Table 8.—Fire clay sold or used by producers, by uses 
 
1966 
Use Value 
Short tons — Total 
 
1967 
 
 
 
Value 
Short tons 
 Total Average  per ton 
 
 
Average 
per ton 
 
 
 
Firebrick and block            
Kiln furniture                
193,509 
161, 497 
$755,173 
W 
$3.90 
W 
235,390 
W 
$924,891 
W 
$3.93 
W 
Buildingbrick 
Vitrified sewer pipe 
Otheruses'                  
100,107 
1,418,947 
14.17 
70,800 
50,603 
265,691 
W 
W 
2,931,037 
W 
W 
11.03 
 
Use 
1966 
 
 
1967 
 
 
Value 
 
 
Value 
 
Short 
 — 
 
Short 
—~—-~ 
 
tons 
Total 
Average per ton 
tons 
Total 
Average 
per ton 
W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data; included
with "Other uses." 
 1 Includes lime used for agriculture, alkalies; brick, sand-lime, slag,
and silica (1966); calcium carbide, coke food, insecticides, oil-well drilling
(1966), ore concentration (1966), metallurgical uses, paint, petroleum (1967)
tanning (1966), other uses, and use indicated by symbol W. 
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MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
cement rock, 31 percent limestone and oystershell, 11 percent clay and shale,
and 10 percent other materials. 
 Fifty—six percent of the portland cement was used for ready-mixed
concrete, 19 percent by highway contractors, 15 percent by manufacturers
of concrete products, 6 percent by building material dealers, and 4 percent
for other uses. 
 Southern Cement Co. and Cheney Lime & Cement Co. produced slag cement
at plants in Jefferson and Blount Counties; total shipments declined 14 percent.

 Clays.—Eleven companies mined fire clay for refractories at 12 mines
in six counties; total production increased 37 percent. 
 Twenty companies mined 1.9 million tons of miscellaneous clay at 26 mines
in 13 counties for heavy clay products, portland cement, and lightweight
aggregate; total production increased 3 percent. 
 Kaolin was mined in Henry and Marion Counties; total production increased
57 percent. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 455,113 2,174,120 4.78 622,484 3,855,928 6.19 
 
W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data; included
with "Other uses." ' Includes mortar, foundries and steelworks, and uses
indicated by symbol W. 
 
 Lime.—Alabama ranked 10th among the States in the production of lime.
Five companies produced quicklime and hydrated lime at six plants in Shelby
County for construction, agricultural, chemical, and industrial uses; one
company manufactured lime for use in the production of magnesium in Dallas
County. Total production declined 11 percent. Leading producers were Southern

Cement Co. and Longview Lime Corp. Intrastate shipments accounted for 57
percent of the total; other shipments were made to Georgia (13 percent),
Florida (10 percent), Kentucky (6 percent), South Carolina (4 percent), Mississippi
(4 percent), and other States (6 percent). 
 Six companies, operating seven papermills in six counties, recovered quicklime
as a byproduct. 
 
Table 9.—Lime sold or used by producers, by uses 
 
 
 
 
Construction 
Steel electric furnaces 
Paper 
Sewage 
Sugarrefining. 
Water purification 
Otheruses '  
 136,081 $1,841,123 $13.53 104,601 $1,550,330 $14.82 
 29,341 337,270 11.49 25,011 308,075 12.32 
 204,367 2,454,613 12.01 204,825 2,536,845 12.39 
 W W W 22,379 269,539 12.04 
 4,721 59,687 12.64 3,535 44,143 12.49 
 54,602 708,699 12.98 51,983 658,200 12.66 
 270,169 3,040,292 11.25 211,928 2,352,022 11.10 
Total 699,281 8,441,684 12.07 624,262 7,719,154 12.37