us geological survey minerals information 1996 1 the mineral industry of south africa by george j coakley and thomas p dolley repu blic remained one world s or processed commodities notably ferroalloys steel foremost mining pr ocessing nations in cement manufactured fertilizers refined petroleu m had t he largest production gold was products from coal crude petroleum almost 90 o f among dominant producers many other minera l electricity genera ted about 6 comm odities most important commoditie ura nium department energy produced terms value continued to b e administration 1997 platinum group metals pgm additionally class output metallic included ores r sm elted antimony chromium iron manganese titanium vanadium zirconium affairs dmea industrial andalusite asbestos diamond within ministry th dimen sion stone fluorspar phosphate rock
