RHODESIAN MINERAL OUTPUT
SUBSTANTIAE INCREASE IN VALUE JOHANNESBURG (By Mail). The value of the Northern Rhodesian mineral output for the first seven months of the year has increased two and a half times over the corresponding period of 1936. The total value was £8,065,786, as compared with £3,297,053 the previous year. Included in this yield were 103,623 tons of blister copper valued at £6,244,869; 17,499 tons of electrolytic copper, worth £1,142,805; 1,149,889 lbs. of cobalt, valued at £325,575; 30250z5. of gold, 268,0031b5. of vanadium, 333 tons of lead, and 14661b5. of selenium. The zinc output was 9970 tons at £250,074. The selenium was received from the reliniery slimes of the Nkana Copper Mine.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 256, 28 October 1937, Page 11
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