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Silver: Production and Availability : hearings before the United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Mines and Mining, Eighty-Ninth Congress, first session, on June 7-9, 1965.

Committee Serial No. 5. Examines reasons for disparity between amount of silver mined and smelted and the amount available for use.

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Corporate Authors:	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mines and Mining, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1965.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Hearings.
Subjects:	Silver > United States > Standards of fineness. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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