66
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.
