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    "ocrText": "CONFIDENTIAL\nCOUNTRY\nNUMBER OF FLASKS EXPORTED\nUnited States\n23,000\nCanada\n6,610\nGreat Britain, N. Ireland\n13,750\nArgentina\n1,175\nSweden\n2,061\nHolland\n594\nGermany\n4,870\nDenmark\n60\nPortugal\n81\nVenezuela\n10\nOthers\n14\nTOTAL FLASKS\n52,225\nThe total of 52,225 flasks does not agree with the total of 52,707 flasks reported\nto the US Embassy by Minas de Almaden y Arayanes. Almaden reported exports to\nthe following countries during the first quarter of the year: Switzerland, 98 flasks;\nAustralia, 136 flasks; South Africa, 200 flasks; and India, 202 flasks. These are not\nincluded in the Table compiled by the Spanish Customs.\nITALY\nFor many years Italy has vied with Spain for the position of the world's largest\nmercury producer. Italy's output of 94,161 flasks in 1941 was the all-time annual\npeak for any country. Between five and fifteen percent of the country's output is con-\nsumed domestically. The all-time peak for exports was reached in 1940 when 73,680\nflasks were shipped. Before the war, Germany, the UK, and the US received most of\nItaly's exports whereas during the war all shipments went to Germany and Japan. The\ntwo largest producing mines are the Abbadia San Salvatore and the Solforate del Siele.\nThe Idria mine was ceded to Yugoslavia by the terms of the Paris Peace Treaty at the\nend of World War II.\nThe Abbadia and Siele mines, as well as numerous other prospects, are in the\nMonte Amiata district in Siena and Grosseta Provinces, seventy-five miles north of\nRome, within a mineralized area eighteen miles long by six miles wide. Practically\nall the mines were damaged during the German withdrawal but have since been repaired.\nSurface outcrops in the Monte Amiata district were worked by the Etruscans sev-\neral centuries B.C., but these properties were idle until rediscovered in 1868. The\nAbbadia San Salvatore mine has been Italy's largest producer except for 1940 and\n1941 when it was surpassed by Siele. The Italian government controls fifty-three\npercent of the shares of the company. Reserves are reported to be large with the\nore averaging over one percent mercury. S.A.M.A., which owns Abbadia San Salvatore,\nhas several other properties which have yet to be developed.\n1 Societa Anomina Mineraria Amiata.\n14"
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