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 coöperation 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.