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TABLE 7-WORLD PRODUCTION OF MERCURY 1938-47, BY COUNTRIES
(In Flasks of 76 Pounds)
COUNTRY
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
Algeria
191
256
791
147
121
146
165
326
340
348
Australia:
New South
Wales
1
2
8
Queensland
3
37
34
15
15
12
3
3
Austria
9
Bolivia
(exports)
7
51
2
3
Canada
10
6
2,024
7,057
13,630
22,240
9,682
Chile
44
100
8
100
1,305
2,256
2,563
1,181
862
827
China
560
4,931
3,403
2,756
4,293
3,133
3,510
1,828
1,189
290
Czechoslo-
3
vakia
2,900
2,669
2,582
Germany
1,392
1,218
957
899
493
3,480
3,480
Italy
66,752
67,154
91,230
94,161
75,885
61,945
22,997
25,527
50,822
53,984
Japan
592
1,358
3,394
4,323
5,197
6,706
7,096
3,139
1,361
1,619
Korea
1
1
2
1
1
1
(Chosen)
16
1
2
Mexico
8,519
7,376
11,653
23,137
32,443
28,321
26,053
16,443
11,661
9,700
New
Zealand
10
73
150
93
90
30
Peru
145
326
152
209
5
Rumania
21
176
3
Southern
Rhodesia
2
3
Spain
41,409
35,912
52,214
86,473
72,288
47,756
34,349
40,694
41,801
35,420
Sweden
59
11
21
1
Tunisia
270
58
125
88
3
Turkey
597
359
500
242
176
271
143
158
75
Union of
S. Africa
42
204
579
1,189
1,192
852
764
USSR
8,700
1
1
1
1
1
1
United
States
17,991
18,633
37,777
44,921
50,846
51,929
37,688
30,763
25,348
23,244
8
8
3
Yugoslavia
Total
6
150,000 145,000 215,000 275,000 265,000 240,000 157,000 131,000 144,000 144,000
1
Estimates included in the total.
2
Production less than 1 flask.
3 Data not yet available; estimate included in the total.
4 Included under Germany.
5 Includes Austria.
6 Estimate.
7 Preliminary.
8 Output of Idria Mine included under Italy until ceded to Yugoslavia after World War II.
9
Present output believed to be at the rate of 10,000 flasks annually. C.I.A. estimate.
SOURCE: Bureau of Mines.
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CONFIDENTIAL
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