Répertoire des administrateurs & commissaires de société, des banques, banquiers et agents de change de France et de Belgique

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Identifikator:: 1751319059

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-129553

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Title:: Répertoire des administrateurs & commissaires de société, des banques, banquiers et agents de change de France et de Belgique

Place of publication:: Paris [u.a.]

Year of publication:: [1926]

Scope:: 1316 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Liste de MM. les agents de change, banquiers et délégués fréquentant la Bourse d'Anvers

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10 OUR MINERAI. RESERVES. consideration is therefore pertinent to the present discussion. The country’s reserves of certain of these minerals are great enough to stimulate larger exports and the interference with the importation of others enforces the utilization of reserves as yet relatively un touched. Of a few other mineral products unfortunately the do mestic resources are inadequate, or at least undiscovered, and the problem they present is one of exploration and thorough investi gation. A glance at the statistics of mineral imports affords a means of comprehending in a broad way how great and complex is the task of attaining national independence in the mining, métallurgie, and chemical industries. Last year the imports of mineral products, both crude and manufactured, exceeded $270,000,000. Of this total probably $200,000.000 represents raw materials and crude metals, the value of these imports being only 8 per cent that of the domestic output. In this list of imports the larger items named in the order of value are unmanufactured copper, precious stones, nitrate of soda, copper ore and matte, nickel, tin, iron ore, pig iron and steel, petro leum products, manganese ores and alloys, platinum, aluminum, pyrite, graphite, stone, potash, and magnesite. In the discussion which follows it will be shown that this country has an abundant supply of most of these mineral products that are now imported in large amounts, and that as to them it can be independent of for eign countries. The only essential minerals of the first rank of which the United States has no known supply at all commensurate with its needs are nitrates, potash salts, tin, nickel, and platinum, the list thus comprising two essential mineral fertilizers and three very use ful metals. Probably no other nation in the world so nearly ap proaches absolute independence in respect to mineral resources. MINERAL FUELS. opportunity por export. In its reserves of mineral fuels, the United States holds an im pregnable position as a world power in industry and commerce. Our production of coal overtops that of any other nation and, in fact, nearly equals the combined output of Great Britain and Germany, the nations that rank second and third. Inasmuch as the United States leads the world not only in coal production, but also in low cost of coal mining, and apparently possesses the greatest reserves, it follows, as was pointed out by Campbell and Parker in 1908, that foreign countries will obviously look more and more to the United States for their supplies of coal. The lower cost of production in the United States, which is due largely to the favorable location of the coal beds and the extensive use of mining machines, is offset in Great Britain by the proximity of the coal mines to the seaboard. The wages paid in the United States are higher than in any country

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