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If it's not gold they're seeking, it could be titanium, zirconium, rubidium, cesium, cerium, rhenium, molybdenum, platinum, or just plain tin and copper. Almost all the elements for which commercial use was developed during the war years have been found in Alaska. In the search for strategic and critical minerals, engineers sur- veyed Alaska's great mineral wealth on a wider scale than ever before. They went into unexplored regions to seek ores vital to the war effort, with the result that many... new projects were opened in the three-year period in which gold mining was suspended. Toward the approach of V-E Day, however, mining for "colors" was renewed under certain priorities; and on June 30, 1945, the ban on gold mining was lifted, too late for much progress until the following year. In 1944 and 1945, there was some activity in the tin fields on the Seward Peninsula, but production of this essential mineral was 190 MINING 9 1 not as great as demand seemed to warrant. Alaska is the only place on the North American continent where tin is mined in any quantity.
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