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| TABLE 7 | |||||||||||
| TELLURIUM: WORLD REFINERY PRODUCTION, BY COUNTRY1, 2 | |||||||||||
| (Kilograms, contained selenium) | |||||||||||
| Country3 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007e | ||||||
| Canada4 | 40,000 | 55,000 | r | 11,000 | r | 11,000 | r | 8,000 | p | ||
| Japan | 33,154 | 32,703 | 22,623 | 24,324 | r | -- | |||||
| Peru | 22,000 | 22,000 | 32,880 | 33,000 | 33,000 | p | |||||
| United States | W | W | W | W | W | ||||||
| eEstimated. pPreliminary. rRevised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data. -- Zero. | |||||||||||
| 1Estimated data are rounded to three significant digits. | |||||||||||
| 2Insofar as possible, data relate to refinery output only; thus, countries that produced tellurium contained in� | |||||||||||
| copper ores, copper concentrates, blister copper, and/or refinery residues but did not recover refined tellurium� | |||||||||||
| are excluded to avoid double counting. Table is not totaled because of exclusion of data from major world� | |||||||||||
| producers. | |||||||||||
| 3Australia, Belgium, Chile, China, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, and some countries of����������������������� | |||||||||||
| the Commonwealth of Independent States, including Kazakhstan and Russia, are known to produce�� | |||||||||||
| refined tellurium, but output is not reported; available information is inadequate for formulation of� | |||||||||||
| reliable estimates of output levels. | |||||||||||
| 4Excludes tellurium intermediates exported for refining. | |||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program