BIG MINING CONGRESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 863, 6 January 1930, Page 10

BIG MINING CONGRESS

TOUR OF 7,000 MILES IN SOUTH AFRICA ITINERARY ARRANGED Prominent mining engineers metallurgists from all carts of British Empire have signllied thair i P tention of visiting South Africa f r „. March 24 to May 9 to attend the Thir(Triennial) Empire Mining and Mean'' lurgieal Congress. r>uring the time of the Congress e, visitors will tour the Union and xh two Rhodesias on an itinerary of »boir 7.000 miles. Tho Congress opens ». Capetown and. after visits to interes,' ing points on the Cape Peninsula, Us delegates will proceed to Kimberley, diamond mines, tho property of p. Beers’ Consolidated Mines. Limit,.' Johannesburg, the centre of the higg et , goldmining industry in the world, w, next be visited, and members of tb, Congress will have the opportunity of inspecting deep-level mining and ah, of viewing the operation of some of th. most up-to-date gold recovery plant, and the largest gold refinery. Tb platinum mines and industrial worts will be inspected. In Southern Rhodesia and In Northern Rhodesia, developments in tin lead, asbestos, coal, chrome and gold beside the now world-famous copp„ r deposits, will be available for inspee. tion. The great Zimbabwe Ruins and the huge Victoria Falls on the Zambes will be seen. In Natal and the Transvaal, coal mines and electric-power stations will be included in the tou: Wild game in the Sabie game reserve Transvaal, will be observed at clos. quarters, and a study of the scener. of Natal is included in the Itinerary. Technical sessions will be held t; various centres in South Africa, and papers dealing with the latest phaseof mining and metallurgy are to b» discussed. About 60 papers have been received already-