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| TABLE 7 | |||||||||||
| TELLURIUM: WORLD REFINERY PRODUCTION, BY COUNTRY1, 2 | |||||||||||
| (Kilograms, contained tellurium) | |||||||||||
| Country3 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006e | ||||||
| Canada4 | 39,000 | 40,000 | 69,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | p | |||||
| Japan | 28,656 | 33,154 | 32,703 | 22,623 | r | 24,000 | |||||
| Peru | 21,600 | 22,000 | 22,000 | 32,880 | r | 33,000 | p | ||||
| United States | W | W | W | W | W | ||||||
| eEstimated. pPreliminary. rRevised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data.� | |||||||||||
| 1Estimated data are rounded to no more than 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, 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