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 12,364 10,091 Guyana 6,491; United States 
    2,975; United Kingdom 625. 
  24,335 India 18,934; United States 
4,543. 
 8,432 22,333 United States 15,833; Norway 
    4,371; Canada 1,825. 
 80,819 60,327 Canada 16,653; West Ger 
    many 9,922; Surinam 6,053. 
 14,775 11,524 United States 7,017; West 
    Germany 1,592; Bahrain 
    894. 
Semimanufactures_________________________ 
 
 
Antimony: 
Oreandconcentrate___________________________ 
 
Metalincluding alloys, all forms___________________ 
Arsenic: 
Trioxide,pentoxide,acids________________________ 
 
Metalincluding alloys, all forms___________________ 
Beryllium metal including alloys, all forms kilograms... - 
Bismuth metal including alloys, all forms_______________ 
Cadmium metal including alloys, all forms______________ 
 
Chromium: 
Chromite___________________________________ 
 433 654 Bolivia 616; Austria 21; 
    Belgium-Luxembourg 17. 
 83 284 Mexico 180; Bolivia 90. 
 654 601 Mexico 455; France 75; United 
    States 39. 
 34 39 United States 35; Sweden 3. 
 - - 5 Mainly from France. 
 NA 35 Mexico 34. 
 NA 55 Mexico 33; West Germany 16; 
    Peru 6. 
 18,197 18,650 United States 10,000; Philip 
    pines 5,000; Republic of 
    South Africa 3,650. 
 373 347 Poland 160; West Germany 
    131; Belgium-Luxembourg 
    43. 
 60 99 United Kingdom 54; Japan 
    41. 
 78 86 United Kingdom 30; Belgium- 
    Luxembourg 28; West Ger 
    many 16. 
 237 312 Mainly from Belgium- 
    Luxembourg and United 
    Kingdom. 
 3,328 4,058 Peru 3,027; Mexico 580; Chile 
385. 
681 
 
182,439 
 
2,162 
437,712 
 
11,185 
 
124,896 
See footnotes at end of table.176 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1978-79 
 
Table 3.&mdash;Brazil: Imports of mineral commodities 
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified) 
Commodity 1977 1978 Principal sources 1978 
 
METALS 
Aluminum: 
Bauxite andconcentrate 
 Oxide(alumina) and hydroxide 1,939 
 
Metal including alloys: 
Scrap___________________________________ 
 
Unwrought                               
 
Oxide and hydroxide  
 
 
Metalincludingalloys,all forms___________________ 
 
Cobalt: 
Oxideand hydroxide 
 
 
Metal including alloys, all forms  
 
 
Copper: 
Coppersulfate_______________________________ 
 
Metal including alloys: 
Scrap___________________________________ 
 
Unwrought______________________________ 
 
Seinimanufactures_________________________ 
 
Gold: 
 
Ore and concentrate 
 
Metal, unworked or partly worked troy ounces_ - 
 
 
Iron and steel: 
Oreandconcentrate___________________________ 
Metal: 
Scrap___________________________________ 
Spongeiron,powder,shot_____________________ 
 
 
Ferroalloys_______________________________ 
 
Steel, primary forms________________________ 
 
Semimanufactures: 
Bars, rods, angles, shapes, sections 
 Universals,plates,sheets 651,192 
 Hoopand strip 36,110 
 Railsand accessories 115,813 
 1,303 United States 1,030; Kuwait 
192; Canada 79. 
 156,998 Chile 120,887; Peru 22,181; 
Zaire 6,916. 
1,673 United States 665; West Germany 459; United Kingdom 
211. 
 &mdash; &mdash; 6 West Germany 4; Canada 1; 
  United Kingdom 1. 
NA 112,334 Switzerland 29,161; Japan 25,592; West Germany 
21,862. 
 10 8 Switzerland 7. 
 38 29 All from United States. 
 6,199 7,044 United States 5,248; West 
   Germany 1,270; Canada 
    255. 
 16,644 3,103 Japan 1,048; West Germany 
    600; United States 489. 
 39,335 73,847 Japan 35,648; West Germany 
    11,815; Venezuela 9,553. 
 41,245 29,244 United Kingdom 14,185; Ja 
    pan 5,827; West Germany 
5,147. 
Japan 114,274; France 71,906; Argentina 55,984. 
West Germany 4,500; Japan 2,752; United States 1,797. 
Japan 43,982; United States 35,701; United Kingdom 
15,224. 
 

					
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