TABLE 1
CENTRAL AMERICA:  PRODUCTION OF MINERAL COMMODITIES1, 2
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Country and commodity				1999		2000		2001		2002		2003	e
BELIZE
Clays		thousand tons		600		622		557		487	r	500
Dolomite				30,000		5,272		4,525		5,500	r	5,000
Golde		grams		6,000		7,000		650	3	1,000		1,000
Limee				1,250		1,250		1,200		1,200		1,200
Limestone4		thousand tons		320	e	217		1,140	r	355	r	400
Marl		cubic meters		1,300	e	728		1,143		1,148	r	1,140
Sand and gravel5		thousand cubic meters		140	r, e	150	r, e	165	r	109	r	130
COSTA RICA
Cement		thousand tons		1,260	r	1,050	r	1,200	r	1,200	r, e	1,300
Clays, commone				415,000		418,000		420,000		420,000		419,000
Diatomite				18,000	e	34,704		26,350		26,400	e	26,450	3
Golde		kilograms		165		50	r	100		100		110
Iron and steel, semimanufacturese				80,025	3	80,000		80,000		80,000		75,000
Limee				9,800		9,800		9,000		9,900		9,900
Petroleum, refinery productse, 6		thousand 42-gallon barrels		5,480		5,500		5,500		5,500		5,450
Pumicee				8,000		8,000		8,000		8,000		8,000
Salt, marinee				37,000		37,000		37,000		37,000		36,800
Silver		kilograms		112		100		100	e	100	e	110
Stone, sand and gravel:
Crushed rock and rough stone		thousand tons		109		201		200	e	200	e	200
Limestone and calcareous materials		do.		978		905		900	e	900	e	920
Sand and gravele		do.		1,650		1,650		1,500		1,500		1,550
Sandstonee		do.		3,300		3,300		3,300		3,300		3,250
EL SALVADOR
Aluminum, metal including alloys, semimanufacturese				2,650		2,650		2,650		2,650		2,600
Cement, hydraulic				1,031		1,064		1,174		1,318		1,390
Fertilizer materials:e
Phosphatic				13,700		13,600		13,600		13,600		13,600
Other mixed materials				56,500		56,500		56,500		56,500		56,000
Gold		kilograms		71	e	--		--		--		--
Gypsume				5,600		5,600		5,600		5,600		5,600
Limestone		thousand tons		1,400	r	1,400	r	1,425	r	1,631	r	1,190
Petroleum, refinery productse, 6		thousand 42-gallon barrels		6,300		6,300		6,300		6,300		6,300
Salt, marine				33,634	r	32,444	r	31,610	r	31,552	r	31,366	3
Silver		kilograms		20		--		--		--		--
Steel, semimanufactures				33,501		40,506	r	38,502	r	48,832	r	56,900
GUATEMALA
Basalt		thousand cubic meters		--		--		243		318		936	3
Baritee				75		113		700	r, 3	100		100
Cement, hydraulic		thousand tons		1,900	r	1,960	r	2,000	r	1,800	r, e	1,900
Clays:
Bentonite				4,301		3,317		3,000	e	4,436	r	6,438	3
Kaolin				61	e	77	e	227	r	372	r	1,497	3
Unspecified				20,000	e	20,000	e	73,267	r	64,683	r	65,000
Feldspar				17,072		17,804		6,809	r	11,843	r	9,320
Gold		kilograms		4,449		4,500		4,500	e	4,500	e	4,550
Gypsum				110,173		212,109		96,817	r	80,571	r	66,981	3
Iron and steel:
Iron ore, gross weight				10,536		16,254		15,000	e	35,226	r	23,000
Steel, semimanufactures				119,056		166,453	r	201,802	r	216,108	r	226,000
Lead, metal including secondary				115	e	57	r, e	50	r	39	r	19	3
Lime, hydrated7				--	r	--	r	182	r, e	547	r	386	3
Natural gas, gross		thousand cubic meters		732		622		630	e	650	e	670
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 1--Continued
CENTRAL AMERICA:  PRODUCTION OF MINERAL COMMODITIES1, 2
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Country and commodity				1999		2000		2001		2002		2003	e
GUATEMALA--Continued
Petroleum:
Crude		thousand 42-gallon barrels		8,489		7,571		8,500	r, e	9,015	r	9,028	3
Refinery productse, 6		do.		7,300	3	7,300		7,600		7,600		7,550
Pumice		cubic meters		238,425		261,947		264,322	r	377,403	r	273,933	3
Salte				50,000		50,000		50,000		50,000		60,000
Stone, sand, and gravel:
Dolomite				23		63		87	r, e	24,881	r	613	3
Limestone		thousand tons		4,396		4,532		2,775		3,040		3,773	3
Marble:
Block		cubic meters		10,222		10,200		15,039	r	3,185	r	10,000
Chips and pieces				112,290		111,211	r	11,448	r	99,293	r	100,000
Sand and gravel5		thousand cubic meters		1,100	r, e	1,700	r, e	684	r	1,066	r	711	3
Silica sand		thousand tons		116		173		161	r	38	r	30	3
Stone, crushede				50,000		50,000		50,000		50,000		50,000
Talce				--		--		--		568	r	1,590
HONDURAS
Building materials:e
Limestone				985,743	3	1,230,478	3	1,230,000		1,230,000		1,230,000
