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TABLE 8
U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION 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 5,330,000 11,500,000 5,180,000 14,500,000
Manufactures do. 337,000 964,000 344,000 1,200,000
Antimony:  
Metal do. 6,370 20,400 7,260 31,800
Ore and concentrate, antimony content do. 204 622 153 653
Oxide, antimony content do. 22,700 81,600 23,000 102,000
Arsenic:  
Acid do. 9 50 24 52
Metal do. 812 3,410 1,070 3,640
Sulfide do. -- -- 75 179
Trioxide do. 11,000 5,280 12,400 6,020
Bauxite and alumina:  
Alumina, calcined equivalent   1,860 639,000 1,860 791,000
Bauxite:  
Calcined, refractory and other grade   818 r 76,700 r 753 86,400
Crude and dried   11,800 r 305,000 r 11,600 332,000
Speciality aluminum compounds, sulfate, chloride, fluoride-based metric tons 14,800 7,620 25,500 12,700
Beryllium, ore, concentrates, oxide, hydroxide, unwrought including powders,  
waste and scrap, other, beryllium-copper master alloys, beryllium-copper plates,
sheets, strip kilograms 1,040,000 16,300 1,380,000 19,000
Bismuth, metallic do. 2,530,000 20,500 2,300,000 21,900
Cadmium:  
Metal do. 81,300 1,040 1,220 1,110
Sulfide, gross weight do. 8,760 75 115,000 350
Chromium:  
Chromite ore metric tons 165,000 23,100 150,000 23,500
Metals and� alloys:  
Ferroalloys, high-carbon, low-carbon, ferrochromium-silicon do. 478,000 408,000 459,000 389,000
Metal, unwrought powders, waste and scrap, other do. 11,000 87,700 10,900 89,000
Chemicals:  
Oxides, hydroxides, trioxides and other do. 14,600 32,600 11,400 26,000
Sulfates do. 288 438 422 823
Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids, zinc and lead chromate, sodium  
dichromate, potassium dichromate, other do. 9,890 7,460 16,800 12,700
Carbide do. 131 2,150 126 2,010
Pigments and preparations based on chromium do. 7,510 22,100 6,550 21,700
Cobalt:  
Metal:  
Alloys, unwrought, waste and scrap, wrought, cobalt articles do. 1,170 28,200 r 997 29,400
Unwrought, excluding alloys and waste and scrap, includes cathode and metal  
powder, may include intermediate products of cobalt metallurgy do. 9,350 312,000 9,950 302,000
Oxide and hydroxides do. 1,310 35,100 1,180 29,400
Other forms, includes acetates, carbonates, chlorides, sulfates do. 2,200 24,800 2,330 24,200
Copper:  
Unmanufactured, does not include unalloyed scrap, copper content do. 1,140,000 3,970,000 1,250,000 7,610,000
Semimanufactures do. 524,000 1,940,000 512,000 3,240,000
Scrap, alloyed and unalloyed do. 114,000 276,000 118,000 481,000
Ferroalloys not listed elsewhere:  
Ferrophosphorus metric tons 12,100 3,940 11,400 6,060
Other do. 7,500 15,000 7,310 13,700
Gallium:  
Unwrought and waste and scrap kilograms 15,800 4,900 26,900 8,210
Gallium arsenide wafers, doped and undoped do. 204,000 163,000 189,000 202,000 203941 1.63E+08
Germanium, wrought, unwrought, waste and scrap, gross weight do. 16,700 11,200 24,100 17,900
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 8�Continued
U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION 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:  
Gold:  
Ores and concentrates kilograms 1,630 18,900 1,090 12,600
Dore and precipitates do. 234,000 2,060,000 125,000 1,990,000
Bullion, refined do. 105,000 1,520,000 136,000 2,550,000
Waste and scrap do. 27,300 209,000 43,000 448,000
Metal powder do. 1,990 6,730 1,460 13,600
Compounds do. 29,500 935 122,000 2,450
Indium, unwrought and waste and scrap do. 142,000 94,300 100,000 71,400
Iron and steel:  
Steel mill products   29,200 NA 41,100 NA
Fabricated steel products   5,120 NA 5,930 NA
Cast iron and steel products   747 r NA 751 NA
Stainless steel metric tons 585,000 NA 641,000 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   3,840 909,000 4,820 1,250,000
Pig iron, all grades   6,030 1,580,000 6,730 1,760,000
Direct-reduced iron, steelmaking grade   2,170 361,000 2,610 417,000
Ships, boats, and other vessels for scrapping   (2) 208 (2) 49
Used rails for rerolling and other uses, includes mixed (used plus new) rails   164 62,800 185 65,600
Iron ore   13,000 532,000 11,500 611,000
Lead:  
Pigs and bars, Pb content metric tons 298,000 303,000 331,000 413,000
Pigments and compounds, Pb content� do. 32,500 55,500 27,900 55,400
Scrap, reclaimed, includes ash and residues, Pb content do. 3,340 2,880 1,560 1,650
Wrought, all forms, including wire and powders, gross weight do. 11,900 28,900 12,100 35,500
Magnesium:  
Waste and scrap, gross weight do. 14,700 22,700 17,200 23,700
Metal, gross weight do. 28,700 80,700 31,900 74,900
Alloys, Mg content do. 40,300 139,000 25,200 88,200
Powder, sheets, tubing, ribbons, wire, other forms, Mg content do. 1,040 10,100 927 10,100
Manganese:  
