Our mineral reserves

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Identifikator:: 892769734

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-76808

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Maslov, Petr http://d-nb.info/gnd/123876184

Title:: Die Theorie der Volkswirtschaft

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Verlag von Arthur Kade

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 293 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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MINERAL PRODUCTS. 29 In the United States deposits of stibnite (antimony sulphide) near Gilliam, Ark. ; Battle Mountain, Lovelocks, and Austin, Nev. ; Burke and Kingston, Idaho; Tonasket, Okanogan County, Wash.; Granite- ville and San Emigdio Canyon, Cal.; Antimony, Utah; Red Bridge, Oreg. ; and other places are potentially productive in times of prices as high as those now prevailing. A greater benefit than the temporary operation of the mines would probably accrue to this country from the establishment of smelters which would import and smelt Chinese, South American, Canadian, and Mexican antimony ores. At present the only regular antimony smelting in this country is done by a smelter which is said to be a branch of an English smelter. ARSENIC. The consumption of white arsenic in the United States in 1913 amounted to about 7,200 tons, valued at $570,000, of which 2,513 tons, valued at $159,230, was produced in this country as a by product from copper and precious-metal smelters, and the remainder was imported largely from European countries. For the present imports of arsenic will probably be seriously diminished by the European war. The American smelters can save much more arsenic than they do now, for the cheapness of the product has prevented the saving of all that was practicable, and the war would seem to open the way for an increase in the American output. Works for the exclusive production of arsenic have been erected at only two places in the United States—Brinton, Va., and Mineral, Wash. It is difficult for such plants to produce arsenic to be sold in competition with the by-product of the smelters except in periods of high prices, such as may again prevail if the war and its indus trial disturbances are long continued. PLATINUM. The production of platinum from domestic sources in the United States in 1913 only amounted to 1,034 fine ounces. Of this, only 483 ounces was taken from placer mines in California and Oregon. As the estimated world’s production in 1913 amounted to 268,339 ounces, the United States output amounted to less than one-half of 1 per cent. Of the world’s output Russia contributed over 90 per cent and Colombia about 6 per cent. In addition to refined metal and manufactures of platinum valued at $3,065,489, the refiners in the United States recovered 39,154 fine ounces of platinum from im ported sands and ore. Much of this was probably used in the manu facture of jewelry. It is rather difficult to determine exactly what effect the war will have on the Russian mines. The output will undoubtedly decrease, but the European consumption of platinum

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