TABLE 2 |
UNITED
KINGDOM: STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL
INDUSTRY IN 2003 |
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(Thousand metric
tons unless otherwise specified) |
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Major operating companies |
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Annual |
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Commodity |
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and major equity owners |
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Location of main facilities |
capacity |
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Alumina |
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Alcan Inc. |
|
Burntisland, Scotland (closed) |
100,000 |
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Aluminum: |
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Primary |
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British Alcan Aluminium Ltd. |
|
Fort William, Kinlochleven, and Lynemouth |
175 |
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Do. |
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Anglesy Aluminium Ltd. (Rio Tinto Corp., 51%, |
|
Holyhead, Wales |
113 |
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and Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp., 49%) |
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Secondary |
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Bernhard Metals plc |
|
Derby |
50 |
|
Do. |
|
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Deeside Aluminium Ltd. |
|
Clwyd, Wales |
45 |
|
Do. |
|
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Hydro Aluminium plc |
|
Deeside |
38 |
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Barite |
|
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Laporte Industries plc |
|
Mines in Derbyshire |
25 |
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Celestite |
|
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Bristol Minerals Co. Ltd. |
|
Yate, Avon |
30 |
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Cement |
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|
Aberthaw and Bristol
Channel Portland Cement |
|
East Aberthaw and Rhoose, Glamorgan, Scotland |
1,000 |
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Co. Ltd. |
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Do. |
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Blue Circle Industries plc |
|
Plants at Aberthaw,
Cauldon, Dunbar, Hope, |
7,300 |
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Masons, Northfleet,
Plymstock, and Weardale |
|
Do. |
|
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Castle Cement Ltd.
(Heidelberg Cement AG, 100%) |
Plants at
Ketton, Ribblesdale, Padeswood, |
3,400 |
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and Pitstone |
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|
Do. |
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Rugby Group |
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Plants
at Barrington, Chinnor, Rochester, Rugby, |
2,700 |
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and South Ferriby |
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Clay: |
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Ball clay |
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WBB Minerals (Silbelco Group) |
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Various operations
in northern and |
500 |
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southern Devon |
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China clay (kaolin) |
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Imerys Group. |
|
Mines and plants in Cornwall and Devon |
3,000 |
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Coal |
million metric |
|
UK Coal plc |
|
19 mines in various locations |
30 |
1 |
|
tons |
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Copper |
|
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IMI Refiners Ltd. |
|
Refinery at Walsall, west Midlands |
80 |
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Ferroalloys |
|
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Corus Group |
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Teesside, Cleveland |
80 |
|
Do. |
|
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Murex Ltd. |
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Rainham, Essex |
25 |
|
Do. |
|
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London and Scandinavian Metallurgical
Co. Ltd. |
|
Rotherham, South Yorkshire |
30 |
|
Do. |
|
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Eastlink Ferroalloys Ltd. |
|
Glossop |
1 |
|
Fluorspar |
|
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Durham Industrial Minerals Ltd. |
|
Mines in Weardale |
50 |
|
Do. |
|
|
Laporte Industries plc |
|
Mill at Stoney Middleton, mines in Derbyshire |
70 |
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Gypsum |
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British Gypsum Ltd. |
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Mines in Cumbria, Nottinghamshire, and Sussex |
3,500 |
|
Lead, refined |
|
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Britania Refined Metals Ltd. |
|
Northfleet, Kent |
165 |
|
Lead,
secondary |
|
|
H.J.
