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 MINING AND METALS

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1915, within 4,000 feet of the surface, at 197,000 million tons. Coal raised in the United Kingdom, and coal, coke, and patent fuel exported (the figures in the following tables, for the war period, exclude coal exported from GoTernment stores, etc.) : —

Bunker* for

abipt in

foreign trade'

Tear

Tons

Value

Tons

Value

S.

Tons

1013

287,430,473

M5,&85,ftM

76,688,446

53,659,660

21,031.550

1914

265,664,393

132,596,853

61,830,485

42,202,128

.,•16

1915

253, 206,081

157,830,670

45,770,344

13. >'.30,9«4

lyl6

256,348,351

200,014,626

ftt.lfi7.74fl

MV*Tt»MM

18,172

1917

248,499,240

207,786.891

37,800.701

51,341,487

1918

227,7;-

♦0,760

31,173,915

■,330

..476

1919

229,779,517

314,113,160

3S.466.593

'7,685

12.021.212

19M

•-•29,29o,000

—

2S. 862, 895

120,319.241

13.923.180

1 N r ot included in exports. Bunkers for ships in foreign and coastwise trade, and Admiralty shipments totalled 38} million tons in 1917 and 84 1 million tous in l'.*18.

In the year 1919 the coal available for home consumption, after deduct- ing the amount used in operating the coal mines, is estimated to have l»een 162, 000,000 tons, the principal uses being : — Railways, for lcomotiv.' j.ur- . 13,500,000 tons; gas works, 17,750,000 tons: electricity and water undertakings, 7,500,000 tons ; blast furnaces, 15,750,000 tons ; domestic (including coal supplied to miners), 42,500,000 tons ; all other purposes, 65,000,000 tons.

Exports of coal, 1920, from United Kingdom to countries named :—

Countries

France Italy. . 8weden. Gibraltar. Denmark Egypt • Norway. Belginm. Algeria. Malta £ Gozo

Weigh

Tons

11,691,000

2,905,000

1,372,000

1,134.000

1,040,000

985,000

801,000

671,000

511,000

421,000

Valna

£ 42,301.000 11,759,000 6,258,000 5,570,000 4,748,000 4,505,000 3,907,000 1.974,000 2,286,000 1,607.000

Countries

Canaries. Portugal Spam. . Portujueie W

Africa. Argentina HoDand. Brazil Uruguay Russia.

Weight

Value

Ton* £

3S2.000 1,931,000

301,000 1,287,000

290,000 1,351,000

281.000 274,000 239,00ft 158,000

117,000 93,000

1,395.000 1,139,000 924.00O 727,000 430,000 410,000

Export of coal, coke and manufactured fuel from the principal ports 1919:—

Ports

Cardiff. . Tyne Ports Newport. 8wansea Blyth. . Port Talbot Sunderland Methil. .

Value

Ports

Glassow

Hartlepool

Hull. .

Leith

London

Llanelly

Burntisland

Gran'-eraoutli

Tons

Value

£

6S4,000

1,729,900

548,000

1,553,000

490,000

1,301,0*0

459,000

l,618,0ft0

3f>2,000

1,060,000

S8C,ftM

667,000

244,000

889,000

234,000

791,000

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