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AS was briefly announced in NATURE of June 7 (p. 289), the Minister of Munitions has appointed a committee to prepare a scheme for the establishment of an Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau, to be located in London. This is obviously the first step towards carrying out the recommendation of the recent Imperial War Conference: “That it is desirable to establish in London an Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau, upon which should be represented Great Britain, the Dominions, India, and other parts of the Empire,” and no doubt both the recommendation of the War Conference and the later action of the Ministry of Munitions were powerfully influenced by the memorandum to this effect drawn up by the technical institutes that are most closely in touch with the exploitation of our mineral deposits and the utilisation of their products. The Ministry of Munitions cannot fairly be accused of undue haste, seeing that it is nearly a twelvemonth since the institutes directed attention to this important matter, which was commented on in the columns of NATURE of October 5, 1916; it is to be hoped that effect will be given promptly and energetically to the findings of the committee, although it is perhaps even more important that the scheme put forward shall be a thoroughly sound one and that it shall deal with every aspect of this very large subject.
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LOUIS, H. Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau. Nature 100, 25–26 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100025a0
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