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Show New Ore Fields Alaska this year will produce between be-tween 50 and 60 tons of tin, and government gov-ernment geologists are reported to have found new fields of the ore in Arctic Alaska, Jack Underwood, manager of the Washington, D. C, bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, announced recently. The known fields are being surveyed thoroughly and if the deposits are extensive enough a tin smelter may be erected in the Puget sound country. coun-try. Underwood reports that a big force of government geologists is making a complete survey of Alaska's Alas-ka's strategic mineral resources, with the hope also of finding chrome, which now comes from West Africa, and manganese, imported im-ported largely from Russia and Brazil. Bra-zil. He declared that some chrome is being mined in the Cook's Inlet district and that quicksilver has been discovered in the Kuskokwim River area. |