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THE IRON MINES. 685
Table 97. Imports and exports of unmanufactured minerals and metals.
Average for the Imports. Value in thonaands of kronor & l’lO shilling. Exports. Value in thousands of kronor & l lO shill. In % of the total
years Coal and coke. Other minerals. Metals. Total. Minerals, Metals. Total. Imports. Exports.
1871/75 13,452 5,304 9,542 28,298 1,077 46,409 47,48» 1148 2322
1876/80 12,719 5,635 9,306 27,6«0 1,413 34,513 35,92» 1081 17X2
1881/85 15,847 8,048 8,614 32,509 1,747 40,645 42,392 1024 17*40
1886/90 22,560 9,038 9,300 40,898 4,1% 34,523 38,719 12 19 1420
1891/95 29,770 10,855 9,003 49,828 9,131 30,995 40,12» 1411 1261
I 1896/00 53,494 15,701 17,931 87,12» 18,544 40,459 59,003 1926 16 45
I In 1900 85,026 19,026 25,566 129,808 22,519 52,395 74,914 24 28 1914
two following years, with more normal prices, the amounts were
respectively 59 and 57 million. Still the desirability of being able to furnish
inland fuel has during the later years been more evident than ever.
In the mining industry 73 % of the income taxed comes on the iron
alone, and in the metal production as much as 95 %. These figures
show the dominant position which the metal just mentioned occupies
within the mineral industry of Sweden, of which the above Table 95
also bears witness. This being the case, the following presentation
of the subject has been arranged in such a way that the iron industry
is treated of by itself — the mining as well as the extraction of iron —,
while part of the information concerning the other ores and metals
is given in connection with the iron industry, while the rest has
been made the object of a common, more brief treatment. Lastly, an
account is given of the public and private institutions, established for
the promotion of the mining and metal production industries.
1. the iron mines.
Of the whole area of Sweden, which amounts to 447,862 square
kilometers, a comparatively small part consists of ore-regions (see p.
683). In the whole of Central and Southern Sweden, the principal
ore-regions are concentrated within an area of about 15,000 square kilometers,
or within a region which stretches from the southernmost part of the
Gulf of Bothnia in the east to a point north of Lake Venern in the west.
Outside of this zone there occur only a small number of deposits, such
as the Taberg iron ore stock in the province of Småland, the copper
ores of Åtvidaberg, in Östergötland, and some iron, copper, and
manganese ores in Östergötland and Småland.
Within the aforesaid ore-zone there occur in the east the
Dannemora ore-fields, whose ores have a world-wide fame on account of their
phosphorus-free quality, and because of other eminent qualities. In
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