THE WORLD’S COAL

Grey River Argus, 27 July 1925, Page 2

THE WORLD’S COAL

Falling off in production

LAST YEAR. The United States geological survey estimates that the world’s total production of all coal in 1924 was approximately 1330 million metric tons, or nine millions less than in the preceding year. In the States there was a serious reduction in the production of bituminous coal and lignite from 311,791,872 to 438,420,009 tons, or roughly a drop of 13 per cent. In Great Britain the fall was from 280,430,369 to 273,453,000 metric tons, or about seven million tons. Less important decreases are reported in the output of Canada, Poland, Hungary, Russia, and Japan.

On the other hand, the Belgian pro duction continued its upward tendency

Prance put out seven million more tons, while the German product rose

from 62,224,535 to 118,829,000 metric tons, British India, New South Wales, and the Union of South Africa also showing advances on the year 1923. The lignite output of Germany was also higher.

The report says it is of interest tcnote the increase in the production in Prance. From a total or 41 million tons in 1913, the war brought, the output down to 22 million tons in 1919. Ah improvement then set in, and the 1924 total of nearly -15 million tons (including Lorraine) was more limn double that in 1919, and exceeded the pre-war level by jur million tons.