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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al resources than has taken place in all previous history. Here in the United States the per capita consumption of minerals has multiplied ten times in only forty years. The problem of freedom of replenishment is not incidental, but of basic importance to the prosperity of the greatly magnified mineral industry which can be easily foreseen for the future. Any restrictions, national or international, which interfere with the necessary searching of the sarth are in principle undesirable, We believe that the aid and supervision of governments may be desirable in connection with exploration work, so far as they do not destroy the opportunity for private effort, but we further believe that government agencies cannot be substituted in ıhis field for private initiative. In regard to this necessary activity of exploration we stand for equal opportunity and the open door—national and international. Equal opportunity and the open door are considered as implying, among other things, that, except under conditions of national crisis, there shall be no restriction on the issuance of mining licenses and concessions to foreigners or the transfer of concessions to foreigners; and that there be no restrictions on the nationality of the shareholders, managers, or directors in companies owning mining and exploration rights and concessions, allowing thereby the free purchase and acquisition by individuals of any nationality. The right ofnations to control their own natural resources in times of war is of course paramount. There may be other special and local circumstances which might make such control desirable in times of peace. For the most part, howerver, all large mineral operations are by incorporated companies and the company being a creature of the state, the state may and usually does define very exactly its right and powers and in this way protects its own interest. 5. Freedom of Exploration is to be Preserved in Backward Countries Where backward countries possess important mineral supplies needed by the world we can see no escape from the conclusion, 60

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