TABLE 3
GREECE:  STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003
(Thousand metric tons unless otherwise specified)
    Major operating companies and       Annual
Commodity   major equity owners   Location of main facilities   capacity
Alumina     Aluminium de Grèce S.A. (Pechiney of   Agios Nikolaos, Boeotia area    
        France, 60%)       750
Aluminum     do.   do.   160
Asbestos     Hellenic Mineral Mining Co. S.A.   Mines at Zidani, near Kozani   100
Barite, BaSO4     Silver & Baryte Ores Mining Co. S.A. (S&B) Milos Island   1
        (Eliopoulos-Kyriakopoulos Group)        
Bauxite     do.   Mines at Phocis, plants at Phocis and Itea 2,000
Do.       Eleusis Bauxites Mines, S.A.   Mines near Drama, Itea, and Phthiotis-Phocis 300
Do.       do.   Plants in Aghia Marina, Drama, and Itea 400
Do.       Delphi-Distomon S.A.; Hellenic Bauxites of Open cast mines at Delphi-Distomon area 500
        Distomon S.A. (Aluminium de Grèce S.A.)      
Bentonite:              
Crude   Mediterranean Bentonite Co. S.A. (Industria Surface mines on Milos Island 20
        Chemica Mineraria S.p.A., Italy)        
Do.       Mykobar Mining Co. S.A. (Silver & Baryte Mines at Adamas, Milos Island   300
        Ores Mining Co. S.A.)        
Do.       do.   Plants at Adamas, Milos Island   200
Do.       S&B Industrial Minerals, S.A.   Mines at Adamas,  Milos Island   600
         (Eliopoulos-Kyriakopoulos Group)        
Processed     do.   Plant at Voudia Bay, Milos Island   400
Cement     Halkis Cement Co. S.A. (Blue Circle   Micro-Vathi plant, west-central   3,000
        Industries Plc., 72.65%)   Euboea Island    
Do.       Halyps Cement S.A. (Ciments Frainçais,   Paralia Aspropyrgos plant, Athens   800
        France)        
Do.       Heracles General Cement Co. S.A. (Blue   Plant at Milaki   1,900
        Circle Industries Plc., 54.48%)        
Do.       do.   Plant at Volos   4,600
Do.       Titan Cement Co. S.A.   Elefsis plant, Athens area   400
Do.       do.   Kamari plant, Boeotia   2,600
Do.       do.   Patras plant, northern Peloponnesus   1,900
Do.       do.   Salonica plant, Salonica   1,650
Chromite     Financial-Mining-Industrial and Shipping Tsingeli Mines and plant near Volos   25
        Corp. (FIMISCO) (IRO)        
Ferroalloys, ferronickel, Ni content   General Mining & Metallurgical Co. S.A. Larymna metallurgical plant   25
        (Larco) (IRO)        
Gold, Au in concentrate kilograms   TVX Hellas (TVX Gold Inc., Canada)   Kassandra Mines, Olympias   5,000
Gypsum     Lava Mining & Quarrying Co. S.A.   Altsi, Crete Island   500
Do.       Titan Cement Co. S.A.   do.   280
Hunite/hydromagnesite     Microfine S.A.   Mines in Kozani Basin   100
Lead, mine, Pb in concentrate     TVX Hellas (TVX Gold Inc., Canada)   Kassandra Mines (Olympias, Stratoni)   30
            northeastern Chalkidiki    
Lignite     Public Power Corporation (Government) Aliveri Mine, Euboea Island   420
Do.       do.   Megalopolis Mine, central Peloponnesus 7,000
Do.       do.   Ptolemais Mine, near Kozani   28,000
Magnesite, concentrate     Viomagn-Fimisco Ltd. (Violignit S.A., 65%, Mines at Gerorema, Kakavos, and   250
        and Alpha Ventures, 35%)      Mantoudhi, northern Euboea Island    
Do.       Grecian Magnesite S.A.   Mine and plant at Yerakini, Chalkidiki   200
Manganese, battery-grade MnO2     Eleusis Bauxite Mines Mining, Industrial   Nevrokopi, Drama   10
and Shipping S.A. [National Bank of
        Greece (OAE)]        
Marble, slab cubic meters   Aghia Marina Marble Ltd.   Pallini   100,000
Do.   do.   Chris G. Karantanis & Sons Co.   Korinthos   60,000
Natural gas million cubic meters   Public Petroleum Corporation (Government) Prinos offshore gasfield and oilfield, east 125
    per day       of Thasos Island    
Nickel, ore     Larco (IRO)   Agios Ioannis Mines near Larymna   500
Do.       do.   Mines at Euboea Island   2,500
 
TABLE 3--Continued
GREECE:  STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003
(Thousand metric tons unless otherwise specified)
    Major operating companies and       Annual
Commodity   major equity owners   Location of main facilities   capacity
Nitrogen, N content of ammonia   Phosphoric Fertilizers S.A.   Nea Karvall   150
Perlite     S&B Industrial Minerals, S.A.   Mines on Kos and Milos Islands; plant   300
         (Eliopoulos-Kyriakopoulos Group)   at Pireaus    
Do.       Otavi Minen Hellas S.A. (Otavi Minen AG,   Milos Island   150
        Germany)        
Do.       Bouras Co.   Kos Island   50
Petroleum, refined 42-gallon barrels   Hellenic Aspropyrgos Refinery S.A.   Aspropyrgos   95,000
    per day            
Do.   do.   Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth Refineries S.A. Aghii Theodori, Corinth   140,000
Do.   do.   Petrola Hellas S.A.   Eleusis   100,000
Do.   do.   Thessaloniki Refining Co. A.E.   Thessaloniki   76,000
Pozzolan (Santorin earth)     Lava Mining & Quarrying Co. (Heracles   Xylokeratia, Milos Island   600
        General Cement Co. S.A.)        
Do.       Titan Cement Co. S.A.   do.   300
Pumice     Lava Mining & Quarrying Co. (Heracles   Yali Island   100
        General Cement Co. S.A.)        
Quartz      do.   Adamas, Milos Island   150
Steel, crude     Halyvourgia Thessalias S.A. (Manessis   Steelworks at Volos   1,500
Bros. and Voyatzis S.A., 65%; National
Investment Bank for Industrial
        Development, 35%)        
Do.       Halyvourgiki, Inc.   Steelworks at Eleusis   1,200
Do.       Hellenic Steel Co.   Steelworks at Thessaloniki   1,000
Do.       Corinth Pipeworks   Steelworks at Thisvi   680
Do.       Sidenor S.A. (also known as Halivourgia   Steelworks at Volos   600
        Voriou Ellados S.A.)        
Do.       do.   Steelworks at Corinth   245
Zeolite     S&B (Eliopoulos-Kyriakopoulos Group)   Mine at Pendalofos; plant at Ritsona   100
                 
Zinc, mine, Zn in concentrate     TVX Hellas S.A. (TVX Gold Inc., Canada) Kassandra Mines (Olympias and Stratoni), 30
            northeastern Chalkidiki