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III. Mines and Minerals.

The total value of mineral products in 1910 was 11,220,000 kroner (5,572,000 in 1900) ; of furnace products, 2,470,000 kroner (1,942,000 in 1900). The chief mineral products are silver, 430,000 kroner in 1910 (330,000 in 1900) ; copper ore, 1,841,000 kroner ; pyrites, 6,945,000 kroner ; iron ore, 1,025,000 kroner ; apatite, 35,000 kroner; felspar 501,000 kroner (115,000 in 1900). Of the smelting products in 1910, silver was valued at 460,000 kroner ; copper, 1,755,000 kroner. At the end of 1910 there existed about 60 mining establishments employing 6,246 workpeople, and 5 smelting furnaces with 278 workpeople.

IV. Fisheries.

The number of persons in 1910 engaged in cod fishery was 88,144 ; in summer-herring fishery, 27,024 ; and in mackerel fishery, 5,400.

The value of the fisheries in kroner in 1910 was cod, 19,203,100 ; herring, 12,624,700 ; mackerel, 2,864,500 ; salmon and sea trout, 1,018,900 ; other fisheries, 9,908,700; lobsters, 928,200 ; oysters, 10,200; total, 46,558,300.

Other fisheries are the cod and herring fisheries on the coast of Island, and the whale, walrus, seal, and shark fisheries which in 1910 produced a total of about 18,700,900 kroner.

Commerce.

Total imports and exports in the last five years : —

Imports (foreign). Exports (Norwegian) ,, (foreign)

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911

Kroner 361,642,800 219,971,800

9,064,100

Kroner

354,919,600

211,247,900

7,619,400

Kroner

365,739,900

234,640,600

8,808,700

Kroner Kroner

402,09i'.,100i 468,695,0001 267,856,800 ; 288,684,100 14,737 9001! 9,668,700^

1 Direct transit excluded.

Trade with different countries in 1911, including indirect as well as direct, trade and also direct transit goods : —

Country

Sweden . Denmark, Iceland,

and Faeroe . Russia and Finland Germany . Switzerland . Netherlands . Belgium . Great Britain and

Ireland France

Portugal & Madeira Spain

Imports, 1911

Kroner 57,796,700

Expoi'ts, h

1911 il

Kroner 20,003,400

25,106,600 8,875,100 35,357,200 ;11,743,600 147,988,100 167,104,300 1,514,600 207,200 16,633,100 111,565,700 12,533,400 11,753,900

127,400,200

11,898,400

I 1,471,100

I 4,199,200

87,172,900 11,613,400 ( 6,685,700 ) 10,372,300

Country

Italy ... I

Austria & Hungary |

Greece

Turkey and Rou-

mania Africa . . . i Asia . . . I Australia . . : America . . i Not stated .

Total .

Imports, 1911

Kroner 3,773,600 2,278,100 482,400

3,827,600

842,100

2,237,000

600

38,927,700

1,481,400

Exports, 1911

Kroner 9,430,800 1,937,200 40,700

426,800 4,608,000 5.018,200 9,207,500 44,366,600 3,283,000

i 495,749,100 325,406,900 !(27,542,717i.) (18,089,2721)

The total amount of the import duties collected in 1911 was 50 millions

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