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THE Canadian Department of Mines has issued the usual advance chapter of the annual report dealing with the production of iron and steel in the Dominion in. 1915, and simultaneously an approximate estimate of the production of iron, steel, and coal in 1916. It appears from these statistics that the output of iron and steel has increased considerably in both years. The total production of pig-iron for 1916 is given as 1,046,×8 long tons, as against 815,870 long tons in 1915, and 699,256 long tons in 1914, the pre-war level being thus exceeded. The steel production for 1916 is also the highest on record, namely, 1,270,969 long tons of ingots and 27,356 long tons of direct castings, as against 876,591 long tons of ingots and 27,739 long tons of direct in 1915. It is very interesting to note that in 1916 flO fewer than 39,098 tons of steel were produced in the electric furnace, as against 61 tons in 1915, 50 that this new process has made important advances, andappears to have found a permanent footing in Canada. A noteworthy feature of Canadian steel manufacture is the large proportion of old scrap that is worked up, this amounting to about 55 per cent. of the pig-iron charged. The ores used in the manufacture of pig-iron in 1915 were 293,305 short tons of native ore, which, together with 623,094 short tons of Lake Supenor ore, imported from the United States, were smelted in the province of Ontario, almost wholly with coke imported also from the United States; practically all the balance of the pig-iron was produced in Nova Scotia from Wabana ore, imported from Newfoundland, the imports amounting to 802,128 short tons.
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Production of Iron and Steel in Canada . Nature 99, 17 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099017b0
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