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| TABLE 8 | |||||||||||
| MAGNESIUM: PRIMARY WORLD PRODUCTION, BY COUNTRY1, 2 | |||||||||||
| (Metric tons)� | |||||||||||
| Country� | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007e | ||||||
| Brazil | 6,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 | 18,000 | ||||||
| Canada3 | 78,000 | 54,000 | 50,000 | 65,000 | 16,300 | ||||||
| China | 340,000 | 442,000 | 470,000 | 520,000 | r | 627,000 | |||||
| Israel | 26,000 | 28,000 | 27,853 | 4 | 24,581 | r, 4 | 25,000 | ||||
| Kazakhstan | 14,000 | 18,000 | 20,000 | 21,000 | 21,000 | ||||||
| Russia3 | 43,000 | 45,000 | 45,000 | 35,000 | r | 37,000 | |||||
| Serbia | 1,600 | 5 | 1,600 | 5 | 1,500 | 5 | 1,500 | 1,500 | |||
| Ukraine | 3 | 3 | 2,000 | 2,200 | 2,500 | ||||||
| United States | W | W | W | W | W | ||||||
| ��� Total | 509,000 | 595,000 | 622,000 | 675,000 | r | 748,000 | |||||
| eEstimated. rRevised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data; not included in "Total." | |||||||||||
| 1World totals and estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown. | |||||||||||
| 2Table includes data available through July 17, 2008. | |||||||||||
| 3Includes secondary. | |||||||||||
| 4Reported figure. | |||||||||||
| 5Montenegro and Serbia formally declared independence in June 2006 from each other and dissolved their union. | |||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program