ANTARCTIC MINES
SIR D. MAWSON’S VIEW. NOTHING TO PREVENT WORKING. (Recd This Day, 10.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Sir Douglas Mawson, discounting Mr B. R. O’Brien’s statement, said that, provided reasonably rich mineral deposits were discovered in the Antarctic, there was nothing, to stop them from being profitably worked. He pointed out that coal mining was in active progress in Spitzbergen and the active mining had been conducted for nearly one hundred years iti Greenland.
Mr B. R. O’Brien, a member of Admiral Byrd’s second expedition to the Antarctic, expressed the opinion in Sydney that for various reasons any commercial exploitation of gold, coal or other minerals in the ice area was impossible. Mr O’Brien was referring to a proposal that the Federal Government should consult with the British and New Zealand Governments to see whether any purpose could be served by organising an expedition to the Antarctic.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1938, Page 8
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148ANTARCTIC MINES Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1938, Page 8
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