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Show rain forest, where the rainfall is more than 18 feet per year. An American steel company has bought a major interest in the company which owns the ore, and has a purchase agreement which secures over half of the ore output for its own needs. New Iron Fields Tapped In Foreign Countries To Insure the free world of ample supplies of iron ore, American Ameri-can Industry has been tapping the resources of undeveloped areas In South American, Labrador, and Africa. Af-rica. As a result of this American initiative, shipments of the richest rich-est iron ore in the world arrived recently from mines in the Bomi hills of Liberia the republic founded foun-ded in the early 180O's as a haven for freed American slaves. The ore is nearly 69 per cent pure iron richer than even the ore from the Kirumavaara mines in the far north of Sweden, which formerly claimed to have ore with the highest high-est iron content on earth. Deposit Huge The richest deposit has been estimated esti-mated at 30,000,000 tons. In order or-der to develop it, engineers were obliged to build a railroad 38 miles from the coast city of Monrovia through an all but impenetrable |