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MINERAL COMMODITY Quality Value (thou.) Quality Value (thou.) Quality Value (thou.)
Cement (Portland) Thousand Metric Tons 2,210 $143,000 2,210 $156,000 2,440 $172,000
Clays Thousand Metric Tons 1,520 3/ 30,400 3/ 1,620 21,700 3/ 1,690 21,700
Sand & Gravel:
Construction Do. 8,600 26,100 8,880 29,000 9,590 33,100
Industrial Thousand Metric Tons 699 18,100 839 20,500 839 20,500
Stone (Crushed) Thousand Metric Tons 20,500 4/ 131,000 4/ 22,000 132,000 23,800 146,000
Cement (Masonary), Clays [Kaolin (1994)],
gemstones, gold, manganiferous ore,
mica (scrap), peat, silver, stone [crushed
marble (1994-95) dimension (1993, 1995) XX 93,900 XX 88,700 XX 102,000
dimension granite (1994)], and vermiculite
TOTAL XX $442,000 XX $447,000 XX $495,000
*: Estimated; XX: Not Applicable1/: Production as measured by shipments, sales, or marketable production (incl. consumption by producers).
2/: Data are rounded to three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.
3/: Excludes certain clays; kind and value included with "Combined Value" data.
3/: Excludes certain stones; kind and value included with "Combined Value" data.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the S.C. Geological Survey, September 1997.
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