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| TABLE 4 | |||||||||||
| ESTIMATED FELDSPAR SOLD OR USED BY PRODUCERS IN THE UNITED STATES, BY USE1 | |||||||||||
| (Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars) | |||||||||||
| 2006 | 2007 | ||||||||||
| Use | Quantity2 | Valuer | Quantity2 | Value | |||||||
| Glass3 | 480 | 28,100 | 480 | 29,400 | |||||||
| Pottery and miscellaneous | 280 | 19,300 | 250 | 18,300 | |||||||
| Total | 760 | 47,400 | 4 | 730 | 47,700 | 4 | |||||
| rRevised. | |||||||||||
| 1Includes hand-cobbed feldspar, flotation-concentrate feldspar, feldspar in feldspar-quartz mixtures, and aplite. | |||||||||||
| 2Production data are rounded to two significant digits, but value data are rounded to three; may not add to totals� | |||||||||||
| shown. | |||||||||||
| 3Includes container glass, glass fiber, and other glass. | |||||||||||
| 4Represents final marketable product; value higher than that listed in tables 1 and 2.� | |||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program