§ 93. Mr. Tinkerasked the Minister of Fuel and Power how many open-cast mines are working now; how many have been finished since the war started and the total amount of coal mined from them?
Major Lloyd GeorgeOn 8th September there were 72 working sites and 73 from which coal had been worked out, from all of which the total production amounted to 4,074,879 tons. These figures do not include any sites worked by open-cast methods under private enterprise.
§ Mr. FosterCould the Minister say the cost per ton of this output of coal?