Enthoven and Son Ltd. [Billiton (U.K.) |
|
Darley Dale, Derbyshire |
60 |
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Ltd., 100%] |
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Lead, smelter |
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MIM Holdings (U.K) Ltd. |
|
Avonmouth, Avon |
55 |
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Natural gas |
|
Amoco Ltd.,
British Petroleum Ltd. Esso (U.K.) Ltd., |
North Sea gasfields |
1,250 |
2 |
|
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Phillips Petroleum Co. plc, Shell (U.K.) Ltd. |
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Nickel,
refined |
|
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INCO Europe Ltd. (INCO Ltd., Canada) |
|
Clydach, Wales |
30 |
|
Nitrogen, N content |
|
Terra Nitrogen Ltd. |
|
Billingham |
550 |
|
of ammonia |
|
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Petroleum: |
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Crude |
million 42-gallon |
|
Amoco Ltd., British
Petroleum Ltd., Chevron Ltd., |
North Sea oilfields |
2 |
3 |
|
barrels per day |
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Esso (U.K.) Ltd., Occidental Petroleum Co. Ltd., |
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Shell (U.K.) Ltd., Texaco Ltd., Unocal, Inc. |
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|
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Refined |
do. |
|
British Petroleum Ltd.,
Conoco Ltd., Mobil Oil Co. |
11 refineries in various locations |
2 |
3 |
|
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Ltd., and others |
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|
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Platinum-group
metals |
|
Johnson Matthey plc |
|
Refineries at Enfield (London) and Royston |
20 |
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Potash |
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Cleveland Potash Ltd.
(Israel Chemicals Ltd., 100%) |
Boulby Mine, Yorkshire |
1,000 |
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Salt: |
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|
|
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Road |
|
|
do. |
|
do. |
500 |
|
Rock |
|
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British Salt Ltd. |
|
Middlewich |
800 |
|
Do. |
|
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Irish Salt Mining and Exploration Co. |
|
Mine at Carrick Fergus, Northern
Ireland |
300 |
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Sand and
gravel |
|
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TMC Pioneer Aggregates Ltd. |
|
Chelmsford, Essex |
1,000 |
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See footnotes at
end of table. |
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TABLE 2--Continued |
UNITED
KINGDOM: STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL
INDUSTRY IN 2003 |
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(Thousand metric
tons unless otherwise specified) |
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Major operating companies |
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|
Annual |
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Commodity |
|
and major equity owners |
|
Location of main facilities |
capacity |
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Silica sand |
|
Hepworth Minerals and Chemicals Ltd. |
|
Operations in Cambridgeshire,
Cheshire, |
6,000 |
|
|
|
|
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Humberside, and Norfolk |
|
|
Slate,
natural |
|
|
Alfred McAlpine Slate Ltd. |
|
Penrhyn quarry, Bethesda, Wales |
25 |
|
Steel |
|
Corus Group plc |
|
4 integrated steelworks in Gwent, Lanark, |
18,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
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Humberside, and Cleveland |
|
|
Do. |
|
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ASW Holdings plc |
|
Integrated steelworks at Cardiff, Wales |
600 |
|
Stone,
crushed |
|
|
ARC Ltd. (Hanson plc,
100%) |
|
50 quarries in various locations |
50,000 |
|
Do. |
|
|
do. |
|
Glensanda quarry at Oban, Scotland |
15,000 |
|
Talc |
|
|
Alex Sandison and Son Ltd. |
|
Unst, Shetland Islands |
15 |
|
Do. |
|
|
Shetland Talc Ltd. (Anglo
European Minerals Ltd., |
Cunningsburg, Shetland Islands |
35 |
|
|
|
|
50%, and Dalriada Mineral Ventures Ltd., 50%) |
|
|
|
|
Tin, ore |
|
Baseresult Ltd. |
|
South Crofty Mine, Cornwall
(closed |
1,800 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
March 1998) |
|
|
Titanium,
sponge |
|
Deeside Titanium Ltd. |
|
Plant at Deeside, Clyde |
5 |
|
Zinc, smelter |
|
|
Britannia Zinc Ltd. (Xstrata plc,
100%) |
|
Avonmouth, Avon (closed) |
120 |
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1Million metric tons. |
2Billion cubic feet per year. |
3Million 42-gallon barrels per day. |
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