Minerals Handbook 1988-89 Statistics and Analyses of the World's Minerals Industry

The statistics in this handbook cover 46 minerals. This edition is updated to give the latest available figures and prices. The data provided covers: world reserves, world mine production, world refining production, secondary production, reserve/production ratio, consumption of refined metal, end use patterns, values of contained metal in annual production, substitutes and technical alternatives, prices, marketing agreements, supply to and demand from USA, UK, Japan and the EEC. In addition to the existing summary tables, a new summary table "The Value of Annual Production" is included. Also newly given, are the conversion factors between the commonly traded forms of each mineral and the statistics for capacity and production for each mineral.