Table 8.~—Stone sold or used by producers, by uses 
 
1966 
Use —--—---—————————_____

 Short tons Value Short 
1967 
tons Value 
Total 9,738,313 16,354,069 9,445,963 16,446,583 
854 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
 
Table 7.—Sand and gravel sold or used by producers by classes of operation
and uses 
 
(Thousand short tons and thousand dollars) 
 
 1966 1967 
Class of operation and use Quantity Value Quantity Value 
 
Commercial operations: 
 Sand: 
 Building  1,704 
 Paving  418 
 Fill  44 
 Gravel: 
 Building  1,400 
 Paving  671 
 Undistributed 1 1,211 
 $2,200 1,674 $2,142 
 705 478 782 
 55 W W 
 1,764 1,500 
 1,065 909 
 5,780 1,266 
1,880 
1,411 
5,952 
 Total sand and gravel 5,448 11,569 5,827 12,167 
 
 
 W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data; included
with "Undistributed." 
 ' Includes glass, molding, blast, fire or furnace, engine, grinding and
polishing (1966), filtration, ground and other industrial sands; railroad,
and fill gravel and items indicated by symbol W. 
 
During 1967, the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey conducted a
study of geology of construction sand and gravel resources of West Virginia.
Alluvium, residuum, and ' bedrock samples at 178 sites were collected. Results
of this study are scheduled for publication during 1968. 
 
 SIag.—Weirton Steel Division, National Steel Corp., produced air-cooled
crushed blast furnace slag for aggregate use. 
 
 Stone.—Total crushed stone production (limestone and sandstone) decreased
by 3 percent from that of 1966. Production of crushed limestone decreased
10 percent to 7.9 million tons. Major uses for the lime- 
Crushed and broken stone: 
 Concrete and roadstone       
 Railroad ballast 
 Agriculture 
 Other uses - 
stone were for concrete aggregate and road metal, as flux in iron and steel
production, railroad ballast, agricultural purposes, and lime and cement
manufacture. Berkeley, Jeflerson, Monongalia, and Greenbrier Counties were
the leading areas of limestone production. 
 
 Production of crushed sandstone which was mostly used for concrete aggregate
and highway construction increased to 1,590,257 tons valued at $2.9 million
from 
 
1,015,276 tons valued at $2 million in 
 
1966. Leading sandstone producing counties were Kanawha, Wyoming, Harrison,

Doddridge, Wayne, and Lewis. 
 3,988,880 $6,642,228 3,952,065 $6,675,266 
 640,885 839,182 563,012 594,345 
 124,955 295,519 130,862 326,678 
 4,983,593 8,577,140 4,800,024 8,850,294 
 
 
 1 Includes limestone for glass, paper (1967), asphalt filler, coal dust,
filter beds, stone sand, cement, lime, riprap, flux, refractory materials,
and miscellaneous uses, and sandstone for stone sand, glass, engine (1966),
and refractory use. 
 
METALS 
 
 
 Aluminum.—The completely integratel aluminum works of Kaiser Aluminum
& Chemical Corp. at Ravenswood, Jackson County, operated at full capacity
during 1967. Alumina for the plant was processed from Jamaican bauxite at
Baton Rouge 
 
and Gramercy, La., and shipped to Ravenswood by rail. Ingots of electrolytic
aluminum produced at the plant were rolled into sheet, plate and commercial
foil. Transportation of the rolled products was by rail and trucks. A $55
million expansion of the sheet and plate department was begun during 1967.