ClIAP. XXT.] VALT'ES OF CHIEF INDIAN MINEKALS. 
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We can now compare the value of India's manganese-ore production 
Comparison of lndia-.s ^^^^h tliat of her other mineral products, 
manganese-ore production Taking the export or f.o.h. values of the Indian 
with that of other minerals. i • ,^ • i 
manganese-ore, and comparing them with 
the values for the other chief Indian minerals as given in the anni'al 
statistics of Mineral Production^, we see that in 1903, 1904, and 1905, 
manganese-ore was the sixth in value, being surpassed by gold, coal, 
petroleum, salt, and saltpetre, in the order named. But in 1906 
manganese-ore jumped up to the third position, being surpassed only 
by gold and coal. The figures are shown in the following table : — 
Table 84. 
Valiief! of the 8 chief mineral products of India for the years 1903 to 1906. 
1903. 
1904. 
1905. 
190(i. 
Gold .... 
£ 
2,303,144 
2,366.079 
£ 
2,416,971 
£ 
2,230,284 
Coal (a) .... 
1.299,716 
1.398.826 
1,419.443 
1,912,042 
Manganese-ore (6) 
188,509 
137,933 
223,431 
969,078 
Petroleum [ri) 
354,365 
473,971 
604,20J 
574,238 
Salt (a) . . . 
336,147 
437,530 
441,392 
420,901 
Saltpetre (6) . . . 
290,196 
266,349 
235,723 
270,547 
Mica (6) . 
86,296 
97,932 
142,008 
259,544 
Rubies .... 
88,819 
90,612 
88,340 
96,867 
(«! Spot jirices ; (h) Exi^irt vahv s. 
The above figures give roughly the relative values of the respective 
minerals to India ; but they do not give the true relative values of these 
minerals on the world's markets. The true values of the minerals are the 
values at the places where the minerals are to be used. The gold is, of 
course, appraised at its true market value. If the other substances 
^ J{,r. G. S. I..XXXUI, p.:}. (lOOfi): XXXIV, p. 47. (l!)0(i) : XXXVI, p. 65, 
907). 
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