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

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- a we. Modern Business Geography 90 /, F100 0 200 Ciaemleriens MILLIONS OF LOL. G:GOLD ; 0 .~l00°. 200 - Hebe MILLIONS OF DOLL. "U8 -SILVER THE WOR _ PRODUCTION Or OLD AND SILVE Fig. 92. In gold mining South Africa easily leads the world. The Transvaal produces more than three times as much gold as the United States (including Alaska), and almost seven times as much as Australia. Canada, Mexico, South America. India. Russia, and Japan together mine less than half as much as South Africa. In the production of silver, Mexico stands first, and the United States second. Within the United States, Utah leads in silver and California in gold; almost all the silver, as well as the gold, comes from west of the Great Plains. (Note that values, not quantities, are here represented. If quantities were represented and the gold bars remained as above, the bar for silver in Mexico would have to extend over the whole map.) THE WORL.. DUCTION OF T. © THOUSANDS OF METRIC TOI Fic. 93. Tin is the only one of the seven chief metals whose main centers of production are in southeastern Asia. The Malay Peninsula and the East Indies produce half the world’s supply. North America has no tin, and Europe has only a little in Great Britain and Spain. In Africa, Nigeria and South Africa produce small amounts, as does Australia. The entire South American supply (about a fourth of the world’s total) comes from Bolivia. In Asia. China and Siam to- gether produce about an eighth.

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