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| �U.S.� MAGNESIUM COMPOUND PRODUCERS, BY RAW MATERIAL SOURCE, LOCATION, AND PRODUCTION CAPACITY, IN 20071 | |||||||||||||
| (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� | 314,000 | 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 | 849,000 | ||||||||||||
| do. Ditto.� | |||||||||||||
| 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