IRON MOUNTAIN
— * IN WEST AFRICA TERRITORY SOURCE OF BRITISH SUPPLIES (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, March 27. A “magic mountain,” named Marmpa 52 miles inland from Freetown, Sierra Leone, has replaced Swedish mines as Britain’s main source of iron ore. The “Daily Express” recounts how a group of Scotchmen 10 years ago set out to investigate travellers’ tales about an iron mountain in a desolate part of Sierra Leone. The Scotchmen, overcoming difficulties, established machinery and now 36 truck trains bring down thousands of tons of«the ore to the seaport of Pepel, which has become for Britain’s industrial effort what Nar- Z vik is for Germany’s,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1943, Page 2
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106IRON MOUNTAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1943, Page 2
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