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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)
        2005   2006
Mineral or product   Quantity   Value   Quantity   Value
Metals:  
Aluminum:  
Crude and semicrude metric tons 2,370,000 5,410,000 2,820,000 7,550,000
Manufactures do. 135,000 482,000 143,000 591,000
Antimony:  
Metal, alloys, waste and scrap do. 740 3,250 459 1,860
Oxide, antimony content do. 1,400 5,860 1,680 8,870
Arsenic metal, arsenic content do. 3,270 r 8,740 r 3,060 5,960
Bauxite and alumina:  
Alumina, calcined equivalent   1,210 631,000 1,540 811,000
Bauxite:  
Calcined, refractory and other grade   18 2,330 13 2,390
Crude and dried   34 7,020 20 3,990
Speciality aluminum compounds, sulfate, chloride, fluoride-based metric tons 26,900 21,600 44,000 42,400
Beryllium,� unwrought, and waste and scrap, other including articles not�
elsewhere specified   kilograms 201,000 18,600 r 135,000 21,500
Bismuth, metal, alloys, waste and scrap, bismuth content do. 142,000 4,760 311,000 3,540
Cadmium:  
Metal, includes cadmium in alloys and scrap do. 668,000 1,330 460,000 2,210
Sulfide, gross weight do. 120,000 55 62,000 32
Chromium:  
Ores and concentrate metric tons 42,600 9,940 53,900 10,200
Metals and alloys:  
Metal, unwrought powders, waste and scrap, other do. 1,020 16,900 1,020 21,300
Ferroalloys, high-carbon, low-carbon, ferrochromium-silicon do. 36,300 38,900 35,700 38,100
Chemicals:  
Oxides, trioxides and other do. 10,700 18,300 11,700 20,500
Sulfates do. 79 376 35 145
Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids, zinc and lead chromate, sodium  
�dichromate, potassium dichromate, other do. 37,900 27,200 29,900 24,400
Pigments and preparations do. 767 4,090 1,330 6,620
Cobalt:  
Acetates and chlorides do. 703 3,820 535 3,300
Oxides and hydroxides do. 829 17,100 1,100 26,800
Metal:  
Unwrought, powders, waste and scrap, mattes, other intermediate products of   �
metallurgy do. 1,670 60,600 1,930 60,500
Wrought and cobalt articles do. 2,340 91,800 1,980 90,400
Copper:  
Unmanufactured, does not include unalloyed scrap, copper content do. 260,000 467,000 328,000 1,160,000
Semimanufactures do. 254,000 1,100,000 284,000 1,940,000
Scrap, alloyed and unalloyed do. 658,000 1,060,000 803,000 1,190,000
Ferroalloys not listed elsewhere:  
Ferrophosphorous do. 1,780 1,150 1,820 2,270
Other do. 2,200 3,190 3,150 5,740
Gold:  
Ores and concentrates kilograms 1,380 13,400 2,690 31,800
Dore and precipitates do. 141,000 2,020,000 159,000 2,670,000
Bullion, refined do. 182,000 2,550,000 228,000 4,380,000
Waste and scrap do. 563,000 670,000 567,000 1,270,000
Metal powder do. 687 9,280 1,320 25,400
Compounds do. 1,310,000 30,900 1,460,000 28,100
Iron and steel:  
Steel mill products   8,520 r NA 8,830 NA
Fabricated steel products   1,710 NA 1,540 NA
Cast iron and steel products   193 NA 268 NA
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)
        2005   2006
Mineral or product   Quantity   Value   Quantity   Value
Metals�Continued:  
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   13,000 3,430,000 14,900 4,230,000
Pig iron, all grades   51 8,110 813 8,750
Direct-reduced iron, steelmaking grade   (2) 16 (2) 11
Ships, boats, and other vessels for scrapping   3 476 5 509
Used rails for rerolling and other uses, includes mixed (used plus new) rails   55 25,600 51 36,400
Iron ore   11,800 584,000 8,270 636,000
Lead:  
Base bullion, Pb content� metric tons 198 1,290 197 1,560
