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| TABLE 16 | |||||||||||||||
| U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION OF DIMENSION STONE, BY TYPE1 | |||||||||||||||
| � | 2006 | 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Value� | Value� | Major source | |||||||||||||
| Type | Quantity� | (thousands)� | Quantity� | (thousands)� | for 20072 | ||||||||||
| Calcareous stone, other3 | metric tons | � | 12,800 | $6,270 | NA | NA | NA. | ||||||||
| Marble and alabaster4 | do. | � | 30,000 | 19,600 | 25,600 | $26,100 | Italy, 28%. | ||||||||
| Sandstone, cut, by sawing or otherwise5��� | do. | � | 10,000 | 3,420 | NA | NA | Italy, NA. | ||||||||
| Slate, roofing� | million square feet | � | 14 | 10,800 | 14 | 10,300 | Canada, 40%. | ||||||||
| Slate, roughly trimmed or simply cut5 | do. | � | 21,900 | 8,460 | 16,500 | 5,740 | China, 62%. | ||||||||
| Slate, worked and articles of slate, and other6 | do. | � | NA | 122,000 | NA | 112,000 | India, 41%. | ||||||||
| Travertine, monumental or building stone and articles thereof7 | do. | � | 42,900 | 26,700 | 40,800 | 26,200 | Turkey, 34%. | ||||||||
| Travertine, worked monumental or building stone8 | do. | � | 85,800 | 51,500 | 87,900 | 47,400 | Turkey, 42%. | ||||||||
| Other stone, monumental or building stone9� | do. | � | 17,400 | 11,700 | NA | NA | Turkey, NA. | ||||||||
| do. Ditto. NA Not available. | |||||||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits. Table does not include totals shown on tables 14 and 15. | |||||||||||||||
| 2By value. | |||||||||||||||
| 3Simply cut with a flat surface, other than marble, travertine, and alabaster. | |||||||||||||||
| 4Simply cut with a flat surface. | |||||||||||||||
| 5Rectangular blocks or slabs. | |||||||||||||||
| 6Other than roofing, including agglomerated slate. | |||||||||||||||
| 7Simply cut with a flat surface, other than tiles and granules. | |||||||||||||||
| 8Dressed or polished but not further worked. | |||||||||||||||
| 9Simply cut with a flat surface, other than granite, calcareous stone, alabaster, slate, dolomite, quartzite, and steatite. | |||||||||||||||
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau. | |||||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program