TABLE 2
JAPAN:  STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003
(Thousand metric tons unless otherwise specified)
			Major operating companies				Annual
Commodity			and major equity owners		Location of main facilities		capacity
Cement			Aso Cement Co. Ltd.		Tagawa and Kanda, Fukuoka Prefecture		2,400
Do.			Daiichi Cement Co. Ltd.		Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture		1,169
Do.			Denki Kagaku K.K.		Omi, Niigata Prefecture		2,762
Do.			Hachinohe Cement Co. Ltd.		Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture		1,533
Do.			Hitachi Cement Co. Ltd.		Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture		941
Do.			Mitsubishi Materials Corp.		Higashidori, Shimokita-gun, Apmori Prefecture;		13,467
					Higashiyama, Higashiiwai-gun, Iwate Prefecture;
					Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture; Kurosaki, Kyushu,
					and Higashitani, Fukuoka Prefecture
Do.			Mitsui Mining Co. Ltd.		Togawa, Fukuoka Prefecture		2,075
Do.			Myojo Cement Co. Ltd.		Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture		2,482
Do.			Nippon Steel Chemical Co. Ltd.		Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture		855
Do.			Nittetsu Cement Co. Ltd.		Muroran, Hokkaido Prefecture		1,589
Do.			Ryukyu Cement Co. Ltd.		Yabu, Nago, Okinawa Prefecture		722
Do.			Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co. Ltd.		Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture; Aso, Tochigi		14,402
					Prefecture; Motosu, Gifu Prefecture; Sakata,
					Shiga Prefecture; Ako, Hyogo Prefecture; and
					Susaki, Kochi Prefecture
Do.			Taiheiyo Cement Corp.		Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture; Chichibu, Kumagaya,		29,904
					and Saitama, Saitama Prefecture; Fujiwara,
					Mie Prefecture; Saiki and Tsukumi, Oita
					Prefecture; Kamiiso, Hokkaido Prefecture;
					Tosa, Kochi Precture; and Kawara, Fukuoka
					Prefecture
Do.			Tokuyama Cement Co. Ltd.		Nanyo, Yamaguchi Prefecture		5,936
Do.			Tosoh Corp.		Shin Nanyo, Yamaguchi Prefecture		2,869
Do.			Tsuruga Cement Co. Ltd.		Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture		1,710
Do.			Ube Industries Ltd.		Ube, Isa, Yamaguchi Prefecture; and Kanda,		10,736
					Fukuoka Prefecture
Coal			Kushiro Coal Mine Co. Ltd.1		Kushiro, Hokkaido Prefecture		800
Cobalt, refined	metric tons		Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd.		Niihama, Ehime Prefecture		600
Copper, refined	do.		Hibi Kyodo Smelting Co. Ltd. (Mitsui Mining and		Tamano, Okayama Prefecture		218,400
			Smelting Co. Ltd., 64%; Nittetsu Mining Co.
			Ltd., 20%; and Furukawa Co. Ltd., 16%)
Do.	do.		Mitsubishi Materials Corp.		Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture		225,600
Do.	do.		Nippon Mining and Metals Co. Ltd. (wholly owned		Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture; Saganoseki, Oita		452,400
			subsidiary of Nikko Kyodo Co. Ltd.)		Prefecture
Do.	do.		Onahama Smelting and Refining Co. Ltd. (Dowa		Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture		258,000
			Mining Co. Ltd., 31.15%; Furukawa Co. Ltd.,
			8.31%; Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd., 4.17%;
			Mitsubushi Materials Corp., 49.29%; Mitsubishi
			Cable Indutries, Ltd., 4.17%; and others, 2.91%)
Do.	do.		Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd.		Besshi/Toyo (Saijyo), Ehime Prefecture		300,000
Do.	do.		Kosaka Smelting and Refining Co. Ltd. (wholly		Kosaka, Akita Prefecture		72,000
			owned subsidiary of Dowa Mining Co. Ltd.)
Gold:
In concentrate	kilograms		Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd.		Hishikari, Kagoshima Prefecture		9,000
Refined	do.		Kosaka Smelting and Refining Co. Ltd. (wholly		Kosaka, Akita Prefecture		24,000
			owned subsidiary of Dowa Mining Co. Ltd.)