Ore and concentrates, Pb content do. 390,000 190,000 298,000 278,000
Unwrought and alloys, Pb content do. 45,500 46,100 52,700 57,800
Wrought and alloys, Pb content do. 19,000 40,800 15,800 40,200
Scrap, gross weight do. 67,300 21,600 121,000 37,200
Magnesium:  
Waste and scrap, Mg content do. 5,630 13,100 3,680 8,410
Metal, Mg content do. 732 2,470 4,170 9,520
Alloys, gross weight do. 1,200 5,870 2,290 8,200
Powder, sheets, tubing, ribbons, wire, other forms, gross weight do. 2,080 22,400 2,180 25,500
Manganese, gross weight:  
Ores and concentrates with 20% or more manganese do. 13,500 3,940 2,240 1,120
Ferromanganese, all grades do. 14,400 14,900 21,700 14,100
Silicomanganese do. 900 r 1,220 947 888
Metal, including alloys and waste and scrap do. 2,670 5,960 3,900 9,610
Dioxide do. 5,900 5,040 5,820 5,580
Mercury:  
Metal do. 319 5,810 390 5,870
Amalgams of precious metals whether or not chemically defined do. 1,230 r 231,000 397 430,000
Molybdenum:  
Ore and concentrates, including roasted and other, Mo content do. 46,400 1,450,000 37,200 1,460,000
Chemicals:  
Oxides and hydroxides, gross weight do. 14,600 375,000 11,600 300,000
Molybdates, all, gross weight do. 2,150 54,500 2,030 51,800
Ferromolybdenum, Mo content do. 2,090 43,400 2,010 42,500
Other, includes powders, unwrought, bars and rods, waste and scrap, wire, other,  
gross weight do. 2,030 139,000 2,010 143,000
Nickel, Ni content:  
Primary, unwrought and chemicals do. 7,630 219,000 8,050 286,000
Secondary, stainless steel scrap and waste and scrap do. 55,600 731,000 59,300 866,000
Wrought, not alloyed, bars, rods, profiles, wire, sheets, strip, foil, tubes, pipes   do. 1,340 26,700 1,230 28,300
Alloyed, unwrought ingot, bars, rods, profiles, wire, sheets, strip, foil, tubes, pipes,  
other alloyed articles, gross weight do. 37,700 819,000 39,200 1,120,000
Niobium (columbium) and tantalum:  
Niobium:  
Ores and concentrates do. 43 398 69 914
Ferroniobium do. 410 4,210 706 6,680
Tantalum:  
Ores and concentrates, includes synthetic do. 546 r 9,290 r 784 13,400
Unwrought, waste and scrap, powders, alloys, metal do. 699 136,000 611 73,400
Wrought do. 110 49,000 91 39,100
Platinum-group metals:  
Palladium, Pd content kilograms 27,000 122,000 53,100 402,000
Platinum, includes waste and scrap and metal, Pt content do. 45,600 r 930,000 r 72,900 1,760,000
Iridium, osmium, ruthenium, gross weight do. 1,080 r 7,200 r 3,390 35,800
Rhodium, Rh content do. 615 28,900 1,600 108,000
Rare earths, estimated rare-earth oxide content:  
Cerium compounds do. 2,220,000 13,600 2,010,000 19,800
Compounds, inorganic and organic do. 2,070,000 14,100 2,700,000 17,300
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)
        2005   2006
Mineral or product   Quantity   Value   Quantity   Value
Metals�Continued:  
Rare earths, estimated rare-earth oxide content�Continued:  
Metals, including scandium and yttrium do. 636,000 5,180 733,000 6,960
Ferrocerium and other pyrophoric alloys do. 4,320,000 18,000 3,710,000 11,000
Selenium, Se content do. 254,000 3,040 191,000 2,970
Silicon, gross weight:  
Ferrosilicon metric tons 13,400 13,400 9,330 10,400
Metal do. 23,400 847,000 27,100 1,270,000
Silver:  
Bullion, Ag content kilograms 166,000 45,900 1,500,000 586,000
Dore, Ag content do. 132,000 35,000 85,400 33,600
Metal powder, gross weight do. 708,000 r 122,000 r 1,460,000 255,000
Nitrate, gross weight do. 61,500 r 5,720 r 62,300 6,450
