Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-13
GOLD PRODUCTION IN 1894
United States Stands First and Australia
Second.
South Africa is Third in the List
Reduced Output of the Valu.
able Yellow Metal.

From the Engineering Mining Journal.
We have from time to time through the
year referred to the increased activity in
gold mining in this country, as well as in
other parts of the world, and have called
attention to the probability that the year
1894 would show a considerable gain in our
production Of the yellow metal. We have
now collected the statistics of our output
for the year in sufficient detail TO be able
to say that the United States still holds the
first rank among the gold producers, with
an output of nearly $41,OOO,OOO as compared
with s35,96O,000 in 1893, an advance of about
s5OO0,O00, or IA per cent.
The chief gain has been in Colorado,
where the Cripple Creek district has nearly
doubled it's output, and Leadville has also
added an important contribution. Califor-
MIA also shows an increase in amount,
though less in proportion than Colorado
To this statement we have added below
some notes of the gold output OF other
countries from the advance reports re-
Ceived
The gold output of the Witwatersrand
district in the Trarsvaal for December is
reported at 1872, 104 ounces, the largest
monthly production ever reported. and ex-
ceeding by 1887 ounces that or september
last, which was previously the highest on
record. Thia makes the total production OF
the Witwatersrand mines for the year
2O24, 100 ounces, an amount Whlch com
pares with 1,41S,413 ounces for 1913; l,Zlu,
S65 ounces for 1892; 100 225 ounces for IND,
and 494, $50 ounces for 1890. At the usual
value of Witwatersrand gold-.SOO line
this would make the output equivalent 10
| 81 o. $50 fine ounces of gold, and its value,
S;,,.3, AZ SOL. For the other districts of the
Transvaal the December returns have not
yet been received. but estimating the
amounts for December at the same rate as
that for October and November their pro-
duct for the year would be 14,W0 ounces,
equivalent to 1920 fine ounces OF gold.
This would make the total production OF
the Transvaal for 1894 1,fSl.2oO tine ounces,
with a value Of $3,717,910. 1t is to be re-
gretted that the excellent reports made by
the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines do not
give the output in fine ounces. This is a
fault found also In many other returns.
south Africa Fields.
While showing a large increase over 1888,
this is not sufficient to put South Africa
in the first rank as gold producer, as
some of it's ardent friends predict. Its out
put for 1894 is about $S,0C0O00 below that
of the United States, which was about
| 81, 100000, and also below that of Austria
| liza, so that it will still hold third rank.
| Undoubtedly a considerable addition will
| be made to the South African production
| during the current year by the extension
| of workings on the Witwatersrand. and
| tricts in Mashonaland and Matabeleland
sCme of which will be represented in the
producing list during the present year The
| dcep-level mines On the Witwatersrand, OF
| which such high expectations are enter
| tanned. can hardly become producers be-
| fore 1896, although some of the shafts
| have already reached a considerable depth
| On the other hand, the large accumula-
lions of tailings, the working OF which
| 10y the cyanide process has added largely
| to the production during 1894, has been
| rearly used up, and the "cyanide gold
| will hereafter come from the tailings pro-
| duced in current work only.
| Gold exports from British Guiana. as
| officially reported for the year, were 129. gu
| ounces valued at S2,3lo,o91. The total eX-
ports fer 1893 were 1i2,IS9 ounces, show
| irg decrease last year of 49, Is ounces,
| or o. per cent. The actual production is
| rot yet officially reported, but as very
| nearly all the gold found is exported, the
above figure may be taken to represent
| the output, with only a small margin. The
| valuation given shows that the gold aver
| aged SO fine, so that the exports for 1921
| were equivalent to 1069TS ounces of fine
| geld.
| The total value of the gold exported
| by telegraph at f7S1 100 about 81, 935 COO
| the quantity is not given. In 1898 the gold
| exported was 110,S91 ounces, valued at
| fl21 iSs, SO that the increase last year was
| 1855, 9l7, to 81 per cent, a gain due to the
remarkable development of the Coolgardie
| almost entirely.
A Reduced Output.
| The production Of gold in Tasmania,