The freighter, which was launched on 9 March, is carrying just under five tonnes of supplies for the station's astronauts.
This amounts to roughly five tonnes of lime a hectare, sometimes more.
Jules Verne - its generic name is Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) - delivered just under five tonnes of supplies to the platform on its maiden voyage.
Based on previous figures, visitors are expected to consume about five tonnes of chicken, one tonne of rice and peas and 25, 000 bottles of rum, said organisers.
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"We produce five tonnes of cheese per month which also means there are 50 tonnes of whey to dispose of, so we had to find a sustainable site in Oxfordshire, " he said.
The Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, an aluminium canister loaded with almost five tonnes of equipment, systems and science racks for transfer to Destiny, will be attached to the ISS early next week.
Iron ore was the largest contributor to Anglo's profit in 2011, but the firm said production at its key Kumba Iron Ore unit fell 19% to nine million tonnes, after five million tonnes of production were lost at its Sishen mine due to the strike.
If approved the quarry would release five million tonnes of new sand and gravel reserves.
By contrast, the impact of the 2005 drought, spread over a number of years, was calculated as a release of five billion tonnes.
Anadarko plans to build two LNG plants in Cabo Delgado in the first phase, each capable of processing five million tonnes of gas a year.
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The biggest user of coal in Scotland is Scottish Power, which burns four to five million tonnes of the year each year at Longannet power station, and Cockenzie in East Lothian.
The Mining Ministry is now proposing to raise domestic gold production five-fold to 45 tonnes a year.
America's emissions have fallen by 450m tonnes in the past five years, more than any other country's.
The Rest and Be Thankful section of the A83 has been closed six times in the past five years after heavy rain washed tonnes of debris down the hillside.
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But it would presumably be torn up if the gold price rose sharply: the Bank of France said this month that it wants to offload some 500 tonnes over the next five years.
Surging capacity in China and elsewhere has prompted the North American Steel Trade Committee (comprising America, Canada and Mexico and their country's steel firms) to estimate that the world's total annual steelmaking capacity will rise by 250m tonnes over the next five years, an increase of 25% that threatens a return to glut, and thus plunging prices, especially if Chinese demand falters.
"Within one bay of the coastline there's between five and five-and-a-half tonnes of this oily substance, " said Holyhead Coastguard David North .
He said Wales has 12, 000 tonnes in reserve and just four or five days of grit left before more supplies were due to arrive.
Over the past five years America has recorded a decline in greenhouse-gas emissions of 450m tonnes, the biggest anywhere in the world.
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The testing regime will be one sample per 50 tonnes of horsemeat, and each country will carry out a minimum of five tests.
The 75 tonnes of paving materials transported by canal will also be used in the five-acre public plaza at the centre of the development.
All this is justified commercially by the expectation that this mine will produce 450, 000 tonnes of copper a year, making it one of the world's five biggest mines, as well as being a big gold producer.
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