U.S. Exports Of Principal Minerals And Products, Excluding Mineral Fuels

TABLE 7
U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS ^{1, 2}

(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)

			2009				2010
Mineral or product			Quantity		Value		Quantity		Value
Metals:
Aluminum:
Crude and semicrude	metric tons		2,710,000		5,910,000		3,040,000		7,650,000
Manufactures	do.		122,000		479,000		128,000		570,000
Antimony:
Metal, alloys, waste and scrap	do.		385		2,000		427		2,230
Oxide, antimony content	do.		1,710		9,660		2,120		12,000
Arsenic metal, arsenic content	do.		354		793		481		1,020
Bauxite and alumina:
Alumina, calcined equivalent			946		488,000		1,520		724,000
Bauxite:
Calcined, refractory and other grade			21		10,900		19		7,400
Crude and dried			9	^r	268	^r	21		618
Specialty aluminum compounds, sulfate, chloride, fluoride-based	metric tons		28,500		32,500		37,600		37,600
Beryllium, unwrought, and waste and scrap, other including articles not-
elsewhere specified, beryllium content	kilograms		22,900		11,700		38,700		24,300
Bismuth, metal, alloys, waste and scrap, bismuth content	do.		397,000		5,820		704,000		8,140
Cadmium:
Metal	do.		249,000		537		231,000		945
Sulfide, gross weight	do.		16,200		8		46,900		24
Unwrought and powder	do.		276,000		1,270		75,300		571
Waste and scrap	do.		137,000		319		--		--
Chromium:
Ores and concentrate	metric tons		2,500		1,610		4,420		2,620
Metals and alloys:
Metal, unwrought powders, waste and scrap, other	do.		411		13,300		597		18,400
Ferroalloys, high-carbon, low-carbon, ferrochromium-silicon	do.		4,780		6,820		9,130		12,900
Chemicals:
Oxides, trioxide, other	do.		12,000		27,900		19,900		56,700
Sulfates	do.		16		114		60		306
Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids, zinc and lead chromate, sodium
-dichromate, potassium dichromate, other	do.		20,500		23,100		30,500		31,500
Pigments and preparations	do.		1,220		13,800		2,540		8,640
Cobalt:
Acetates	do.		648		8,210		406		5,860
Chlorides	do.		10		163		30		650
Oxides and hydroxides	do.		225		5,550		258		2,380
Metal:
Unwrought, powders, waste and scrap, mattes, other intermediate products of		-
metallurgy	do.		2,120		77,300		2,350		75,000
Copper:
Unmanufactured, does not include unalloyed scrap, copper content	do.		299,000		1,280,000		276,000		1,630,000
Semimanufactures	do.		194,000		1,140,000		238,000		1,740,000
Scrap, alloyed and unalloyed	do.		843,000		2,010,000		1,030,000		3,550,000
Ferroalloys not listed elsewhere:
Ferrophosphorous	do.		1,130		2,080		1,030		2,000
Other	do.		3,130		6,840		4,570		9,210
Gold:
Ores and concentrates	kilograms		2,160		48,600		3,460		102,000
Dore and precipitates	do.		97,400		3,000,000		84,400		3,160,000
Bullion, refined	do.		281,000		8,760,000		295,000		11,400,000
Waste and scrap	do.		728,000		1,750,000		660,000		2,180,000
See footnotes at end of table.
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(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)

