Political and commercial geology and the world's mineral resources

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Table 25.—World’s Chromite Production 1905-1917 in Long Tons[53]

	1905[54]		1906		1907		1908		1909		1910		1911		1912		1913		1914		1915		1916		1917
United States	22		107		290		359		598		205		120		201		255		591		3,281		47,035		43,725
Canada[55]	7,657		8,068		6,425		6,451		2,205		267		140		...		...		121		11,008		24,545		32,457	[56]
Cuba[57]	...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		34		17	[58]
Guatemala[57]	...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		179	[58]
Brazil[57]
Great Britain (Shetland Islands)	...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		100
Norway	...		...		105	[56]	...		...		...		...		113	[56]	...		80	[56]	344	[56]
Sweden	...		...		...		...		...		31
Austria-Hungary (Bosnia and Herzegovina)	183		315		305		492		327		315		246		197		300	[56]	474	[56]		[59]		[59]
Greece[60]	8,759		11,348		11,545		4,281		9,448		9,311		4,542		6,209		6,242	[56]	6,947	[56]	10,255	[56]	9,724	[56]		[59]
Serbia[61]	...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...		...			[59]		[59]		[59]
Russia	26,620		16,708		25,940		10,777		21,857		14,157		1,218	[56]	20,934		21,401			[59]		[59]		[59]		[59]
Turkey[62] (mainly Asia Minor)	...		23,404		21,111		28,394		11,364			[59]	11,993		16,823	[63]		[59]		[59]		[59]		[59]		[59]
Rhodesia	...		3,256		8,017		11,927		22,875		39,287		46,753		61,840		62,365		48,235		60,617	[56]	79,350	[56]		[59]
India	2,708		4,375		7,274		4,745		9,250		1,737		3,804		2,890		5,580	[56]	5,887	[56]	3,768	[56]	20,160	[56]		[59]
Japan	...		...		...		...		...		2,091		1,500		1,591			[59]	2,075	[56]	2,932	[56]	8,149	[56]		[59]
New South Wales	52		15		30		...		...		...		148		23
New Caledonia	75,717		82,910		56,461	[56]	24,970	[56]	39,368		39,368		34,447		41,325		62,352		41,336	[56]	65,941	[56]	74,115	[64]	41,230	[56]

[53] Figures not otherwise credited were obtained from “Mineral Resources of United States, 1914” and subsequent years, U. S. Geological Survey (figures originally obtained mainly from the British statistical publication, Mines and Quarries: General report with statistics, pt. 4, London).

[54] Figures for 1905 taken direct from Mines and Quarries, 1905 and 1906.

[55] Mineral production of Canada, 1916, Canada Department of Mines, Mines Branch.

[56] Mineral Industry, 1917.

[57] Exports from Cuba, Guatemala, and Brazil in 1918 were respectively 8,820 tons, 1,193 tons, and 17,854 tons.

[58] Exports.

[59] Not available.

[60] Production from the Saloniki district included under Turkey previous to 1914.