Salient Mica Statistics

TABLE 1
SALIENT MICA STATISTICS¹

		2002		2003		2004		2005		2006
United States:
Production, sold or used by producers:
Scrap and flake mica:
Quantity	thousand metric tons	81		79		99		78		110
Value	thousands	$7,370		$16,700		$15,400		$19,300		$22,400
Ground mica:
Quantity	thousand metric tons	99		94		98		120		123
Value	thousands	$29,600		$28,600		$27,200		$47,200		$49,000
Prices:
Scrap and flake mica	dollars per metric ton	90		213		155		248	^r	204
Ground:
Wet	do.	960		938		NA		776	^r	784
Dry	do.	180		205		269		226	^r	237
Sheet, muscovite and phlogopite:
Block	dollars per kilogram	67		67		67		125	^r	130
Splittings	do.	1.82		1.74		1.73		1.56	^r	1.53
Consumption:
Block, muscovite:
Quantity	metric tons	2		2		2		1		1
Value	thousands	$134		$120		$114		$134		$146
Splittings, all types
Quantity	metric tons	573		669		668		402	^r	310
Value	thousands	$1,040		$1,160		$1,150		$626	^r	$475
Exports	metric tons	10,500		11,200		10,900		10,800		8,620
Imports	do.	36,400		36,000		43,800		38,800		46,900
World, production	do.	278,000	^r	279,000	^r	322,000	^{r, e}	288,000	^{r, e}	342,000	^e
^eEstimated. ^rRevised.�
¹Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits.