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Show FUTURE MINING operations on the moon may have caught the public's pub-lic's fancy but it is the ocean that will yield the greater value, according to a report at the International Mineral Processing Congress in New York City. It is predicted that such minerals as manganese and cobalt will be mined from the sea. Processing plants located 50 to 200 feet under water would suck up ocean bottom mud containing metallic nodules. wy IN A YEAR the average American Vp-H will eat two pounds more margar- L- inethan butter, reports Votator, "t j II Louisville, and the total amount : -V.. j ? of margarine eaten in the U.S. " ' J I each year would circle the earth A POLISH DUCAT, minted in 1621 six times in a belt of one-pound and weighing a half-pound, is one packages. Improved processing is I of the largest and rarest coins, the principal reckon for the in- U A private collector recently paid creased consumption. Li $9,240 for the 234-inch gold coin. |