Calorific value of peat

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1910
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 60 KB
• Volume: 169
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(10)90592-9

✦ Synopsis

~()TJC 'a, AND 1. (IM MEN'FS.

-'77 of speltcr is equivalent to the output ol 56,It2 retorts ,~pcrating conthulously through the year, t,r 0o per ]cut. ,~f th,' total snle]ting cal)aeity. 1MI'0RTS .\ND EXPORTS.

The imports ~,f zinc ore exceeded all re]or,is, being appruxinlately II6,I73 short tons, valued at $I,381,830

Of this amount oi per cent., or IO5,6oo tons, was from Mexico, more than double the quaniity imported in 19o8 , which was 53,757 tons, and even more than the quantity inlportcd in 19o7, which wits ~o3,I17 tons. The exports of zinc ore show a decrease, being 12,4.56 short tons, worth $412,3ex!, compared to 26,108 toils iI1 i908. The imports of spelter show a reinarkal)le increase, being apln'oximately lO,961 short tons, worth $947,196, c(,mparcd to 881 tons in I9O8. The exports of spelter fell off s/ightl3, being 2487 t~ms. as against 2648 tons ill i9o8. The exports of zinc dross were 73of~ tons, valut'd lit $494,I58, Ctmlllared to 8405 tons in I~)Og. CON ~; U IM i' I'ION.