OUTPUT OF COAL IN 1914

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2711, 4 March 1916, Page 3

OUTPUT OF COAL IN 1914

CONSIDERABLE DECLINE IN j QUANTITY. ) , - ) — ' A Home Office Eeport on Mines and Quarries _for the year 1914, issued re--1 contly .shows that the total value of minerals raised during the year in Britain amounted to £145,863,000, a deI lnio 3o ml as compared with 1 ini i output and value of coal in IJI4, as compared with 1913, were as 1 follows:— . Output. .Valu®. Tons. • £ I?} 3 287,430,473 145,535,669 iSW 265,664,393 132,698,853 Dee. in 1914 21,766,080 12,938,816 , The quantity of coal exported, exclusive coke, manufactured fuel, and of coal shipped for the use of steamers engaged in foreign trade, was 59,039,880 tons. France recoivedl over 12J million tons, Italy over 8i million tons, Germony over 5J million tons, Sweden over 4J million tons, Russia over 3 million tons, Denmark over 3 million tons, Spain nearly 3 million tons, the Argentine over 2 4-sth rw'Uion tons, Egypt over 21 million tons, Norway nearly 2}million tons, and the Netherlands nearly 1J million tons. Adding tho 3,418,394 tons exported in the form of coke and manufactured fuel <ind : tfie 18,535,616 tons shipped for the use of British and' foreign steamers engaged in foreign trade, tlio total quantity of coal which left the country was 80,993,890 tons, as against 98,338,10-1 tons in 1913 Tho amount of coal remaining . for homo consumption was 184,670,503 tons, or 3.977 tons per head of the popula-i tion. , During the 42 years 1873-1914 total value of the mineral raised amounted to. £3,664,980,074, and of this sum coal accounted for £3,083,191,238, or 84.1 per cent. In that period 8,206,243,000 tons of coal were raised, and of the amount 2,012,796,000 tons, or more than 24} per cent, of the total production.-were shipped abroad as exports in the form of coal coke, and manufactured fuel, and as coal used for steamers . engaged in foreign trado. • _ Of the metallic .minerals ,Taised in the United Kingdom,' iron ore is by far the most important. During 1914 the output of ores of this metal was 14,867,582 tons, valued at £3,921.683. Tho oro yielded 4.786,090 tons of iron, or more tlian half of tho total quantity of pig iron made in this couutrv. During the year 1914 47 tons of gold ore, vnlvirl nt £318, wore obtained from mines in Merionethshire. Tim ore contained 99 ozs. of bar gold, and the esli- ' mated eontcnts of the liar gold were 79 o/=. of fine geld and 17 ox.s. of silver. 111 j addition to this ouiMitity of line gold, , 800 itts. were contained in. topper ore, 1 making a total output of 970 oza, of fine - . I)