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VI.—Iron Ore Supplies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Of all the problems with which the practical geologist has to deal, none is of greater importance at the present time than the discovery of fresh sources of iron ore supply. Every inhabitant of the United Kingdom, of the United States, and of Germany requires annually about a quarter of a ton of the iron of which the world last year produced 60,000,000 tons, the result of the smelting of over 120,000,000 tons of ore. Year by year the production and consumption are increasing, and many of the deposits of the richer ores are showing signs of depletion. The question of ascertaining how the demand for the vast supplies of iron ore that will in the future be needed will be met calls, therefore, for very serious consideration, and a few statistical notes may be useful as a contribution to a discussion of the subject.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1907

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References

1 Third Rep. Natal Geol. Survey, 1907, p. 257. In employing the generic name Opsiceros for his species, Scott has overlooked a paper by Thomas in P.Z.S., 1901, p. 158, where it is shown that Gray's name Diceros antedates by twenty years Opsceros, Gloger.