MINERAL PRODUCTION

The United Kingdom produced in 1927 iron amounting to 7,290,000 long tons and 9,086,000 long tons of steel. Germany produced in the same year 13,102,000 metric tons of iron and 6,305,000 metric tons of steel. The French production in metric tons was 9,293,000 of iron and 8,275,000 of steel. Germany has lost important mining districts temporarily or permanently as a result of the Great War. (The long ton is 2,240 pounds, the metric ton about 2,204).

The production of petroleum, 1927, amounted in all Russia to 72,400,000 barrels; in Roumania to 26,000,000, and in Poland to 5,800,000.

The production of coal in the United Kingdom, 1927, amounted to 255,000,000 long tons. In 1926, on account of a serious strike, it was only 127,000,000. It was 278,000,000 long tons in 1923. The production of coal in Germany, 1927, was 153,600,000 metric tons. France mined 52,487,000 metric tons of coal in 1927.

Austria produced in 1927 3,253,000 metric tons of coal, mostly lignite. The product of pig iron was 330,000 metric tons; of steel ingots, 474,000 tons; and of rolling mill products, 352,000 tons; all in 1926.

Belgium mined in 1927 coal amounting to 27,600,000 metric tons. Production of pig iron was 3,750,000 metric tons and of steel 3,700,000.

Bulgaria produced in 1927 a total of 1,237,650 tons of coal; 24,000 tons of copper; and 4,000 tons of lead.

Czecho-Slovakia mined in 1927 anthracite coal weighing 14,600,000 metric tons and bituminous and lignite weighing 20,028,000. It produced 1,174,000 metric tons of iron ore.

Greece produced in 1926 iron amounting to 126,000 metric tons; chromite, 20,000; iron pyrites, 80,000; magnesite, 123,000; zinc, 35,000; crude zinc, 10,000; salt, 90,000; and lignite coal, 153,000.

Italy (1927) produced 467,000 metric tons of pig iron; 1,530,000 of steel; 338,000 of sulphur ore; 179,000 of zinc; 52,000 of lead; 2,000 of mercury or quicksilver; and 90,000 of bauxite.

In 1927, Luxemburg produced 7,244,000 metric tons of iron and 2,470,000 metric tons of steel.

Over 9,000,000 metric tons of coal were mined in the Netherlands in 1927.

In 1926, Poland produced 327,000 tons of iron ore; 27,000 tons of purified lead; 124,000 tons of zinc; 788,000 tons of steel; 208,000 tons of potash; 35,747,000 tons of coal.

In 1926, Roumania produced over 3,000,000 metric tons of coal, mostly lignite; 63,000 tons of pig iron; and 344,000 tons of salt.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1927 produced 30,950,000 metric tons of coal; 2,963,000 of pig iron; 3,586,000 of steel, and 100,000 troy ounces of platinum. There are many great undeveloped mineral resources in Russia.

Spain in 1926 produced 6,641,000 metric tons of coal; 1,100,000 of iron and steel; 201,000 of zinc; 149,000 of lead; 48,000 of copper; and 30,000 of mercury ore.

Sweden in 1927 produced 10,726,000 metric tons of iron ore; about 450,000 tons of coal; and 65,000 tons of sulphur pyrites.