Ores and concentrates, Ag content do. 3,680 834 3,150 4,040
Semimanufactured forms containing 99.5% or more by weight of silver, gross weight do. 269,000 r 48,300 r 526,000 91,200
Waste and scrap, gross weight do. 2,240,000 r 424,000 r 4,890,000 1,140,000
Unwrought, other, gross weight do. 39,600 r 8,690 r 85,600 30,800
Thallium, unwrought powders, waste and scrap, others do. 252 102 NA NA
Thorium and thorium-bearing materials, thorium ore, monazite concentrate,  
compounds do. 737 281 1,090 424
Tin:  
Ingots and pigs metric tons 4,330 30,500 5,490 40,500
Tin scrap and other tin bearing material, except tinplate scrap, includes rods, profiles,  
wire, powders, flakes, tubes, pipes do. 32,800 51,200 23,500 63,000
Tinplate and terneplate do. 252,000 188,000 198,000 137,000
Titanium:  
Metal, waste and scrap, unwrought, wrought products and castings, ferrotitanium  
and ferrosilicon titanium do. 39,500 677,000 30,800 1,040,000
Ores and concentrates do. 20,900 8,930 32,800 11,800
Pigment, dioxide and oxide do. 524,000 1,060,000 581,000 1,080,000
Tungsten, W content:  
Ammonium paratungstate do. 774 8,810 350 4,970
Carbide powder do. 1,560 37,800 1,010 35,100
Metal powders do. 750 e 28,500 959 e 45,300
Miscellaneous tungsten-bearing materials, ferrotungsten, ferrosilicon tungsten,  
�unwrought, waste and scrap, wrought, compounds do. 2,810 63,400 3,990 91,800
Ores and concentrates do. 52 e 1,600 130 e 3,550
Vanadium:  
Aluminum-vanadium master alloy, gross weight kilograms 15,100,000 45,600 7,650,000 54,500
Ferrovanadium, V content do. 505,000 r 19,300 515,000 11,400
Metal, including waste and scrap, gross weight do. 293,000 16,400 491,000 13,200
Pentoxide, anhydride, V content do. 254,000 5,470 341,000 7,150
Other oxides and hydroxides, V content do. 899,000 15,400 832,000 � 7,780
Zinc:  
Compounds, chloride, chromates of zinc or of lead, compounds n.s.p.f., lithopone,  
oxide, sulfate, sulfide, gross weight metric tons 21,900 r 30,900 r 74,800 76,100
Ores and concentrates, Zn content do. 786,000 477,000 825,000 1,060,000
Rolled do. 8,760 10,400 3,780 16,000
Slab do. 784 1,500 2,530 3,800
Zirconium:  
Ferrozirconium do. 65 100 491 853
Ores and concentrates do. 101,000 74,000 76,300 69,200
Oxide, includes germanium oxides and zirconium dioxides do. 2,260 21,000 3,340 29,800
Unwrought powders do. 175 3,620 202 5,310
Waste and scrap do. 1,800 90,300 1,680 120,000
Total   XX   29,200,000 r XX   42,200,000
Industrial minerals:  
Abrasives, manufactured:  
Aluminum oxide, crude do. 13,900 45,100 15,300 41,200
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)
        2005   2006
Mineral or product   Quantity   Value   Quantity   Value
Industrial minerals�Continued:  
Abrasives, manufactured�Continued:  
Metallic abrasives do. 26,900 21,600 22,300 24,400
Silicon carbide, crude, ground and refined do. 15,600 17,400 20,200 28,700
Asbestos, includes reexports:  
Manufactured   NA 374,000 NA 443,000
Unmanufactured metric tons 1,510 398 r 3,410 866
Barite, natural barium sulfate do. 92,700 9,930 71,500 11,900
Boron minerals and compounds:  
Boric acid, includes orthoboric and anhydrous   183 96,800 221 127,000
Sodium borates   308 110,000 393 139,000
Bromine:  
Compounds, includes methyl bromine and ethylene dibromide, Br content metric tons 6,830 12,800 r 7,920 17,600
Elemental, gross weight do. 2,710 3,990 4,320 5,180
Cement, hydraulic and clinker   803 68,300 1,550 114,000
Clays:  
Ball   141 8,840 140 7,890
Bentonite   847 98,500 1,270 132,000
