THE WORLD'S COAL RESERVES
Tho arrival of 100,000 tons of coal from China at Newcastle is a Toininder that experts estimate the coal reserves of that 1-ttle-cxploitcd country at approximately 12 per cent, of the worlj'a total, and four times as much ns still remains to 'bo mined in the British Isles (says the "Westminster Gazetto"). The richest country in the world from the point view of its coal rcsorvos is the United States, which'has, according ,to -tho estimate of the United States Geological Survey rather more than half the world's total 4,205.000,000,000 tons, out of 8151000,000,000 tons. Beforo tho war Germany's 406,000.000.000 tons represented !>i per cent, of the European total, and France's 1MA0.000.000 tons only 2 per cent : but the Peace Treaty lias reduced tho German coalfields to little moro than 300 000 000,000 tons, and increased those of France to 180,000,000,000 tons.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 61, 6 December 1920, Page 6
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145THE WORLD'S COAL RESERVES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 61, 6 December 1920, Page 6
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