salt mine. The value of these is altogether 3 milliard dinars. They are now to be 
commercialised. 
The branch of mining which is being carried on most energetically is that 
of coal (stone, brown and lignite). This brings in an estimated national income 
of 584,000.000 dinars, which is more than two thirds, 69,2%, of the whole mining 
income. Copper takes the second place. The nation’s income from the mines and 
smelting works amounts to 125 million dinars, or 14,89, of the total, while all 
other kinds of mineral production give an income of 135 million or 16%. Between 
1923 and 1925 only 237.961 tons of iron ore were obtained, and 14.323 tons of pig 
iron smelted, or only a little over 1 kilogram per inhabitant, whereas Germany, 
even after losing Alsace, Lorraine and Silesia had an output of 88 kilograms per 
head. From iron ore, including its manufacture into pig iron, there is an income of 
only 23.378.500 dinars. This shows how little this kind of industry has been deve- 
loped here. In 1925, 147.000 tons of various metals and metal products, as well as 
29.756 tons of machinery were imported into the country. On the other hand there 
are such rich deposits of iron ore that they could both supply the entire present 
needs of the country and even meet a considerable increase. 
The official statistics give the mineral ouput in the last three years as follows: 
Mineral devin Psi sverngy value output 
1. Output of Mines. 
148.785 
3,030.435 
966.470 
273.961 
147.489 
66.633 
567 
4.857 
41.365 
12.160 
30.376 
947 
2.233 
286 
9. RRR .NKT 
1. Stone coal .......... 
2. Brown ............ 
3. Lignite........ 
4 Iron ore ...... 
5. Copper ore .... 
6. Lead ore .... 
1. Zinc ore  ..... 
3. Manganese ore .. 
9. Bauxite ore ... 
10. Chrome ore..... . 
"1. Pyrite ore ...... 
-2. Antimony ore ........... 
13. Marble ooo on -o 
.4, Asphalt stone............ 
15. Salt water (hectolitres) ............... 
11. Output of smelting works and salt mines. 
1. Iron ........... 14.323 
2. Copper .......... 7.413 
3.Zinc ooo en 2.102 
4 Lead.................. 10.568 
5. Antimony .......oo.oocooiieiiaiiinnn 97 
6. Salt a) evaporated ........ 48.448 
h brine ....... 8.000 
52,443.851 
735,963.986 
136,511.858 
925,815.456 
58,995.600 
66.531.379 
262.514 
3,318.377 
7.289.663 
8.941.986 
4.648.874 
9.695.600 
{622.866 
143.460 
92,159.743 
1.107,445.195 
53,076.828 
171,527.166 
927 183.913 
107,928.971 
1,057.892 
31,502.958 
5.200.000 
397,477.78 
1.504.922.923 
Altogether .......