A Geographical Analysis Of The Zinc Industry Of The United States

Author : Walter Renton Ingalls
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230231525
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Lead and Zinc in the United States; Comprising an Economic History of the Mining and Smelting of the Metals and the Conditions Which Have Affected written by Walter Renton Ingalls and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... XXIII COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS The commercial history of the zinc industry in the United Stat? is concisely reflected in the statistics, which are available with completeness, in so far as production, imports and exports, and consumption ar concerned, back to 1873. These statistics are summarized in the folio* 1 Up to 1900, inclusive, the statistics in this table are from Ingalls, Production and Properties of Zinc; 1901-1904, from Mineral Resources of the United States; 1905 In the above table, consumption has been computed without taking into account the difference in stocks of metal on hand at the beginning 1907, from The Mineral Industry. The statistics in the fourth column are the production of Indiana up to 1899; of Colorado from 1903 onward, (a) Including Indiana. (b) Including 2716 tons of dross spelter, (c) Including 2675 tons of dross spelter, (d) Including 3302 tons of dross spelter, (e) Including West Virginia, whose spelter is produced from Joplin ore. (J) Including 3300 tons of dross spelter. and end of each year, statistics for which are unavailable over the wb period covered by the table. The statistics of production and price in the above table from 1880 to 1892, both years inclusive, are from the reports of the U. S. Geological Survey. Apparently tiw figures for 1881-1888 are approximate estimates rather than totals based on reportfrom the producers. The statistics from 1893 to 1906, both years inclusive, are as reported by The Mineral Industry. The figures marked with an asterisk are estimated. The production for 1906 and 1907 includes zinc-lead pigments, and consequently is not strictly comparable with the figures for the previous years. The production of zinc oxide in the United States, with the exception of an...