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...practices like segregation at public facilities, lifting bans against mixed sports and recognizing some black trade unions. But even these tentative reforms have angered many whites and set off a spasm of soul searching over the future course of the country that provides so much chromium, manganese, platinum and vanadium, which are so valuable to the West. Says Journalist Tertius Myburgh: "It is no longer a question of whether Afrikanerdom will split politically. It has already split...
...financially dependent on Pretoria, which will also advise on BophuthaTswana's diplomatic and defense affairs. Nonetheless, the new homeland has a considerable economic potential: at present it accounts for two-thirds of the total platinum production in the Western world. It is also rich in asbestos, granite, vanadium, chromium and manganese. By 1979 the homeland should be receiving direct mining revenues of about $30 million a year. But only 10% of BophuthaTswana's total land area is arable, and much of that is covered with scrub brush...
Cautiously, Dr. Schroeder pointed out that he was not simplistically laying all the blame for high blood pressure and atherosclerosis on cadmium and chromium. Other exotic elements such as vanadium, zirconium and niobium, all "abundant in the human body," influence the level of fats in the blood...
Peace Profiteering. No industrial group has been more affected than metals. In short supply are nickel, molybdenum, vanadium and, most of all, copper. The Government has requisitioned 18% of the copper industry's production. In steel, high-priority Government orders have compelled Allegheny Ludlum to convert its special-metals subsidiary almost entirely to defense production and to delay deliveries of alloys to civilian customers in the transportation, construction, aircraft, electricity and even nuclear-energy fields. Instead of shutting down its Christy Park Works and laying off 500 workers, as it had announced last year, U.S. Steel Corp...
...Zambia and Chile, the world's three major copper-producing countries. At the same time, supplies of other nonferrous metals are tightening, and prices are rising. In the last 18 months, tin has gone from $1.22 to $1.75 per lb., tungsten from $1.40 to $2.03, vanadium from $2.45 to $3.40. Mercury is so short that badmen in the Southwest, aping the Atlanta copper capers, have in the last four months stolen an estimated $70,000 worth of mercury from unattended gas-well meters...