All to France. 
Bulgaria 738; Hungary 553; Poland 
467. 
All to Hungary. 
842 
 
 
$1,946 
 
826 
 
399 
1,082 
 
2 
 
$3,944 
 
852 
 
403 
See footnotes at end of table.976 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1978-79 
 
Table 6.~U.S.S.R.: Apparent exports of mineral commodities' —Continued

(Metric tons unless otherwise specified) 
(Users are cautioned that some data are incomplete; see footnote 1) 
Commodity 1977 1978 Principal destinations 1978 
NONMETALS —Continued 
Abrasives—Continued 
 
Dust and powder of natural and synthetic precious and semiprecious stones

 value, thousands_ - 
 
 Grinding and polishing wheels and stones - Asbestos 
 
Boron: 
Cruderiaturalborates__________________ Oxideandacid                     
  
Cement, hydraulic2 thousand tons_ - 
 
Chalk_______________________________ Clays and clay products: 
Crude: 
Fireclay________________________ 
Fuller's earth and chamotte__________ 
Kaolin                           
Other__________________________ 
Products: 
Refractory2                       
 
Nonrefractory____________________ 
Diamond: 
Gem, not set or strung - - value, thousands.. - 
 Industrial do_ - - - 
Fertilizer materials 
Crude: 
Nitrogenous                       
 Phosphatic thousand tons. - 
 
Potassic                          
Manufactured: 
 Nitrogenous2 thousand ton&. - 
 Phosphatic2 do. - - - 
 Potassic2 do.~_ 
 Other, including mixed do_ - — - 
  Ammonia do~~ 
 
Graphite, natural  Gypsum and plasters_____________________ 
Iodine kilograms__ 
Lime________________________________ 
Magnesite.~.~ 
 
Pigments, mineral: 
Natural, crude_______________________ Ironoxides,processed__________________

Precious and semiprecious stones, natural and 
 synthetic value, thousands__ 
Pyrite thousand tons__ 
Salt2 do____ 
 
Sodium and potassium compounds, n.e.s.: 
Causticsoda_________________________ 
Causticpotash_______________________ 
 Soda ash___________________________ Stone, sand and gravel: 
 Dimension stone: 
Crude and partly worked             Worked_________________________ 
 Gravelandcrushed rock                 
 Quartzandquartzite___________________ 
 Sand______________________________ 
Sulfur: 
Elemental, other than colloidal___________ Sulfuric acid2________________________

Talc_________________________________ 
Other: 
Crude_____________________________ 
 $58 $889 United States $645; Italy $100; Yu 
    goslavia $91. 
 43 7 Finland 3; Turkey 2; Yugoslavia 2. 
 353,182 303,642 Poland 61,591; France 38,028; Hun 
    gary 33,174; Czechoslovakia 32,757. 
 3,034 3,979 Japan 3,969. 
 4,237 7,256 United States 2,665; Hungary 1,942.' 
 3,438 3,548 Hungary 489; Czechoslovakia 346; 
    Iran 304; Poland 285. 
 - - 483 All to Finland. 
 10,819 7,891 All to Poland. 
 9,801 26,029 Poland 25,913. 
 24,730 22,235 Poland 13,697; Yugoslavia 8,154. 
 1,526 7,046 Italy 3,733; Hungary 3,024. 
 131,667 129,280 Cuba 31,849; Bulgaria 23,041; Roma 
    nia 21,329. 
 3,303 5,297 Finland 5,241. 
 $633,043 $380,447 Belgium-Luxembourg $164,657; West 
    Germany $77,133; Netherlands 
    $55,792. 
 $1,363 $753 All to Belgium-Luxembourg. 
 —— 293 
 2,677 2,897 
 2,444 1,998 
 2,084 2,336 Cuba 569; Czechoslovakia 283; Hun 
    gary 231; India 222. 
 628 703 Cuba 266; Bulgaria 196; Hungary 148. 
 6,024 5,771 Poland 2,384; Hungary 588; 
    Czechoslovakia 331; Japan 313. 
 43 79 Hungary 78. 
 118 547 United States 277; Netherlands 85; 
    Italy 66. 
 11,277 12,180 Japan 3,989; United States 3,319; Po 
    land 3,275. 
 176,707 112,484 Sweden 60,600;' Denmark 28,682; 
    Finland 20,675.' 
 29 35 All to Hungary. 
 —— 20    Do. 
 17,143 17,979 Netherlands 4,652; Finland 4,465; Ja 
    pan 3,071.2 
   All to Hungary. 
   All to France. 
 
Austria $1,064; Spain $1,025; Japan 
$633. 
Italy 300; East Germany 91; West 
Germany 83; Hungary 81. 
Hungary 161; Czechoslovakia 119; 
 Denmark 38. 
 NA 849 Afghanistan 717. 
 - - 2 All to Finland. 
 27,292 45,368 Italy 26,635; Hungary 6,959. 
 18,475 15,894 West Germany 8,314; Italy 6,438. 
 NA 1,308 Egypt 1,278. 
 232 46,932 Hungary 44,520. 
 451 34 All to Japan. 
 734 436 Hungary 415. 
 44,159 29,606 Hungary 26,291; Yugoslavia 3,181. 
 105,488 162,471 Czechoslovakia 140,162. 
 — — 43 All to Japan. 
 64,953 90,690 Spain 33,610; Belgium-Luxembourg 
    24,002.