			2009				2010
Mineral or product			Quantity		Value		Quantity		Value
Metals-Continued:
Gold-Continued:
Metal powder	kilograms		329		8,460		2,340		74,700
Compounds	do.		2,680,000		64,600		4,270,000		107,000
Iron and steel:
Steel mill products			8,420		NA		11,000		NA
Fabricated steel products			1,560		NA		2,010		NA
Cast iron and steel products			238		NA		287		NA
Iron and steel scrap:
Ferrous, includes tinplate and terneplate, excludes used rails for rerolling and other uses
and ships, boats, and other vessels for scrapping			22,400		7,120,000		20,500		8,380,000
Pig iron, all grades			11		4,200		2,220		13,400
Direct-reduced iron, steelmaking grade	metric tons		271		38		974		115
Ships, boats, and other vessels for scrapping			4		773		4		743
Used rails for rerolling and other uses, includes mixed (used plus new) rails			59		38,700		49		41,000
Iron ore			3,920		356,000		9,950		1,090,000
Lead:
Base bullion, lead content-	metric tons		34		113		199		757
Ore and concentrates, lead content	do.		287,000		275,000		299,000		472,000
Unwrought and alloys, lead content	do.		77,600		80,100		77,700		84,100
Wrought and alloys, lead content	do.		4,310		8,280		5,590		9,170
Scrap, gross weight	do.		140,000		72,000		43,500		33,800
Magnesium:
Waste and scrap, magnesium content	do.		2,280		5,200		481		802
Metal, magnesium content	do.		6,120		20,500		5,300		19,800
Alloys, gross weight	do.		9,190		40,400		6,940		30,900
Powder, sheets, tubing, ribbons, wire, other forms, gross weight	do.		2,050		30,500		2,070		36,600
Manganese, gross weight:
Ores and concentrates with 20% or more manganese	do.		15,300		3,830		13,900		5,990
Ferromanganese, all grades	do.		24,200		27,900		19,100		27,800
Silicomanganese	do.		18,800		17,500		9,360		13,100
Metal, including alloys and waste and scrap	do.		3,150	^r	8,090	^r	3,660		10,300
Dioxide	do.		8,420		13,400		8,990		14,700
Mercury:
Metal	do.		753		10,300		459		6,830
Amalgams of precious metals whether or not chemically defined	do.		154		238,000		203		274,000
Molybdenum:
Ore and concentrates, including roasted and other, molybdenum content	do.		29,600		631,000		40,600		1,050,000
Chemicals:
Oxides and hydroxides, gross weight	do.		10,600		159,000		6,040		99,300
Molybdates, all, gross weight	do.		1,500		18,000		1,680		26,200
Ferromolybdenum, molybdenum content	do.		827		22,400		978		33,100
Other, includes powders, unwrought, bars and rods, waste and scrap, wire, other,
gross weight	do.		1,790		112,000		2,540		153,000
Nickel, nickel content:
Primary, unwrought and chemicals	do.		7,020		313,000		12,600		345,000
Secondary, stainless steel scrap and waste and scrap	do.		90,000		814,000		80,300		1,030,000
Wro	do.		975		24,200		1,900		35,400
Alloyed, unwrought ingot, bars, rods, profiles, wire, sheets, strip, foil, tubes, pipes,
other alloyed articles, gross weight	do.		30,700		1,120,000		34,500		1,320,000
See footnotes at end of table.


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(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)

			2009				2010
Mineral or product			Quantity		Value		Quantity		Value
Metals-Continued:
Niobium (columbium) and tantalum:
Niobium:
Ores and concentrates	kilograms		17,000		954		24,900		228
Ferroniobium	do.		240,000		2,740		395,000		4,190
Tantalum:
Ores and concentrates, includes synthetic	do.		318,000		2,900		172,000		3,100
Unwrought powders, waste and scrap, unwrought alloys and metal	do.		179,000		50,100		315,000		79,000
Wrought	do.		52,200		26,900		65,200		35,900
Platinum-group metals:
Palladium, palladium content	do.		30,300		229,000		38,100		419,000
Platinum, includes waste and scrap and metal, platinum content	do.		47,100		1,040,000		55,100		1,880,000
Iridium, osmium, ruthenium, gross weight	do.		4,020		34,400		3,720		36,800
Rhodium, rhodium content	do.		1,220		48,400		2,320		136,000
Rare earths, estimated rare-earth oxide content:
Cerium compounds	do.		840,000		8,040		1,350,000		14,300
Ferrocerium and other pyrophoric alloys	do.		2,970,000		28,000		3,460,000		19,000
Compounds, inorganic and organic	do.		455,000		6,210		1,690,000		27,200
Metals, including scandium and yttrium	do.		4,920,000		15,700		1,380,000		27,500
Selenium and tellurium:
Selenium, selenium content	do.		618,000	^r	10,400	^r	919,000		16,000
Tellurium, tellurium content	do.		8,130		1,210		59,000		5,400
Silicon, gross weight:
Ferrosilicon	metric tons		14,200		16,900		25,400		29,600
Metal	do.		37,900		2,070,000		65,900		2,700,000
Silver:
Bullion, silver content	kilograms		167,000		93,600		523,000		326,000
Dore, silver content	do.		130,000		72,700		104,000		45,900
Metal powder, gross weight	do.		834,000		434,000		1,280,000		874,000
Nitrate, gross weight	do.		27,900		2,690		53,500		4,540
Ores and concentrates, silver content	do.		122,000		55,400		82,100		47,700
Semimanufactured forms containing 99.5% or more by weight of silver, gross weight	do.		525,000		252,000		617,000		353,000
Waste and scrap, gross weight	do.		2,480,000		4,300,000		3,760,000		5,990,000
Unwrought, other, gross weight	do.		59,000		21,200		87,300		49,800
Thorium:
Ore, monazite concentrate	do.		18,000		269	^e	(3)		15
Thorium and thorium-bearing materials, compounds	do.		4,730		379		1,500		605
Tin:
Ingots and pigs	metric tons		3,170		22,200		5,630		35,900
Tin scrap and other tin bearing material, except tinplate scrap, includes rods, profiles,
wire, powders, flakes, tubes, pipes	do.		11,600		46,200		15,600		70,300
Tinplate and terneplate	do.		224,000		175,000		209,000		171,000
Titanium:
Metal, waste and scrap, unwrought, wrought products and castings, ferrotitanium
and ferrosilicon titanium	do.		23,300		799,000		24,100		868,000
Ores and concentrates	do.		14,800		8,230		18,900		11,800
Pigment, dioxide and oxide	do.		649,000		1,310,000		758,000		1,690,000
Tungsten, tungsten content:
Ammonium paratungstate	do.		375		5,990		538		8,840
Carbide powder	do.		468	^{r, e}	19,600		1,220	^e	43,600
Metal powders	do.		360	^{r, e}	25,500		803	^e	39,600
See footnotes at end of table.

