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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.
TABLE 7-Continued
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-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
Wrought, not alloyed, bars, rods, profiles, wire, sheets, strip, foil, tubes, pipes   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.
TABLE 7-Continued
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-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.
TABLE 7-Continued
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-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.
TABLE 7-Continued
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
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, sillimanitee   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, crudee 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.
TABLE 7-Continued
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
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
Vermiculitee   3 610 2 575
Wollastonitee metric tons 10,000 r 3,060 r 10,000 3,120
Zeolitese 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.

Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program

See also: Mineral commodity prices


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