duction
in Colombia, for at those prices the native labor will be content to
remain in the platinum country instead of returning to the gold region,
in which they prefer to live. No word has yet reached the Survey of any
large undertakings in this promising field, though it is reported that
a new company has been organized in England for working the Opogoda
properties and that the old Certigue or Quito properties on the Upper
Atrato are being refinanced.
RUSSIA.
Little
can be said of the Russian platinum fields. Engineers returning from
Russia repoit that none of the dredges are working and that it will
take some time to put them in shape for operation. The platinum now
produced is won by hand methods, and under the chaotic conditions that
have prevailed in Russia not much platmum can be expected from that country for some time.