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(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)

			2009				2010
Mineral or product			Quantity		Value		Quantity		Value
Metals-Continued:
Tungsten, tungsten content-Continued:
Miscellaneous tungsten-bearing materials, ferrotungsten, ferrosilicon tungsten,
-unwrought, waste and scrap, wrought, compounds	metric tons		1,520		48,600		1,790		60,200
Ores and concentrates	do.		38	^e	1,080		276	^e	6,450
Vanadium:
Aluminum-vanadium master alloy, gross weight	kilograms		11,200,000		27,800		11,900,000		33,300
Ferrovanadium, vanadium content	do.		672,000		15,000		611,000		18,100
Metal, including waste and scrap, gross weight	do.		22,700		1,040		21,200		671
Pentoxide, anhydride, vanadium content	do.		401,000		4,970		140,000		2,140
Other oxides and hydroxides, vanadium content	do.		506,000		5,270		1,100,000		10,600
Zinc:
Compounds, chloride, chromates of zinc or of lead, compounds n.s.p.f.⁴, lithopone,
oxide, sulfate, sulfide, gross weight	metric tons		25,400		47,500		26,800		53,700
Ores and concentrates, zinc content	do.		785,000		656,000		752,000		903,000
Rolled	do.		6,160		17,700		7,380		NA
Slab	do.		2,960		3,070		4,200		NA
Zirconium:
Ferrozirconium	do.		566		1,140		569		1,200
Ores and concentrates	do.		39,600		36,300		47,400		51,100
Oxide, includes germanium oxides and zirconium dioxides	do.		3,050		31,400		5,630		59,000
Unwrought powders	do.		165		7,660		438		16,400
Waste and scrap	do.		2,140		192,000		1,620		147,000
Total			XX		49,100,000		XX		65,300,000
Industrial minerals:
Abrasives, manufactured:
Aluminum oxide, crude	metric tons		12,300		32,000		20,000		67,900
Metallic abrasives	do.		25,900		32,200		30,800		41,300
Silicon carbide, crude, ground and refined	do.		20,700		37,700		23,100		56,000
Asbestos, includes reexports:
Manufactured			NA		24,500		NA		27,000
Unmanufactured	metric tons		59		69		171		121
Barite, natural barium sulfate	do.		49,300		10,200		109,000		17,800
Boron minerals and compounds:
Boric acid, includes orthoboric and anhydrous			171		109,000		264		170,000
Sodium borates			417		176,000		423		218,000
Bromine:
Compounds, includes methyl bromine and ethylene dibromide, bromine			2,310		6,510		3,620		14,300
content	metric tons
Elemental, gross weight	do.		3,810		5,930		4,530		7,970
Cement, hydraulic and clinker⁵			884		107,000		1,180		168,000
Clays:
Ball			35		2,430		45		3,300
Bentonite			709		100,000		953		143,000
Fire			328		42,800		404		61,500
Fuller-s earth			90		28,500		100		35,400
Kaolin			2,290		459,000		2,470		537,000
Other, n.e.c.⁶, includes chamotte or dinas earth, activated clays and earths, artificially
activated clays			374		69,500		383		82,600
Diamond:
Gemstones, natural, including reexports	thousand carats		25,200		9,940,000		23,700		14,100,000
See footnotes at end of table.

