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| TABLE 2 | ||||||
| �U.S.� MAGNESIUM COMPOUND PRODUCERS, BY RAW MATERIAL SOURCE, LOCATION, AND PRODUCTION CAPACITY, IN 20061 | ||||||
| (Metric tons, MgO equivalent) | ||||||
| Raw material source and producing company | Location | Capacity | Products | |||
| Brucite, Applied Chemical Magnesias Corp. | Van Horn, TX, and | 25,000 | Magnesium hydroxide. | |||
| Bullhead City, AZ | ||||||
| Magnesite, Premier Chemicals LLC | Gabbs, NV | 140,000 | Caustic-calcined magnesia. | |||
| Lake brines: | ||||||
| Great Salt Lake Minerals Corp. | Ogden, UT� | 185,000 | Magnesium chloride and magnesium chloride brines. | |||
| Intrepid Wendover-Potash LLC | Wendover, UT | 45,000 | Magnesium chloride brines. | |||
| Well brines: | ||||||
| Martin Marietta Magnesia Specialties LLC2 | Manistee, MI� | 297,000 | Caustic-calcined magnesia, dead-burned magnesia, and | |||
| magnesium hydroxide. | ||||||
| Rohm and Haas Co. | do. | 25,000 | Caustic-calcined magnesia and magnesium hydroxide. | |||
| Seawater: | ||||||
| Premier Chemicals LLC | Port St. Joe, FL | 107,000 | Do. | |||
| South Bay Salt Works | Chula Vista, CA | 3,000 | Magnesium chloride brines. | |||
| SPI Pharma Inc. | Lewes, DE | 5,000 | Magnesium hydroxide. | |||
| Total | 832,000 | |||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to total shown. | ||||||
| 2In addition to its Michigan plant, Martin Marietta owned a 15,000-metric-ton-per-year-capacity magnesium hydroxide plant in Lenoir City, TN,� | ||||||
| which used imported magnesite as a raw material. | ||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program