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e/ Estimated. r/ Revised. -- Zero.
1/ Estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add totals shown.
2/ Table includes data available through May 18, 2001.
3/ In addition to commodities listed, a variety of industrial minerals and construction materials (common clay, quartz, sand and gravel, stone, and titanomagnesite) are produced; output is not reported quantitatively, and available information is inadequate to make reliable estimates of output levels.
4/ Includes asphalt and bitumen produced at petroleum refineries.
5/ Separate data on marketable production are not available, but gross and marketed output are regarded as being nearly equal. 6/ In addition to the commodities listed, common clay was also produced, but available information was inadequate to make reliable estimates of output.
7/ Reported figure.
8/ In addition to the commodities listed, common clay and diatomite are also produced, but available information was inadequate to make reliable estimates of output.

TABLE 2
ALBANIA: STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2000 1/
(Thousand metric tons unless otherwise specified)

Commodity		Location of main facilities (all state-owned)	Annual capacity
Cement		Elbasan, 32 kilometers southeast of Tirana; Kruje, 20 kilometers northwest of Tirana; Shkoder, 85 kilometers northwest of Tirana; and Vlore, southwest of Tirana	1,200
Chromite		Bater (including Bater I and II and Martanesh), 40 kilometers northwest of Tirana	450
⁠Do.		Bulquize (including Bulquize south, Fush, Terrnove, and Todo Maco), 35 kilometers northwest of Tirana	450
⁠Do.		Kalimash, 60 kilometers north of Tirana	250
⁠Do.		Kam, 70 kilometers north of Tirana	100
⁠Do.		Klos, 20 kilometers northeast of Tirana	50
⁠Do.		Pogradec (including Katjiel, Memelisht, Pojske, Pishkash, and Prrenjas), 50 kilometers east of Tirana	100
Ferrochromium		Burrel, 35 kilometers northeast of Tirana	40
⁠Do.		Elbasan, 32 kilometers southeast of Tirana	36
Copper:
⁠Ore		Fushe-Arrez, 80 kilometers north of Tirana	350
⁠⁠Do.		Gjejan, 100 kilometers northeast of Tirana	150
⁠⁠Do.		Golaj (including Nikoliq and Pus), 120 kilometers northeast of Tirana	150
⁠⁠Do.		Kurbnesh-Perlat, 55 kilometers northeast of Tirana	100
⁠⁠Do.		Rehove, 110 kilometers southeast of Tirana	100
⁠⁠Do.		Reps (including Gurch, Lajo, Spac, and Thurr), 55 kilometers north of Tirana	350
⁠⁠Do.		Rreshen, 50 kilometers north of Tirana	50
⁠⁠Do.		Shkoder (including Palaj, Karma I and II), 85 kilometers northwest of Tirana	100
⁠Smelter		Kukes, 110 kilometers northeast of Tirana	6
⁠⁠Do.		Lac, 35 kilometers northwest of Tirana	7
⁠⁠Do.		Rubik, 50 kilometers north of Tirana	4
Iron ore		Prrenjas (Bushtrica, Prrenjas, Skorska I and II), 70 kilometers southeast of Tirana	650
⁠Do.		Guri i Kuq (including Cervenake, Grasishta, Guri i Kuq, Hudenisht and Gun Perfjrgjur), 25 kilometers east of Tirana	500
Steel		"Steel of the Party" Metallurgical Combine at Elbasan	150
Nickel, smelter		Elbasan	6
Coal, lignite		Maneze, Mezes, and Valias Mines in Tirana Durres area; Krabe Mine, 20 kilometers southeast of Tirana; Alarup and Cervnake Mines, in Pogradec area, 80 kilometers southeast of Tirana; Mborje-Drenove Mine in Korce area, 85 kilometers southwest of Tirana; and Memaliaj Mine in Tepelene area, 110 kilometers south of Tirana	2,500
Natural gas	million cubic feet	Gasfields on southwest Albania between Ballsh and Fier	16,000
Petroleum:
⁠Crude	42-gallon barrels per day	Oilfields at Marineze, Ballsh, Shqisht, Patos, Kucova, Gorrisht, and others	35,000
⁠Refined	do.	Refineries: Ballsh, Cerrik, Fier, and Stalin	33,000

1/ A substantial portion of these enterprises have been operating significantly below capacity during the transition to a market economy; the capacities provided in this table only represent the latest available information and may not show the true status of these enterprises.