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COXE’s TRAVELS IN RUSSIA. 895
At Catharinenburgh copper money to the value of 400,000l. is annually coined. The
crown receives a pood of this metal, upon an average, at 11. 2s. 6d.3 and iflues it when
ftruck at 31. 4s.
From thefe data government appears to gain annually from the mines, and dutics
on iron :
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Gain upon the copper coinage at Catharinenburgh - - - 257,025 Oo
44,c0o pounds of filver, and 1,200 of gold, the annual produce from the
mines of Kolyvan, when coined, yield - - one - 202104
16,320 pounds of filver, and 160 of gold, from the mines of Nerfhinfk 714194 8
Government iron works - : - - - - - 32,529 16
Duty on 4,558,718 poods of caft iron - - - - - 36,469 5,
679,982 13
The iron and copper are tranfported by means of the Kofva, Tchuffovaja, Bielaya,
and Kama, into the Volga: fome of the veffels defcend that river, to fupply with iron
the provinces fituated along its banks; but far the greater number are towed up the
ftream to Nifhnéi Novogorod, and Tver, and through the canal of Vifhné-Volofhok to-
Peterfburgh. The veflels, which fet out on the breaking of the froft in fpring, com-
monly perform this navigation before the end of autumn ; but fometimes are obliged:
to winter on their paflage.
DECEMBER I7I4.
The gold mine of Olonetz or Vogetfskoi, from which the richeft fpecimens for cabi-
nets have been obtained, has been relinquifhed, becaufe it did not defray the expence of
working, though the ore was rich in copper.
The gold mines of Catharinenburgh have remained nearly in the fame condition.
The mines of Kolyvan have been embarraffed by the new law, by which the peafants
working for their capitation at the mines, have had their pay doubled throughout the
empire, and liberty given to work only in winter. ‘The effect of this regulation at Ko-
lyvan, has deprived the foundries of near half the requifite quantity of charcoal; and
as the,neceflary workmen for the foundry have been partly employed in making char-
coal, the produce in filver has fince that period never reached eight hundred poods ;
and in 1784 did not yield five hundred. However, with an additional number of
hands, thefe mines might produce above one thonfand poods; for in that quarter feveral
mines have been difcovered ; among{t others that of Tcherepa Nofskoy, very rich in
gold, and the richeft in filver ever found in Siberia: alfo fome lead mines have been
opened in the neighbourhood, which are very promiting.
The copper coin of Kolyvan underwent confiderable alteration in 1782; the procefs
of extracting the precious metal from the copper has been greatly improved throughout
‘the empire, and the fum annually coined exceeds 390,000 roubles.
The filver mines of Nerfhinfk are in a flourifhing and even increafing condition, and.
theix annual produce fince 1781 has reached between four and fix hundred poods.
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