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Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party' [284r] (567/642)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 11 Apr 1949-13 Apr 1950. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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BRITISH EMBASSY,
BAGDAD.
8th April, 1949
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Dear Secretariat,
Your letter No.B.2720/1542/93 of the 11th
March about the strike of copper in Iraq,
Mr. Rees Williams, the Government geologist,
told us recently that he could not give us a copy of his
report on the strike without the permission of the
Director-General of Economics. We shall try to get this
permission.
Mr. Williams told us that working almost single-
handed over a wide area, he had discovered copper ore of
good quality in the Iraqi section of the mountain formation
which runs from Turkey south-eastwards along Iraq’s north
eastern frontier. The location of the deposits is roughly
along a line from Penjwin, in the south-east of the range
north-westwards to Choarta, Qal*eh Dizeh Rowanduz.
Some of the deposits contain as much as 40^
of copper. Williams thinks that it would he a paying
proposition to work it, hut that it would have to he
done scientifically and v/ith heavy financial hacking for
building a railway line and so on. He thinks that London
mining interests would he charry of investing at present
in mines so near the Russian hord.er. He has written to
friends in London about the discovery.
Other minerals he found were chrome iron, nickel and
manganese. He also mentioned indications of possible
uranium deposits. He is going north again this summer to
explore further. We had already given him catalogues of
geophysical equipment for detecting radio active minerals.
The Iraqi Treasury has voted his section
ID.20,000 only of which ID.10,000 has already been spent in
two diamond drills from America.
We will keep in touch with him and let you know
any developments. If we can obtain a copy of his report we
will send it to you.
Yours ever,
CHANCERY.
Middle East Secretariat,
Foreign Office,
LONDON, S.W.l.
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The file contains papers relating to the Working Party of the Middle East (Official) Committee. It mainly consists of Working Party papers received by the Commonwealth Relations Office, and a register of these papers with notes at the back of the file.
The file includes agendas for meetings of the Working Party. It also includes papers circulated to members of the Working Party for consideration at meetings, relating to the following subjects: economic and social development in the Middle East in general; the Iraq Central Development Board; the question of an International Bank Loan for Iraq; a visit to Bahrain in January/February 1949 by Matthew Thomas Audsley; the Persian [Iranian] Seven-Year Plan; employment of British experts in the Middle East; a survey of the oil resources of the Middle East; and economic factors in Middle East development.
In addition, the file includes papers relating to economic and social development of the following places: Iraq; Greater Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan ; Saudi Arabia; Cyrenaica, Tripolitania [Libya], Eritrea, and Somalia; the Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate; the Lebannon; Ethiopia; Sudan; and Yemen.
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- 1 file (320 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
Numbers in red pen on the top right hand corner of items in the file refer to entries in the register of papers received by the Commonwealth Relations Office at the back of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 320; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party'
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- front, front-i, 2r:289v, 291r:320v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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