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Mr. Christy. That was in a letter that was attached to this map. I 

 don't know if I brought a copy of that with me from the Treasury 

 Department. 



Mr. Fascell. You could supply that later. Mr, Danzig, if you could 

 get us that article that you mentioned, we would appreciate having it 

 for our record. 



Mr. Danzig. I will be happy to supply the committee with both 

 articles. 



(Mr. Danzig subsequently provided the subcommittee with the fol- 

 lowing articles and related editorials :) 



[From the New York Times, Aug. 6, 1967] 



Rich Mineral Lode Found in Red Sea 



(By John Nobel Wilford) 



Woods Hole, Mass., Aug. 3. — A treasure of minerals, said to be the richest con- 

 centration of underwater ores ever found, has been discovered on the bottom of 

 the Red Sea. 



The value of the gold, silver, zinc and copper in one area alone is conservatively 

 estimated at $1..5-billion — a lode considered far greater than all the precious metal 

 ore mined in the rich Ceur d'Alene region in Idaho since the eighteen-seventies. 

 The estimates do not include the vast amounts of iron and manganese. 



The discovery was made late last year by scientists from the Woods Hole 

 (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution and is just now being reported in scientific 

 circles. 



Other such concentrated ore deposits are believed to exist under the oceans. 

 Woods Hole oceanographers said today. They probably occur, as do the Red Sea 

 deposits, along cracks that appear in the earth's crust like seams in a tennis ball. 

 At these points, called rift valleys, heat and gases from the earth's interior are 

 believed sometimes to boil to the surface. 



The deposits were found at depths of about 7,000 feet in the Red Sea, about 

 midway between the Arabian peninsula and the Sudan on the African continent. 

 The nearest port is Jidda, which serves the sacred Moslem city of Mecca in Saudi 

 Arabia. 



Since the deposits are in a deep submarine valley ofE the continental shelves 

 of both Africa and Arabia, it is not clear under whose jurisdiction they would 

 fall. 



SAMPLES FBOM BOTTOM 



The rich lode was identified from samples cored out of the bottom ooze by a 

 team of scientists on board the Woods Hole research ship Chain. The ship, whose 

 mission was supported by the National Science Foundation, spent .six weeks last 

 fall in the Red Sea. 



"Man probably has never seen a more colorful sedimentary product emerge 

 from the depths of the sea," reported Dr. E. T. Degens and Dr. D. A. Ross, Woods 

 Hole geologists, in the current issue of the institution's journal Oceanus. "The 

 color variation is fantastic ; all shades of white, black, red, green, blue or yellow 

 can be observed." 



W^oods Hole launched the expedition in an effort to niiswer que.^tions that 

 had been puzzling oceanographers for nearly a decade. What caused the basins 

 of unusually hot and briny water in the Red Sea? What did they contain? 



On previous expeditions, by British, German, Swedish and American oceanog- 

 raphers, three such basins on the sea floor had been pinpointed but not thor- 

 oughly investigated. 



The largest of these "hot deeps," eight miles long and four mile.s wide, held 

 pools of water about 6.50 feet deep with temperatures as high as 133 degrees 

 Fahrenheit. Ordinary Red Sea water is a relatively cool C8 degrees. Water in 

 the "deeps" is 10 times saltier than other sea water. 



Scientists on the Chain concentrated on the largest "deep." They took its 

 temperature, made electronic soundings of the bottom and took about 70 core 

 samples. The residue from the dried ooze was about 90 per cent heavy metal 

 oxides and sulphides, the most abundant of which were iron, mangane.se, zinc 

 and copper. 



