$15 $2 All from United Kingdom. 
 443 384 United States 383. 
 4,309 3,117 Japan 1,363; United Kingdom 816. 
 845 707 United Kingdom 555; France 138. 
 $3,202 $4,229 United Kingdom $1,764; Australia $1,083. 
 $500 $723 Japan $357; Philippines $130. 
 $1,592 $2,743 Israel $1,008; India $914. 
 $143 $89 Australia $27; United Kingdom $22. 
 793 555 United States 410; Japan 138. 
 1,925 1,747 Norway 1,034; China, mainland, 570. 
Phosphatic                    
 
Potassic                      
 
Other, including mixed4  
 
Ammonia                        
Graphite,natural                     
Gypsumand.plasters                  
Magnesite~...._,                    
Mica: 
Crude, including splittings and waste value, thousands.. - 
Worked, including agglomerated splittings 
 do........ 
Pigments, mineral: 
Natural, crude                    Ironoxides,processed                
Precious and semiprecious stones, except diamond: 
 Natural value, thousands.. - 
  Manufactured do.._.._ 
Salt                               
Sodium and potassium compounds, n.e.s.: 
Causticsoda                      
$1,170 
 
$40 
61,858 
 
20,771 
$1,104 
 
$53 
58,737 
 
20,416 
 344 809 United States 281; U.S.S.R. 161; France 
    155. 
Stone: 
Dimension: 
Crude and partly worked  
 Worked value, thousands.. - 
Quartzandquartzite                
 
Sulfur, elemental, other than colloidal      
Talc, steatite, soapstone, pyrophyllite       
Other: 
 Crude value, thousands.. - 
 
Oxides and hydroxides of magnesium, strontium, barium________________ 
Bromine, iodine, fluorine            Building materials of asphalt, asbestos,
and fiber cement, and unfired nonmetals, 
 n.e.s value, thousands.... 
See footnotes at end of table. 686 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1978-79 
 
Table 3.—New Zealand: Imports of mineral commodities —Continued

(Metric tons unless otherwise specified) 
 .Commodity 19771 1978 Principal sources, 1978 
 
NONMETALS —Continued 
 
Boron materials: 
Crude natural borates value, thousands.. - 
Oxide and acid                     
Cement___________________________ 
Chalk..                            
Clays and clay products (including all refractory brickt 
 Crude 9,953 7,885 UnitedStates5,314;United Kingdom 
    1,616. 
  Products: 
     Refractory (including nonclay brick) 
                  value, thousands.. - 
     Nonrefractory           do.. - — — 
Diamond: 
  Gem, not set or strung         do.. - - - 
  Industrial                  
Diatomite and other infusorial earth       
Feldspar, fluorspar, nepheline syenite      
Fertilizer materials: 
  Crude: 
     Nitrogenous NA 263 Chile 250. 
     Phosphatic       thousand tons..  1,050 1,137 Australia 575; Nauru 462.

  Manufactured: 
     Nitrogenous 68,629 81,093 Japan 38,606; Netherlands 20,037; 
    Australia 6,281. 
 2,615 5,448 Canada 4,350.. 
 ~228,088 235,573 United States 136,708;U.S.S.R. 58,005; 
    Canada 36,336. 
 33,523 29,722 United States 26,664; West Germany 
    3,356. 
 998 471 Australia 467. 
 67 137 United Kingdom 101. 
 111,111 140,610 Australia 98,670; Japan41,322. 
 1,088 976 China, mainland, 902. 
 $53 $58 United Kingdom $17; United States $12. 
 $174 $178 United Kingdom $119; Australia $35. 
 198 219 Austrja 202. 
 929 717 West Germany 537; Spain 145. 
 
Thailand $321; West Germany $277; 
 Australia $234. 
West Germany $38; Switzerland $12. 
    Netherlands Antilles 57,830. 
 
United Kingdom 16,949; United States 
 2,413. 
Caustic potash and sodic and potassic 
 peroxides — — — — 
 738 919 Republic of South Africa 462; Finland 135; 
Italy 111. 
 $320 $382 Italy $128; Australia $103; Yugoslavia $65. 
 166 126 Sweden 49; Belgium-Luxembourg 44; 
United Kingdom 28. 
 229,803 234,899 Canada 227,283. 
 3,963 2,623 Australia 1,991; China, mainland, 506. 
 $37 $48 Republic of South Africa $20; West 
Germany $11. 
 1,542 1,720 Australia 1,469. 
 12 9 All from Japan. 
 $101 $125 Australia $57; United Kingdom $38; 
    United States $29.