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WE have received an interesting pamphlet from Tanganyika Territory entitled “Mining Publicity Pamphlet”, and issued by the Department of Land and Mines. It shows at the outset a useful map of the Territory, and after a short introduction there is full information for all prospective immigrants, including such points as the customs duties and the mining and prospecting laws which have been adopted. There is an account of the geology and physiography of the Territory, and economic minerals and mineral production are fully described. We find, for example, that the value of mineral production has increased largely and in many cases has doubled since 1932 when Great Britain went off the gold standard, with a correspondingly rapid rise in the price of the precious metal; in fact, the value of all minerals has increased since 1932 with the exception of mica, which is less than half in 1934 what it was in 1932; whilst the value of the minerals produced is put down as close on £200,000 in 1932, in 1934 they had risen to close upon £364,000. Gold mining is, of course, a great attraction at present, although the pamphlet states that “it is to be anticipated that the internal prosperity it [gold production] is creating will exert its beneficial influence on other forms of mining within the territory”. This is one of the few regions where the old-time prospector still finds work, and existing gold fields, containing both reef gold and alluvial gold, are fully described in the pamphlet in question. The pamphlet is of distinct use to immigrants proposing to enter Tanganyika Territory, and its perusal is strongly recommended to any who are proposing to go out, and especially perhaps to those intending to follow gold mining.
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Mining in Tanganyika Territory. Nature 136, 1022 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/1361022b0
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