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COAL 



AUSTRIA. Coal occurs in Styria, Carinthia, Dalmatia, the Tyrol, Moravia, Lorn- 

 bardy, and Venice ; but 700,000 tons appears to be the maximum annual produce of 

 the empire. The basin of Vienna, in Lower Austria, produces several varieties of 

 coal, which belong to the brown coal of the Tertiary period. 



The following Table gives the geographical position of coal now worked (1872), and 

 the estimated production : 



The following statement of the productions and of the consumption of coal in 

 Austria has recently been issued upon authority : 



A considerable quantity of that reported as coal is lignite or brown coal, of which 

 there are very large deposits in Austria, 



