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Excerpt from The Mining and Quarry Industry of New York State: Report of Operations and Production During 1915
From the summary of the year's reports rendered by the indi vidual enterprises it appears that the value of the total production of ores and mineral materials amounted to This represented a slight gain over the corresponding figure for 1914, which was reported as The increase, however, was more apparent than real for it did not equal the actual increment arising from the entrance of new enterprises in the list of producers.
The products on which the valuations noted are based number over thirty, and with few exceptions represent the materials as they come from the mines and quarries without elaboration or manufacture, except so much as is necessary to put them in market able form. They do not include secondary products like iron and steel, sulphuric acid, aluminum, carborundum, calcium carbide, artificial graphite, alkali products, etc., the manufacture of which constitutes a large industry by itself, with an annual output of a much greater value than that returned by the industries covered in this report.
Among the metallic minerals, iron ore ranks first in importance as regards value of output. The gross amount of ore hoisted from the mines last year was long tons, which after allowance for shrinkage in concentration - practised by the Adirondack magnetite mines - left long tons of shipping product valued at In the preceding year the amount of ore hoisted was long tons and the output of furnace ore and concentrates long tons valued at The market for iron ore improved rapidly during the year and there is every prospect of an active demand for the current season.
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