TABLE 1
SRI LANKA:  PRODUCTION OF MINERAL COMMODITIES 1, 2
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Commodity3				1999		2000		2001		2002		2003
Cement, hydraulic		thousand tons		976		1,008		1,108		1,018		1,164
Clays:
Ball clay				26,678		27,525		24,846		28,431		33,405
Kaolin				12,573		12,230		9,403		8,613		9,073
Brick and tile claye				8,100		8,100		8,000		8,000		8,000
Clays for cement manufacturee				750		800		850		850		900
Feldspar, crude and ground				26,012		28,638		27,438		28,866		32,586
Gemstones, precious and semiprecious,
other than diamond:		value, thousands		$33,217		$71,774		$57,530		$54,604		$96,797
Cats eye		carats		48,384		48,000		NA		36,891	r	45,228
Ruby		do.		11,300		15,800		NA		23,000	r	12,934
Star ruby		do.		11,600		5,400		NA		NA		NA
Sapphire		do.		155,400		173,700		NA		344,900	r	773,547
Star sapphire		do.		298,400		280,500		NA		NA		NA
Other		do.		12,429,800		6,426,300		NA		4,110,400	r	1,828,400
Graphite, all grades				4,592		5,902		6,585		3,619		3,387
Iron and steel, metal, semimanufacturese				54,000		54,000		51,000		50,000		50,000
Mica, scrap				1,425		1,491		1,161		1,161		1,174
Petroleum refinery products:e
Gasoline		thousand 42-gallon barrels		1,950		2,000		2,000		2,100		2,100
Jet fuel		do.		500		550		600		600		650
Kerosene		do.		1,500		1,550		1,500		1,500		1,500
Distillate fuel oil		do.		4,600		4,700		4,800		4,900		5,000
Residual fuel oil		do.		5,300		5,300		5,200		5,200		5,200
Refinery fuel and losses		do.		720		700		680		700		710
Other		do.		1,900		1,950		2,000		2,000		2,050
Total		do.		16,500		16,800		16,800		17,000		17,200
Phosphate rock, gross weight				31,990		34,443		35,440		38,775		41,357
Rare-earth metals, monazite concentrate,
gross weighte				200		--		--		--		--
Salt				107,245		70,107		130,272		73,274	r	78,713
Stone:
Limestone		thousand tons		683		682		819		848		991
Quartz, massive				14,553		13,236		15,731		7,857		18,139
eEstimated.  rRevised.  NA Not available.  -- Zero.
1Table includes data available through September 16, 2004.
2Estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.
3In addition to the commodities listed, crude construction materials, such as sand and gravel, and varieties of stone presumably are produced, but
available information is inadequate to make reliable estimates of output levels.