Minerals Handbook 1992-93: Statistics and Analyses of the World's Minerals Industry

ISBN-13: 9781349125661 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 319 str.

Phillip Crowson

Opis

The statistics in this book cover 48 minerals and provide information on world reserves, world mine production, reserve/production ratios, world smelter production, world capacity, consumption by country/region, end use patterns, substitutes, technical possibilities, prices, marketing arrangements.

Spis treści

Part 1 Summary tables: production and reserves by main geo-political grouping; the "adequacy" of reserves; the growth of world reserves of selected products; value of annual production; import dependence - European Community, Japan, United Kingdom and United States; the historic growth of total mine production; comparative growth rates of consumption in the 1970s - United Kingdom, European Community, Japan and United States; South Africa's shares of world reserves and production. Part 2 Detailed tables: aluminium, bauxite and alumina; antimony; arsenic; asbestos; barytes; beryllium; bismuth; boron; cadmium; chromium; cobalt; copper; fluorspar; gallium; germanium; gold; indium; industrial diamonds; iron ore; kaolin; lead; lithium; magnesium; manganese; mercury; molybdenum; nickel; niobium; phosphate; platinum group; potash; rare earth minerals and metals; rhenium; selenium; silicon; silver; sulphur; talc; tantalum; tellerium; tin; titanium; tungsten; uranium; vanadium; vermilculite; zinc; zirconium.