1225.    GORDON, W. R.  South African Coal Industry.  Canadian Min. Jour., vol. 70, No. 5, 1949, pp. 76-79.

        Summary of report of the Coal Commission and of annual report for the Fuel Research Board for 1947 and a review of the coal trade are presented.  Some discussion of proposed oil-from-coal plant now licensed to be erected at Vereeniging.  The Hydrocol process is to be employed.   One of the major improvements in this new plant is the use of “fluidized” Fe as the catalyst.  The plant will have a capacity of 76,000,000 gal. of liquid fuel per year, including 10,000,000 gal. of diesel oil.  The coals to be utilized are for the most part low-grade.  It has not yet been definitely ascertained whether or not such coals will be satisfactory for making synthesis gas by gasification to be converted into liquid fuel.

       GOSS, W. H.  See abs. 2176, 2177.