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IX. MINING INDUSTRY AND METAL PRODUCTION Op sWeDen.
proprietors at their works; and spent considerable sums on the purchase of mining
literature as well as on the publication of such literature. Ever since 1817, the
institute has also published its highly reputed journal, »Annals of the Iron Institute)
(Järnkontorets Annaler). On the whole, a very considerable share of the credit
is due to the Iron Institute for the high standing which Swedish iron industry
during the last hundred years has unceasingly striven to attain.
The Iron Institute has had no support from the State except during the
first period of its existence, when the iron work proprietors received the right of
raising money in the Bank of Sweden on publicly weighed iron, a provision
which was since amended in so far that the Institute during the years 1818/70
enjoyed a credit of 900,000 kronor at 4 % interest with this bank. Excepting at
one occasion of no importance, dividends have not been given to the members.
At the expiration of 1902, the Iron Institute had, in round figures, a
capital of 4 million kronor, a Reserve Fund of 1 million kronor, and a
so-called General Fund of l is million, thus a total amount of over 6 million kronor.
Instrnction with regard to this industry is now being given at
one higher and two lower mining schools. The Higher Mining school
was instituted in 1822 at Falun, but in 1868 it was removed to
Stockholm and united with the Technical High School, under whose direction
the Mining school stands, although it has its own principal.
Four regular teachers are engaged at the school, namely professors of
metallurgy and the art of smelting, the science of mining and mining mechanics;
as well as a lecturer on metallurgy and mining chemistry. Instruction is given
in mining chemistry and general and special metallurgy, with an extended course
in the metallurgy of iron; further, instruction concerning ore and coal deposits
science of mining, and enriching, and in everything pertaining to mining mechanics,
such as the construction of water-works, hammer-mills, rolling-mills, blast-apparatus,
hoisting-engines, etc. The course lasts nearly 1 1/s year, and instruction is
free. Concerning the requirements for admission etc., as well as preparatory
instruction, see under the Technical High School, page 344. The number of
pupils in 1903 amounted to 16, besides 51 pupils in prepatory courses at the
Technical High School. The Mining school enjoys an annual State grant of about
23,000 kronor, and a sum of 15,000 kronor a year from the Iron Institute for
the practical instruction of pupils in the iron industry and mining, at worts
and mines.
The Lower Mining school» are situated in Falun and Filipstad.
The Falun School was established upon the removal of the former
higher school to Stockholm (see above); the Filipstad School was
established in 1830. Both these schools have for their object the
training of foremen mine-captains, a. o. The subjects of instruction
are the same as at the Mining school in Stockholm, but admission is
easier and the courses are smaller. The schools are supported by a
State grant and by contributions from the Iron Institute.
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