The Mineral Industry of Serbia in 2015
2015 Minerals Yearbook SERBIA [ADVANCE RELEASE] U.S. Department of the Interior August 2019 U.S. Geological Survey The Mineral Industry of Serbia By Karine M. Renaud Serbia has industrial mineral resources, including bentonite, 10%. Production of silica sand decreased by 77%; refined gold, borate, feldspar, kaolin, limestone, magnesite, mica, and by 52%; mine output of lead (Pb content) and zinc (Zn content), wollastonite; and metallic mineral resources, such as antimony, by 35% each; mine output of silver (Ag content), by 26%; chromite, cobalt, copper, gold, iron, lead, molybdenum, nickel, nitrogen (N content of ammonia), by 18%; selenium, by 13%; platinum-group elements, tin, tungsten, uranium, and zinc. The lime and refined petroleum products, by 12% each; and crude country also has mineral fuel resources and related materials. In petroleum, by 8%. Data on mineral production are in table 1. 2015, Serbia produced metals, such as aluminum, copper, crude steel, gold, lead, pig iron, platinum-group metals, selenium, Structure of the Mineral Industry silver, and zinc, and industrial minerals, which included cement, In 2015, Reservoir Minerals Inc. established a joint-venture chalk, silica sand, gypsum, kaolin, lime, limestone, marble, salt, agreement with Freeport McMoRan Exploration Corp. (FMEC) and sand and gravel. The country also produced mineral fuels of the United States for the Timok gold project. Reservoir and related materials, including coal, natural gas, petroleum, Minerals held 45% of the Timok project and FMEC held and petroleum refinery products (table 1; Monthel and others, 55% through its subsidiary Rakita d.o.o. In 2015, mining 2002, p. 5–6). and quarrying in Serbia employed 22,386 workers, of which Minerals in the National Economy 13,099 were employed in the mining of coal and lignite, 773 in the extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas, In 2015, Serbia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 4,036 in the mining of metal ores, 3,296 in other mining and by 0.7% compared with a decrease of 1.8% in 2014.
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