TABLE 1
JAPAN:  PRODUCTION OF MINERAL COMMODITIES1
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Commodity			1999		2000		2001		2002		2003p
METALS
Aluminum:
Alumina	thousand tons		335		369		331		333		330	e
Aluminum hydroxide	do.		737		782		739		724		740	e
Metal:
Primary:
Regular grades	do.		11		7		7		6		6	e
High-purity	do.		35		41		27		40		44
Secondary2	do.		1,158		1,214		1,171		1,239		1,200	e
Antimony:
Oxide			10,348		11,051		8,789		9,052		8,235
Metal			178		146		101		183		121
Arsenic, high-puritye			110		100		100		100		100
Bismuth			481		520		551		474		513
Cadmium, refined			2,567		2,472		2,460		2,444		2,509
Chromium, metale			700		750		1,350		1,600		1,500
Cobalt, metal			247		311		350		354		379
Copper:
Mine output, Cu content			1,038		1,211		744		--		--
Metal:
Blister and anode:
Primary			1,256,276		1,331,352		1,328,489		1,317,291		1,343,353
Secondary			133,188		149,282		139,764		182,069		172,724
Total			1,389,464		1,480,634		1,468,253		1,499,360		1,516,077
Refined:
Primary			1,215,248		1,290,091		1,287,165		1,211,111		1,251,728
Secondary			126,301		147,260		138,526		189,968		178,637
Total			1,341,549		1,437,351		1,425,691		1,401,079		1,430,365
Gallium, metal:
Primarye			12		14		8		8		9
Secondary			47		56		62	r	80	r	83
Germanium:
Oxidee			10		10		10		10		10
Metal	kilograms		765		1,809		1,615		803		621
Gold:
Mine output, Au content	do.		9,405		8,400		7,815		8,615		8,143
Metal:
Primary	do.		147,719		146,061		155,826		144,748		161,399
Secondary3	do.		20,107		19,280		19,831		21,160	r	22,549
Total	do.		167,826		165,341		175,657		165,908	r	183,948
Indium, metal	do.		40,465		55,078		55,000	e	60,000	r	70,000
Iron and steel:
Iron ore and iron sand concentrate:
Gross weight			1,450		1,454		750		700	e	700	e
Fe content			589		523		258		240	e	240	e
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 1--Continued
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(Metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Commodity			1999		2000		2001		2002		2003p
METALS--Continued
Iron and steel--Continued:
Metal:
Pig iron and blast furnace ferroalloys	thousand tons		74,520		81,071		78,836		80,979		82,091
Electric-furnace ferroalloys:
Ferrochrome			119,777		130,074		111,167		91,937		19,427
Ferromanganese			315,152		337,694		368,293		356,717		371,831
Ferronickel			332,293		367,181		367,739		370,973		369,099
Ferrosilicon			1,452		--		--		--		--
Silicomanganese			65,744		67,926		62,238		70,965		58,043
Other:
Ferromolybdenum			3,391		3,699		3,485		2,375		2,691
Ferrotungsten			43		42		109		9		12
Ferrovanadium			3,349		4,108		3,613		3,592		3,491
Unspecified			6,077		7,171		5,733		6,376		3,813
Total			847,278		917,895		922,377		902,944		828,407
Steel, crude	thousand tons		94,192		106,444		102,866		107,745		110,511
Semimanufactures, hot-rolled:
Ordinary steels	do.		73,221		83,044	r	78,927		80,838	r	81,769
Special steels	do.		14,224		15,747		15,835		17,451	r	18,735
Lead:
Mine output, Pb content			6,074		8,835		4,997		5,723		5,660
Metal, refined:
Primary			125,514		129,469		127,358		107,744		105,460
Secondary			167,915		182,209		175,088		178,016		189,831
Total			293,429		311,678		302,446		285,760		295,291
Magnesium, metal, secondarye			7,732	4	10,000		10,000		9,000		10,000
Manganese, oxide			57,993		63,379		51,095		45,867		49,115
Molybdenum, metal			586		626		610		465		561
Nickel metal:
Refined			30,481		36,230		32,526		32,303		34,991
Ni content of nickel oxide sinter			34,482		47,020		49,600		48,950		52,700
Ni content of ferronickel			67,166		74,753		68,113		74,418		74,804
Ni content of chemical			2,570		2,721		2,394		1,820		2,084
Total			134,699		160,724		152,633		157,491		164,579
Platinum-group metals:
Palladium, metal	kilograms		5,354		4,712		4,805		5,618		5,500	e
Platinum, metal	do.		737		782		791		762		770	e
Rare-earth oxides5			5,092		5,619		5,109		5,423		5,521
Selenium, metal			546		612		735		752		734
Silicon, high-purity			3,844		4,688		4,334		4,457		5,045
Silver:
Mine output, Ag content	kilograms		94,004		103,781		80,397		81,416		78,862
Metal:
Primary	do.		2,257,888		2,384,739		2,293,028		2,259,551		2,453,204
Secondary3	do.		503,938		345,358		303,804		291,955	r	258,754
Total	do.		2,761,826		2,730,097		2,596,832		2,551,506	r	2,711,958
Tantalum, metale			85		85		90		90		95
Tellurium, metal			35		36		39		29		33
Tin, metal, smelter			568		593		668		659		662
See footnotes at end of table.
