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TABLE 7
U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS1
(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)
    2004   2005
Mineral or product   Quantity   Value     Quantity   Value
Metals:  
Aluminum:  
Crude and semicrude metric tons ####### ####### ####### #######
Manufactures do. 129,000 437,000 135,000 482,000
Antimony:  
Metal, alloys, waste and scrap do. 566 2,280 740 3,250
Oxide, antimony content do. 3,240 13,200 1,400 5,860
Arsenic metal, arsenic content do. 220 20,700 327 30,700
Bauxite and alumina:  
Alumina, calcined equivalent   1,230 439,000 1,210 631,000
Bauxite:  
Calcined, refractory and other grade   21 2,950 18 2,330
Crude and dried   42 7,910 34 7,020
Speciality aluminum compounds, sulfate, chloride, fluoride-based metric tons 26,500 r 20,600 r 26,900 21,600
Beryllium,� unwrought, and waste and scrap, other including articles not�
elsewhere specified   kilograms 217,000 19,600 201,000 16,300
Bismuth, metal, alloys, waste and scrap, bismuth content do. 109,000 2,500 142,000 4,760
Cadmium:  
Metal, includes cadmium in alloys and scrap do. 132,000 861 668,000 1,330
Sulfide, gross weight do. 160,000 76 120,000 55
Chromium:  
Ores and concentrate metric tons 43,100 10,400 42,600 9,940
Metals and alloys:  
Metal, unwrought powders, waste and scrap, other do. 931 17,600 1,020 16,900
Ferroalloys, high-carbon, low-carbon, ferrochromium-silicon do. 9,140 12,000 36,300 38,900
Chemicals:  
Oxides, trioxides and other do. 12,900 22,200 10,700 18,300
Sulfates do. 39 417 79 376
Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids, zinc and lead chromate, sodium  
�dichromate, potassium dichromate, other do. 21,800 14,400 37,900 27,200
Pigments and preparations do. 671 3,780 767 4,090
Cobalt:  
Acetates and chlorides do. 666 5,490 703 3,820
Oxides and hydroxides do. 324 13,800 829 17,100
Metal:  
Unwrought, powders, waste and scrap, mattes, other intermediate products of   �
metallurgy do. 2,110 79,400 1,670 60,600
Wrought and cobalt articles do. 1,150 48,400 2,340 91,800
Columbium (niobium) and tantalum:  
Columbium:  
Ores and concentrates do. 16 108 43 398
Ferrocolumbium do. 294 2,920 410 4,210
Tantalum:  
Ores and concentrates, includes synthetic do. 723 19,300 545 9,300
Unwrought, waste and scrap, powders, alloys, metal do. 598 173,000 699 136,000
Wrought do. 162 83,400 110 49,000
Copper:  
Unmanufactured, does not include unalloyed scrap, copper content do. 211,000 429,000 260,000 467,000
Semimanufactures do. 236,000 863,000 254,000 #######
Scrap, alloyed and unalloyed do. 714,000 882,000 658,000 #######
Ferroalloys not listed elsewhere:  
Ferrophosphorous do. 388 335 NA NA
Other do. 1,620 2,670 NA NA
Gold:  
Ores and concentrates kilograms 1,150 10,200 1,380 13,400
Dore and precipitates do. 142,000 ####### 141,000 #######
Bullion, refined do. 114,000 ####### 182,000 #######
Waste and scrap do. 725,000 r 815,000 563,000 670,000
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 7�Continued
U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS1
(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)
    2004   2005
Mineral or product   Quantity   Value     Quantity   Value
Metals�Continued:  
Gold�Continued:  
Metal powder kilograms 647 8,670 687 9,280
Compounds do. ####### 29,000 ####### 30,900
Indiume metric tons NA NA NA NA
Iron and steel:  
Steel mill products   7,200 ####### 8,460 NA
Fabricated steel products   1,470 r ####### 1,710 NA
Cast iron and steel products   234 661,000 193 NA
Iron and steel scrap:  
Ferrous, includes tinplate and ternplate, excludes used rails for rerolling and other uses
