. Canadian foundryman (1918). No better illustration of the potentiality of Canada can be offered than that of her mineralresources. While the glamour of enormous .wealth will always attract attention to goldand silver deposits, the attention of students of world progress is frequently more interestedin discovery and research savouring of alchemistic mystery. The substance which hasprompted this article is of the latter category. FROM time immemorial, the noblemetals have exercised a fascina-tion over mankind, the length ofthe spell being only equalled by thecompleteness with which it has in-f
. Canadian foundryman (1918). No better illustration of the potentiality of Canada can be offered than that of her mineralresources. While the glamour of enormous .wealth will always attract attention to goldand silver deposits, the attention of students of world progress is frequently more interestedin discovery and research savouring of alchemistic mystery. The substance which hasprompted this article is of the latter category. FROM time immemorial, the noblemetals have exercised a fascina-tion over mankind, the length ofthe spell being only equalled by thecompleteness with which it has in-fluenced national and individual actionsin all stages of the worlds history. In progress of time, however, theabsolute values of metals to mankindhave undergone more or less readjust-ment. Intrinsically and individually,gold, silver, etc., may be of more im-mediate monetary value, but in the in-dustrial or utilitarian sense, iron andsteel are much more indispensable tothe welfare of the human race than arethe previously named
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