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Table 1.—Egypt: Production of mineral commodities —Continued

(Metric tons unless otherwise specified) 
 
. Commodity 1976 1977 1978P 1979e 
 NONMETALS —Continued Stone, sand and gravel —Continued

   Limestone and other calcareous - _thousand cubic meters_  5,400  5,500
 5,667  15,845 
   Marble blocks (including alabaster) cubic meters.  NA 11,000 25,718 126,000

   Quartz  8,103 9,332 ll~348 10,000 
   Sand, including glass sand. thousand cubic meters - 3,535 2,973 2;996
3,000 
   Sandstone do~..  120  120  111  100 
 Sulfur: 
   Elemental, byproduct  5,000 e5000 3,106 5,000 
   Sulfuricacid  31,000 NA NA NA 
 Talc, soapstone, steatite, pyrophyllite  5,636 6,993 5,905 6,000 
 
 
MINERAL FUELS AND RELATED MATERIALS 
Coke: 
 Oven and beehive thousand tons_ — e650 694 700 1853 
 Gashouse and other low temperature do_ — - — 29 c))0
e40 50

    Tote! do 679 724 740 908 
 Gas, natural: 
   Gross productione.. — _.. million cubic feet. — r65,®0
93,000 105,800 140,000 
   Marketed do... 13,432 18,670 30,835 120,000 
 Petroleum: 
   Crude thousand 42-gallon barrels.. — 120,180 150,925 175,925
190,000

Refinery products: 
 Gasolineandnaphtha do___ 12,521 6,936  8,109 9,000 Kerosine and jet fuel
do..._~ 11,196 11,671  12,849 14,000 Distillatefueloil do...~ 12,809 14,629
 16,412 18,000 Residual fuel oil do.....~ 33,673 32,265  36,210 38,000 Lubricants
~ —— 336  434 500 Other:    Liquefied petroleum gas do..
- -
- - - 846    Asphalt do...~ 818 —— } 6,115 6,500    Unspecified
~ -- 6,542 Refineryfuelandlosses do_~ 4,279 3,976  2,631 3,000 
 Total do...~ 75,296 77,201 82,760 89,000 
 
eRetimate. ~Preliminary. rRe~ed. NANot available. 1Reported figure. 
 
Table 2.—Egypt: Exports and reexports of mineral commodities 
 
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified) 
 
Commodity 1976 
1977 
METALS 
 
Aluminum metal: 
   Unwrought 2,122 -- 
   Semimanufactures 21,902 32,713 
 Coppermetal,unwrought 100 -- 
 Iron and steel metal: 
   Pigiron,castiron,spiegeleisen 38,584 14,671 
   Ferroalloys 1,000 -- 
   Semimanufactures: 
      Bars,rods,angles,shapes,sections 177 96 
      Platesandsheets 19,687 7,050 
      Pipesandtubes 1,700 407 
                               NONM~TALS 
 Cement 24,609 13,010 
 Fertilizer materials: 
   Crude,phosphatic 119,383 59,166 
   Manufactured,phosphatic 31,250 23,350 
 Graphite 150 -- 
 Gypsum 9,523 25,019 
 Lime r5,138 1,533 
 Salt,common 7,006 72,102 
                   MINERAL FUELS AND RELATED MATERIALS 
 Carbon black. 538 852 
 Petroleum: 
   Crude                                           thousand 42-gallon barrels.._
r23,398 28,892 
 
See footnotes at end of table.