GERMANY’S MINERAL SUPPLIES.
A German professor recently discussed his country’s post-war metal and mineral requirements and supplies. He divided the list into three categories. First he took those which Germany lacks entirely, including tin, nickel, chrome, wolfram, molybdenum, vanadium, and quicksilver. The second covered those of which her internal supplies were deficient, including iron, copper, lead, zinc, manganese, graphite, sulphur, and phosphorus. The third of which her supplies were ample, only included coal, potash* and aluminium. France, by the annexation of Lorraine, would become the richest in iron of any country in Europe, and must export to Germany. Germany would lose her monopoly in potash wifh Alsace, but would still have sufficient. But if Upper Silesia went to Poland and the Saar district to France her coal supplies would be seriously endangered. Aluminium could extensively take the place of copper, and they could extract oils from lignite. But the loss of the foreign contracts is also a great blow to Germany.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2008, 29 July 1919, Page 1
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161GERMANY’S MINERAL SUPPLIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2008, 29 July 1919, Page 1
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