BRITAIN'S GOAL YIELD IN FORTY-SIX YEARS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17902, 6 April 1920, Page 9

BRITAIN'S GOAL YIELD IN FORTY-SIX YEARS

THE M 8 OUTPUT AND EXPORT. A report by the Chief Inspector of Mine*, issued by lie Home Office, states that the production of coal in Great Britain during tne period of 46 yeara, 1873-1918, amounted to 9,192,072,000 tone. Of this total, 2,219,868,000 tons—or more than 24.1 per cent.—were shipped abroad as exports in the form of coal, coke, and marrafaotured fuel, and as coal used for steamers engaged in foreign trade. The percentage in 1918 waa 19.1. ■ . , . In 1918 the total value of the> minerals raised amounted to £257,079,792, an increase of £33,145, 803 as compared with 1917. The total output of coal was 227,748,654 tons, and the value £238,240,760—a decrease in output of 20,750,586 tons and an increase in value of £30,453,866 on the figures of the previous year. The average price of coal tor 1918 was 20a H.o6d per ton, and 1917 16a 8.68 d per ton. , The quantity of coal exported, exclusive of coke and marrafaotured fuel and of coal shipped for the use of steamers engaged in foreign trade, was 31,752,904 tons. France received over 16£ million tons, Italy over 4 millions, Egypt ncaziy 1J million, Gibraltar over li million, Norway over li million, Malta nearly \\ million,' and Sweden and Denmark each over 1 million tons. Adding the 2,881,116 tone exported in the form of coke and manufactured fuel, and the 8,756,476 tons shipped for the use of British and foreign steamers engaged in foreign trade, the total quantity of coal which left the country was 43,390,496 tons, a* against 48,728,461 tons in 1917, The amount of coal remaining for home consumption waa 184,358,158 tons, or 4.385 tons per head of the population.