For the first time, the United States government, Department of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, in reporting on the production and consumption of potash throughout the world, included Palestine as a factor in the production of potassium salts, the American Economic Committee for Palestine revealed.
The report, which is entitled “Potash,” 1931, listed Palestine as one of the countries that produces crude potassium salts. According to the report there were extracted from the waters of the Dead Sea in 1930, 6,000 metric tons of crude salt or 1,200 tons of potassium chloride. It is known that the 1931 production of potash in Palestine was greatly in excess of this amount.
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