Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

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Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

116 Modern Business Geography ee ee UNITED STATES DEPOSITS OT IRON ORE Fie. 87. Iron ore is widely distributed in the United States. But ore alone is not enough to make mining a profitable business. There are several other requirements: (1) the ore must be easy to get out; (2) it must have a good percentage of metallic iron; (3) it must be so situated that it can be smelted at low cost, that is, either near supplies of fuel and limestone (used in smelt- ing) or near cheap transportation to such supplies. UNITED STATE. PRODUCTION IRON ORT Fig. 88. This map shows in a general way the regions of commercial production of iron ore in the United States: the lightest shades represent regions of small and scattered production ; the heaviest shades represent the regions of great and concentrated production. For example, Min- nesota produces more ore than any other state; Michigan comes second ; Alabama is third. The Great Lakes offer cheap water transportation for the Minnesota-Michigan ore to the large indus- trial cities near the Pennsylvania-Ohio and Indiana-Tllinois coal fields. Alabama has coal fields near the iron mines.

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