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| TABLE 6 | |||||||||||
| SELENIUM: WORLD REFINERY PRODUCTION, BY COUNTRY1, 2 | |||||||||||
| (Kilograms, contained selenium) | |||||||||||
| Country3 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006e | ||||||
| Belgiume | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | ||||||
| Canada4 | 175,000 | 253,000 | 277,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | p | |||||
| Chilee | 80,000 | 83,000 | 82,000 | 84,000 | r | 84,000 | |||||
| Finland | 39,237 | 49,163 | 61,256 | 62,000 | 62,000 | ||||||
| Germanye | 16,000 | 14,000 | 14,000 | 12,000 | r | 12,000 | |||||
| Indiae, 5 | 11,500 | 12,000 | 12,000 | 13,000 | 13,000 | ||||||
| Japan | 752,099 | 733,973 | 599,170 | 624,630 | r | 735,000 | |||||
| Peru | 49,700 | r | 47,800 | r | 51,900 | r | 48,800 | r | 49,800 | p | |
| Philippinese | 55,000 | r | 45,000 | r | 48,000 | r | 68,000 | r | 65,000 | ||
| Serbia and Montenegro6 | 15,000 | e | 10,000 | 5,000 | e | -- | -- | ||||
| Swedene | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | ||||||
| United States | W | W | W | W | W | ||||||
| ��� Total | 1,410,000 | r | 1,470,000 | r | 1,370,000 | r | 1,430,000 | r | 1,540,000 | ||
| eEstimated. pPreliminary. rRevised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data. -- Zero. | |||||||||||
| 1World totals, U.S. data, and estimated data have been rounded to three significant digits; may not add to totals shown. | |||||||||||
| 2Insofar as possible, data relate to refinery output only; thus, countries that produced selenium contained in copper ores, | |||||||||||
| copper concentrates, blister copper, and/or refinery residues but did not recover refined selenium from these materials | |||||||||||
| indigenously were excluded to avoid double counting. Table includes data available through May 27, 2007. | |||||||||||
| 3In addition to the countries listed, Australia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, and Uzbekistan, produced refined | |||||||||||
| selenium, but output is not reported, and available information is inadequate for formulation of reliable estimates of output | |||||||||||
| levels. Australia is known to produce selenium in intermediate metallurgical products and has facilities to produce elemental | |||||||||||
| selenium. In addition to having facilites for processing imported anode simes for the recovery of selenium and precoius metals, | |||||||||||
| the United Kingdom has facilities for processing selenium scrap.� | |||||||||||
| 4Excludes selenium intermediates exported for refining. | |||||||||||
| 5Data are for Indian fiscal year beginning April 1 of year stated. | |||||||||||
| 6In June 2006, Montenegro and Serbia formally declared independence from each other and dissolved their union. Mineral | |||||||||||
| production data for 2006, however, still reflect the unified country. | |||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program