TABLE 16-Continued
SALT: WORLD PRODUCTION, BY COUNTRY1
(housand metric tons)


Country2                                        1989              1990  
          1991              1992              1993
Uganda                                                              5   
             5                 5                5                 5
U.S.S.R.13                                                     15,000   
        14,700           -14,000                -                 -
Ukraine                                                            -    
            -                 -             4,400             4,000
United Kingdom:
Brine salt'4                                                 1,344      
      1,341             1,319            *1,200            1,200
Rock salt                                                   '1,148      
      1,102             1,635          '1,500              1,500
Other salt"                                                  4,228

           3,991            3,874            '3,401             3,500
United States including Puerto Rico:
United States:
Brine                                                    16,509         
 17,724            18,640            17,571           318,030
Rock salt                                                12,645         
 13,055            11,064            10,911           313,401
Solar salt                                                2,498         
  2,484             2,575             2,539            33,384
Vacuum pan salt                                           3,599         
  3,655             3,623             3,763            '3,850
Puerto Rico                                                     41      
        41                41               '45                45
Venezuela                                                         365   
           439              430               '318              350
Vietnam                                                           320   
           340              350               350               350
Yemen                                                             230   
          3220              '250             '280               280
Yugoslavia:"3
Brine salt                                                     184      
       204               *220               -                 -
Marine salt                                                     60      
        71                '70               -                 -
Rock salt                                                      134      
        100              *100               -                 -
Total                                                 '191,660          t182,445
         '188,265          rl81,270           186,190
stimated. Revied.
'Table includes data available through June 20, 1994.
'Salt is produced in many other countries, but quantities are relatively
 significant d reliable production data are not available. Some salt brine
production data for ma
of chlorine, caustic soda, and soda ash are not reported because of incomplete
data reporting by many countries.
'Reportd figure.
'Year ending June 30 of that stated.
'Less than 1/2 unit.
6From natural soda ash production.
'Brine salt production as reported by the Burmese Government in metric tons,
was as follows:  1989-60,229; 1990-49,670; 1991-46,835; 1992-46,509 (revised);
1993-58,500 (estimated).
'Formerly part of Czechoslovakia; data were not reported separately until
1993.
'Dissolved Dec. 31, 1992.
"Year begining Mar. 21 of that stated.
"Does not include production from Sardinia and Sicily, estimated
at
200,000 metric tons annually.
"Year ending July 15 of that stated.
"Dissolved in Dec. 1991.
"Data captioned 'Brine saltW for the United Kingdom are the quantities
of salt obned from the evaporation of brines; that captioned 'Other saltW
are the salt content of brines
used for purposes other tha production of at.
"3Dissolved in Apr. 1992.


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