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VII. Vliiiíuij íii Hiinyary.'^ 



In Hungary tht- ivón and otht-r. niincial pioduction, rwn in th»' 

 Becond year of the war was valued at over 200 millión kronen. Mt)rf' 

 than a half of this aniount (110 mill. kr.) must be accredited to coal 

 lűining, llip irón ores and irón works pioducing 40 millión kronen and 

 sah abont 8H millions. Thiis the three important producls, coal, irón 

 and salt niake up 92% of the country's mineral production, whereas 

 the other brancht^s of mining — precious stones and metals, coppei,. 

 lead, antimony, aluminium, brimstone mercury, bitumen etc. - add 

 altogether bul 8%. Our minings greatest value therefore lies in coal, 

 jron and salt. 



Our highest coal production was in the year líJlíi when the 

 blaek and brown coal and lignité production of Himgary (inclasiveiy 

 oí (Voatia and Sclavonia) represented more than 10 millión tons. 

 Our irón ore production, 2 millión tons, alsó reached its maximum 

 in 1913. 



The importance of miningin Hungary 's economical life is best shown 

 in íigures. llie national wealth of Hungary just be főre the war Avas walued 

 at 41 milliárd kronen of which mines and irón vvorks reprtsentt d 2^/4 mil- 

 liards. 



T. Value o f mineral f u e 1 i n Hungary. Oar mineral 

 coal suitable for coking was insignificant up to the presentdays, being 

 only 8% of the totál coal supply. The greatest amount of our mineral coal 

 was got from the mines in the Mecsek-mountains n^'ar Pécs. which are 

 estimated to contain more than 110 millión tons of Mack coal of 6000 calo- 

 ries and very good for coking. The second black-coal mine is in the 

 County Krassó- Szörény and is estimeted at 10 millión ton=:. The annual 

 production of mineral coal in these countries has barely reached 10 mil- 

 lión (\. with a home requirement of nearly 50 millión q. ScMcely 20% of 

 the totál need in coke has been produced here, the lest (80%) being 

 imported from other countries. For our irón furnaces M-^e want this 

 matériái and a síoppage in its importation m e a n s the c x i i n c l i o n 

 f our f o u n d e r i e s t o o . 



Although there is little chance of finding much laorr black-coal ^vithin 

 thn present frontiers of Hungary the stocks of broy^ii coal are quite 

 Batisfying, brown coal being 85% of our coal supply. In the valley of the 

 Zsil on the soathern frontier there are four coal-mining societies 

 po8ses«?ing mines estimat^d to contnin a totál of 500 millión tons. 



* (oinpiltd üu<] part tv wrillon t)y Piíif. Thaklks de T*\pv, 



