Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, and the
"Western Interior" group in Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. In Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Texas, and along the line of the Rocky Mountains, extensive
fields occur, producing lignite and bituminous coal. The last-named
fields are continued northward in Canada (Crow's Nest Pass field,
Vancouver Island, &c.). There is also a group of coalfields on the
Atlantic seaboard of the Dominion, principally in Nova Scotia. Coal is
known at several points in Alaska, and there are rich but little worked
deposits in Mexico.

In the southern countries coal-production is insignificant compared with
that in the northern hemisphere. In South America coal is known in
Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, northern Chile, Brazil (chiefly in the
south), and Argentina (Parana, the extreme south of Patagonia, and
Tierra del Fuego), but in no country are the workings extensive. Africa
is apparently the continent poorest in coal, though valuable workings
have been developed at various points in British South Africa, _e.g._ at
Kronstad, &c., in Cape Colony, at Vereeniging, Boksburg and elsewhere in
the Transvaal, in Natal and in Swaziland. Australia possesses fields of
great value, principally in the south-east (New South Wales and
Victoria), and in New Zealand considerable quantities of coal and
lignite are raised, chiefly in South Island.

The following table, based on figures given in the _Journal of the Iron
and Steel Institute_, vol. 72, will give an idea of the coal production
of the world:--

Table IV.

Europe:-- Tons.
United Kingdom 1905 236,128,936
Germany, coal " 121,298,167
" lignite " 52,498,507
France " 35,869,497
Belgium " 21,775,280
Austria, coal " 12,585,263
" lignite " 22,692,076
Hungary, coal 1904 1,031,501
" lignite " 5,447,283
Spain 1905 3,202,911
Russia 1904 19,318,000
Holland " 466,997
Bosnia, lignite 1905 540,237
Rumania " 1903 110,000
Servia 1904 183,204
Italy, coal and lignite 1905 412,916
Sweden " 322,384
Greece, lignite 1904 466,