NONMETALS —Continued 
Commodity 1977 1978 Principal sources, 1978 
Diamond: 
 Gem, not set or strung value, thousands_  $3,164 $672 All from United Kingdom.

 Industrial do____ $846 $1,306 AllfromBelgium-Luxembourg. 
Diatomite and other infusorial earth 1,452 1,292 Iceland 418; France 408;
United States 
    385. 
 15,443 Thailand 12,225; Spain 1,533. 
 3779 ~879 Morocco 672. 
  593 Yugoslavia 244; France 189. 
  172,408 Poland 172,000. 
  14,052 Hungary 7,223; Bulgaria 5,840. 
  393 All from Italy. 
 — — 1,263 Italy 820; West Germany 307. 
 46 5 United Kingdom 4. 
 21 23 Japan 16; West Germany 6. 
 — — 33 Italy 32. 
 3,992 2,106 Italy 1,503; France 480. 
  ~4,669 Czechoslovakia 861; United States 674; 
    Poland 450. 
 NA 430 Turkey 245; Yugoslavia 185. 
 ~2,O96 ~2,083 Czechoslovakia 346; West Germany 
    294. 
Petroleum: 
  Crude thousand 42-gallon barrels_ — ~64,600 ~94,400 NA. 
 Refinery products: 
     Gasoline do____ 11 35 WestGermany23;Greece8. 
     Kerosine do___ 18 8 Greece7. 
     Distillatefueloil do_._... 5 23 Greece22. 
 Residualfueloil do___ -- 12 AllfromGreece. 
 Lubricants do_~ 16 20 Netherlands6;WestGermany5. 
Other: 
 Liquefied petroleum gas do__ - - - - 
 Mineral jelly and wax do_ - - - 
 Unspecified do____ 5 Mineral tar and other coal-, petroleum., or gas-derived

 crudechemicals_________________________ 
  59 All from Germany. 
  2 West Germany 1. 
 11,856 11,469 U.S.S.R. 9,177; France 1,530. 
 NA Not available. 
 1Owing to the lack of offical trade data published by Romania, this table
should not be taken as a complete presentation of Romania's mineral imports.
Unless otherwise specified, data are compiled from trade statistics of individual
trading partners, as well as the United Nations World Trade Annual, Walker
and Co., New York. 
 2World Bureau of Metal Statistics. World Metal Statistics, London. 
 3Oflicial Romanian trade statistics. 
 4United Nations. Quarterly Bulletin of Steel Statistics for Europe, New
York. 
 5Australian Government Publishing Service. Australian Mineral Industry Quarterly,
Canberra. 
 Metallgesellschaft AG. Metal Statistics, Frankfurt am Main. 
THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF ROMANIA 
 
Table 3.—Romania Apparent imports of mineral commodities1 —Continued

(Metric tons unless otherwise specified) 
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Feldsparandfluorspar  4,103 
Fertilizer material: 
 Crude, phosphatic thousand tons. - 
 Manufactured: 
    Nitrogenous  90 
    Phosphatic  14,889 
 Potassic, K20 content thousand ton&.  129 
 Other, including mixed  - - 
Graphite,natural -- 
Gypeumandplasters -- 
Magnesite 44,181 
Mica,allforms 8 
Pigments, mineral: Iron oxides, processed 931 
Precious and semiprecious stones, excluding diamond 
 value, thousands. - - - 
Pyrite  135,711 
Salt -- 
Sodium and potassium compounds: Caustic potash - -  - - 
Stone, sand and gravel: 
  Dimensionstone 47 
  Gravelandcrushedrock 130 
  Quartzandquartzite -- 
  Sand -- 
Sulfur: 
 Elemental: 
     Colloidal 214 
     Other than colloidal 122,964 
  Sulfuric acid 90,035 
Talc 326 
Other: 
  Crude______________________________ 
  Oxides and hydroxides of magnesium, strontium, 
   barium 
  Halogens____________________________ 
  MINERAL FUELS AND RELATED MATERIALS 
Asphaltandbitumen, natural_________________ 
Carbon black                             
Coal and briquets: 
 Anthracite and bituminous - - - - thousand tons_ - ~3,440 
 * Ligniteandlignitebriquets do___~. 
Cokeandsemicoke do~__ 
 180 All from West Germany. 
 9,757 All from Israel. 
 162 German Democratic Republic 63. 
 149 Belgium-Luxembourg 145. 
 73 All from West Germany. 
 22   Do. 
 94,118 Czechoslovakia 89,000. 
 19 France 10; Belgium-Luxembourg 5. 
 1,285 West Germany 999. 
 $18 France $11; Japan $6. 
 74,664 All from Yugoslavia. 
 6 All from West Germany. 
 276 Yugoslavia 215. 
 144 Italy 68; Sweden 57. 
 426 France 174; Yugoslavia 127. 
 553 Sweden 370; West Germany 183. 
 507 West Germany 505.