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696 IX. MINING INDUSTRY AND METAL PRODUCTION OF SWEDEN.
Iron ore exports of Sweden, in 1866j99.1
The manner in which our iron ore exports were distributed during
1888/1902 on the two mining fields which, with us, chiefly supply the
market, as also according to destination, is shown in Table 100. The
greatest part of our iron ore exported goes to the western part of
Germany, where the Thomas process has had the most rapid growth, by
reason of the Lorraine and Luxemburg ores, on account of their great
percentage of phosphorus, being especially suited to this process. It is
also undoubtedly of significance to our iron ore exports that the German
Thomas pig iron, for which especially the Kirunavara ore is likely to
be used, can be sold at a lower price than most other kinds of pig iron,
and thereby has great chances in competition.
When once the problem is solved of extracting the iron by means
of electricity, the prospects for the Lappland ores will be still more
favourable, since this method may in the first place be expected to
become practicable in the case of rich ores.
Adding to this that several of the most important places for iron
ore production in the rest of Europe are in our days decreasing as to
capability of supply, while the demand for imports is steadily increasing
in the great industrial countries, it can be said with full confidence that
our country has good prospects of bringing up its exports of iron ore
considerably above the present extent.
Under present conditions, such an export is a necessary
introduction to the higher stage, when our country itself will use its ores
and send out them into the world’s market in a manufactured state.
1 In the years 1900,02 the exports have amounted to respectively 1,620,000,1,761,000,
and 1,729,000 tons, but, in 1903, the figure has risen to 2,828,000 tons.
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