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PROBABLY the first point that will strike the student of mineral statistics when he sees the report now before us is the extreme dilatoriness of our Home Office. This report, which covers the mineral statistics of the world up to the end of 1912, was not published until the end of 1914; the Chief Inspector endeavours to excuse this delay by a reference to the lateness of the publication of official foreign statistics, but it is a significant fact that a private firm in the United States of America issued a large volume covering the world's mineral statistics for 1913 in July last, so that our own official production is no fewer than eighteen months behindhand. Statistics of mineral production are practically valueless unless they are published promptly, and all the information under this head afforded by the present publication has been common knowledge amongst all those interested for so long that it no longer presents any features capable of attracting attention.
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L., H. Mineral Statistics 1 . Nature 95, 158–159 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095158b0
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