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The World's Copper Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Extract

The following article originally appeared in the Times Trade Supplement of August 28 last. It is here reprinted with some small additions by the courtesy of the proprietors of that Journal.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1921

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page 32 note 1 Glacial Geology of Northumberland, p. 102.Google Scholar

page 32 note 2 Geology of Northumberland and Durham, p. 15, and “Certain Surface Features of the Glacial Deposits of the Tyne Valley”: Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumberland, etc., vol. xi, pt. iii, 1893.Google Scholar

page 32 note 3 Metric tons throughout.Google Scholar

page 33 note 1 The figures for 1803 to 1883 have been estimated from the world's decennial production given in Messrs. Nicol Brown & Turnbull's A Century of Copper. Subsequent figures up to the year 1908 are from the Chief Inspector of Mines' Report, part iv. The figure for the year 1913 is from Merton's Tables, and that for 1918 from the Engineering and Mining Journal.Google Scholar

page 35 note 1 The present copper production of the United Kingdom is derived mainly from “precipitate” got by treating water from the old Parys and Mona mines in Anglesey.Google Scholar

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