Manganese-And A
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Red Face Department
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FTIHOSE people who, basing £ J. estimates upon the t published on page 119, OC PIM, have decided to get intr manganese mining business, s go into reverse immediately.
We stated that approxc export values per ton oflc manganese ore were; £121,, £lBO, £153, and £l3B for 19500 1952, 1953 and 1954, respective These figures are obviouslyy ridiculous and they shouldb £12.1, £16.3, £lB, £15.3 and £l3i ton for the respective years...
It was a matter of a mis--decimal noint. One of oun working out the average prir ton from a mass of figuresae government report, placed; point just one place too far right. It made a difference o £lOO per ton.
We apologise.
The mistake, of course, : amusing, and a serious vie T 9 been taken of it by the Editoic tries to have its facts about . products and commodity correct, knowing that these o important to the isolated reas the Islands.