Chapter XXXVI: Conclusion

In the foregoing discussion it is not our purpose to argue for any specific national or international plan or procedure, but rather to show something of the nature of the problem,--and particularly to show that intelligent and broadened self-interest requires a definite national policy in regard to world mineral questions. Realization of this fact is a long step toward the solution of the international problems. No geologist, engineer, or business man is safe, in the normal conduct of his affairs, without some attention to these matters.

It is our purpose further to bring home the fact that international cooperation in the mineral field is not merely an academic possibility, but that in many important ways it is actually in existence. The terms of the Peace Treaty alone have far-reaching consequences to the explorer or mining man in all parts of the world. The modifications of these terms, which are inevitable in the future, will not be of less consequence. It is necessary not only to know what these are, but to aid in their intelligent formulation.

LITERATURE

A vast new literature on the subject of international mineral relations has sprung into existence during and following the war, and anyone may easily familiarize himself with the essentials of the situation. Some of the international features are noted in the discussion of mineral resources in this book. For fuller discussion, the reader is especially referred to the following sources:

The reports of the United States Geological Survey. Note especially _World Atlas of Commercial Geology_, 1921.

The reports of the United States Bureau of Mines.

_Political and commercial geology_, edited by J. E. Spurr, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1920.

_Strategy of minerals_, edited by George Otis Smith, D. Appleton and Co., New York, 1919.

_Coal, iron and war_, by E. C. Eckel, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1920.

_The iron and associated industries of Lorraine, the Sarre district, Luxemburg, and Belgium_, by Alfred H. Brooks and Morris F. LaCroix, Bull. 703 U. S. Geological Survey, 1920.

_The Lorraine iron field and the war_, by Alfred H. Brooks, Eng. and Min. Journ., vol. 109, 1920, pp. 1065-1069.

Munitions Resources Commission of Canada, final report, 1920.

FOOTNOTES:

[58] Umpleby, Joseph B., _Strategy of minerals--The position of the United States among the nations_: D. Appleton and Co., New York, 1919, p. 286.

[59] Control is here used in a very general sense to cover activities ranging from regulation to management and ownership. The context will indicate in most cases that the word is used in the sense of regulation when referring to governmental relationships.