Do.	do.		Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd.		Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture		22,000
Do.	do.		Mitsubishi Materials Corp.		Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture		60,000
Do.	do.		Nippon Mining and Metals Co. Ltd.		Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture		30,000
Do.	do.		Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd.		Niihama, Ehime Prefecture		36,000
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 2--Continued
JAPAN:  STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003
(Thousand metric tons unless otherwise specified)
			Major operating companies				Annual
Commodity			and major equity owners		Location of main facilities		capacity
Limestone			Mitsubishi Materials Corp.		Higashitani, Fukuoka Prefecture		10,000
Do.			Nittetsu Mining Co. Ltd.		Torigatayama, Kochi Prefecture; Hanezuru,		23,000
					Tochigi Prefecture; and Shiriya, Aomori
					Prefecture
Do.			Sumikin Mining Co., Ltd.		Hachinohe Sekkai, Aomori Prefecture		5,500
Do.			Sumitomo-Osaka Cement Co. Ltd.		Ibuku, Shiga Prefecture, and Karazawa, Tochigi		4,000
					Prefecture
Do.			Shuho Mining Co., Ltd.		Sumitomo Cement Shuho, Yamaguchi Prefecture		8,200
Do.			Taiheiyo Cement Co. Ltd.		Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture; Ganji and Tsukumi,		46,000
					Oita Prefecture; Garo, Hokkaido Prefecture;
					Kawara, Fukuoka Prefecture, Tosayama,
					Kochi Prefecture; Taiheiyo Buko, Saitama
					Prefecture; and Shigeyasu, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Do.			Todaka Mining Co. Ltd.		Todaka-Tsukumi, Otia Prefecture		12,000
Do.			Ube Kosan Co. Ltd.		Ube Isa, Yamaguchi Prefecture		9,000
Iodine, crude	metric tons		Ise Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. (Asahi Glass Co.		Oami-Shirasato, and Ichinomya, Chiba		3,600
			Ltd., 52.4%; and Mitsubishi Corp., 11.2%)		Prefecture; and Sadowara, Miyazaki Prefecture
Do.	do.		Godo Shigen Sangyo Co. Ltd. (Kanto Natural Gas		Chosei, Chiba Prefecture		2,400
			Development Co. Ltd., 11%; and Mitsui &
			Co. Ltd., 10%)
Do.	do.		Kanto Natural Gas Development Co. Ltd. (Mitsui		Mobara, Chiba Prefecture		1,200
			Chemicals, Inc., 21.9%; and Godo Shigen Sangyo
			Co. Ltd., 14.3%)
Do.	do.		Nihon Tennen Gas Co. Ltd. (Kanto Natural Gas		Shirako and Yokoshiba, Chiba Prefecture		1,200
			Development Co. Ltd., 50%; and Tomen
			Corp., 41%)
Do.	do.		Toho Earthtech, Inc. (Itochi Corp., 34.1%; Mitsubishi		Kurosaki, Niigata Prefecture		720
			Gas Chemical Co. Ltd., 32.2%; and Nippon Light
			Metal Co. Ltd., 31.1%)
Do.	do.		Nippoh Chemicals Co. Ltd. (Nippon Shokubai Co.		Isumi, Chiba Prefecture		720
			Ltd., 17%; Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd., 16.4%;
			and Chugai Boyeki Co. Ltd., 13.6%)
Lead:
In concentrate			Toyoha Mining Co. Ltd. (wholly owned subsidiary		Toyoha, Hokkaido Prefecture		6
			of Nippon Mining and Metals Co. Ltd.)
Refined	metric tons		Kamioka Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd.		Kamioka, Gifu Prefecture		33,600
Do.	do.		Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd.		Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture		43,800
Do.	do.		Toho Zinc Co. Ltd.		Chigirishima, Hiroshima Prefecture		120,000
Do.	do.		Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd.		Harima, Hyogo Prefecture		30,000
Do.	do.		Kosaka Smelting and Refining Co. Ltd.		Kosaka, Akita Prefecture		25,200
Do.	do.		Hosokura Smelting and Refining Mining Co.		Hosokura, Miyagi Prefecture		21,600
			Ltd. (wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi
			Materials Corp.)2
Manganese, electrolytic dioxide			Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd.		Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture		24
Do.			Tosoh Corp.		Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture		34
See footnotes at end of table.
