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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...Value The estimated area of the Belgian coaUBcrdi is 532 square miles (-81. Numbers in ltOT Other Mines Total 8.480 8.290 116.350 133.120 So-74c 183.800 16.300 149.430 6/Jto 3840 3.010 44.310 7.000 58.640 308.060 There were also employed in 1907 at quarries 13,410 persons under-ground and 119,630 persons above-ground, a total of 133.040 persons 281. s c The values and quantities of the chief minerals produced in 1906 and 1907 are given as follows 281: --In 1906 11,500 tons of lead and silver ore were also produced, valued at. 114,000; 53,000 tons of zinc ore, valued at 281,000; and 91,000 tons of peat, valued at 48,000. In 1907 the production of these minerals was 18,000 tons of lead and silver ore, valued at 145,000; 44,000 tons of rinc ore, valued at 200,000; and 89,000 tons of peat, valued at 47,000 2S1. Comparative statistics for 1896 are given as follows 1: --The quantities and values of the chief minerals, &c, produced in 1907 in the Empire, and in Prussia alone, were as follows 281: --(Mark converted at rate of 20= i.) Saxony produced in 1907 2,440,000 tons of brown coal, valued at, 340,000, and 4,800,000 tons of coal, valued at 3,133,000. The total value of all minerals produced in Saxony in 1907 was 3,560,000. The number of j ersons employed at mines was 31.460, including 370 females. Of these, 24,880, including 250 females, were employed at coal mines 281. Alsace-Lorraine contributed 13,870,000 tons of the empire's production of iron ore in 1907, valued at 2.205.000 281. The empire's production of coal in 1908 was about 145,100,000 tons, valued at 76,090,000; lignite, 66,400,000 tons, valued at 9,050,000; and iron ore, 24,000,000 tons, valued at...
