The gold supply and prosperity . DRILLING FOR WATER, SOUTH AMERICAN GOLD FIELDS and the investment of capital in gold mining could, ina few years, place that country at the head of the goldproducers. RUSSIA Russia also has good possibilities as a gold miningcountry. The annual production is now about $22,-000,000, but Siberia, the Urals and the mountainouscountry in the southeast districts in Asiatic Russiapossess important auriferous areas only requiring theinvestment of capital to develop them into large goldfields. THE WORLDS GOLD PRODUCTION 61 ASIA Asia has never been very remarkable for i
The gold supply and prosperity . DRILLING FOR WATER, SOUTH AMERICAN GOLD FIELDS and the investment of capital in gold mining could, ina few years, place that country at the head of the goldproducers. RUSSIA Russia also has good possibilities as a gold miningcountry. The annual production is now about $22,-000,000, but Siberia, the Urals and the mountainouscountry in the southeast districts in Asiatic Russiapossess important auriferous areas only requiring theinvestment of capital to develop them into large goldfields. THE WORLDS GOLD PRODUCTION 61 ASIA Asia has never been very remarkable for its goldfields, notwithstanding that the metal occurs over alarge part of the continent and has been mined sincethe remotest times. The total annual yield is about >*- i * -»-
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