and ships, boats, and other vessels for scrapping   11,800 ####### 13,000 #######
Pig iron, all grades   48 6,690 51 8,110
Direct-reduced iron, steelmaking grade   13 1,360 (2) 16
Ships, boats, and other vessels for scrapping   16 2,680 3 476
Used rails for rerolling and other uses, includes mixed (used plus new) rails   42 18,100 55 25,600
Iron ore   8,400 334,000 11,800 584,000
Lead:  
Base bullion, Pb content� metric tons 129 841 198 1,290
Ore and concentrates, Pb content do. 292,000 157,000 390,000 190,000
Unwrought and alloys, Pb content do. 58,600 50,100 45,500 46,100
Wrought and alloys, Pb content do. 23,800 42,300 19,000 40,800
Scrap, gross weight do. 56,300 14,800 67,300 21,600
Magnesium:  
Waste and scrap, Mg content do. 4,790 11,300 5,630 13,100
Metal, Mg content do. 1,760 3,830 732 2,470
Alloys, gross weight do. 1,750 7,780 1,200 5,870
Powder, sheets, tubing, ribbons, wire, other forms, gross weight do. 3,530 25,800 2,080 22,400
Manganese, gross weight:  
Ores and concentrates with 20% or more manganese do. 123,000 12,400 13,500 3,940
Ferromanganese, all grades do. 9,120 10,600 14,400 14,900
Silicomanganese do. 502 632 899 1,220
Metal, including alloys and waste and scrap do. 2,790 6,090 2,670 5,960
Dioxide do. 4,000 3,680 5,900 5,040
Mercury:  
Metal do. 278 2,310 319 5,810
Amalgams of precious metals whether or not chemically defined do. 603 155,000 1,160 231,000
Molybdenum:  
Ore and concentrates, including roasted and other, Mo content do. 46,200 358,000 46,400 #######
Chemicals:  
Oxides and hydroxides, gross weight do. 5,280 80,300 14,600 375,000
Molybdates, all, gross weight do. 2,680 28,500 2,150 54,500
Ferromolybdenum, Mo content do. 925 21,200 2,090 43,400
Other, includes powders, unwrought, bars and rods, waste and scrap, wire, other,  
gross weight do. 1,520 66,000 2,030 139,000
Nickel, Ni content:  
Primary, unwrought and chemicals do. 8,000 186,000 7,630 219,000
Secondary, stainless steel scrap and waste and scrap do. 48,300 609,000 55,600 731,000
Wrought, not alloyed, bars, rods, profiles, wire, sheets, strip, foil, tubes, pipes   do. 1,120 16,400 1,340 26,700
Alloyed, unwrought ingot, bars, rods, profiles, wire, sheets, strip, foil, tubes, pipes,
other alloyed articles, gross weight do. 29,700 566,000 37,700 819,000
Platinum-group metals:  
Palladium, Pd content kilograms 31,500 r 143,000 r 27,000 122,000
Platinum, includes waste and scrap, Pt content do. 28,400 r 520,000 r 24,900 482,000
Iridium, osmium, ruthenium, gross weight do. 1,090 r 8,800 r 1,070 7,190
Rhodium, Rh content do. 314 r 7,900 r 615 28,900
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 7�Continued
U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS1
(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)
    2004   2005
Mineral or product   Quantity   Value     Quantity   Value
Metals�Continued:  
Rare earths, estimated rare-earth oxide content:  
Cerium compounds kilograms ####### 12,600 ####### 13,600
Compounds, inorganic and organic do. ####### 18,900 ####### 14,100
Metals, including scandium and yttrium do. ####### 6,050 636,000 5,180
Ferrocerium and other pyrophoric alloys do. ####### 16,800 ####### 18,000
Selenium, Se content do. 160,000 2,820 r 254,000 3,040
Silicon, gross weight:  
Ferrosilicon metric tons 11,500 11,700 13,400 13,400
Metal do. 18,600 489,000 23,400 847,000
Silver:  
Bullion, Ag content kilograms 302,000 64,500 166,000 45,900
Dore, Ag content do. 79,800 18,800 132,000 35,000
Metal powder, gross weight do. 708,000 122,000 809,000 139,000
Nitrate, gross weight do. 61,500 5,720 56,600 4,180
Ores and concentrates, Ag content do. 1,560 306 3,680 834
