Word: cobalt
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...even 7½? copper. Katanga's 1930 earnings were 270,208,000 Belgian francs ($7,511,000), only about 6,000,000 francs down from the peak earnings of 1929. Elements in Katanga's strength are: tremendously rich ores; cheap native labor; big production of cobalt and radium (over 82%, of world radium supply) on the side; and, most recent, the newly opened Benguela Railway, which connects Katanga with the Atlantic, saves hundreds of rail miles, thousands of sea miles for Katanga copper on its long journey to European markets...
...worked in the mills of the Slocan Star and the Athabaska, then got a good position in a mill at Ymir. But he had "miner's foot." He went to California. In 1907 he went to Labrador. For a while he ran the King Edward Mill at Cobalt, Ontario, then was off to the Porcupine District, then the Kirkland Lake District. In 1911 he went to the Rouyn District of Quebec and found some gold. Nine years later he staked the claims, financed by a syndicate of farmers. Experts refused...