COAL AND MINERALS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 172, 15 April 1919, Page 7

COAL AND MINERALS

HOW BRITAIN SERVED THE ALLIES , The general report on ...Jpnes and . Quarries for 1917, issued as ' a White . l'aper, shows that the: total value of tha minerals raised in the "United-Kingdom, was JC223,963,980, an increase of -4:9,929,-162 as compared with the previous-year. Tha total output of coal .wa5.248,i99j210 tons* and the value «£207,758-,b94;- showing » ■ decrease in the output of 7,876,128 tons, ; and an increase in the'value of .£7,772,268 ■ on the figures for 1910. The average price of coal was 16s. S.GSd. pe.r ton in 1917, as compared with 15. 7.24 d. in tlm previous year. v Exclusive of coke and manufactured fuel and of coal shipped steamers engaged in foreign trade, 34,995,787 tons or .. coal were exported. France received over 174 million tons, Italy over -1 million tons, Malta nearly 1J million tons, Egypt over 1J million tons,, Gibraltar nearly 1} million tons, Russia,- over one million. ton", and Norirav over cue million tons. Adding the 3,501,722. Jons exported in tho : form of coke and manufactured fuel, and the 10.227,952 tons shipped for British and foreign steamers engaged in foreign trade, 48,723, Ml tons left the. country as against : 35.001,113 tons in 1910. The amount; remaining for home con* . sumption' was 199,770,7 ft tons, .or 4.72.1 : tons per head of the population. There wiv- a total number of 1,085,4/1 persons ordinarily employed at mines and quarries in the United .Kingdom, and tlm Isle of Man during 1917, a nef increase of 19,757 on the previous year. Out of t 217,554 persons working above ground 11,297 were females. There were 1-fO.H separate fatal accidents in and about mines and quarries, causing the loss of 1 1451 lives, an increase of 57 fatalities as ■ as compared with 1910. The report states that the year under review was happily marked by the absence of any great disaster.