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| TABLE 1 | ||||||||||||
| SALIENT GOLD STATISTICS1 | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | ||||||||
| United States: | ||||||||||||
| Production: | ||||||||||||
| Mine: | ||||||||||||
| Quantity | kilograms | 298,000 | r | 277,000 | 258,000 | 256,000 | 252,000 | |||||
| Value� | thousands | $2,980,000 | $3,250,000 | $3,400,000 | $3,670,000 | $4,910,000 | ||||||
| Gold recovered by cyanidation: | ||||||||||||
| Extracted in vats, tanks, closed containers2 | kilograms | 124,000 | r | 89,000 | 9,940 | W | W | |||||
| Leached in open heaps or dumps3 | do. | 153,000 | r | 174,000 | 234,000 | 229,000 | r | 231,000 | ||||
| Refinery: | ||||||||||||
| Concentrates and dore | do. | 196,000 | 194,000 | 222,000 | 195,000 | r | 181,000 | |||||
| Recycled materials (new and old scrap) | do. | 78,100 | 89,100 | 91,700 | 81,300 | r | 89,100 | |||||
| Exports, refined | do. | 185,000 | 220,000 | 114,000 | 182,000 | 228,000 | ||||||
| Imports for consumption, refined | do. | 172,000 | 152,000 | 139,000 | 105,000 | 136,000 | ||||||
| Net deliveries from foreign stocks in Federal Reserve Bank of | ||||||||||||
| New York | do. | 40,000 | 55,000 | 3,000 | -- | -- | ||||||
| Stocks, December 31: | ||||||||||||
| Industry4 | do. | 3,490 | 3,590 | 1,080 | 2,040 | 2,000 | ||||||
| Gol | metric tons | -- | -- | 95 | 285 | 497 | ||||||
| Commodity Exchange (COMEX)5 | kilograms | 63,900 | 97,100 | 180,000 | 211,000 | 234,000 | ||||||
| U.S. Department of the Treasury� | metric tons | 8,140 | 8,140 | 8,140 | 8,140 | 8,140 | ||||||
| U.S. Gold Futures Trading6 | do. | 28,000 | 38,000 | 46,500 | 49,400 | 49,500 | ||||||
| Consumption: | ||||||||||||
| American Eagle gold coin7� | kilograms | 9,190 | r | 15,500 | r | 15,800 | r | 13,800 | r | 9,770 | ||
| In industry and the arts | do. | 163,000 | 183,000 | 185,000 | 183,000 | 185,000 | ||||||
| Price, average8 | dollars per troy ounce | 311.33 | 364.80 | 410.52 | 446.20 | 605.83 | ||||||
| Employment, mine and mill only9 | 7,600 | 7,300 | 7,550 | 7,910 | 8,350 | |||||||
| World: | ||||||||||||
| Production, mine | kilograms | 2,530,000 | r | 2,560,000 | 2,440,000 | 2,470,000 | 2,460,000 | |||||
| Official bullion reserves10 | metric tons | 32,200 | 31,800 | 31,400 | 30,800 | 30,400 | ||||||
| rRevised.� W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data. -- Zero. | ||||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits, except prices. | ||||||||||||
| 2May include small quantities recovered by gravity methods. | ||||||||||||
| 3May include tailings, waste-ore dumps, and previously mined ore at some inactive mines. | ||||||||||||
| 4Unfabricated refined gold held by refiners, fabricators, dealers, and the U.S. Department of Defense. | ||||||||||||
| 5Commodity Exchange (COMEX) Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. | ||||||||||||
| 6COMEX only. | ||||||||||||
| 7U.S. Eagle Gold coin minted. Data from U.S. Mint. | ||||||||||||
| 8Engelhard Corp. industries quotation. | ||||||||||||
| 9Data from the Mine Safety and Health Administration. | ||||||||||||
| 10Held by central banks, governments, and international monetary organizations.� Data from the International Monetary Fund. | ||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program