Semimanufactured forms containing 99.5% or more by weight of silver, gross weight do. 269,000 48,300 308,000 54,500
Waste and scrap, gross weight do. ####### 424,000 ####### 576,000
Unwrought, other, gross weight do. 39,600 8,690 20,500 5,280
Thallium, unwrought powders, waste and scrap, others do. 1,190 276 252 102
Thorium and thorium-bearing materials, thorium ore, monazite concentrate, compounds do. 731 298 737 281
Tin:  
Ingots and pigs metric tons 3,650 25,700 4,330 30,500
Tin scrap and other tin bearing material, except tinplate scrap, includes rods, profiles,
wire, powders, flakes, tubes, pipes do. 16,800 42,900 32,800 51,200
Tinplate and terneplate do. 262,000 169,000 252,000 188,000
Titanium:  
Metal, waste and scrap, unwrought, wrought products and castings, ferrotitanium  
and ferrosilicon titanium do. 25,200 417,000 r 39,500 677,000
Ores and concentrates do. 8,690 3,370 20,900 8,930
Pigment, dioxide and oxide do. 635,000 ####### 524,000 #######
Tungsten, W content:  
Ammonium paratungstate do. 125 722 774 8,810
Carbide powder do. 1,440 e 24,200 1,560 e 37,800
Metal powders do. 433 e 18,700 750 e 28,500
Miscellaneous tungsten-bearing materials, ferrotungsten, ferrosilicon tungsten,  
�unwrought, waste and scrap, wrought, compounds do. 1,730 43,700 2,810 63,400
Ores and concentrates do. 43 e 959 52 e 1,600
Vanadium:  
Aluminum-vanadium master alloy, gross weight kilograms ####### 32,200 r ####### 45,600
Ferrovanadium, V content do. 285,000 9,210 504,000 19,300
Metal, including waste and scrap, gross weight do. 522,000 7,770 r 293,000 16,400
Pentoxide, anhydride, V content do. 240,000 r 4,350 r 254,000 5,470
Other oxides and hydroxides, V content do. 584,000 r 6,230 899,000 15,400
Zinc:  
Compounds, chloride, compounds, n.s.p.f., oxide, sulfate do. 27,200 38,100 29,700 47,200
Ores and concentrates, Zn content do. 745,000 r 413,000 786,000 477,000
Rolled do. 9,770 12,700 8,760 10,400
Slab do. 3,300 5,330 784 1,500
Zirconium:  
Ferrozirconium do. 913 1,310 65 100
Ores and concentrates do. 68,800 45,500 101,000 74,000
Oxide, includes germanium oxides and zirconium dioxides do. 1,600 18,100 2,260 21,000
Unwrought powders do. 138 2,600 175 3,620
Waste and scrap do. 1,560 92,400 1,800 90,300
Total   XX   ####### r   XX   #######
See footnotes at end of table.
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U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS1
(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)
    2004   2005
Mineral or product   Quantity   Value     Quantity   Value
Industrial minerals:  
Abrasives, manufactured:  
Aluminum oxide, crude kilograms 13,900 41,200 13,900 45,100
Metallic abrasives do. 26,500 20,600 26,900 21,600
Silicon carbide, crude, ground and refined do. 13,900 14,600 15,600 17,400
Asbestos, includes reexports:  
Manufactured metric tons NA 341,000 NA 374,000
Unmanufactured do. 1,580 333,000 1,510 398,000
Barite, natural barium sulfate do. 69,900 6,400 92,700 9,930
Boron minerals and compounds:  
Boric acid, includes orthoboric and anhydrous   61 35,000 183 96,800
Sodium borates   135 60,200 308 110,000
Bromine:  
Compounds, includes methyl bromine and ethylene dibromide, Br content metric tons 6,600 13,800 6,830 16,800
Elemental, gross weight do. 2,840 2,070 2,710 3,990
Cement, hydraulic and clinker   818 63,000 803 68,300
Clays:  
Ball   107 8,200 141 8,840
Bentonite   915 105,000 847 98,500
Fire   332 32,300 368 34,400
Fuller's earth   49 10,300 55 13,500
Kaolin   3,640 600,000 3,580 601,000
Other, n.e.c., includes chamotte or dinas earth, activated clays and earths, artifically
activated clays   586 181,000 634 173,000
Diamond:    
Gemstones, natural, including reexports thousand carats 22,600 r ####### r