Marble		square meters		95,000		95,000		95,000		95,000		90,000
Cadmium, Cd content of lead-zinc concentratese				75		75		75		75		60
Cement		thousand tons		1,200	r	1,284	r	1,321	r	1,360	r, e	1,400
Gold		kilograms		879		878		4,574		4,984		5,000
Gypsum				55,848		59,211		59,500		60,000	e	60,000
Iron oxide pigments				--		69,969		70,941		71,000	e	71,000
Lead, mine output, Pb content				3,764		4,805		6,750		8,128		8,000
Pozzolan				--		186,948		189,999		190,000	e	190,000
Rhyolite				--		35,680		32,700		32,700	e	33,000
Salte				25,000		25,000		25,000		25,000		26,000
Silver		kilograms		38,153		31,958		46,831		52,877		48,000
Zinc, mine output, Zn content				31,095		31,226		48,485		46,339		46,500
NICARAGUA8
Bentonite				5,280		6,490		6,000	e	6,000	e	6,300
Cement				570,000	r	530,000	r	513,793		549,403	r	590,000
Gold, mine output, Au content		kilograms		4,448		3,673		3,840	r	3,493	r	3,029	3
Gypsum and anhydrite, crude				26,880		28,170		34,369	r	28,153	r	30,642	3
Limee				58,000		58,000		55,000		56,000		55,000
Limestone:4
For cement				600,000	r	702,000	r	621,000	r	787,000	r	789,000	3
For other uses				--	r	4,540	r	8,900	r	3,310	r	1,600	3
Petroleum, refinery productse, 6		thousand 42-gallon barrels		5,600		5,650		5,650		5,650		5,700
Salt, marine				26,880		16,100	r	17,710	r	29,710	r	31,320	3
Sand and gravel5		thousand cubic meters		740	r, e	970	r, e	708	r	492	r	636
Silver, mine output, Ag content		kilograms		--	r	1,589	r	2,532	r	2,198	r	2,040	3
Stone, crushed		thousand tons		4,045	r	4,689	r	5,639	r	5,859	r	5,400
PANAMA
Cement				900,000	r	950,000	r	820,000	r	770,000	r	770,000
Clays:e, 9
For cement		cubic meters		27,000	r	165,557	r, 3	64,246	r, 3	64,000	r	64,000
For products		do.		4,400	r	4,300	r	4,300	r	4,300	r	4,300
Golde		kilograms		1,500		--	r, 3	--	r, 3	--	r	--
Limee				3,500		3,500		3,500		3,500		3,500
Petroleum, refinery productse, 6		thousand 42-gallon barrels		10,000		10,000		--		--		--
Salt, marinee				22,500		22,500		22,500		22,500		23,000
Silvere		kilograms		2,000		--	r, 3	--	r, 3	--	r	--
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 1--Continued
CENTRAL AMERICA:  PRODUCTION OF MINERAL COMMODITIES1, 2
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Country and commodity				1999		2000		2001		2002		2003	e
PANAMA--Continued
Stone, sand and gravel:e
Limestone4				275,000		939,000	r, 3	469,000	r, 3	270,000		270,000
Sand and gravel5		thousand cubic meters		1,200		1,997	r, 3	441	r, 3	1,200		1,200
eEstimated; estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits.  rRevised.  -- Zero.
1Table includes data available through April 2004.
2In addition to the commodities listed, some additional construction materials (clays, gravel, miscellaneous rock, sand, and weathered tuffs) were presumably
produced to meet domestic needs.  Available information is inadequate to make reliable estimates of output levels.
3Reported figure.
4Some figures that were reported or estimated as a volumetric measure (cubic meters) were converted to a weight measure equivalent (metric tons) by multiplying
by an average density of 2.72 for limestone.
5Some figures that were reported or estimated as a weight measure (metric tons) were converted to a volumetric measure equivalent (cubic meters) by dividing
by an average density of 2.5 for sand and gravel (mixed) to compare with figures reported in cubic meters.
6Includes aviation and motor gasoline, diesel, distillate fuel oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas.
7Reported figures for production of lime as a separate commodity in Guatemala were not received prior to 2001.
8In addition to the commodities listed, Nicaragua produced a variety of industrial minerals to meet domestic needs.  Output of these materials was not reported,
and available information is inadequate to make reliable estimates of output levels.
9Figures that were previously estimated in metric tons were converted to a volumetric equivalent (cubic meters) by dividing by an average density of 1.7 for clay
(compacted) to compare with the two figures for 2000 and 2001 reported in cubic meters.