TABLE 2—Continued140  THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALS YEARBOOK—1988

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA: APPARENT EXPORTS OF MINERAL COMMODITIES1 
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified) 
 
Commodity 
1986 
1987 
 
Destinations, 1987 
 
 
 
United 
States 
. 
Other (principal) 
INDUSTRIAL MINERALS—Continued 
333,067 
285,750 
10,748 
Italy 146,709; Japan 60,924; Canada 18,061. 
Stone, sand and gravel: 
 
 
 
 
Dimension stone: 
 
 
 
 
Crude and partly worked 
 
 
 
 
Worked 
2,956 
4,877 
783 
United Kingdom 2,420; Japan 1,148. 
Dolomite, chiefly refractory-grade 
20 
NA 
— 
 
Gravel and crushed rock 
21 
206 
206 
 
Limestone other than dimension 
r 276239 
274501 
 
NA. 
Quartz and quartzite 
4,049 
62 
20 
Japan 1 8; Switzerland 17. 
Sand other than metal-bearing 
n18,824 
1 1 971 
— 
Belgium-Luxembourg 11,895. 
Talc, steatite, soapstone, pyrophyllite 
541 
NA 
— 
 
Vermiculite 
2 190,593 
2 1 86,273 
— 
United Kingdom 44,730; Italy 9,542; Canada 8,135. 
Other: 
NA 
76,450 
37,682 
Japan 13,130; United Kingdom 10,815. 
Crude 
 
 
 
 
Slag and dross, not metal-bearing 
89,760 
88,388 
— 
Japan 88,387. 
MINERAL FUELS AND RELATED MATERIALS 
NA 
1 071 
 
All to Canada. 
Asphalt and bitumen, natural . 
 
 
— 
 
Carbon black 
~17753 
35 
— 
Hong Kong 29; Greece 6. 
Coal: 
245486 
242431 
~ 
 
Japan 7,560; Italy 5,341 ; Hong Kong 2,559. 
Anthracite and bituminous thousand tons 
 
 
 
 
Briquets of anthracite and bituminous coal 
120,987 
610 
— 
United Kingdom 487; Italy 121. 
Lignite including briquets 
r ~ 26,1 54 
228,290 
— 
All to Turkey. 
Coke and semicoke 
~160652 
1 087 
— 
Netherlands 1 065; Spain 22. 
Peat including briquets and litter 
NA 
68 
— 
All to Ireland. 
Petroleum: 
~182 
 
— 
 
Crude thousand 42-gallon barrels 
 
— 
 
 
Refinery products: 
32 
NA 
 
 
Liquefied petroleum gas do. 
 
 
— 
 
Gasoline do. 
1 249 
31 
31 
 
— Mineral jelly and wax do. 
8234 
155 
92 
Japan 25; United Kingdom 16. 
Kerosene and jet fuel do. 
388 
56 
56 
 
Distillate fuel oil do. 
521 
801 
26 
Spain 775. 
Lubricants do. 
3 
287 
— 
Hong Kong 279; United Kingdom 8. 
Nonlubricating oils value, thousands 
— 
$1 
$1 
 
Residual fuel oil thousand 42-gallon barrels 
296 
1 047 
1 82 
Italy 506; Spain 359. 
Bitumen and other residues do. 
— 
2 
2 
 
Petroleum coke do. 
136 
NA 
— 
 
r Revised. NA Not avaiIat~e. 
 
 
 
 
1 Table prepared by Virginia A. Woodson. Because official South African trade
sta~stics provide data only on the value of total exports of each commodity
class (with no data on destinations) and not on 
 
quantity of material exported, this table has been compiled from a variety
of sources including the data issued by the Department of Mineral and Energy
Affairs and official trade returns of trading partner 
countries. Data issued by the Government ofthe Republic of South Africa are
footnoted; other figures are compiled from a variety of sources with specifics
on destination obtained from the import statistics 
of the trading partners. Data presented are exports by the common customs
area of Botswana, Lesotho, the Reputac of South Africa, and Swaziland. 
2 Data issued by the Government of the Republic of South Africa 
3 Eu~ludes unreported quantity valued at $329,000 imported by Sweden. 
4 Less than 1/2 unit. 
5 Excludes unreported quantity imported by Japan valued at $551,584,000.

e Incomplete total; excludes imports reported in value only. 
7 Excludes unreported quantity valued at $29,000 imported by Japan. 
8 Excludes unreported quantity valued at $61 000 imported by New Zealand.