The mining industry is strong in ore extraction (450,000 tons of chromite and copper ores in 2010) and production of construction materials (3.8 million tons of limestone in 2010). Based on a comparison with other countries, and assuming that generation is proportional to GDP, the level of industrial waste generation in Albania is estimated to be 170,000 tons per annum. Information on the quantity or types of industrial waste is not collected in Albania.