MINING PRODUCTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 March 1939, Page 7

MINING PRODUCTION

SOME IMPRESSIVE STATISTICS.

OTTAWA, Canada

If all the coal produced in Canada ir one-year were loaded into freight cart and these strung together the train would reach all the way from Montreal in the East to Vancouver on the Western Coast, a distance of nearly 3,000 miles. The structural materials —cement, lime, sand and gravel, stone — ir last year’s mining production in Can ada, would fill two strings of cars reaching from Montreal to Vancouver anr a train carrying the other non-metallic; —asbestos, gypsum, quartz, salt, sulphur—would reach from Montreal to Halifax on the Atlantic Coast, a distance of over 800 miles. If Canada’s 1937 copper production were cast in a block the width and height of a railway freight car the block would be nearly three miles long. A similar block of lead would be nearly two miles long and one of the zinc production wotilci be nearly two and a half miles long. The year's silver production would form a slab r foot thick, 10 feet wide and nearly 240 feet long. The year’s gold would make a block a foot thick, 10 feet wide and almost 24 feet long,