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THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES OF KENYA AND UGANDA By Thomas R. Yager KENYA The International Iron and Steel Institute (2002, p. 81, 91) estimated that Kenya’s imports of semimanufactured and The mineral industry in the East African country of Kenya finished steel products amounted to 344,000 metric tons (t) in was chiefly noted for its production of fluorspar, salt, and 2001 compared with 303,000 t in 2000 and 265,000 t in 1996. soda ash. Other industrial minerals produced in recent years From 1996 to 2001, Kenya’s apparent consumption of finished included barite, diatomite, feldspar, gypsum, lime, silica sand, steel rose to 362,000 t from 283,000 t. and vermiculite. Building materials produced included cement, coral, granite, limestone, marble, and shale. Kenya produced Lead and Zinc.—Associated Battery Manufacturers EA small amounts of gold and secondary aluminum, iron ore, operated Kenya’s only secondary lead smelter at Athi River. lead, and steel. The country also produced carbon dioxide gas, National production of refined lead amounted to about 1,000 gemstones, and refined petroleum products (table 1). t/yr, and consumption, 3,000 t/yr. Kenya consumed 12,000 In 2002, Kenya’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased t/yr of imported zinc for such applications as the production by 1% after rising by 1.2% in 2001 and decreasing by 0.1% in of galvanized steel. In 2002, Anglo American Base Metals 2000. The GDP was $39.7 billion at purchasi