Take the iron mines in East Africa, for example; East Africa's iron ore resources are quite abundant, with large iron mines existing from south to north and east to west. However, they are relatively lacking in coal.
Yet, despite the abundance of iron ore resources, the steel production in East Africa grows too quickly; just last year it reached over thirty million tons, equivalent to ten times that at the beginning of the century, thus East Africa has a huge consumption of iron ore and imports a lot of resources from India and the Middle East every year.
Therefore, Pasteur believes that if Western Australia also has iron mines, and of considerable scale, it might be worth some attention.
So he said to Howard, "I wonder if I could see the samples?"
Howard, being here for business, did not refuse since Pasteur showed interest.
