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Show Mineral Product of Germany in 1870. The total production of coal in Germany in 1870 was li3.0O0.0tX tons, raised by 107,CS2 workmen, nnd representing rep-resenting a value of (1,900,000, at the pit's mouth. Of this quantity 5,850,-000 5,850,-000 tons were raised in Upper Silesia, I, 570,000 in Lower Silesia, ll,7ti0,0uo in Westphalia, SlJ0,lK)0 tons in the Aachen district, and 2,780,000 in the Saar district. The production of lignite lig-nite and brown coal was 0, 1 00,000 tons, of a value of ,C8Gt3,O0O, principally fnun Prussia and Saxony ; iron ore and ironstone, iron-stone, 2,(100,000 tons; zinc ore, MS, 000 tons; lead ore, ',18,850; nianeaticsc ore, II, 21)0; iron pyrites, 7.i,0U ; phosphorite phos-phorite 25,000 ; rock salt, 2,000,000 tons. The production was raised at 2,- 432 works by 1 81 ,770 workmen. |