Strategic Minerals: Implications of Proposed Takeover of a Major British Mining Company
NSIAD-89-123
Published: Mar 03, 1989. Publicly Released: Mar 22, 1989.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the potential impact of the proposed takeover of a British mining and construction materials company with substantial assets in the United States, by a Luxembourg-based company controlled by South African interests, focusing on the takeover's effect on South Africa's portion of free-world production of gold, platinum, rutile and rutile substitutes, zircon, and monazite.
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