in their report on the gold market for March 31 state Ihe Bank of England gold reserve against its note issue is £126,527,400, as coupared~ with £126,524,750 last. week.
The fair amount of gold which came into the market was taken for New York.
Gold to the value of $7,900,000 has been received in the United States from France this week.
It is reported that imports of gold into the United States of America from January 1 to February 20 amounted to $65,967,915, of which $30,994,000 came from Great Britain, $11,872,000 from France, $7,508,000 from China, $2,208,000 from Japan, $2,685,000 from Australia and $2,357,000 from Colombia. Exports for the same period totalled $3,685,116 of which $2,739,883 went to Mexico.
The Director of the U. S. Mint has reported that the gold supplied for the manufacture of jewellery and other industrial uses in 1919 amounted to 75.5 million dollars, in excess of the U. S. production for that year of 15 million dollars.
We understand that gold is exported from Abyssinia in the form of rings of which the shape varies. The assay is generally 940 willieres gold and 54} silver. Such a quality seems to indicate that the metal may be derived from gold dust, and suggests that Abyssinia may be a producer, though not figuring as such in official returns.
A report (based on a recent tour of investigation of Lieutenant-Colonel. Gardner), published by. the Government of Saskatchewan dealing with the resources of the northern part of that province, says:—''Great, possibilities of immense wealth await development in the northern part of Saskatchewan."
The Southern Rhodesian gold output for February, 1921, amounted to 40,816 fine ounces, as compared with 43,428 fine ounces for January, 1921, and 44,237 fine ounces for February, 1920.
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