Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

118 Modern Business Geography C. The story of copper. 1 Choose a committee to present the story of copper to the class. In an encyclopedia or some other book, find information on the topics of the following out- line : (a) Uses of copper. (Remem- ber that brass is chiefly copper.) Countries that produce the two million tons now used annually. States in the United States prominent in copper pro- duction (Fig. 90). ~nortant Mining Reais Fig. 89. In 1921 Alaska produced more copper than any of the states except Arizona and Michi- gan. The crude ore is shipped down the coast to smelters on Puget Sound. (d) How copper is mined. (e) How copper is extracted (smelted) from the ore. (f) Why the United States smelts great quantities of imported copper nre. D. The story of aluminum. 1. Let another committee study aluminum in the same way that copper was studied in Problem C. 7, / L Bal id wy { UNITED STATES PRODUCTION ANPPRP rivITE ITY Important Mining Regions Fic. 90. The circles on this map are proportionate to the amounts of copper smelted in 1921 in the districts indicated. Arizona, Michigan, Montana, and Utah were the leading states. Much of the copper is smelted near the mines. The United States supplies more than half the copper 11sed in the world.

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