TABLE 1
VIETNAM:  PRODUCTION OF MINERAL COMMODITIES 1
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Commodity2				1999		2000		2001		2002		2003p
Baritee				25,000		52,500		71,100		60,300		81,500
Cement, hydraulic		thousand tons		10,489		13,298		16,073	r	19,481	r	23,282
Chromium ore, gross weight				58,500		76,300		70,300	r	71,000	r	75,000	e
Clays, kaoline				200,000		520,000		600,000		600,000		650,000
Coal, anthracite		thousand tons		9,629		11,609		13,397	r	16,347	r	18,963
Copper concentrate, gross weighte				15,000		15,000		2,000		5,000		10,000
Fluorspare				3,000		3,000		3,000		3,000		3,000
Gas, natural, gross		million cubic meters		1,435		1,598		1,724		2,260		3,450
Golde		kilograms		1,500		3,000		3,000		2,000	r	2,000
Ilmenite, gross weighte				91,000		174,000		180,000		180,000		200,000
Lead, mine output, Pb contente				1,000		1,200		900		1,100	r	1,100
Lime		thousand tons		1,026		1,156		1,351	r	1,426	r	1,450	e
Manganese concentrate, gross weighte				65,000		65,000		67,000		68,000		68,000
Nitrogen, N content of ammonia				33,000		41,900		52,600		58,400		79,700
Petroleum, crude		thousand 42-gallon barrels		107,767		115,373		119,212	r	117,753	r	125,281
Phosphate rock:
Gross weight		thousand tons		681		785		677	r	680	r	700	e
P2O5 content		do.		204		236		204	r	204	r	210	e
Pyrite, gross weighte		do.		150		200		300	r	400	r	450
Pyrophyllitee				20,000		30,000		30,000		30,000		30,000
Sand and gravel		thousand tons		77,800		83,200		92,200	r	95,000	r	98,000	e
Salt		do.		653		590		669	r	755	r	800	e
Silica sande		do.		60,000		60,000		62,000		62,000		63,000
Steel:
Crude		do.		308		306		319		409	r	544
Rolled		do.		1,357		1,583		1,914	r	2,429	r	2,682
Stone, building stone		thousand tons		49,800		57,600		80,400	r	83,700	r	85,000	e
Sulfure				22,000		22,000		22,000		22,000		22,000
Tin:
Mine output, Sn contente				4,000		4,100		4,500		4,500	r	4,600
Metal, smelter				1,693		1,800	r	1,131	r	1,200	r	1,300	e
Zinc, mine output, Zn contente				12,300	r	12,500	r	7,500	r	12,000	r	12,000
Zirconium, gross weighte				2,500		5,000		5,400		5,500		5,500
eEstimated; estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits.  pPreliminary.  rRevised.
1Table includes data available through August 6, 2004.
2In addition to the commodities listed, bauxite, benonite, refractory clay, construction aggregates, gemstones, granite, graphite, iron ore, marble, and
rare earths were mined, but not reported.  Available information is inadequate to make reliable estimates of output levels.
Sources:  Vietnam's General Statistics Office, Statistical Yearbook, 2002; British Geological Survey, World Mineral Statistics, 1992-99; World
Metal Statistics, April 2004; South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute, Crude steel Production, Annual Statistics, 1994-2003; U.S. Geological
Survey Minerals Questionnaire, 2000 and 2001; The Barytes Association, World Barytes Production 2000-03.