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Show Maine Now Looms as New Source for Minerals PORTLAND, MAINE. Deposits of inexhaustible mineral wealth soon may be tapped throughout this state to supply war Industries with essential essen-tial alloy products. According to geologists, some of the world's richest deposits of beryl and molybdenite, important sources of alloys for airplane construction, are to be found in Maine quarries. Previously undeveloped because of the high cost, old and new quarries may be opened to supplement the present national mineral supply. So valuable is one deposit of molybdenite in the .tluntic coastal town of Cherryfield that the German government tried to buy the town's Catherine Hill at the beginning of the last war. West of Augusta in Albany is the Bumpus quarry, where the world's largest beryl crystals were found a few years ago. Adjoining it are numerous other undeveloped beryl deposits. |