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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. ovember 26 194s Agreement between the United States of America and Brazil respecting . I. A. .180 a cooperative mineral resources survey programin Brazil. Effected by exchange of notes signed at Rio de JaneiroNovember 26, 1948; entered into force November 26, 1948. The American Ambassador to the BrazilianActing Ministerfor ForeignAffairs EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA No. 303 Rio de Janeiro, November 26, 1948. EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to refer to conversations which have taken place between representatives of the Government of the United States of America and representatives of the Government of the United States of Brazil regarding the desirability of continuing the cooperative program established in 1940 for the study of Brazilian mineral re- sources by means of geological investigations, prospecting, beneficia- tion tests and related projects and for the purpose of furthering scientific collaboration between geologists, engineers, and metallur- gists of the two countries in various projects relating to the mining economies of the two countries. It is my understanding that these conversations have resulted in agreement upon a program for the joint study of Brazilian mineral resources to be carried on by the Bureau of Mines and the Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior on behalf of the Govern- ment of the United States of America and by the Departamento Nacional da Producao Mineral do Ministerio da Agricultura on behalf of the Government of the United States of Brazil, in accordance with the following principles and procedures: 1. General Purposes- The Government of the United States of America, through the Bureau of Mines and the Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior, and the Government of the United States of Brazil, through the Departamento Nacional da Producao Mineral do Ministerio da Agricultura, agree: (a) To make appraisals of the mineral resources of Brazil by means of geological and mineralogical studies, with special em- phasis upon the principal minerals which form part of the trade between the United States of America and Brazil and upon those minerals, not yet produced in great quantity in Brazil, which may enter into such trade in the future. (b) To lay the scientific basis for the development of those resources, including the preparation of such geologic, topographic and other maps as may be necessary. 3636

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