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Show UNITED STATES LEADS ALL ' MINING AND USING METALS J From the annual reports of three. Cerinan ji hit stock metallurgical companies com-panies the following translation has been made of statistics on metal pro-I pro-I dnction and consumption: The world production of rorpcr in Hit'li aggregated sS l.luo Ions (metric lon--2.-UI 0 pounds), which exceeds j by alxjut lOn.noo tons that of tho i year before. The l'nlte.1 States had! the largest share. 49S,2i0 tons, an in- j crease of about li? per cent over Ike I output of i:0S. The world eonsump- J Hon of copper In U'0;i reached 782.-SuO 782.-SuO tons, exceeding that of the pre- ceding year by Sr.lo0 tons. The plant , share In the consumption fell to t'ic ' l'nited States and amounted to 31S,- j fuJO tons (against 21!, SOrt tons in ! I'.'OS); Germany consumed 1 7 0 . 1 ' 0 I tons; England, 109,100 tons; France, 7.1, 100 tons The world production of lead last year aggregated I,0o2.fi'i0 tens, divid- I ed thus. Europe, "O5:80O tons; L'nil- ' ed States, 3SD.700 tons; Mexico, 1 1 Moo tons; Australia, 77,200 tons. Tn l'nited States consumed 3i'r.,20o tomi of lead; German v. 213.200 tons; Great Prltirin, lfifi.500 tons; France, 11000 tons, and Russia, iJS.oOu tons. Of tin, lOS.oOii tons were produced In rjO'J. of which Gl,5no tons came troni the Straits Settlements ports; ".o.Cno tons from Roll via; Germany produced, mainly from Holivlan ores. S.tiOO tons. The consumption of tin was distributed: United States, -42.-Sou tons; England, 17.300 ton; Germany, Ger-many, 17,100 tons; France. S,73o tons, I and Rolglum, l,3uu tons, The zinc production in 1 909 was 7S3.200 tons, of which the L'nltcl States contributed 210,440 tons; Germany, Ger-many, 220,100 tons, Relglnm, lt7,-100 lt7,-100 tons. In I909 the worlj produced lf..fH0 tons of nickel, the chief contrlbuloi 9 being the l'nited Stares, 9.000 tons: Germany, 3,100 ions, and Englaud, 2,-MiO 2,-MiO tons. Of aluminum 21.200 tona were pro-i pro-i duced and 30.S00 tons consumed I throughout the world, while the pri- ! i ducllon of quicksilver amounted to i I 3.200 tons, of which Rrilaln took I.-I I.-I llo and Germany 723 tons. |