ıo. Der Minister soll regelmäßig Publikationen herausgeben, 
die vereinbar sind mit dem Regierungsinteresse und dem 
Gebot industrieller Vorsicht, 
a. Ores of the World 
Abschrift aus: „The Far Eastern Review“, Nr. 5 vom Mai 1927, 
S. 199. 
The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers 
has appointed a committee of five to take up with Secretary Hoover 
a proposed survey of the mineral resources of the world, to include 
all minerals, metallic and non-metallic ores. The biggest indi- 
vidual task would be in the United States where every base mineral 
known is deposited. 
The surveyors propose to list India’s stores of coal, copper, gold 
and precious stones; to take cognizance of South Africa’s gold, 
diamonds, coal and platinum; of Australia’s gold; of Argentina’s 
petroleum, and of Austria’s coal and iron. In China’s eigtheen 
provinces there are immens stores of coal and iron, many of them 
undevelopped. Coal and iron and other minerals would be listed 
in France, Germany, Hungary, Holland, Poland, Rumania, Russia, 
Serbia, Spain and Sweden. In Turkey and Portugal the deposits 
are undeveloped. 
The survey would give some idea of how long the mineral re- 
sources of the world might last, and there is always the chance 
that it might discover new and valuable deposits. If this committee 
could have free access to the highly mineralized areas of Central 
Asia and report on the deposits of the Altais and Tibet as well as 
make a final survey of the possibilities of China, it would easily 
justify the expenditure on its work. Perhaps the easiest way 10 
accomplish this would be to invite a few German mining experts 
to sit on the committee. They have been all over the Central Asian 
mineral fields and have reports on most of the deposits carefully 
filed awav in Berlin. 
2 Krahmann, Arbeitsgemeinschaft 
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