───────────────────────────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬────── │1910. │1911. │1912. │1913. ───────────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼────── _From British countries_ │ 24│ 1,011│ 1,100│ _From foreign countries_: │ │ │ │ Russia │ 4,167│ 2,579│ 461│ 1,778 Germany │ 5,837│ 8,786│ 1,669│ 50 France │35,149│30,449│33,969│33,149 United States │ 494│ 794│ 644│ 3,623 Colombia │ 2,037│ 4,909│ 4,552│ 3,725 Other foreign countries│ 454│ │ 158│ 315 ───────────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼────── Total: foreign countries │48,138│47,517│41,453│42,640 ───────────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼────── Grand total, oz. │48,162│48,528│42,553│42,640 ───────────────────────────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴────── ───────────────────────────┬──────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬───── │1914. │1915.│1916.│1917.│1918. ───────────────────────────┼──────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼───── _From British countries_ │ │ │ 28│ 458│ 265 _From foreign countries_: │ │ │ │ │ Russia │ │ 7│ │ │ Germany │ 3│ │ │ │ France │12,592│1,878│1,666│ 632│ 596 United States │ 257│1,265│ 191│2,716│ Colombia │ 2,296│ 139│ │ │ Other foreign countries│ 40│ 59│ 79│ │ 362 ───────────────────────────┼──────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼───── Total: foreign countries │15,188│3,348│1,936│3,348│ 958 ───────────────────────────┼──────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼───── Grand total, oz. │15,188│3,348│1,964│3,806│1,223 ───────────────────────────┴──────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴───── [16] About 7 per cent. of the Russian and one-half of the Colombian outputs were sold to England during the war, as well as most of the Australian and Indian production. Much of this metal was refined in the United States. According to J. E. Orchard[17], the commercial control (financial) of the world’s output of platinum of 267,233 oz. of 1913 was divided as follows: France, 74 per cent.; Russia, 18 per cent.; United States, 4 per cent.; British Empire, 2 per cent.; other countries, 2 per cent.; whilst the political control (territorial) was divided as follows: Russia, 93 per cent.; Colombia, 6 per cent.; other countries, 1 per cent. ASIA INDIA Traces of platinum and iridium have been noticed in association with the gold obtained from native workings at Bonai City. The gold occurs in a deposit of iron oxide, which forms the cementing material in a hard stratum of quartz pebbles. The oxide is separated by pounding, and then washed away to extract the gold. The proportion of platinum to gold is probably less than 1 to 20.