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JAPAN:  STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003
(Thousand metric tons unless otherwise specified)
			Major operating companies				Annual
Commodity			and major equity owners		Location of main facilities		capacity
Nickel:
In ferronickel	metric tons		Hyuga Smelting Co. Ltd. (wholly owned		Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture		21,000
			subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd.)
Do.	do.		Nippon Yakin Kogyo Co. Ltd.		Oheyama, Kyoto Prefecture		12,720
Do.	do.		Pacific Metals Co. Ltd.		Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture		40,800
In oxide	do.		Tokyo Nickel Co. Ltd.		Matsuzaka, Mie Prefecture		60,000
Refined	do.		Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd.		Niihama, Ehime Prefecture		36,000
Pyrophyllite			Goto Kozan Co. Ltd.		Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture		204
Do.			Ohira Kozan Co. Ltd.		Ohira, Okayama Prefecture		132
Do.			Sankin Kogyo Co. Ltd.		Otsue, Hiroshima Prefecture		72
Do.			Shinagawa Shirenga Co. Ltd.		Mitsuishi, Okayama Prefecture		180
Do.			Shokozan Kogyosho Co. Ltd.		Yano-Shokozan, Hiroshima Prefecture		180
Do.			Showa Kogyo Co. Ltd.		Showa-Shokozan, Hiroshima Prefecture		60
Steel, crude			JFE Steel Corp. (wholly owned subsidiary of JFE		Chiba, Chiba Prefecture; Kawasaki (Keihin), Kanagawa		33,835
			Holdings Inc.)		Prefecture; Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture;
					Handa Aichi Prefecture; Fukuyama, Hiroshima
					Prefecture; and Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture
Do.			Kobe Steel Ltd.		Kakogawa and Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture		8,943
Do.			Nippon Steel Corp.		Oita, Oita Prefecture; Kawata, Fukuoka		33,199
					Prefecture; Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture;
					and Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture
Do.			Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.		Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture; Kokura,		12,820
					Fukuoka Prefecture; and Wakayama,
					Wakayama Prefecture
Titanium:
In sponge metal			Sumitomo Titanium Corp. (Sumitomo Metal		Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture		18
			Industries Ltd., 75.2%; and Kobe Steel Ltd., 24.8%)
Do.			Toho Titanium Co. Ltd. (Nippon Mining and		Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture		13
			Metals Co. Ltd., 47%; Mitsui & Co. Ltd., 20%;
			and others, 33%)
In dioxide	metric tons		Fuji Titanium Industry Co. Ltd. (Ishihara Sangyo		Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture		17,400
			Kaishia Ltd., 24.8%; and others, 75.2%)
Do.	do.		Furukawa Co. Ltd.		Osaka, Osaka Prefecture		13,200
Do.	do.		Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha Ltd.		Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture		154,800
Do.	do.		Sakai Chemical Industries Co. Ltd.		Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture		60,000
Do.	do.		Tayca Corp.		Saidaiji, Okayama Prefecture		60,000
Do.	do.		Titan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha		Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture		16,800
Do.	do.		Tohkem Products Corp.		Akita, Akita Prefecture		30,000
Zinc:
In concentrate			Toyoha Mining Co. Ltd.		Toyoha, Hokkaido Prefecture		45
Refined	metric tons		Akita Smelting Co. Ltd. (Dowa Mining Co. Ltd., 57%;		Iijima, Akita Prefecture		200,400
			Nippon Mining and Metals Co. Ltd., 24%;
			Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd., 14%; and
			Mitsubushi Materials Corp., 5%)
Do.	do.		Hachinohe Smelting Co. Ltd. (Mitsui Mining		Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture		117,600
			and Smelting Co. Ltd., 57.7%; Nippon Mining and
			Metals Co. Ltd., 27.8%; and Toho Zinc Co. Ltd.
			and Nisso Smelting Co. Ltd., 14.5%)
Do.	do.		Hikoshima Smelting Co. Ltd.		Hikoshima, Yamaguchi Prefecture		84,000
Do.	do.		Kamioka Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd.		Kamioka, Gifu Prefecture		72,000
Do.	do.		Toho Zinc Co. Ltd.		Annaka, Gunma Prefecture		139,200
Do.	do.		Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd.		Harima, Hyogo Prefecture		90,000
1Coal mining operation continued, following establishment of Kushiro Coal Mining Co. Ltd. in 2002.
2Mitsubishi Materials Corp. suspended operations of its secondary lead smelter at Hosokura in June 2002.