THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF ITALY 
 
 
Table 3.—Italy: Imports of mineral commodities —Continued

(Metric tons unless otherwise specified) 
541 
Commodity 1977 1978 Principal sources, 1978 
Potassic_______________________ 
 
Other_________________________ 
Manufactured: 
Nitrogenous____________________ 
 
Phosphatic_____________________ 
 
Potassic_______________________ 
 
Other_________________________ 
 
 Ammonia._________________________ 
 
Fluorspar___________________________ 
 
Graphite, natural______________________ 
 
Gypsum and plasters____________________ 
 
Lime______________________________ 
Lithium____________________________ 
Magnesite 
 
Mica: 
 Crude, including splittings and waste_______ Worked, including agglomerated
splittings — — — Pigments, mineral: Iron oxides_____________

 
 
Precious and semiprecious stones, except diamond: 
 Natural kiograms__ 
 Manufactured do____ 
Pyrite, gross weight thousand tons - 
 
 
Sodium and potassium compounds, n.e.s_______ 
22,948 
 
 
2,307 
 
 
98,347 
 
 
95,658 
 
 
456,247 
 
 
504,042 
 
 
192,966 
 
 
33,905 
 
 
4,802 
 
 
16,362 
 
 
682 
 
 
1,389 
 
 
57,965 
 
 
1,587 
 
 
301 
 
 
20,864 
 
 
63,208 
 
 
13,312 
 
 
164 
 
 
205,771 
 
 
132,071 
 3,539 Belgium-Luxembourg 3,427. 
 1,619 Morocco 744; United States 304; Isra 
   el 228. 
 19,153 France 17,431; Federal Republic of 
   Germany 1,683. 
 3,911 France 2,113. 
 127,327 Austria 38,277; Federal Republic of 
   Germany 34,695; France 27,104. 
 110,643 France 32,444; Tunisia 27,375;United 
   States 15,522. 
 531,169 U.S.S.R. 146,906; Israel 144,133; Ger 
   man Democratic Republic 90,417. 
 810,127 United States 642,051; Yugoslavia 
   46,987; Federal Republic of Ger 
   many 32,811. 
 229,592 U.S.S.R. 66,029; United States 51,717; 
   Mexico 37,180. 
 46,973 Spaln 31,441; Morocco 6,675; Mexico 
   5,875. 
 5,535 Federal Republic of Germany 2,317; 
   Austria 860; U.S.S.R. 50L 
 17,960 Austria 15,127; United States 1,220; 
   Federal Republic of Germany 819. 
 466 NA. 
 NA 
 66,904 Greece 39,658; Austria 8,508; Yugosl 
   avia 3,857. 
 1,246 United States 115. 
 330 France 111; Belgium-Luxembourg 87; 
   Spain 60. 
 17,730 Federal Republic of Germany 12,230; 
   United Kingdom 450; United 
   States 366. 
 72,496 Brazil 33,677; Federal Republic of 
   Germany 7,463. 
 11,312 Switzerland 7,208; France 2,902. 
 247 U.S.S.R. 216; Cyprus 27. 
 195,252 Spaln 116,369; Tunisia 47,897; 
   U.S.S.R. 11,943. 
 70,612 France 48,693; Federal Republic of 
   Germany 15,242; Belgium- 
   Luxembourg 5,228. 
 146,984 133,696 Yugoslavia 30,779; Portugal 24,466; 
    Spain 21,573. 
 1,714 2,521  NA. 
 249,454 293,949  Republic of South Africa 66,638; 
    Spain 49,502; Finland 42,194. 
 7,346 4,119  France 1,353; Federal Republic of 
   Germany 242. 
 983 872  NA. 
 8,424 8,736  France 4,674. 
 82 1,003  NA. 
 49 149 NA. 
 49,307 42,995 Switzerland 30,221; Federal Republic 
   of Germany 7,289; Greece 2,499. 
 1,103 1,067 France 686; Beigium-Luxembourg 
    268; Federal Republic of Germany 
 628,496 606,051 Canada 297,341; Poland 156,724; 
   France 113,163. 
 1,954 1,573 Federal Republic of Germany 1,376. 
 637 NA 
 16,224 44,567 Federal Republic of Germany 12,607; 
   United Kingdom 7,329; Nether 
   lands 6,235. 
 18,399 18,892 Austria 11,756; France 3,494; 
    Belgium-Luxembourg 1,389. 
See footnotes at end of table. 
 
 
NONMETALS —Continued 
 
Fertilizer materials: 
Crude: 
 Nitrogenous 546 
 Phosphatic thousand ton&. - 1,602 
Stone, sand and gravel: 
Dimension stone: 
Crude and partly worked: 
Calcareous, including marble______ 
Slate______________________ 
Other______________________ 
 
Worked,allforms_________________ 
 
Dolomite, chiefly refractory grade_________ 
Gravelandcrushedrock_______________ 
Limestone, except dimension____________ 
Quartz and quartzite: 
 Piezoelectric crystal kilograms - 
Other_________________________ 
 
Sand, excluding metal bearingthousand tons.. - 
 
 
Sulfur: 
Elemental: 
Otherthan colloidal_______________ 
 
Colloidal_______________________ 
Sulfurdioxide______________________ 
Sulfuric acid_______________________ 
 
 
Talc, steatite, soapstone, pyrophyllite_________