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STEEL IN ALL COINTRI1CS. 19<br />
It will be observed that in 1882 the maximum production of<br />
iron ore in Great Britain was reached, and that there has since<br />
been a great decline in production, due iu part to the increased<br />
use of steel, which has called for iron ores of a purer quality than<br />
are found in many of the iron-ore districts of the United Kingdom,<br />
and iu part to the facility and cheapness with which steelmaking<br />
ores can be obtained from Spain and other countries.<br />
Of the iron ore mined in 1893 Ireland produced 07,292 tons,<br />
England and Wales. 10,288,778 tons, am! Scotland, 847,406 tons.<br />
Imports of Iron Ore.— As the production of iron ore in Great<br />
Britain lias declined the iinjwirtatnm of foreign iron ore has steadily<br />
increased, allowance being made for years of depression in the<br />
iron trade. We have compiled from the annual reports of Her<br />
Majesty's Inspectors of Mines the following table of the imports<br />
of iron ore into the United Kingdom from 1873 to 1893, to which<br />
we have added for comparison the annual domestic production of<br />
iron ore during the same period. The purple ore referred to in<br />
the table is the residuum from imported cupreous irou pyrites.<br />
Yeais.<br />
Gross tons.<br />
1878<br />
1874<br />
1875<br />
1876<br />
1877<br />
1878<br />
1879<br />
1880<br />
1881<br />
1882<br />
1883<br />
1884<br />
1885<br />
1886<br />
1887<br />
1888<br />
1889<br />
1890<br />
1891<br />
1892<br />
1893<br />
Iron ore<br />
imported.<br />
967,536<br />
754,141<br />
458,693<br />
672,235<br />
1,142,308<br />
1,173,411<br />
1,085,045<br />
2,632.601<br />
2,450,698<br />
3,284,946<br />
3,191,073<br />
2,730,829<br />
2,822,598<br />
2,878,469<br />
3.765,788<br />
3,562,071<br />
4,031,265<br />
4,471,790<br />
3,180,543<br />
3.780.503<br />
4,065,864<br />
Purple ore<br />
imported.<br />
275,000<br />
255,000<br />
280,000<br />
300,000<br />
415,000<br />
400,000<br />
332,300<br />
427,730<br />
352,500<br />
408,000<br />
390,000<br />
422,304<br />
490,890<br />
417,741<br />
447,580<br />
464,207<br />
483,257<br />
492,669<br />
462,168<br />
453,308<br />
459,613<br />
Total ore<br />
imported.<br />
1,242,536<br />
1,009,141<br />
738,693<br />
972,235<br />
1,557,308<br />
1,573,411<br />
1,417,346<br />
3,060,331<br />
2,803,198<br />
3.692.946<br />
3,581,073<br />
3,153.133<br />
3,313,488<br />
3,296,210<br />
4,213,368<br />
4,026,278<br />
4,514,522<br />
4,964,459<br />
3,642,711<br />
4,233,811<br />
4,523,477<br />
Production of Approximate<br />
donu-stic ore. vonsumption.<br />
15,577,499<br />
14,844,936<br />
15,321,060<br />
16,841,584<br />
16,692,802<br />
15,726,370<br />
14,379,735<br />
18,026,050<br />
17,446,065<br />
18.031,957<br />
17,383,046<br />
16,137,887<br />
15,417,982<br />
14,110,013<br />
13,098,041<br />
14,590,713<br />
14.546,105<br />
13,780.767<br />
12,777,689<br />
11,312,675<br />
11,203.476<br />
16,820,035<br />
15,854,077<br />
16,559,753<br />
17,813,819<br />
18,250,110<br />
17,299,781<br />
15,797,080<br />
21,086,381<br />
20,249,263<br />
21,724,903<br />
20,964,119<br />
19,291,020<br />
18,731,470<br />
17,406,223<br />
17,311,409<br />
18,616,991<br />
19,060,627<br />
18,745,226<br />
16,420,400<br />
15,546,486<br />
15,728,953<br />
Coat.—Thus far in her history Great Britain has not been dependent<br />
upon any other country for any part of her supply of<br />
mineral fuel; she is, indeed, an exporter of coal in large qtianti-
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