Production of copper in 1909

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1910
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 115 KB
• Volume: 169
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(10)90587-5

✦ Synopsis

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in I9O7, the record year; that in .\lal,ama will 1)ro]mbly be about the same as in 19o7.

By taking the production in these Ihree districts as a basis and comparing it with the production in xari(uls parts of the country in previous years the above estimate of the t~,tal irou-~re production i~ r9O 9 has been obtained.

PRODUCTION OF COPPER

IN ~9o9.

A RI~CORD-BblEAI'/-]N(; YI'L\I,~.

Statistics and cstimatcs rceci\c,1 by ~l,c k hired States G~ological Survey from all plants kno~n t~, product b[islcr Col}per fronl domestic ores and from all lake mim's indicate thai the copper oulput frolu mines in the United States in I0O9 surpassed all prcviou> records.

The figures, which have been colh'ctcd by It. G. I'utler, of the Survey, represent the actual pr, Mucti, m el each c~,mpany for eleven lnonths aud include an estimate of its 1)ccemb,:r ~,utpnt. The November figures for a few companies were not available and lhesc companies furnished estimates for the last t~o months ,,f the \car Ace,~l-dillg to the statistics and estimates received 111e output ,~f 1,fisl~q and lake copper uas 1,II7,8oo,ooo pounds, as against 942,57o,721 potlnds in 1~8. au increase of over 18 per cent. This not only exceeds; the illcl'¢':tsc tlf any previous year but it is considerably greater than the I~>t;i] 3eally increase ~ince ]9o 4.