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| TABLE 6�Continued | ||||||||||||
| INDUSTRIAL SAND AND GRAVEL SOLD OR USED BY U.S. PRODUCERS IN 2006, BY MAJOR END USE1 | ||||||||||||
| � West | U.S. total | |||||||||||
| Unit | Unit | |||||||||||
| Quantity | value2 | Quantity | value2 | |||||||||
| (thousand | Value | (dollars | (thousand | Value | (dollars | |||||||
| Major use | metric tons) | (thousands) | per ton) | metric tons) | (thousands) | per ton) | ||||||
| Sand: | ||||||||||||
| Glassmaking: | ||||||||||||
| Containers | 1,040 | $27,600 | 26.63 | 4,970 | $107,000 | 21.51 | ||||||
| Flat, plate and window | 469 | 11,400 | 24.34 | 3,370 | 62,400 | 18.49 | ||||||
| Specialty | W | W | 40.67 | 579 | 15,800 | 27.30 | ||||||
| Fiberglass, unground | 97 | 2,400 | 24.78 | 858 | 15,000 | 17.50 | ||||||
| Fiberglass, ground | W | W | 40.60 | 615 | 25,300 | 41.07 | ||||||
| Foundry: | ||||||||||||
| Molding and core, unground | 88 | 8,340 | 94.75 | 4,970 | 91,700 | 18.44 | ||||||
| Molding and core, ground | -- | -- | -- | W | W | 119.67 | ||||||
| Refractory | -- | -- | -- | 90 | 2,640 | 29.33 | ||||||
| Metallurgical: | ||||||||||||
| Silicon carbide | -- | -- | -- | W | W | -- | ||||||
| Flux for metal smelting | W | W | 7.13 | W | W | 4.65 | ||||||
| Abrasives: | ||||||||||||
| Blasting | 136 | 4,800 | 35.29 | 453 | 19,200 | 42.49 | ||||||
| Scouring cleansers, ground | -- | -- | -- | W | W | 34.25 | ||||||
| Sawing and sanding | -- | -- | -- | W | W | 26.00 | ||||||
| Chemicals, ground and unground | 20 | 578 | 28.90 | 816 | 22,000 | 26.91 | ||||||
| Fillers, ground, rubber, paints, putty, etc. | W | W | 42.50 | 761 | 48,100 | 63.26 | ||||||
| Whole grain fillers/building products | 309 | 8,370 | 27.10 | 3,160 | 73,700 | 23.33 | ||||||
| Ceramic, ground, pottery, brick, tile, etc. | W | W | 37.00 | 221 | 10,300 | 46.48 | ||||||
| Filtration: | ||||||||||||
| Water, municipal, county, local | 48 | 3,080 | 64.13 | 424 | 14,500 | 34.23 | ||||||
| Swimming pool, other | -- | -- | -- | 73 | 4,840 | 66.33 | ||||||
| Petroleum industry: | ||||||||||||
| Hydraulic fracturing | -- | -- | -- | 4,210 | 187,000 | 44.31 | ||||||
| Well packing and cementing | -- | -- | -- | 442 | 15,500 | 35.06 | ||||||
| Recreational: | ||||||||||||
| Golf course, greens and traps | W | W | 16.78 | 846 | 14,800 | 17.51 | ||||||
| Baseball, volleyball, play sand, beaches | W | W | -- | 155 | 4,220 | 27.20 | ||||||
| Traction, engine | W | W | 72.00 | 80 | 1,840 | 23.01 | ||||||
| Roofing granules and fillers | -- | -- | -- | 205 | 5,240 | 25.57 | ||||||
| Other, ground silica | 136 | 11,600 | 88.01 | 1,040 | 16,100 | 15.06 | ||||||
| Other, whole grain | 427 | 10,700 | 28.07 | 2,450 | 25,500 | 10.52 | ||||||
| Total or average | 2,770 | 88,800 | 32.12 | 30,800 | 782,000 | 25.40 | ||||||
| Gravel: | ||||||||||||
| Silicon, ferrosilicon | -- | -- | -- | 68 | 10,400 | 153.41 | ||||||
| Filtration | -- | -- | -- | 63 | 2,230 | 35.33 | ||||||
| Nonmetallurgical flux | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||||||
| Other uses, specified | 226 | 2,960 | -- | 812 | 11,900 | -- | ||||||
| Total or average | 226 | 2,960 | 13.11 | 943 | 24,600 | 26.04 | ||||||
| Grand total or average | 2,990 | 91,800 | 30.68 | 31,700 | 807,000 | 25.42 | ||||||
| W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data; for sand, included in "Other, ground silica" or "Other, whole grain;" for | ||||||||||||
| gravel, included in "Other uses, specified." -- Zero. | ||||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits except for unit values; may not add to totals shown. | ||||||||||||
| 2Calculated using unrounded data. | ||||||||||||
| 3Less than � unit. | ||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program