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682 IX. MINING INDUSTRY AND METAL PRODUCTION OF SWEDEN.
long ago lost this dominant position and this fact is dne to
circumstances which we shall treat more particularly in the following. As to
the standard of technics and the quality of production, Sweden still
stands among the foremost of the mining countries.
The Census of 1890 showed that at least 125,000 persons in our
country derived their support from mining industry and metal
production, and the Census of 1900 gives as the probable number the figure
175,000, hence a considerable increase.
The mining of ores and other minerals (except stone) has during
the last decades reached the figures shown by the following Table.
Table 95. Mining of Ores and Minerals in Sweden, in 187111902.
Metric tons à 2,204 lbs.
Ores and minerals. Average 1871/75. Average 1876/80. Average 1881/85. Average 1886/90. Average 1891/95. Average 1896/00. In 1902.
Iron................ 795,263 726,712 877,408 932,470 1,519,325 2,294,760 2,896,616
Gold................ — — 594 1,129 1,809 907 —
Silver and lead 10,949 11,002 14,045 14,764 16,552 8,644 9378
Copper........... 44,273 28,055 25,276 20,266 23,941 23,690 30,095
Nickel............ 5,026 2,802 1,289 495 97 — —
Zinc................ 80,539 40,712 45,779 288 53,402 48,315 57,701 48,783
Cobalt.............. 34 307 190 79 — —
Manganese........ 488 718 3,426 8,977 6,090 2,487 2,8601
Sulphur pyrites 2,123 1,144 1,481 1,319 853 448 — |
Coal................ 50,397 93,434 150,606 176,516 203,390 235,626 304,733
Fire clays 1...... 98,063 129,295 130,912 161,312
Clinker clays’... 24,765 35,541 65,024
Feldspars......... 16,814 17,960
Graphite.......... 100 -[
Total 131,092 904,880 1,120,192 1,307,381 1,974,311 2,807,336 | 3,530,751
At these mines 14,654 workmen were employed in 1902. The value
of production was estimated at about 20 million kronor (à 1* i o shilling
or 0*2 6 s dollar), and the income of mine-owners estimated for taxation
amounted to about 4-63 million kronor.
Regarding the production of metala, it is rather difficult to obtain
figures for the whole production, inasmuch as difficulty always arises
at the drawing of the line of demarcation between the industry for the
extraction of the metal and the manufacturing industry. According to
the reports of the Board of Trade and the division there followed, there
were in 1902, 16,096 workmen employed in the first branch, and the
assessed income amounted to 4 95 million kronor.
In the mining industry and the production of metals taken
together, there was thus employed, in 1902, a total number of 30,750
workmen, and the income of employers estimated for taxation amounted
to 9-58 million kronor.
1 No returns until 1888. The figure 98,063 is the average for 1888/90. — » No returns
until 1894. The figure 24,765 is the average for 1894 and 1895. — * No returns until 18».
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