302 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1978-79 Sources: Statistical Yearbook of Czechoslovakia,
Prague, 1979; Statisticke Prehledy (Statistic Summary), Prague, No. 2,1980,
p. 42. 
 
have been renovated and enlarged. Reportedly, recently discovered fluorspar
deposits m the Ore Mountains will help to make Czechoslovakia self-sufficient
in fluorite after 1985. 
 Kaolin.—There are large deposits of highquality kaolin in Czechoslovakia.
The deposits: of kaolin near Karlovy Vary are reported to be sufficient to
last until 1995, the Pizensky deposits, until 2020, and the Podbarany kaolins,
until 2100. 
 The deposits near Kailovy Vary contam 25% to 35% of pure kaolin, and the
Pizensky deposits about 13% to 14%. Mining at the Karlovy Vary areas is planned
to go much deeper after 1980 In 1979 Czechoslovakia exported China clay to
many countries including the Federal Republic of Germany, Poland, Austria,
Yugoslavia Hungary the Netherlands the Ger man Democratic Republic, Sweden,
and others. 
 New washing facilities for paper and ceramic kaolins have been built recently
at the Káznejov and Bozicany plants. The plant at Velke Opatovice
has expanded its manufacturing capacity by the construction of new facilities
for dressing and storing clays at its branch in Brnik. 
 The plant at Sadov was also renovated, the output of paper kaolin was expanded,
and it is planned to enlarge the washing facilities. Renovation of the Hlubany
plant was underway in 1978.41 
 Magnesite.—In 1978-79 production of magnesite fully covered the
consumption
of the country, and magnesite was exported mainly to Hungary, Poland, the
German 
Democratic Republic, Romania, and the Federal Republic of Germany. 
 Lavinobana and other places in Central and Eastern Slovakia are important
magnesite mining and processing centers. Along with the growth of the output
of Slovenske Magnezitive Zavody at Kosice (Eastern Slovakia), the exports
through Kerametal Bratislava were also increasing. Slovenske Magnizitove
Zavody exported about onehalf of its output. Czechoslovakia has been developing
and renovating magnesite mines. It is planned to increase the capacities
of the mines approximately to 0.1 to 0.5 million tons per year and to decrease
the number of small mines in the near future. The plans also call for the
rapid completion of facilities for manufacturing refractory products.42 
 Sulfur.—In 1978 a sulfuric acid plant at Prerov and a 40,000-ton-per-year
phosphoric acid plant at Postorna were brought onstream. The capacity of
the Prerov sulfuric acid plant is 600 tons per day. 
 
MINERAL FUELS 
 
 Total energy production derived from fossils and from hydroelectric and
nuclear electric power generation was 88.4 million tons standard coal equivalent
(SCE) in 1979, with coal, including lignite, supplying 98%. Total consumption
of primary energy was over 127 million tons SCE with coal providing about
67%, oil 23%, natural gas 9%, and hydroelectric power, nuclear power, and
imported electric power less than 1% each. The primary energy balance of
Czechoslovakia for 1978 and 1979 is shown in the table. 
 
Table 4.—Czechoslovakia: Total primary energy balance for 1978
and
1979 
(Million tons of standard coal equivalent)1 
 
Total 
primary 
energy 
Coal 
(bituminous, 
brown, and 
lignite) 
and coke 
Crude oil 
and 
petroleum 
products 
Natural 
g~ 
Hydro- 
electric 
Power 
Nuclear 
power 
Turnover of 
electrical 
energy 
1979: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Production — — — — 
88.4 
86.3 
0.2 
1.1 
0.5 
0.3 
— — 
 Imports 
 Exports        
 Apparent 
 consumption — — 1978: 
46.2 
77.3 
 
127.3 
5.9 
 
6.4 
 
85.5 
 
. 
30.0 
 .8 
 
29.4 
9.8 
— — 
 
 
10.9 
— — 
— — 
 
 
.5 
— — 
— — 
 
 
.3 
0.5 
.1 
 
.4 
Production — — — — 
87.0 
85.2 
.2 
1.0 
.5 
.1 
— — 
Imports        
Exports        
44.7 
7.1 
5.8 
6.1 
28.8 
 .8 
9.7 
— — 
— — 
.4 
.1 
Apparent consumption — — 
124.6 
84.8 
28.2 
10.7 
.5 
.1 
.3 
 11 ton of standard coal equivalent (SCE)=7 million kilocalories. Conversion
factors used are as follows: Hard coal, 1.0~ brown coal and lignite, 0.6;
crude oil, 1.47; natural gas (1,000 cubic meters), 1.33; hydroelectric and
nuclear power (1,000 kilowatt-hours), 0.125.