More Copper
p. 130 · Read in the full issue
In P-Ng
Kennecott Explorations (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., which has been search ing for minerals in Western Papua for 12 months, is reported to have located a very big deposit of low-grade copper, in the Nomad area near the West Irian border.
A Sydney spokesman for the firm—one of the US’s biggest copper producers—wouldn’t con firm a big find, but he said, “something interesting” had been turned up.
If the Western District does turn out to be rich in copper it would mean prosperity for the backward people of the district, which so far has missed out on economic progress.