Our mineral reserves

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Identifikator:: 867029366

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93011

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Smith, George Otis http://d-nb.info/gnd/117634530

Title:: Our mineral reserves

Place of publication:: Washington, DC

Publisher:: Gov. Print. Off.

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (48 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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MINERAL PRODUCTS. 21 The following statistics of zinc exports from the principal zinc- smelting countries of Europe have been taken from the official pub lications of the countries concerned and are given for 1912 because official figures for 1913 are not available for all the countries: Zinc exports in 19Í2 from Germana, Belgium, France, and Great Britain, in short tons. To- Canada Mexico Central America and West Indies South America Africa Australia and New Zealand. Asia, Japan, and East In dies From Germany. Slabs and sheets. 280 4,018 Galva nized iron. 4,370 1,758 6,128 From Belgium. Slabs and sheets. 2,903 2,115 202 4,807 9,288 2,547 5,950 Galva nized iron. 97 8,835 00 5,440 27,908 14,438 From France. Slabs and sheets. 5,280 15,328 8,502 29,110 Galva nized iron. 837 5,201 2,113 58,514 1,282 13,708 81,715 From Great Britain. Slabs and sheets. 4,152 4,017 Galva nized iron. 29,398 1,319 4,812 123,203 71,592 143,525 287,300 001,209 Total. Slabs and sheets. 4,190 2,115 202 10,457 28, 031 2,547 24,330 72,475 Galva nized iron. 29,398 2,150 10,170 138,581 130,100 144,807 308,272 703,550 The foregoing table shows a foreign market for over 72,000 tons of zinc, of which about 30,000 tons consists of spelter in slabs and the remainder of zinc sheets. The American zinc industry should stand an excellent chance to take over the trade in zinc slabs and such part of the trade in zinc sheets as American zinc-rolling mills can furnish. The trade in galvanized-iron sheets is dominated by Great Britain, which controls 87 per cent of the total export trade in that commodity with the four countries concerned. In addition to smelting over 65,000 tons of spelter in her own plants Great Britain in 1913 imported 150,000 tons, presumably used chiefly in making her enormous output of galvanized iron. It would seem that any expansion in Great Britain’s foreign trade either in spelter and zinc sheets or in galvanized iron would entail the importation of more spelter from the United States. This country therefore has the opportunity to furnish the major part of 222,000 tons of spelter a year as long as the war lasts, together with whatever part of the spelter for the galvanized-iron trade of the southern continents and Asia it can acquire. The first demands will naturally come from Great Britain, and according to reports they have already begun. With the end of the war, however, the continental smelters will begin to compete strongly for that trade. The southern continents and Asia are therefore more likely to become steady outlets for our zinc products, and by the time the war closes American zinc should have obtained a permanent foothold in those markets, sufficient to take care of the surplus smelter capacity of the United States.

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