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836 x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
Lomma Cement-Factory.
gray-stone, occurs in almost all parts of the country, but the chief
granite quarries are in Bohuslän, Halland, Skåne, Blekinge, Småland,
Östergötland, and Uppland. Besides granite the following are also
quarried: porphyry, marble, limestone, sandstone, potstone, felspar, and
schist.
Porphyry from Dalarne (Elfdalen and Orsa), marble from
Kolmården, and potstone from Jemtland, are chiefly used for decorative
articles, such as urns, etc., limestone and sandstone in large quantities
for buildings, the latter also for mill-stones and grindstones, felspar for
china-ware, and sohist for roof-slating.
The chief Läns for the stone industry are those of Göteborg och
Bohus and Blekinge, the production amounting to 52 % of the total for
the country; next come Stockholm city and Län, the Malmöhus,
Hal-land, Örebro, Kalmar, and Kristianstad Läns. In 1900, there were 228
quarries and stone-works, with 11,697 workmen and a value of production
of 11,063,000 kronor; an examination of the figures for exports below
will, however, show that the last mentioned figure is too low. In the
same year, there were 22 felspar-quarries, yielding a total of 15,228 tons
of felspar, valued at 186,000 kronor (cf. Table 95, page 682).
Swedish granite has found a market abroad, where it has been
employed for street-paving material and, the finer qualities, for the
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