Show MAGNESIUM production LARGE metallic magnesium which is commonly used as a flash light in photography is used also in aerial bombs and rockets for lighting bittle battle fields at night burning magnesium makes a dense pure white cloud and it is put into shrapnel shells so that observers and gunners may know exactly where the shells are bursting it was a veritable cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night on the european battle fields magnesium is made by the norton laboratories inc at lockport ne new nv york the american magnesium corporation niagara falls new york and the rumford metal co rumford maine reports made by these three companies to the U united states geological survey show a production of 50 pounds of metallic magnesium in the first quarter of 1918 and pounds in the second quarter making a total of pounds in the first half of 1918 the total production in 1917 was pounds |