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(1902) [MARC] Author: Niels Christian Frederiksen
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30,000 tons, and of coke from under 4000 to over
5000 tons; while charcoal has continued at about the
same figure, 300,000 cubic metres; and wood-fuel
has only doubled in amount, rising from 333,000
to 666,000 cubic metres, and being now about the
same quantity as is used to produce the charcoal. In
Western Finland especially, a large quantity of English
coal is now used, and less charcoal; and this change
will continue with the progress of trade. There is now
a great abundance of excellent and highly appreciated
iron ore in Sweden, particularly in the new mine of
Gellivara, ore which is in great demand in Germany,
England, and even in France. The ore is, however, sent
untouched to these countries, because its treatment
takes the coke of two tons of coal to one ton of ore,
even such excellent ore as the Swedish. It is not
impossible that some ore may be treated at
intermediate places on the Swedish and Danish coasts of
the Sound, because, owing to the commercial relations
between the Baltic and England, and owing to the
heavy goods transported from the Baltic, coals cost
less in freight per ton to import than the untreated
ore costs to send out. In the same way, in the United
States at least one-fifth of the excellent ore on Lake
Superior is treated at intermediate stations along the
lakes, on Lake Michigan and at towns in Ohio and
other places; only four-fifths being treated in
Pennsylvania, where the coal is found. But there is this
great drawback to a wider use of iron ore from
Grängesberg in Central Sweden, whence there is a
large import into Finland, or to a possible larger
importation from the new mines in Northern Sweden;
that the ice in the sea hinders all maritime transport
during the winter, and it would be necessary to store
large quantities of ore for a long time. As regards

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