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(Metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Commodity			1999		2000		2001		2002		2003p
METALS--Continued
Titanium:
Dioxide			269,193		270,272		256,961		240,469		253,453
Metal			18,928	r	19,457	r	24,906	r	25,199	r	18,923
Tungsten, metal			4,357		4,993		3,607		3,302		3,333
Vanadium, metale, 6			250		250		250		250		250
Zinc:
Mine output, Zn content			64,263		63,601		44,519		42,851		44,574
Oxide			78,928		82,816		75,414		74,515		75,090
Metal:
Primary			524,979		541,704		541,277		547,183		532,704
Secondary			158,637		157,047		142,777		126,723		153,411
Total			683,616		698,751		684,054		673,906		686,115
Zirconium, oxide			7,660		8,540		7,930		8,650	r	8,800	e
INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
Asbestose			18,000		18,000		18,000		18,000		18,000
Brominee			15,000		15,000		15,000		20,000		20,000
Cement, hydraulic	thousand tons		80,120		81,097		76,550		71,828		68,766
Clays:
Bentonite			428,247		415,115		405,738		437,772	r	425,945	e
Fire clay, crude			558,110		506,314		475,665		480,000	e	460,000	e
Kaolin			53,092		25,739		19,976		11,756	r	12,409
Diatomitee			190,000		190,000		180,000		180,000		185,000
Feldspar and related materials:e
Feldspar			52,000		52,000		50,000		50,000		50,000
Aplite			330,000		330,000		310,000		403,000	r	300,000
Gypsum	thousand tons		5,549		5,917		5,874		5,644		5,764
Iodine			6,152		6,157		6,643		6,548		6,524
Lime, quicklime	thousand tons		7,594		8,106		7,586		7,420		7,953
Nitrogen, N content of ammonia	do.		1,385		1,410		1,318		1,192		1,061
Perlitee			260,000		250,000		255,000		250,000		250,000
Salt, all types	thousand tons		1,327		1,374		1,358		1,282	r	1,263
Silica sand	do.		6,088		6,121		5,768		4,893	r	4,699
Sodium compounds, n.e.s.:
Soda ash			721,752		669,203		461,204		410,000	r	400,000	e
Sulfate, anhydrous			174,139		163,057		146,780		137,713		132,807
Stone, crushed:
Dolomite	thousand tons		3,648		3,539		3,389		3,450		3,579
Limestone	do.		180,193		185,569		182,255		170,166	r	163,565
Stone, quartzite	do.		15,548		15,578		14,213		13,568	r	12,838
Sulfur:
S content of pyrite	do.		41		30		30		20		20
Byproduct of metallurgy	do.		1,363		1,384		1,319		1,326		1,281
Byproduct of petroleum	do.		2,054		2,071		2,024		1,865		1,951
Talc and related materials:
Talce			50,000		50,000		45,000		40,000		40,000
Pyrophyllite			694,317		692,998		623,097		600,000	e	600,000	e
Vermiculitee			15,000		15,000		15,000		15,000		15,000
See footnotes at end of table.
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JAPAN:  PRODUCTION OF MINERAL COMMODITIES1
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Commodity			1999		2000		2001		2002		2003p
MINERAL FUELS AND RELATED MATERIALS
Carbon black	thousand tons		761		788		742		755		788
Coal, bituminous7	do.		3,906		3,126		3,198		1,367		1,400	e
Coke including breeze, metallurgical	do.		36,473		38,394		38,402		38,417		38,544
Gas, natural:
Gross8	million cubic meters		2,280		2,453		2,521		2,571		2,844
Marketed	do.		2,362		2,507		2,602		2,662		3,011
Petroleum:
Crude	thousand 42-gallon barrels		4,592		4,656		4,782		4,548		5,161
Refinery products:
Gasoline:
Aviatione	do.		104		45		40		40		50
Other	do.		353,730		356,530		364,714		364,129		367,687
Asphalt and bitumen	do.		33,909	r	33,366	r	33,151	r	31,537	r	32,586
Distillate fuel oil	do.		280,122		268,022		261,851		250,932		242,311
Jet fuel	do.		65,732		66,828		67,320		65,263		60,013
Kerosene	do.		167,744		175,399		176,655		169,472		177,963
Liquefied petroleum gas	do.		56,504	r	57,251	r	59,942	r	53,593	r	53,107
Lubricants	do.		16,939		16,677		16,304		16,630		16,314
Naphtha	do.		113,080		112,935		116,122		119,298		122,355
Paraffin, wax	do.		860	r	855	r	822	r	833	r	915
Petroleum coke	do.		3,710		4,274	r	4,700		4,549	r	4,000
Refinery fuel and lossese, 9	do.		150,000		150,000		150,000		150,000		150,000
Residual fuel oil	do.		435,916		429,153		409,780		398,673		435,763
Unfinished oilse	do.		50,000		50,000		50,000		50,000		50,000
Total10	do.		1,730,000		1,720,000		1,710,000		1,670,000		1,710,000
eEstimated; estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.  pPreliminary.  rRevised.  -- Zero.
1Table includes data available through October 27, 2004.
2Includes unalloyed and alloyed ingot.
3Includes recovered from scrap and waste.
4Reported figure.
5Includes oxide of cerium, europium, gadolinium, lanthanum, neodymium, praseodymium, samarium, terbium, and yttrium.
6Represents metal content of vanadium pentoxide recovered from petroleum residues, ashes, and spent catalysts.
7Includes small amount of anthracite in 1998-2001.  All major coal mines had closed by January 2002, but 12 smaller mines were still in operation in 2003.
8Includes output from gas wells and coal mines.
9May include some additional unfinished oils.
10Data are rounded to three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.
Sources:  Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry—Yearbook of Iron and Steel, Non-ferrous Metal, and Fabricated Metals Statistics, 2003; Yearbook of
Chemical Industries Statistics, 2003; Yearbook of Ceramics and Building Materials Statistics, 2003; and Yearbook of Mineral Resources and Petroleum
Products Statistics, 2003.  Japan Aluminum Association—Aluminum Statistics, 2003.  Arumu Publishing Co. Ltd.—Industrial Rare Metals Annual
Review No. 120, 2004.