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That's also something she mentioned, but the katakana would therefore make it pre-war. Interestingly, it seems that mineral names are commonly written in katakana. So it may make more sense than I...

Yes, she is Japanese. To make it even more confusing, the "biki" part is written in katakana... used nowadays for words of foreign origin (it could be biki or viki). There is also the possibility...

The first two kanji together translates at "the world", the first one was hard to read as more than half of it is barely there (世). If there was another kanji in front, the current first could be the...

"The world big" then "biki"... my wife says it makes no sense :)