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encountered from the technical side, the measure in itself would have proved quite
The
amount of duty proposed was 5 rubles per pound, or 200 rubles (8103)
per pood, which of course can have no influence whatever on an article
the price ot which is 28,000 rubles (514,420) per pood (36.112 pounds).
PLATINUM IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
RUSSIA.
The platinum conditions in Eussia are also well summarized in an article in the Mining Journala
(London), by Mr. E. de Haupick, of the Imperial Russian Engineers. In
this article Mr. de Haupick gives the prices of crude platinum and of
platinum ingots, and the production of the last few years, as shown in
the following tables:
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COLOMBIA.
The
International Bureau of the American Republics has received so many
inquiries in regard to the deposits of platinum in Colombia and the
possibilities of that South American Republic as a future source for
the supply of this extremely rare and useful metal, that the Bureau has
been at especial pains to obtain the fullest, most recent, and most
accurate information available on the subject. Mr. Isaac A. Manning,
the United States consul at Cartagena, and Mr. P. P. Demers, the United
States consul at Barranquilla, the two principal seaports of Colombia,
have courteously forwarded to the Bureau exceedingly valuable data on
the platinum resources of the Republic. Their com-
"Min. Jour. (London), May 4, 1907.
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