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output and export of iron ore. 253
Table 45. Siveden’s Export of Iron Ore.
Tear Total iron ore extracted in Sweden tons S w d e n’ s Expor t 0 f I ron 0 re to Total Export tons
Germany tons Great Britain tons Belgium tons France tons America tons Other countries1 tons
1906 .... 4 501656 2 941 245 204 161 18 341 26 400 30 471 039 3 661 216
1907 .... 4 478 917 2 838 561 446 635 112 153 26 252 11119 86 997 3 521 717
1908 .... 4 712 494 2 948 386 450 014 79 768 39 521 11140 125 439 3 654 268
1909 .... 3 885 046 2 546 321 407 855 89 062 24 898 121139 7178 31% 453
1910 .... 5 549 987 3 276 605 584 185 141 579 42 251 270 661 98 319 4 413 (tOO
1911 .... 6150 718 3 706 636 575 984 159 290 41422 262 591 340 975 5 086 898
1912 .... 6 699 226 4 217 958 621 881 211155 47 700 334 678 87 281 5 520 653
1913 .... 7 475 571 4 977 394 672 836 231 647 38 683 361 215 158 020 G 439 750
1 These figures include export to Norway and the Netherlands, to which countries ore is
exported only in transit, chiefly to Germany.
3 625 were underground workers and 2 151 surface workers. The output
per man was 633 tons of ore and concentrates. The working efficiency
of underground workers was 1 283 and of surface workers 2 946 tons of ore
and röck. This represents a considerable increase of efficiency per
workman.
The cause of this increase is principally the vigorous development of
the technique of boring machines during the last decennium.
The value of the iron ore produced in 1913 was 60 003 715 kronor,
corresponding to an average value of ore of 8-03 kronor per ton.
Sweden’s export of iron ore was in 1913 6 439 750 tons, corresponding
to 86-1 % of the output for the whole country in the said year. The bulk
of it was exported to Germany, besides which Great Britain, the United
States, Belgium, France and other countries are more or less big
customers for Swedish ore.
The Table 45 attempts to give the amount of the export of ore during
recent years.
The export of iron ore was down to 1886 conducted only on a small scale
— in the last-named year 19 288 tons were exported. In 1887, however, the
export from Grängesberg commenced and the figures for export leapt up into
100 000 to 180 000 tons. In 1892 ore began to be exported also from
Gällivare, which brought the export gradually up to over 1 700 000 tons (1 729 303
tons in 1901). After Kirunavara thanks to the completion of the railway to
Riksgränsen, had secured in 1902 an export route to Ofotenfjord, the export rose
at one blow with over a million tons (2 827 428 tons in 1903), and has since
then been rapidly augmenting. The appended diagrams serve to bring this
out, as well as the ratio between the export and the domestic consumption.
Other important export fields are Blötberget since 1901, Idkerberg since 1902,
Lekomberg since 1902, the Carlvagns mines in Norberg since the end of the
nineteenth century, and Stråssa since 1909.
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