2-19. Non-Fuel Raw Material Production in South Carolina: 1992-1994 1/

                                                              1992                         1993                          1994 p

 MINERAL COMMODITY                                    Quality       Value 2/       Quality       Value 2/        Quality        Value 2/

 Cement (Portland)   Thousand Metric Tons              2,083        $93,385         2,132        $109,369         2,280        $117,000      
 Clays               Do.                               1,608         27,694         1,539          31,304         1,830          32,500
 Gemstones                                               N/A            641           N/A               W           N/A               W
 Gold 3/             Kilograms                         6,747         74,832             W               W             W               W
 Sand & Gravel:
      Construction   Thousand Metric Tons              6,256         19,923         6,800 *        21,800 *       7,900          26,100
      Industrial     Do.                                 770         17,316           749          18,964             W               W
 Stone (Crushed)     Do.                           4/ 15,966 *    4/ 83,800 *      19,765         120,939        20,500 *       128,000 *
 Combined Value of :
      Cement (Masonary), Manganiferous Ore,
      Mica (scrap), Peat, Silver, Stone [crushed
      dolomite (1992), dimension], Vermiculite,
      and values indicated by symbol W.                   XX         29,305            XX          88,671            XX         112,000

 TOTAL                                                    XX       $346,896            XX        $391,047            XX     5/ $415,000

1/: Production as measured by shipments, sales, or marketable production (incl. consumption by producers).

2/: Value is in thousands.

3/: Recoverable content of ores, etc.

4/: Excludes certain stones; kind and value included with "Combined Value" data.

5:/ Data do not add to total and shown of independent rounding.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the S.C. Geological Survey, January 1996.

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