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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

are therefore not included in the tal3le above giving fish of British taking landed in the United Kingdom: —

—

1909

1910

1911

1912

£

£

£

£

Imports (fresh, cured or salted)

3,378,396

4,337,351

3,906,020

3,913,974

Exports of United Kingdom

produce (fresh, cured, salted)

4,746,405

5,243,547

6,427,120

6,725,883

Ditto (herrings only)

3,8S2,997

4,034,308

4,913,398

5,000,000'

Re-exports (flsh of foreign and

colonial origin)

994, 7Q5

1,190,916

1,223,342

1,150,0001

1 Partlj^ estimated.

III. Mining anl) Metals. General sunimary of the mineral i>roduce of the United Kingdom for 1911;

Minerals raised

Value at the

Metals con-

Value at

Metallic Minerals

Mines and

tained in the

the average



Quarries.

Ores.

market price.

Tons

£

Tons

£

Iron ore ....

15.519,424!

4,035,893

5,020,510

16,146,340

Iron pyrites

10,114!

4,237

—

—

Lead ore ....

23,910

219,314

17,990

254,259

Tin ore (dressed).

7,746 '

837,957

4,872

931,917

Copper ore ....

3,1.35 i

14,620

392

23,461

Copper precipitate

127 1

3,548

—

—

Zinc ore

17,652 '

82,690

6,098

153,593

Bog ore ....

2,700 1

540

—

—

Alum shale.

10,516 \

1,051

—

—

Bauxite ....

6,007 1

1.294

—

—

Manganese ore.

4,987 I

3,997

—

■--

Uranium ore

<37

_i

—

—

Wolfram ore

266;

24,629 2

Ounc<s

—

Gold ore ....

2,752

992

425

1,415

Silver

minerals

—

118,458

12,123

. 5,230,762

Value of chief metallic

Total value of metals fr

om British ore

.

.

17,523,108

1 Value not stated. - Value of 251 tons only.

Information is not supplied concerning aluminium and sodium.