Except Germany, Czechoslovakia led Europe in the production of bituminous coal and the mines are practically all in the Sudeten areas, The output in 1937 was estimated at 18,000,000 tons, of which 17,000,000 were mined in Sudeten districts. Large anthracite coalfields are located in the territory ceded to Poland although four anthracite mines are in the Hultschin district obtained by Germany.
The important uranium and radium ores at Saint Joachimsthal have fallen into German possession, this district being second only to Belgian Congo in the production of radium. Graphite deposits of note are 150 found in Sudeten districts. Of the paper, cellulose and pulp production high percentage is now im possession of the Reich, the news print paper for rotary presses being manufactured exclusively in Sudeten districts.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.