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Bureau of Mines / Minerals yearbook: Area reports: domestic 1978-79
Year 1978-79, Volume 2 (1978-1979)
Kebblish, William
New York, pp. 383-394
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383The Mineral Industry of New York This chapter has been prepared under a Memorandum of Understanding between the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the New York Geological Survey, for collecting information on all nonfuel minerals. By William Kebblish1 The total value of minerals produced in New York was $418.5 million in 1978 and $453.7 million in 1979. The five commodities that contributed nearly 90% of the total value were cement, lime, salt, stone, and sand and gravel. Other minerals included clays, gypsum, iron ore, talc, titanium, and various abrasives. Silver and lead were produced as a byproduct of zinc processing, while slag and sulfur were recovered from other operations. Table 1.—Nonfuel mineral production in New York1 1977 1978 1979 Value Value Value Mineral ~ Quantity (thousands) Quantity (thou- sands) Quantity (thou sands) Clays2 thousand short ton& — Gemstones 564 NA $1,728 15 659 NA $2,121 20 836 NA $3,027 20 Lead (recoverable content of ores, etc.) metric tons — Peat thousand short tons — 2,520 39 1,706 569 990 49 735 770 458 38 532 630 Salt do_USand and gravel do. — — — Silver (recoverable content of ores, etc.) 6,452 29,197 72,623 57,570 5,879 °28,760 77,236 °59,280 6,387 °26,242 77,751 ~55,889 thousand troy ounce&. — Stone: 56 260 21 113 11 117 Crushed — — — thousand short ton& — Dimension do~. Zinc (recoverable content of ores, etc.) 29,922 25 88,509 2,272 35,748 25 98,530 2,586 36,901 27 112,362 2,626 metric tons.. — Combined value of cement, clays (ball clay), emery, garnet (abrasive), gypsum, iron ore, lime, sand and gravel (industrial, 1978-79), talc, titanium concentrate 64,264 48,737 26,463 18,086 12,133 9,977 (ilmenite), and wollastonite Tote! XX 163,726 XX 159,065 XX 190,779 XX 437,715 XX 418,542 XX 453,710 NA Not available. XX Not applicable. 1Production as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production (including consumption by producers). °Excludes ball clay; value included in "Combined value" figure. 3Excludes industrial sand; value included in "Combined value" figure.
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