§ Mr. Russellasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what were the findings of the expedition, which set out in 1952 to survey the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone, to discover whether uranium or thorium existed there.
§ Sir D. EcclesI have been asked to reply.
The survey was undertaken mainly to test the reliability of new prospecting equipment under difficult conditions; in this it proved successful. No significant amounts of uranium were discovered, but granites containing thorium were found in Sierra Leone.