROL PRAISED HEALTHY CONDITION OF INDUSTRY (Special to The Times) AUCKLAND, November L Reference to the efficiency of the organization and control of mining tn Australia was made by Professor W. B. Cramer, of the Metallurgical Department of the Colorado School of Mines, Denver, America, who is a through passenger on the Niagara. -rofessor Cramer, who has been three and-a-half months in Australia studying mmin,, and metallurgical methods, expressed his admiration of the way in whicn mining and the metal industries had been developed in the Commonwealth. “I have been very much interested ai industrial plants in Australia, said Professor Cramer, “because many of the methods used in the world today, both in mining and metallurgy, have had their birth in Australia. For that reason alone mining owes a lot to Australia. Much enterprise has been shown in Australia in the development of the process of flotation in the mining of all kinds of sulphide ores.” The mining industry was. m a healthy condition in Australia and in most pans of the world, added, Professor Cramer. There was, however, uncertainty about the future due to doubts as to whether the price of gold would be maintained in the international markets While the industry had been greatly assisted by the action of the British and American governments in controlling gold values there was, at the moment, uncertainty as to the intention of those governments. There had been a consequent effect on the industry and there was not the same tendency to spend money freely on new developments