Mr. JOHNSON. Not greatly. Senator MALONE. But the primary metal would. What is the purity of the 19,000 tons of primary metal? Mr. JOHNSON. That is in various forms. Some is metal and some is oxide. Senator MALONE. Off the record. (Discussion off the record.) Senator MALONE. The committee will stand in recess until 9:30 tomorrow morning. (Whereupon, at 4: 20 p. m., the committee recessed, to reconvene at 9:30a.m., Thursday, October 22, 1953.) STOCKPILE AND ACCESSIBILITY OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MATERIALS TO THE UNITED STATES IN TIME OF WAR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1953 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON MINERALS, MATERIALS, The subcommittee met, pursuant to recess, at 9:30 a. m., in the committee room, 224 Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C., Senator George W. Malone, Nevada, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Present: Senator George W. Malone, Nevada (chairman of the subcommittee). Present also: Jerome S. Adlerman, counsel to the subcommittee; George B. Holderer, committee engineer. Senator MALONE. The committee will be in order. Mr. Johnson, you were testifying the day before yesterday when it was necessary to revert to other testimony on account of accommodating out of town witnesses. Would you just proceed as if you had not been interrupted, if that is possible. STATEMENT OF C. H. JOHNSON, CHIEF, BASE METALS, BUREAU OF MINES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR-Resumed Mr. JOHNSON. I had said all I wished to on the subject of antimony. If you do not have further questions on that, Senator, I would like to submit a statement for the committee's use. Senator MALONE. This is really a text on antimony production and availability? Mr. JOHNSON. Yes, sir. Senator MALONE. Do you cover possible substitutes in this text? Mr. JOHNSON. Where it has seemed that would be an important element of the commodity situation, I have tried to do that. Senator MALONE. Have you also covered in the text our record of production in this country over a period of years and the imports from the Western Hemisphere and from offshore nations? Mr. JOHNSON. Yes, we have. It may not be a long enough record for your purposes, and if it is not, we would be very glad to add to it. Senator MALONE. Mr. Johnson, your organization, the Bureau of Mines in the Department of Interior, prepared three charts on antimony, no doubt under your direction. Mr. JOHNSON. The figures were furnished by us. 39888-53-pt. 1-9 125 Senator MALONE. And also the charts were prepared under your direction. They are listed as prepared by the United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines, with a note "Minerals, Materials, and Fuels Subcommittee, Interior and Insular Affairs Committee of the United States Senate." In other words, they are prepared for this committee. Mr. JOHNSON. Yes, sir. Senator MALONE. Would you care to submit those charts for the record? Mr. JOHNSON. That is certainly a worthwhile addition to the text statement, and I believe there are similar charts related to each of the commodities of which I will speak. Senator MALONE. I believe so. They have been under preparation for several months, because they are a very important contribution to the factual material being collected by the committee upon which our conclusions must be based. They will be a large factor in aiding the committee to formulate logical conclusions. No. 1 chart shows the domestic production from 1948 to 1952, inclusive, the imports from the nations of the Western Hemisphere, and other imports from other foreign nations and offshore areas. It is a bar chart showing also for the same period the annual consumption. They also have through a circle graph a showing of the division of the production, listing Mexico as 30 percent in 1947— these are our imports-Bolivia 10 percent, the Asian nations lumped together, 30 percent, Chile 25 percent, United States 25 percent. The same division, sources of material used, imported into the United States, 1952, shows United States production 13 percent, a notable decrease, as was testified here yesterday by one of the principal producers, Bolivia, 33 percent; Mexico, 20 percent, and Europe 27 percent. Chart No. 2 shows over the same period 1940-52 in thousands of short tons, the source of these materials graphically from North America, South America, and other nations. The third chart shows domestic production and imports of antimony by source areas 1949-52 for every nation in the world which was the source of such imports through those years, and the United States production. These charts will be attached to text and submitted to be included in the report at this point as a part of your testimony, Mr. Johnson. (The charts referred to are as follows:) |