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MINERAL STATISTICS 



The earliest accounts of the Swansea sales which we have been enabled to obtain 

 are from 1804, when first the copper sales were published in the 'Cambrian' news- 

 paper. The publication of the printed ticketing-papers commenced in 1839. As 

 these returns show a very remarkable extension of the copper trade of Swansea, the 

 amount sold for each year is given : 



Copper Ores sold at Swansea from the year 1804 to 184". 



The accounts after 1847 were somewhat irregularly kept ; but for the ten years 

 ending 1849 the Cornish and Devonshire copper mines sold 1,480,551 tons of copper 

 ore, which produced 1 14,665 tons of metallic copper. During the same period there were 

 sold at Swansea 6,399 tons of English copper ore, 8,850 tons of Welsh, and 116,182 

 tons of Irish ore. After that date we are unable to separate in a satisfactory mannci 

 the British ores sold at Swansea from the colonial and foreign ores sold in each year. 

 The following Table for each fifth year will, however, fairly represent the Swansea 

 sales of this period. 



For the last three years the following is a correct statement of the Swansea public 

 sales. Very large quantities of copper ores, principally foreign, were also bought by 

 private contract ; the quantities cannot be obtained. 



