Brighter Prospects For New Caledonia's Chrome
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New Caledonia's Chrome
From Our Own Correspondent.
NEW CALEDONIA hopes to sell at least 80,000 tons of chrome to the United States this year, and 21,000 tons were exported in the first five months.
Chrome exports in 1954 totalled 50,000 tons and in 1953 112,000 tons.
Cobalt extraction was abandoned in New Caledonia in 1914, but to-day two groups— one French and the other Canadian—are trying to nroduce cobalt on a paying basis.
The Mining Bureau is supporting pros pecting for manganese.
In fact, it can be said that New Caledonia is almost literally leaving no stone unturned in its mining expansion policy. t General de Gaulle’s famous appeal to Frenchmen from London after the disasters of 1940 was com memorated by a simple ceremony at Noumea on June 18. The Governor of New Caledonia (M. Rene Hoffherr) placed a wreath at the war memorial in the presence of Army and Navy officers and mem bers of the returned servicemen’s associations. As a post-war political figure, General de Gaulle has lost much of his glamour, but his words, “France has lost a battle but not the war,” are well remembered.