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Marcona And Cryolite

Form Team To Explore

Greenland Iron Ore

Marcona Corporation, San Fran- cisco, Calif., and Kyrolitselskabet

Oresund A/S, commonly known as the Cryolite Company, of Copen- hagen, have signed a partnership agreement to explore, evaluate and possibly exploit a very large deposit of iron ore, located at Isua in Green- land, approximately 100 miles north- east of Godthab and at about the same distant south of the Arctic Cir- cle.

A portion of the ore deposit esti- mated to contain 500-million tons of iron ore has been selected as the basis for a feasibility study. If results of the study are favorable, it is envi- sioned that after being concentrated, the ore would be shipped to customers in both the Eastern United States and

Europe. The deposit lies within the boundaries of an exploration con- cession which is held by the Cryolite

Company, and it was located in 1965 by that company's group of prospec- tors.

Marcona, headquartered in San

Francisco, has a broad base of opera- tions in the exploration, mining, processing, shipping and marketing of iron ore and other mineral com- modities. The company, owned pri- marily by Cyprus Mines Corporation and Utah International Inc., also is the developer of the Marconaflo slur-

Quick Discharge of any Type of Cargo

With the Houttuin "Independent" Pump System for chemical tankers.

In tanker economy, the time taken in discharging plays an important part. Time spent tied up in Port is unproductive. The "Independent" pump system specially developed for chemical carriers by Houttuin-Pompen N.V., offers an ideal solution. Irrespective of the viscosity and density of the cargo and the back pressure generated at the jetty, the unload- ing capacity, and thus the discharging time, remains practically constant. The "Independent" system recently installed in the tankers "Jacobus Broere" and "Bastiaan Broere" owned by Gebr. Broere (Dordrecht, Holland) consists of booster pumps with independent drive mounted in the cargo tanks and a central main pump situated on the upperdeck. The booster pumps increase the efficiency of the main pump and in this way it is possible to handle products with high vapour pressures. All tanks are emptied to within a few litres irrespective of tank depth and flow resistance in pipework. It is a relatively economical system, its hydrau- lic drive allowing close control and ensuring high reliability. It offers maximum protection against the explosion hazard and toxic risk.

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HOUTTUIN - POMPEN N.V.-SOPHIALAAN 4 - UTRECHT-THE NETHERLANDS-TELEPHONE 44 1644-TELEX 4 72 80 ry handling system for bulk materials. "We are delighted to be involved with Cryolite in this unique and promising venture. Based on the out- come of technical and economic anal- yses, this could well become an im- portant new mineral development within the Atlantic basin," said

C.W. Robinson, president of Mar- cona.

Vincent Petersen, president of

Cryolite, said on the same occasion that he hoped that both the popula- tion of Greenland and the partnership would benefit from this project. He felt convinced that Marcona's exten- sive experience in this field of busi- nes would be a valuable contribution to an objective evaluation of the

Isua iron ore deposit.

J.W. Siebes To Head

Expanded Marine Div.

Of Sulzer Bros., Inc.

J.W. Siebes

J.W. Siebes has been elected vice president of Sulzer Bros., Inc., 19

Rector Street, New York, N.Y. 10006, and will be in charge of the newly expanded Marine Division.

For the past eight years Mr.

Siebes has been manager of the

Diesel Division, which handles sales and service of Sulzer engines and spare parts. That division has now been expanded to include gas turbines for marine applications, as well as controllable pitch propellers and bow thrusters from Sulzer's Escher Wyss subsidiary.

Ingalls Iron Works Co.

To Build Tank Barges

For DuPont/Twin City

Several barge contracts have been awarded Ingalls Iron Works Com- pany, Decatur, Ala. E.I. du Pont de

Nemours & Company, Wilmington,

Del., has placed an order for a 249- foot by 42-foot by 12^-foot tank barge, as well as one 200-foot by 35- foot by 12-foot independent tank barge. Twin City Barge and Towing

Co., St. Paul, Minn., has requested two tank barges measuring 299 feet by 54 feet by 14^2 feet each.

Neris Shipping Opens

Portland, Ore., Office

Neris Shipping Co. of New York

City has opened a West Coast office in Portland, Ore., located at 4506

S.E. Belmont Street. The company is general agent in the United States and Canada for United Enterprises and Shipping, Ltd., which provides monthly service from Malaysia, Sing- apore, Hong Kong and Taiwan to

West Coast and Eastern Gulf ports. 42 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News