Fiji Exports Iron Ore to Japan
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Fiji in early August began a new export—iron ore to Japan!
pIIVE hundred tons were loaded X into the Minsei Maru, at Lautoka Harbour, as the first shipment—-and there are many more loads available if Japan decides it likes this one.
The iron ore comes from a deposit at Momi, about 25-30 miles from Lautoka. It is owned by Mr Ram Kuver, but few people have known anything about it, for most of the publicity has been reserved for the export of manganese from that end of the island.
Handling the shipment are Banno
Bros., a Japanese firm with pre-war interests in the Pacific, who have in the last year or two returned to Fiji; and W. L. D. Harvie Ltd., a Lautoka firm.
The iron ore has been assayed at 62 per cent., which is high grade, and there is said to be 200,000 tons in the deposit.
Photograph above shows Mr. D.
Smith, of W. L. D. Harvie Ltd., watching a truck load up with the iron pre for transporting to the Mmsei Maru at Lautoka wharf.