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A remarkable colliery development has taken place in the Doncaster district in the last 

 two years. Numerous pits have been sunk, and coal has been reached in several of them. 

 Former villages have grown into populous places, and Doncaster is becoming the centre of 

 a large population. Again, the developments which have taken place in the neighbouring 

 north Nottingham coalfield have largely altered the industrial character of that part of the 

 country. Within a radius of five miles of Mansfield eleven collieries have been sunk, and 

 twenty others in the ten-mile limit. The Mansfield colliery itself was responsible for the 

 output of 1,183,876 tons in 1911, an increase of 40,756 tons over the previous year. The 

 beautiful "DuKeries" have been invaded, and in 1912 negotiations were completed for a 

 pit between Warsop and the forest village of Budby, to be known as the Welbeck Colliery. 

 To cope with this advance the Mansfield tramways have been extended, and a new railway, 

 touching that town and Sutton, is in course of construction. 



Progress has been made in the Kent coalfield, and four new seams were reported as 

 proved within the boundary of the Kent Coal Concessions, Ltd. in August 1911. 



The outlook in the South Wales coal was better towards the close of 1912 than it had 

 been for some time. In 1911 the trade suffered on account of a succession of strikes which 

 probably affected this district more than any other. Thus while there was an increase of 

 shipments of coal from the United Kingdom, there was a decline from South Wales. The 

 details of foreign shipments were as follows: Cardiff, 16,127,777 tons (dec. 829,979); New- 

 port, 4,324,917 tons (inc. 550,555); Swansea, 2,929,982 tons (inc. 218,788); Port Talbot, 

 1,650,538 tons (inc. 65,858). The coastwise trade was as follows: Cardiff, 2,644,520 tons 

 (dec. 222,912); Newport, 689,960 tons (dec. 48,781); Swansea, 272,331 tons (dec. .39,516); 

 Port Talbot, 164,791 tons (dec.. 18,350). These decreases are unusual and due entirely to 

 the unrest in the labour world. Their significance may be realized from the fact that, the 

 output of one coalfield despite the strike amounted to 50,200,000 tons as compared with 

 48,699,982 tons in 1910, and. that the number of persons employed in one coalfield has risen 

 from 150,394 in 1901 to 213,252 in 1910. The North Wales coal mines have been holding 

 their own, whereas metalliferous mines and slate quarries have, been doing badly. 



Other Minerals. Metals 'were obtained from British ores as in Table XXI. 

 Table XXI. British Metals, 1910. 



Iron. The production of iron-ore in the chief producing counties of England in 1910 is 

 shown in Table XXII. Wales produced 41,455 tons (percentage of total U.K., 0.3). 



... Sa&.-^-Affecting the Cheshire salt industry, a parliamentary bill was promoted in 

 i0i 2 by the Cheshire County Council, and other bodies, to restrict the conveyance of 

 brine by pipe from the salt manufacturing areas of Northwich and Winsford to Weston 

 Point, which offers advantages of cheaper transport by Manchester Ship Canal and the 

 combined manufacture of salt and electricity. (At Weston, it was stated, the Salt Union 

 was receiving 15,000 a year from the sale of electricity made by steam going on its way 

 to boil the brine). By the House of Lords' Committee the Bill was rejected. Incident- 

 ally there was mentioned a discovery of brine and large deposits of rock salt at Lymrn. 



Tin. The steady rise in the already high price of tin has maintained the prosperity 

 of the Cornish mines of established position, while the most noteworthy new progress 

 has been the development of alluvial workings following on the success of this method 

 of operations on the Goss Moors. A large electric power station at Hayle is now supply- 



