One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

354. ALUMINUM, THE NEW MINERAL.--“The product of aluminum in the United

States,” says a mining expert, “should be three million pounds in 1900.” The present price is from thirty-five to fifty cents per pound. It is found chiefly in Georgia and Alabama at the foot of the Appalachian system, but there is no known reason why it should not be discovered in other parts--the mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.