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TABLE 9
U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION OF NICKEL PRODUCTS, BY COUNTRY1
(Metric tons of contained nickel)2
 
    2006        
Cathodes,
pellets, and Powder Wrought
briquets and Metallurgical- Waste Stainless Total nickel
Country   (unwrought)   flakes   Ferronickel   grade oxide3   and scrap   steel scrap   Chemicals   Total   in 2005   in 20064
Australia 15,200 221 -- -- 91 -- 1 15,500 12,100 8
Austria -- 1 -- -- 16 -- -- 17 22 r 66
Belgium -- 117 -- -- 70 -- 222 409 426 4
Brazil 1,080 -- -- -- 37 1 -- 1,110 1,450 1
Canada 55,700 3,900 -- 1,200 1,660 10,100 227 72,800 65,400 36
Chile -- 1,220 -- -- -- -- -- 1,220 9 --
China 1,120 17 -- -- 95 4 117 1,350 611 18
Colombia -- -- 3,150 -- 20 92 2 3,260 3,730 --
Dominican Republic -- -- 9,340 -- -- 25 -- 9,360 13,800 --
Finland 5,850 91 13 -- -- 4 885 6,840 3,920 --
France 1,290 1 -- -- 848 -- 374 2,510 2,320 263
Germany 50 52 -- -- 431 87 393 1,010 920 r 391
Japan (5) 94 187 -- 313 9 556 1,160 603 65
Mexico -- (5) -- -- 352 2,710 31 3,100 2,610 1
Netherlands6 106 -- -- -- -- -- 498 604 887 (5)
New Caledonia -- -- 1,910 -- -- -- -- 1,910 1,500 --
Norway 14,700 -- -- -- 30 -- -- 14,800 19,400 12
Russia 28,000 1,200 -- -- 20 -- -- 29,200 22,200 --
South Africa 55 774 -- -- -- -- (5) 828 669 --
United Kingdom 141 903 4 8 1,860 48 93 3,060 2,770 186
Venezuela -- -- -- -- -- 8 1 9 252 --
Zimbabwe 1,190 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1,190 1,550 --
Other 45   182   1   1   1,010   415   281   1,930   1,320 r 57
Total   125,000   8,780   14,600   1,210   6,860   13,500   3,680   173,000   159,000   1,110
rRevised.-- Zero.
1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.
2The nickel contents are assumed to be as follows: metallurgical-grade oxide from Australia, 90%; elsewhere, 77%. The chemicals category contains the
following: chemical-grade oxide, sesquioxide, and hydroxide, 65%; chlorides, 25%; sulfates, 22%. Other salts and various catalysts are assumed to be 22%
nickel. Waste and scrap is assumed to be 50% nickel, and stainless steel scrap, 7.5% nickel.
3Primarily oxide, rondelles, and sinster.
4Excluded from "2006, total."
5Less than � unit.
6The different nickel products (cathode, powder, and so forth) are apparently materials that have transited through bonded warehouses in the Netherlands,
including warehouses overseen by the London Metal Exchange.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program


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