TABLE 2
COLOMBIA:  STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003
(Thousand metric tons unless otherwise specified)
				Major operating companies				Annual
Commodity				and major equity owners		Location of main facilities		capacity
Carbon black				Cabot Colombiana, S.A. (private, 100%)		Cartagena, Bolivar Department (plant)		NA.
Do.				Productos Petroquímicos, S.A.  (private,		Cali, Valle del Cauca Department		12.
				100%)		(two plants)
Cement				Cía. Colombia de Clinker, S.A.		Cartagena, Bolivar Department (plant)		1,100.
				(Colclinker) (private, 100%)
Do.				Cementos Boyacá, S.A. (Holcim Group, 100%)		Nobsa, Boyaca Department		1,700.
Do.				CEMEX Colombia S.A. (CEMEX S.A. de		Five plants		4,800.
				C.V., 98.2%)
Do.				Cementos del Caribe, S.A. (private, 100%)		Barranquilla, Atlantico Department		1,000.
Do.				Cementos del Valle, S.A. (private, 100%)		Yumbo, Valle del Cauca Department		1,200.
Do.				Cementos Río Claro, S.A. (private, 100%)		Puerto Trifuno, Antioquia Department		1,750.
Coal				Carbones del Cerrejón LLC		Cerrejon Centro mines, Cerrejon Sur		22,000.
				(Anglo American Plc; 33.3% ; Glencor		mines, Cerrejon Zona Norte, and
				International AG, 33.3%; and BHP Billiton		Oreganal Mines, La Guajira
				Plc, 33.3%)		Department
Do.				Drummond Ltd. (Drummond Co. Inc., 100%)		La Loma Mine (Pribbenow), Cesar		16,000.
						Department
Do.				Prodeco S.A. (private, 100%)		Calenturitas in Cesar Department		NA.
Do.				Acerías Paz del Río, S.A. (private, 100%)		Paz del Rio, Boyaca Department (mine)		600.
Copper				Minera El Roble, S.A.		El Roble Mine, El Carmen, Choco		3.
						Department
Gemstones, emerald				Minerales de Colombia, S.A. (MINERALCO)		Chivor, Coscuez, Muzo, and Quipama		NA.
				(Government, 100%)		Mines, Boyaca Department
Gold		kilograms		Frontino Gold Mines Ltd. (private, 100%)		El Silencio Mine, Segovia District and		1,500.
						Providencia Mine, Remedios
						District, Antioquia Department
		do.		Grupo de Bullet S.A.		El Limón Oronorte Mine, Segovia,		1,000.
						Antioquia Department
Do.		do.		Mineros de Antioquia, S.A. (private, 100%)		El Bagre, Rio Nechi, Antioquia		2,000.
						Department
Do.		do.		Small miners (cooperatives and individual		do.		NA.
				prospectors)
Iron ore				Acerías Paz del Río, S.A.		Paz del Rio, Boyaca Department (mine)		800.
Kaolin				Cerámicas del Valle Ltda., (private, 100%)		Yumbo, Valle del Cauca Department		NA.
						(mine)
Natural gas		million cubic meters		Ecopetrol S.A. (Government, 100%)		North coast, La Guajira Department		4,500.
						(national gasfields)
Do.		do.		International Petroleum Colombia, Ltd.		Barrancabermeja locale, Antioquia and		2,200.
				(International Petroleum Corp., 100%)		Santander Departments
Nickel				Cerro Matoso, S.A. [QNI Ltd. 100% (latter		Cerro Matoso Mine, Montelíbano,		55 plant.
				owned by BHP Billiton Plc 100%)]		Cordoba Department
Nitrogen				Abonos de Colombia (private, 100%)		Cartagena, Bolivar Department (plant)		100.
Do.				Monómeros Colombo-Venezolanos, S.A.		Barranquilla, Atlantico Department		85.
				(private, 100%)		(plant)
Petroleum1		thousand 42-gallon barrels		Ecopetrol S.A.		16 fields in various Departments		70,000.
Do.		do.		HOCOL, S.A.		14 fields in various Departments		36,500.
Petroleum products		do.		Esopetrol S.A.		Barrancabermeja refinery, Norte de		81,400.
						Santander Department
Do.		do.		do.		Cartegena refinery, Bolivar Department		28,000.
Do.		do.		do.		Tibu, Norte de Santander Department		1,825.
Do.		do.		do.		Orito, Putumayo Department		875.
Phosphate rock				Fosfatos de Colombia, S.A. (private, 100%)		Neiva, Huila Department		30.
Do.				Fosfatos Boyacá, S.A.  (Government, 100%)		Iza, Boyaca Department		20.
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 2--Continued
COLOMBIA:  STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003
(Thousand metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Commodity				Major operating companies				Annual
				and major equity owners		Location of main facilities		capacity
Platinum				Small miners (cooperatives and individual		Rio San Juan, Choco Department		NA.
				prospectors)
Salt, marine				Instituto de Fomento Industrial (IFI)		Manaure Salina, La Guajira Department		700.
				(Government, 100%)
Salt, rock				IFI-Concesión de Salinas (Government, 100%)		Zipaquira, Cundinamarca Department		500.
Silver		kilograms		Frontino Gold Mines Ltd.		El Silencio Mine, Segovia, Antioquia		2,500.
						Department
Do.		do.		Small miners (individual prospectors		Rio Nechi, Antioquia Department		NA.
				and cooperatives)		(mines)
Steel:
Integrated plant				Acerías Paz del Río, S.A.		Belencito, Boyaca Department		400.
Semi-integrated plants				Siderúrgica del Caribe (private, 100%)		Cartagena, Bolivar Department		NA.
Do.				Siderúrgica del Boyacá, S.A. (private, 100%)		Santa Fe de Bogota		NA.
Do.				Siderúrgica del Medellín, S.A. (private, 100%)		Medellín, Antioquia Department		NA.
Do.				Siderúrgica del Muna, S.A. (private, 100%)		Chusaca, Federal District		NA.
Do.				Siderúrgica del Pacífico, S.A. (private, 100%)		Cali, Valle del Cauca Department		NA.
Sulfur				Industrias Purace, S.A. (private, 100%)		El Vinagre Mine, Cauca Department		60.
Do.				Ecopetrol S.A.		Barrancabermeja, Santander Department		29.
NA  Not available.
1These two petroleum entries are examples only.  Colombia has more than 3,000 producing wells drilled by Government and private companies; these wells have
combined capacities that exceed 755,000 barrels per day of oil.