Bergwirtschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft

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Identifikator:: 1773323105

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-155429

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Krahmann, Max http://d-nb.info/gnd/116375329

Title:: Bergwirtschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft

Place of publication:: Berlin-Grunewald

Publisher:: Vowinckel

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: VIII, 183 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Every economic understanding furthers the cause of peace. Agreement in the matter of mining is a particularly difficult and at the same time a most important question, as minerals are un- equally distributed over the earth andthesupply isnotinexhaustible, while the demand as a whole is continually on the increase varying though it does very much as regards detail. The difficulty of arriving at an international understanding in this particular sphere of inorganic economy is further increased by the fact that the actual technical terms employed are very varied and inappropriate, and that in the case of applied or economic geology and mining no such international scientific nomenclature exists as is used in chemistry, mineralogy and petrography, and as may be applied if need be to geology and the study of mineral deposits. International mineral statistics as a whole suffer very consider- ably from this defect; in actual fact, they are of no use from the scientific point of view, although for want of anything better, they continue to be used in practice and are taken as a basis for trade balances, customs tariffs, commercial treaties, etc., as something which has been “officially ascertained and which must therefore be correct. In reality they convey an entirely wrong impression, and are full of mistakes, fallacies, confusion and misunderstanding. Every expert in taxation or commercial policy can confirm this directly he attempts to go into the matter scientifically and hon- estly. What has been said of statistics,which constitute the international language of figures, also applies to that other international medium of understanding, the cartographic description of mineral sources or map of useful minerals, which is still quite incomplete and Jleads to more misunderstanding than agreement. The conventional signs vary according to the different countries and bear more than one meaning, and the indication of the economic importance of depo- sits, reserves, means of access and disposal, places and methods of working up and handling, consumption, requirements, prices, etc., is still incomplete and does not permit of exact comparison or fur- ther conclusions from the international point of view. 3,

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