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Show J African Copper Center i Development of the new copper dls- . - -trict in northern Rhodesia, British South Africa is revealing Indications of a most Important field. Five mines already are being operated and It is believed that they alone have a potential po-tential production of 400.000 tons of copper a year. It Is expected that approximately ap-proximately $00,000,000 will be spent in the next three or four years for power plant, metallurgical and mining equipment. American raining engineers engi-neers are In charge of practically every Important mine In the district, and the new industry Is being organized organ-ized on the white-labor basis. Be-ause Be-ause of the scarcity of native workers, work-ers, highly mechanized operations -eat will be used. |