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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1955Vol. XXVI, No.3

Fiji’s Manganese

p. 121 · Read in the full issue

Exports Increase

GURES recently published in Fiji show a steady development of manganese mining, innages exported in each of the is 1950-54 and approximate ex values a ton, have been as fol i: 1950, 240 (£121); 1951, 631 3); 1952, 2,010 (£180) ; 1953, ! (£153); 1954, 5,707 (£138). gures show that in August, 209 ile took out prospecting rights. [ of them were issued to Indians have been making expeditions lome time in the hinterland of main islands of the Fiji group. )st mining applications have from Lautoka and the north ern district of Viti Levu.