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TABLE 4
LEAD RECOVERED FROM SCRAP PROCESSED IN THE UNITED STATES,
BY KIND OF SCRAP AND FORM OF RECOVERY1
(Metric tons, lead content, unless otherwise specified)
        2005   2006
Kind of scrap:  
New scrap:      
Lead-base     14,200 13,500
Copper-base     4,580 r 4,630
Tin-base   1,530   1,530
Total     20,300 r 19,600
Old scrap:        
Battery-lead     1,050,000 1,060,000
All other lead-base     80,500 76,000
Copper-base     4,540 r 4,360
Total     1,130,000   1,140,000
Grand total     1,150,000 r 1,160,000
Form of recovery:        
As soft lead     869,000 948,000
In antimonial lead     271,000 200,000
In other lead alloys     4,490 3,260
In copper-base alloys     9,110 r 8,990
Total: Total:      
Quantity   1,150,000 r 1,160,000
Value2   thousands   $1,550,000 r $1,980,000
rRevised.
1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.
2Value based on average quoted price of common lead.

Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program


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