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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