Aps Get More Phosphate
p. 63 · Read in the full issue
From Angaur
JNDER a recent agreement be tween the American Trust Territory Administration, the eople of Angaur, Palau Islands, nd the Japanese-owned Phosphate lining Company, an additional 2,000 tons of phosphate has been lade available for export.
In 1951 it was reported that 600,000 ms of phosphate then remained n the parts of the island which le people had agreed to make vailable for exploitation. This was eing removed at the rate of 100,000 ms per annum by the 400 Japanese ibourers employed on Angaur. Cer
tain other unwanted lands have now been surveyed and made avail able. The Angaur islanders received 25 cents per ton for all phosphate exported from recommencement of operations after the War to 1951, but a new agreement under which a considerably higher royalty was
to be paid, was being negotiated that year.
Angaur is the only important source of high-grade phosphate in the North Pacific and is one of the Pacific’s four important sources of phosphate, the others being Nauru, Ocean Is. and Makatea.