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Poland's Ore Position Poland has made great efforts to improve home supplies of iron and steel making raw materials and to develop industrial districts away from the vulnerable frontier areas.
In 1929 some 51 per cent. of the total ore consumption of 1,200,000 tons. of iron ore was drawn from Polish sources. In 1937, the domestic proportion rose to 58 per cent. of the 1,200,000 tons required. The ore mined at present is largely brown ore, often mixed with sand and lime, and with an iron content varying between 30 and 40 per cent.
It is reported that extensive deposits of workable high-grade ore have been located in Galicia and in the adjacent province of Kielce. The tonnage of iron ore raised in Poland in 1929 was 660,000 tons, against 870,- 000 tons last year.
Imports or iron-ore into Poland reached about 550,000 tons in both 1929 and 1937. In the latter year Sweden provided 31 per cent, Russia
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