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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Thomas S. Kleppe, Secretary

BUREAU OF MINES Thomas V. Falkie, Director

As the Nation's principal conservation agency, the Department of the
Interior has basic responsibilities to protect and conserve our land and
water, energy and minerals, fish and wildlife, and park and recreation
areas, and for the wise use of all those resources. The Department also
has a major responsibility for American Indian reservation communities
and for the people who live in Island Territories under U.S. adminis-
tration.

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1976

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20402 Price $15.00

Stock Number 024-004-01838-1

Cat. No. I 28.37:973 Va -III

Foreword

The Federal Government, through the medium of the Minerals Yearbook or its predecessor volumes, has for 91 years reported annually on mineral industry activities. This edition of the Minerals Yearbook presents the record on worldwide mineral industry performance during 1973. In addition to statistics, the volumes provide background information to help in interpreting the year's developments. The content of the individual volumes is as follows: Volume I, Metals, Minerals, and Fuels, contains chapters on virtually all metallic, nonmetallic, and mineral fuel commodities important to the domestic economy. In addition, it includes a general review chapter on the mineral industries, a statistical summary, and a chapter on mining and quarrying trends.

Volume II, Area Reports: Domestic, contains chapters on the mineral industry of each of the 50 States, the U.S. island possessions in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone. This volume also has a statistical summary, identical to that in Volume I.

Volume III, Area Reports: International, contains the latest available mineral data on more than 130 foreign countries and discusses the importance of minerals to the economies of these nations. A separate chapter reviews minerals in general and their relationships to the world economy. The Bureau of Mines continually strives to improve the value of the Yearbook for its users. Therefore, the constructive comments and suggestions of readers will be welcomed.

THOMAS V. FALKIE, Director.

Acknowledgments

In preparing this volume, the Bureau of Mines gratefully acknowledges the statistics and other basic data on mineral production, consumption, and trade provided by various foreign government mineral and statistical agencies through a variety of official publications. Statistical and informational material was also obtained from airgrams of the U.S. Department of State, from publications of the United Nations, and from the domestic and foreign technical and trade press. Of particular assistance in preparing this volume were the routine and special reports submitted by the mineral, petroleum, economic, and commercial officers and other members of the embassy and consular service of the Department of State. Their contributions are sincerely appreciated.

The chapters of this volume were prepared by the staffs of the Divisions of Ferrous Metals, Nonferrous Metals, and Nonmetallic Minerals, of the assistant directorate-metals, minerals, and materials; and of the Divisions of Coal and Petroleum and Natural Gas of the assistant directorate-fuels. The "Minerals in the World Economy" chapter and the production and trade tables of the country chapters were prepared in the Geographic Statistics Group of the Office of Technical Data Services. Final correlation and checking of this volume were performed by the Minerals Yearbook staff of the Office of Technical Data Services.

The regimes of some countries reviewed in this volume are not recognized by the U.S. Government. The information contained herein is technical and statistical in nature and is not construed as conflicting with or contradictory of U.S. policies toward these countries.