TABLE 1
ALGERIA:  PRODUCTION OF MINERAL COMMODITIES 1
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Commodity2, 3				1999		2000		2001		2002		2003p
METALS
Cadmium, refinede				10		10		10		10		10
Gold		kilograms		--		--		300		369		365
Iron and steel:
Iron ore, gross weight		thousand tons		1,336		1,645		1,291		1,202		1,378
Metal:
Pig irone		do.		1,000		1,100		1,250		1,300	r	1,300
Steel, crude		do.		758		842		850	e	1,091	r	1,051
Lead:
Concentrate, Pb content				1,215		818		891		1,105		1,108
Metal, refinede				5,700		6,100		6,000		6,000		6,100
Mercury		kilograms		240,327		215,625		320,091		307,119		17,571
Silvere		do.		1,400		1,400		1,700		1,700		1,700
Zinc:
Concentrate, Zn content				9,808		10,452		10,693		8,576		5,201
Metal, smelter outpute				32,200		34,000		34,000		26,136	4	32,200
INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
Barite, crude				50,510		51,925		43,020		51,773		45,649
Cement, hydraulice, 5		thousand tons		7,500		8,300		8,300		9,000		9,000
Clays:
Bentonite				15,491		22,708		21,286		27,178		25,346
Fuller's earth				2,489		3,431		3,254		3,521		2,573
Kaolin				16,833		11,616		13,356		9,505		16,591
Diatomite				2,563		2,500	e	2,863		3,185		2,595
Feldspar				2,820		707		--		--		--
Gypsum6		thousand tons		1,316		1,341		281		322		350
Lime, hydraulice				76,000		96,000		100,000		100,000		100,000
Marble								209		392		495
Blocks		thousand cubic meters		17		25		33		23		24
Crushed stone				67,090		81,907		109,872		108,682		105,249
Slabs		thousand square meters		280		250		224		215		180
Nitrogen, N content of ammonia7				455,400		457,900		482,000	r	563,100		578,200
Phosphate rock:
Gross weight		thousand tons		1,096		877		939		740		905
P2O5 contente		do.		340		265		280		230		280
Pozzolan e				350,000		360,000		362,000		451,000		500,000
Salt, brine and sea salt				163,748		182,000		184,682	r	205,321	r	191,017
Sand		thousand cubic meters		200		200		209		392		495
Sulfur, S content of sulfuric acide				16,300		11,800		7,200		19,300		20,000
MINERAL FUELS AND RELATED MATERIALS
Coke		thousand tons		400	e	409		441		450	e	450	e
Gas, natural:
Gross		million cubic meters		128,783		139,499		140,740		139,998		137,634
Dry8		do.		97,151		100,092		102,332		101,557		98,754
Helium, liquide		do.		16	4	10		16	r	17		19
Methanol				NA		NA		94,030		91,470		115,690
Natural gas plant liquids		thousand 42-gallon barrels		85,411		95,619		99,800		100,850		98,100
Petroleum:
Crude, including condensate		do.		457,158		476,288		464,600		499,890		580,000
Refinery products:
Liquefied petroleum gas		do.		6,191		6,322		6,600		6,870	r	7,050
Gasoline		do.		20,310		17,964		17,390		16,540		16,150
Naphtha		do.		32,757		32,124		34,370		33,690		34,230
Kerosene and jet fuel		do.		10,428		12,458		11,510		10,770	r	10,170
Distillate fuel oil		do.		48,132		44,820		49,790		45,100	r	46,150
Lubricants		do.		777		770		790		875		980
Residual fuel oil		do.		37,842		36,803		42,930		38,850	r	41,150
Other		do.		2,884		3,044		2,850		2,690		2,120
Total		do.		159,321		154,305		166,230		155,385	r	158,000
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 1--Continued
ALGERIA:  PRODUCTION OF MINERAL COMMODITIES 1
eEstimated; estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.   pPreliminary.
rRevised.  NA Not Available.  -- Zero.
1Table includes data available through July 23, 2004.
2In addition to the commodities listed, secondary aluminum, secondary lead, and secondary copper may be produced in small
quantities; crude construction materials for local consumption, and copper, fertilizer, marble slabs, methanol, perlite, urea,
and volcanic tuff are produced, but available information is inadequate to make estimates of production levels.
3In addition to the commodities listed, about 700 metric tons per year of caustic soda had been estimated to be produced.
4Reported figure.
5Erroneous cement units (metric tons instead of thousand tons) were used in previous Algeria production tables published
during the period 1997 to 2000.
6Includes about 50,000 metric tons per year of plaster.
7Additional nitrogen was produced by Helios s.p.a., which is a helium liquids production company.  In 1999, the last year for
which data are available, Helios produced more than 68,000 42-gallon barrels of liquid nitrogen and 14 million cubic meters
of gaseous nitrogen.
8Excludes gas used in reinjection, flaring, venting, and transmission losses.