The Coal and Iron Industries of the United Kingdom: Comprising a Description of the Coal-fields, and of the Principal Seams of Coal with Returns of Their Produce and Its Distribution, and Analyses of Special Varieties. Also an Account of the Occurrence of Iron Ores ... and a History of the Rise and Progress of Pig Iron Manufacture Since the Year 1740, Exhibiting the Economies Introduced in the Blast Furnaces for Its Production and ImprovementC. Lockwood and Company, 1882 - 876 pages |
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acres Alumina amounted analyses annexed table anthracite appears beds black band blast furnaces Britain calcined Cannel Carbonic acid carboniferous cent charcoal clay Clunch Coal Commission coal measures coal raised coal seams Coal Strata coal-field coastwise coke collieries Constituents consumption containing Cumberland cwts deposits depth Derbyshire distribution district Durham exported Forest of Dean gives H.M. Inspectors hematite inches increased ironstone ironstone measures Ironworks Lancashire Lime limestone lode Magnesia manganese manufacture Messrs metallic iron Midland miles mills mineral Monmouthshire number of collieries number of furnaces number of persons occur output Peroxide of iron persons employed Phosphoric acid pig iron pits ports production Protoxide of iron puddling furnaces quantity of coal Railway RESULTS TABULATED returns rock sandstones Scotland seams of coal shale shire showing Shropshire Silica slack smelting South Staffordshire South Wales steam steel stone Sulphur tons of coal trace varying Vein West wrought yards yield Yorkshire
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