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(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)

			2009				2010
Mineral or product			Quantity		Value		Quantity		Value
Industrial minerals-Continued:
Diamond-Continued:
Industrial including exports and reexports:
Unworked	thousand carats		948	^r	17,500		1,080		23,400
Powder, dust and grit, natural and synthetic	do.		76,900		37,600		131,000		61,500
Diatomite			88		41,100		86		44,500
Feldspar	metric tons		7,520		1,150		16,800		2,280
Fluorspar	do.		14,100		2,230		17,900		2,740
Garnet, industrial	do.		13,200		10,700		11,700		14,400
Graphite, natural and artificial	do.		46,400		130,000		45,600		152,000
Gypsum and gypsum products:
Crude			156		16,000		360		19,300
Plasters			155		37,800		190		42,200
Boards			665		120,000		729		129,000
Other			XX		50,200		XX		66,200
Helium, Grade-A	million cubic meters		71		160,000		77		179,000
Iodine:
Crude, resublimed	metric tons		1,160		22,900		1,070		22,300
Potassium iodide	do.		128	^r	2,720		442		9,330
Iron oxide pigments and hydroxides:
Pigment grade	do.		5,640		15,500		9,490		17,000
Other grade	do.		11,300		18,500		44,700		34,400
Kyanite, andalusite, sillimanite^e			26		7,510		38		11,300
Lime			108		18,500		215		36,200
Lithium chemicals:
Carbonate	metric tons		1,030		7,040	^r	1,370		7,910
Hydroxide	do.		4,400		31,600		6,960		43,600
Magnesium compounds:
Compounds, chlorides, hydroxide and peroxide, sulfates	do.		37,800		28,300		34,900		25,100
Magnesite, crude and processed:
Caustic-calcined magnesia	do.		503		296		278		165
Dead-burned and fused magnesia	do.		8,390		5,950		8,650		6,550
Other magnesia	do.		12,700		13,500		18,100		20,300
Crude	do.		10,500		1,480		8,920		1,310
Mica:
Scrap and flake:
Powder	do.		5,940		8,850		5,550		8,190
Waste	do.		2,090		1,600		935		468
Sheet:
Unworked	do.		96		437		53		163
Worked	do.		1,020		15,300		879		15,900
Nitrogen, major compounds, gross weight			9,280		NA		7,910		NA
Peat			77		8,570		69		7,230
Perlite, crude^e	metric tons		33,000		NA		42,000		NA
Phosphate rock:
Diammonium phosphate			5,530		1,820,000		4,090		1,710,000
Elemental phosphorus			17		66,000		18		56,600
Monoammonium phosphate			2,110		717,000		2,330		1,000,000
Phosphoric acid			535		142,000		673		235,000
Potash:
Potassium chloride	metric tons		342,000		NA		248,000		NA
See footnotes at end of table.

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(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)

			2009				2010
Mineral or product			Quantity		Value		Quantity		Value
Industrial minerals-Continued:
Potash-Continued:
Potassium sulfates, all grades	do.		355,000		NA		555,000		NA
Potassium nitrate	do.		8,450		6,250		9,990		9,070
Pumice and pumicite			11		5,130	^r	13		5,970
Salt			1,450		74,100		595		69,300
Sand and gravel:
Construction:
Sand			79		19,000		59		16,600
Gravel			360		4,050		322		6,010
Industrial			2,150		175,000		3,950		323,000
Silica, special stone products			NA		7,640		NA		11,300
Soda ash			4,410		838,000		5,390		886,000
Stone:
Crushed			1,260		58,300		1,210		52,100
Dimension			XX		48,300		XX		54,500
Strontium compounds:
Carbonate, precipitated	kilograms		159,000	^r	107		121,000		105
Oxide, hydroxide, peroxide	do.		614,000	^r	355	^r	707,000		395
Sulfur:
Elemental			1,430		82,200		1,450		171,000
Sulfuric acid, 100% H₂SO₄			254		23,900		215		26,400
Talc, excludes powders-talcum (in package), face, compact			188		37,600		224		47,200
Vermiculite^e			3		610		2		575
Wollastonite^e	metric tons		10,000	^r	3,060	^r	10,000		3,120
Zeolites^e	do.		200		47		400		94
Total			XX		16,200,000	^r	XX		21,500,000
Grand total			XX		65,300,000	^r	XX		86,800,000
^eEstimated. ^rRevised. do. Ditto. NA Not available. XX Not applicable. -- Zero.
¹Table includes data available through June 6, 2012.
²Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.
³Less than - unit.
⁴Not specifically provided for.
⁵Excludes Puerto Rico.
⁶Not elsewhere classified.