Syria: production of marble, gypsum, volcanic tuff and other construction minerals, 2007-2021 (USGS)

Compiled by Phoenician Stone Group from the USGS Minerals Yearbook, this table gives Syria's yearly production of marble, gypsum, volcanic tuff and other construction minerals, 2007-2021, with every USGS estimate flag kept, so that buyers and researchers can follow Syria's quarrying output from published, checkable figures.

Production of marble materials, marble blocks, gypsum, volcanic tuff, gravel and crushed rock, sand, natural asphalt and cement in Syria, 2007-2021, transcribed exactly from three USGS Minerals Yearbook chapters with their estimate and revision flags, plus the listed quarry facilities and capacities.

Files

• syria-stone-minerals-production-usgs-v1.csv: 100 rows, 16,147 bytes
• syria-stone-minerals-production-usgs-v1.json: 100 rows, 35,457 bytes

Method

• Transcription of Table 1 (production) and Table 2 (structure of the industry) of the USGS Minerals Yearbook chapters on Syria for 2011, 2016 and 2020-2021; for each year the latest chapter covering it is used.
• Values transcribed from the USGS Minerals Yearbook chapters on Syria (links below) and checked against the USGS spreadsheet for 2012-2016. The download keeps the edition, unit and USGS note for every value.
• The 2016 chapter labels its whole table as estimated production; the 2020-2021 chapter gives no marble or stone estimate.
• Marble blocks were reported in thousand square metres up to 2011; from the 2016 chapter USGS converts square metres to tonnes (0.03 m³ per m², 2.56 t per m³).
• Information written by USGS is in the U.S. public domain; this compilation is published under CC BY 4.0 and credits USGS.

Limits

• Values are USGS figures and estimates as published, with their flags; no value was modelled or changed.
• The 2016 chapter labels its whole production table as estimated; the 2020-2021 chapter gives no marble or stone estimate.
• Marble blocks are in thousand square metres up to 2011 and in tonnes from the 2016 chapter (USGS conversion).

Rights and credit

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Copyright 2026 Phoenician Stone Group for this compilation.

The underlying values are U.S. Geological Survey information, in the U.S. public domain (https://www.usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits). CC BY 4.0 applies to this compilation (selection, structure, flags, the facility table and documentation), not to the USGS values themselves.

Attribution requested: Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Minerals Yearbook (public domain); compiled by Phoenician Stone Group.

Online: dataset page (English) https://phoenicianstone.net/data/syria-stone-minerals-production/; Arabic https://phoenicianstone.net/ar/data/syria-stone-minerals-production/; catalogue https://phoenicianstone.net/data/. The same files, with a data viewer: https://huggingface.co/datasets/phoenician-stone-group/syrian-natural-stone-open-data.

About the publisher

Phoenician Stone Group is a Syrian natural stone company, founded in 2004, with its own quarries and production in Syria and its sales and client service run from Europe. It quarries, processes and exports limestone, fossil limestone (shell stone), travertine and volcanic basalt, and supplies industrial minerals.

It publishes these data because buyers, specifiers and researchers have little reliable, sourced information on Syrian stone and its trade, and much of what circulates predates the changes in Syria's trade rules since 2025. Every figure is tied to a dated public source, so that it can be checked independently and corrected openly in a new version.

Disclosure: The figures describe Syria as a whole; they contain no volumes, prices or quarries of the company. Website: https://phoenicianstone.net/.

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How to cite: Phoenician Stone Group (2026). Syria: production of marble, gypsum, volcanic tuff and other construction minerals, 2007-2021 (USGS) (version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24108334