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III. Mines and Minerals.
The total value of mineral products in 1910 was 11,220,000 kroner (5,572,000 in 1900) ; of furnace products, 2,470,000 kroner (1,942,000 in 1900). The chief mineral products are silver, 430,000 kroner in 1910 (330,000 in 1900) ; copper ore, 1,841,000 kroner ; pyrites, 6,945,000 kroner ; iron ore, 1,025,000 kroner ; apatite, 35,000 kroner; felspar 501,000 kroner (115,000 in 1900). Of the smelting products in 1910, silver was valued at 460,000 kroner ; copper, 1,755,000 kroner. At the end of 1910 there existed about 60 mining establishments employing 6,246 workpeople, and 5 smelting furnaces with 278 workpeople.
IV. Fisheries.
The number of persons in 1910 engaged in cod fishery was 88,144 ; in summer-herring fishery, 27,024 ; and in mackerel fishery, 5,400.
The value of the fisheries in kroner in 1910 was cod, 19,203,100 ; herring, 12,624,700 ; mackerel, 2,864,500 ; salmon and sea trout, 1,018,900 ; other fisheries, 9,908,700; lobsters, 928,200 ; oysters, 10,200; total, 46,558,300.
Other fisheries are the cod and herring fisheries on the coast of Island, and the whale, walrus, seal, and shark fisheries which in 1910 produced a total of about 18,700,900 kroner.
Commerce.
Total imports and exports in the last five years : —
Imports (foreign). Exports (Norwegian) ,, (foreign)
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
Kroner 361,642,800 219,971,800
9,064,100
Kroner
354,919,600
211,247,900
7,619,400
Kroner
365,739,900
234,640,600
8,808,700
Kroner Kroner
402,09i'.,100i 468,695,0001 267,856,800 ; 288,684,100 14,737 9001! 9,668,700^
1 Direct transit excluded.
Trade with different countries in 1911, including indirect as well as direct, trade and also direct transit goods : —
Country
Sweden . Denmark, Iceland,
and Faeroe . Russia and Finland Germany . Switzerland . Netherlands . Belgium . Great Britain and
Ireland France
Portugal & Madeira Spain
Imports, 1911
Kroner 57,796,700
Expoi'ts, h
1911 il
Kroner 20,003,400
25,106,600 8,875,100 35,357,200 ;11,743,600 147,988,100 167,104,300 1,514,600 207,200 16,633,100 111,565,700 12,533,400 11,753,900
127,400,200
11,898,400
I 1,471,100
I 4,199,200
87,172,900 11,613,400 ( 6,685,700 ) 10,372,300
Country
Italy ... I
Austria & Hungary |
Greece
Turkey and Rou-
mania Africa . . . i Asia . . . I Australia . . : America . . i Not stated .
Total .
Imports, 1911
Kroner 3,773,600 2,278,100 482,400
3,827,600
842,100
2,237,000
600
38,927,700
1,481,400
Exports, 1911
Kroner 9,430,800 1,937,200 40,700
426,800 4,608,000 5.018,200 9,207,500 44,366,600 3,283,000
i 495,749,100 325,406,900 !(27,542,717i.) (18,089,2721)
The total amount of the import duties collected in 1911 was 50 millions
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