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| TABLE 7 | ||||||||||||
| WORLD PRODUCTION CAPACITY OF CHROMITE ORE, FERROCHROMIUM, CHROMIUM METAL, | ||||||||||||
| CHROMIUM CHEMICALS, AND STAINLESS STEEL, AND APPARENT CONSUMPTION IN 20051 | ||||||||||||
| (Thousand metric tons of contained chromium) | ||||||||||||
| Production capacity | ||||||||||||
| Stainless | Apparent | |||||||||||
| Country | Ore | Ferrochromium | Metal | Chemicals | steel | consumption2 | ||||||
| Afghanistan | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||||||
| Albania | 48 | 24 | -- | -- | -- | 28 | ||||||
| Argentina | -- | -- | -- | 13 | -- | 21 | ||||||
| Australia | 78 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -52 | ||||||
| Austria | -- | -- | -- | -- | 8 | 100 | ||||||
| Belgium | -- | -- | -- | -- | 120 | 104 | ||||||
| Brazil | 197 | 113 | -- | -- | 96 | 180 | ||||||
| Canada | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 24 | ||||||
| China | 69 | 468 | 6 | 70 | 595 | 1,070 | ||||||
| Cuba | 13 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 4 | ||||||
| Czech Republic | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | ||||||
| Finland | 174 | 138 | -- | -- | 221 | 164 | ||||||
| France | -- | -- | 7 | -- | 112 | 97 | ||||||
| Germany | -- | 18 | 1 | -- | 298 | 261 | ||||||
| Greece | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | (3) | ||||||
| India | 980 | 318 | (3) | 4 | 306 | 530 | ||||||
| Indonesia | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -31 | ||||||
| Iran | 67 | 12 | -- | 2 | -- | (3) | ||||||
| Italy | -- | -- | -- | -- | 272 | 235 | ||||||
| Japan | 1 | 8 | 1 | 17 | 714 | 563 | ||||||
| Kazakhstan | 1,080 | 637 | 2 | 37 | -- | 395 | ||||||
| Korea, Republic of | -- | -- | -- | -- | 425 | 266 | ||||||
| Madagascar | 42 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 35 | ||||||
| Oman | 9 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -13 | ||||||
| Pakistan | 45 | -- | -- | 3 | -- | -6 | ||||||
| Philippines | 21 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -4 | ||||||
| Poland | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 | ||||||
| Russia | 232 | 333 | 16 | 31 | 17 | 313 | ||||||
| Slovakia | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | (3) | ||||||
| Slovenia | -- | -- | -- | -- | 13 | -1 | ||||||
| South Africa | 2,300 | 1,540 | -- | 23 | 122 | 616 | ||||||
| Spain | -- | -- | -- | -- | 204 | 107 | ||||||
| Sudan | 11 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||||||
| Sweden | -- | 81 | -- | -- | 119 | 77 | ||||||
| Taiwan | -- | -- | -- | -- | 272 | 212 | ||||||
| Turkey | 259 | 23 | -- | 17 | -- | 35 | ||||||
| Ukraine | -- | -- | -- | -- | 19 | (3) | ||||||
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | (3) | ||||||
| United Kingdom | -- | -- | 7 | 17 | 85 | 66 | ||||||
| United States | -- | 20 | 3 | 38 | 425 | 266 | ||||||
| Vietnam | 59 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||||||
| Yugoslavia | -- | -- | -- | -- | 91 | -- | ||||||
| Zimbabwe | 247 | 165 | -- | -- | -- | 127 | ||||||
| Total | 5,930 | 3,900 | 43 | 272 | 4,540 | XX | ||||||
| XX Not applicable.� -- Zero.�� | ||||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.�� | ||||||||||||
| 2Apparent consumption is chromite ore production plus chromite ore, ferrochromium, and chromium metal net�� | ||||||||||||
| imports. Net imports are imports minus exports. Based on data reported by the International Chromium�� | ||||||||||||
| Development Association. A negative apparent consumption indicates that exports are greater than production�� | ||||||||||||
| plus imports.�� | ||||||||||||
| 3Less than � unit.�� | ||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program