TABLE 4 |
HUNGARY: STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003 |
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(Thousand metric
tons unless otherwise specified) |
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Annual |
Commodity |
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Major operating companies |
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Location of main facilities |
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capacity |
Alumina |
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Hungarian Aluminum |
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Ajka Timfoldgyar plant, about 120 kilometers |
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400 |
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Industrial Corp. (HUNGALU) |
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southwest of Budapest, near Lake Balaton |
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Do. |
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do. |
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Almasfuzito Timfoldgyar plant near the |
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240 |
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Czech Republic
border, 63 kilometers |
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northwest of Budapest |
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Do. |
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do. |
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Moson-Magyarovar plant, in northwestern |
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30 |
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corner of Hungary, about 12 kilometers |
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from Austrian and Czechoslovak borders |
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Aluminum,
primary |
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do. |
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Inota plant, near Varpalota, 75 kilometers |
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46 |
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southwest of Budapest |
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Bauxite |
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Hungarian Aluminum Industrial
Corp. |
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Bakony District, extending
roughly 100 |
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1,500 |
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(HUNGALU) (Bakony Bauxite Mines Ltd.) |
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kilometers northeast along Lake Balaton |
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Cement |
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Belpafatvalvi Cement es Meszipari Rt |
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Belapatfalva, near Miskolc, 125 kilometers |
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1,100 |
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[Heidelberger & Schwenk (Germany) and |
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northeast of Budapest |
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Hungarian Group |
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Do. |
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Beremend Cement es
Meszipari Rt |
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Beremend, 45 kilometers south of Pecs |
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1,090 |
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[Heidelberger & Schwenk (Germany), 100%] |
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Do. |
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Dunai Cement es Meszmu Kft |
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Vac, 50 kilometers north of Budapest |
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1,200 |
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[Heidelberger & Schwenk (Germany), 100%] |
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Do. |
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Hejocsabai Cement es Meszipari Rt |
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Hejoscaba, 150 kilometers northeast of |
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1,450 |
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[Holderbank (Germany) and Hungarian Group] |
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Budapest |
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Do. |
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Labatlani Cementipari kft |
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Labatlan, 20 kilometers north of Tatabanya |
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550 |
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[Holderbank (Germany), 100%] |
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Clays |
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Agyag-Asvany Kft |
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Felsopeteny, one underground and two open pit |
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35 |
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[Navan Resources PLC (Ireland)] |
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mines and a 5,000-metric-tons-per-year |
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processing plant.
Products are ball clay,
kaolin, |
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and refractory clay |
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Coal: |
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Bituminous and lignite |
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Magyar Szenbanyaszati Troszt (MSZT) |
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Tatabanya and Oroszlany coal mining region, |
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8,900 |
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(Hungarian Coal Mining Trust) |
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45 kilometers west of Budapest |
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Do. |
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do. |
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Mecsek coal
mining region, near Pecs and |
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3,100 |
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Komlo, north of the Yugoslav border |
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Do. |
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do. |
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Borsod coal mining region, 130 kilometers |
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5,200 |
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northeast of Budapest |
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Lignite |
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do. |
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Thorez opencast mine at Visonta, 80 |
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7,000 |
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kilometers northeast of Budapest |
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Manganese |
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Orszagos Erc-es Asvanybanyak |
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Urkut manganese ore mines, 120 kilometers |
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160 |
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(National Ore and Mineral Mines) |
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southwest of Budapest |
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Natural gas |
million cubic feet |
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Hungarian Oil and Gas Co. (MOL) |
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Szeged and Algyo
gasfields, southern |
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152,000 |
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Hungary |
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Do. |
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|
do. |
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Hajduszoboszo
gasfields, 180 kilometers |
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50,000 |
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east of Budapest |
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Do. |
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do. |
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Smaller gasfields are Szank, Kardoskut, Bekes, |
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39,000 |
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Berefurdo, and others |
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Perlite |
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Perlit
92 Kft [Navan Resources PLC (Ireland) |
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Palhaza, northeastern Hungary; open pit |
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150 |
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and Hungarian Grouip |
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mine and processing plant |
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Petroleum: |
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Crude |
million |
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Hungarian Oil and Gas Co. (MOL) |
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Szeged-Algyo
Field, near Romanian-Yugoslav |
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7 |
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42-gallon barrels |
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border; 50% of total capacity |
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Refined |
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Subsidiaries of Hungarian Oil and Gas
Co. (MOL): |
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Do. |
do. |
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Danube Petroleum Refining Co. |
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Szazhalombatta |
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55 |
Do. |
do. |
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Tisza Petroleum Refining Co. |
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Leninavaros |
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22 |
Do. |
do. |
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Zala Petroleum Refining Co. |
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Zalaegerszeg |
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4 |
Silica |
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Uveg-Asvany
Kft. [Navan Resources PLC |
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Mine and plant at Fehevaresugo |
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660 |
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(Ireland) and Hungarian Group] |
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Steel |
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Dunaferr Dunai Vasmu Rt |
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60 kilometers south of Budapest |
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1,400 |
Do. |
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OAM-Ozdi Acelmuvek Kft |
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120 kilometers northeast of Budapest |
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360 |
Do. |
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DAM-Steel |
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Diosgyoer, 145 kilometers northeast of
Budapest |
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850 |
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