Fire   368 34,400 348 38,100
Fuller's earth   55 13,500 69 16,400
Kaolin   3,580 601,000 3,540 626,000
Other, n.e.c., includes chamotte or dinas earth, activated clays and earths, artifically  
activated clays   634 173,000 607 181,000
Diamond:    
Gemstones, natural, including reexports thousand carats 25,700 8,470,000 32,600 9,540,000
Industrial including exports and reexports:  
Unworked do. 1,430 26,100 1,560 26,900
Powder, dust and grit, natural and synthetic do. 104,000 59,200 r 99,700 58,800
Diatomite   142 60,400 150 158,000
Feldspar metric tons 15,200 2,070 10,400 1,940
Fluorspar do. 36,100 7,840 13,000 2,430
Garnet, industriale   13 9,700 13 9,450
Graphite, natural and artificial metric tons 56,200 109,000 58,600 124,000
Gypsum and gypsum products:  
Crude   148 16,400 143 18,300
Plasters   174 33,700 209 36,700
Boards   86 58,900 98 69,900
Other   XX 33,000 XX 37,400
Helium, Grade-A million cubic meters 51 99,100 62 126,000
Iodine:  
Crude/resublimed metric tons 2,660 27,900 2,020 34,400
Potassium iodide do. 68 1,550 82 1,950
Iron oxide pigments and hydroxides:  
Pigment grade do. 2,220 6,170
Pigment grade do. 2,220 6,170 3,100 8,090
Other grade do. 73,100 47,100 68,300 44,400
Kyanite, andalusite, sillimanitee   35 7,200 35 7,600
Lime   133 17,500 116 19,200
Lithium chemicals:  
Carbonate metric tons 4,190 13,700 3,130 10,500
Hydroxide do. 5,620 20,100 5,540 27,900
Magnesium compounds:  
Compounds, chlorides, hydroxide and peroxide, sulfates do. 32,700 19,500 31,700 21,900
Magnesite, crude and processed:  
Caustic-calcined magnesia do. 4,920 2,500 5,690 3,210
Dead-burned and fused magnesia do. 24,900 11,400 20,000 11,400
Other magnesia do. 21,700 18,300 21,200 18,900
Crude do.   21,800   2,490   9,020   1,080
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)
        2005   2006
Mineral or product   Quantity   Value   Quantity   Value
Industrial minerals�Continued:  
Mica:  
Scrap and flake:  
Powder do. 7,140 4,860 4,990 4,650
Waste do. 1,480 343 1,710 452
Sheet:  
Unworked do. 74 269 113 273
Worked do. 1,350 13,900 1,280 15,100
Peat   36 4,020 41 5,030
Perlite, crudee metric tons 32,000 1,300 30,000 1,290
Potash:  
Potassium chloride do. 136,000 NA 337,000 NA
Potassium sulfates, all grades do. 429,000 NA 467,000 NA
Potassium nitrate do. 3,910 2,250 3,750 2,520
Pumice and pumicite   21 r 7,520 22 5,940
Salt   879 51,800 973 54,900
Sand and gravel:  
Construction:  
Sand   137 23,400 113 19,700
Gravel   382 4,800 402 4,410
Industrial   2,910 154,000 3,830 183,000
Silica, special stone products   NA 10,000 NA 9,900
Soda ash   4,680 640,000 4,820 736,000
Stone:  
Crushed   1,270 50,500 1,140 57,300
Dimension   XX 66,100 XX 76,000
Strontium compounds:  
Carbonate, precipitated metric tons 65 r 196 150 157
Oxide, hydroxide, peroxide do. 301 176 871 594
Sulfur:  
Elemental   684 55,200 635 43,800
Sulfuric acid, 100% H2SO4 metric tons 338,000 29,500 248,000 21,800
Talc, excludes powders, talcum (in package), face, compact   198 41,800 179 42,600
Vermiculitee   5 970 5 930
Wollastonitee metric tons 7,000 2,100 3,000 900
Zeolitese do. 5,000 1,000 1,000 200
Total   XX   12,000,000 r XX   13,700,000
Grand total   XX   41,200,000 r XX   55,800,000
eEstimated. rRevised. NA Not available. XX Not applicable.
1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.
2Less than � unit.

Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program

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