In January 2013, Zimbabwe's mineral exports totalled $1.8 billion.

However, depressed foreign demand for the country's mineral exports and the onset of a drought cut sharply into the growth rate in 1982, 1983, and 1984.

Led by copper cathodes, Philippine mineral exports amounted to $650 million in 2000, barely up from 1999 levels.

This situation was indeed a "giveaway to the third world," which feared erosion of mineral exports and needed interminable negotiations to eliminate American competition.

Petroleum and coal are the main mineral exports.

Its capital, Annaba is Algeria's main port for mineral exports.

Last year, strikes cost the nation about $450 million worth of lost mineral exports.

Other mineral exports included petroleum refinery products and alumina.

Bargny is the site of a proposed deep water port for mineral export such as for iron ore.

That performance owes much to record prices for mineral exports.