Ores and concentrates with 20% or manganese, all grades, Mn content do. 334,000 58,200 270,000 53,900
Ferromanganese, all grades, Mn content do. 201,000 r 200,000 282,000 275,000
Silicomanganese, Mn content do. 218,000 231,000 264,000 288,000
Metal, unwrought, other wrought, waste and scrap, gross weight do. 32,300 r 55,900 r 32,900 46,700
Chemicals, manganese dioxide and potassium permanganate, gross weight do. 32,600 41,600 37,700 49,600 32555 41647 37726 49557
Mercury:  
Metal do. 212 2,530 94 2,320
Amalgams of precious metals whether or not chemically defined do. 51 89,100 27 115,000
Molybdenum:  
Ores and concentrates, including roasted and other, Mo content do. 11,900 746,000 10,900 395,000
Chemicals, gross weight:  
Oxides and hydroxides do. 1,240 42,500 629 24,300
Molybdates, all do. 2,750 r 54,800 915 36,900
Orange do. 983 4,780 824 5,110
Ferromolybdenum, Mo content do. 4,050 278,000 3,060 165,000
Other, includes powders, unwrought, bars and rods, waste and scrap, wire, other,
gross weight do. 879 72,900 1,160 75,700
Nickel, Ni content:  
Primary, chemicals and unwrought metric tons 143,000 2,060,000 153,000 3,190,000
Secondary, stainless steel scrap and waste and scrap do. 15,500 223,000 20,300 307,000
Wrought, not alloyed, bars, rods, profiles, wire, sheets, strip, foil, tubes, pipes do. 1,060 26,000 1,110 29,900
Alloyed, unwrought ingot, bars, rods, profiles, wire, sheets, strip, foil, tubes, pipes,  
other alloyed articles do. 23,300 481,000 27,200 640,000
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 8�Continued
U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION 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:  
Niobium (columbium) and tantalum:  
Niobium:  
Ores and concentrates metric tons 10 118 r 5 98
Oxide do. 946 13,400 1,090 15,300
Ferroniobium do. 8,360 71,700 12,500 114,000
Unwrought, alloys, metal, powder do. 1,380 26,700 1,450 30,900
Tantalum:  
Ores and concentrates, includes synthetic concentrates do. 1,250 43,700 1,060 42,300
Unwrought, waste and scrap, powders, alloys, metal do. 1,170 r 105,000 798 120,000 1164868 105341
Wrought do. 78 17,100 38 11,200
Platinum-group metals, metal content:  
Platinum, grains and nuggets, sponge, other unwrought, other, waste and   106381 2276241
scrap, coins kilograms 106,000 2,280,000 114,000 2,820,000
Palladium, unwrought and other do. 139,000 855,000 119,000 1,110,000 139327 855420
Iridium, unwrought and other forms do. 3,010 16,700 2,800 30,100
Osmium, unwrought do. 39 362 56 487
Ruthenium, unwrought do. 23,200 49,800 36,000 187,000
Rhodium, unwrought and other forms do. 13,600 821,000 15,900 1,920,000
Rare earths, estimated equivalent rare-earth oxide (REO) content:  
Cerium compounds, including oxides, hydroxides, nitrates, sulfate chlorides, oxalates   do. 2,170,000 10,600 2,590,000 10,800
Yttrium compounds content by weight greater than 19% but less than 85%  
oxide equivalent do. 223,000 3,480 168,000 2,320
Compounds, including oxides, hydroxides, nitrates, other compounds except chlorides   do. 8,550,000 59,600 10,600,000 66,300
Mixtures of REO's except cerium oxide do. 640,000 6,320 1,570,000 8,740
Metals, whether intermixed or alloyed do. 880,000 4,900 867,000 5,980
Mixtures of rare-earth chlorides, except cerium chloride do. 2,670,000 6,330 2,750,000 7,670
Ferrocerium and other pyrophoric alloys do. 130,000 2,050 127,000 2,110
Rhenium:  
Metal do. 21,800 23,300 22,000 27,800
Ammonium perrhenate do. 10,300 7,040 24,200 20,500
Selenium and tellurium:  
Selenium, Se content:  
Selenium do. 575,000 33,900 398,000 18,000
Dioxide do. 14,100 1,190 15,000 805
Tellurium, Te content do. 42,200 4,650 31,100 3,630
Silicon, gross weight:  
Ferrosilicon metric tons 290,000 215,000 327,000 244,000
Metal do. 157,000 366,000 149,000 394,000
Silver:  
Ash and residues, Ag content kilograms 2,630 769 4,800 1,110
Bullion, Ag content do. 3,880,000 902,000 4,280,000 1,520,000
Dore, Ag content do. 300,000 89,500 286,000 134,000
Metal powder, gross weight do. 28,400 6,840 30,700 5,690
Nitrate, gross weight do. 201 30 1,260 255
Ores and concentrates, Ag content do. 433 318 -- --
Semimanufactured forms containing 99.5% or more by weight of silver, gross weight   do. 181,000 39,800 194,000 71,500
Waste and scrap, gross weight do. 3,640,000 126,000 2,510,000 275,000
Unwrought, other, gross weight do. 357,000 80,400 259,000 91,300
Thallium, unwrought powders, waste and scrap, other do. 235 33 530 67
Thorium and thorium-bearing materials, compounds do. 4,930 145 48,600 1,560
Tin, gross weight:  
Compounds metric tons 564 5,720 440 4,320
Dross, skimmings, scrap, residues, alloys, n.s.p.f. do. 9,930 28,500 7,750 34,300
Metal, unwrought do. 37,500 285,000 43,300 365,000
Miscellaneous, includes tinfoil, tin powder, flitters, metallics, manufactures, n.s.p.f.   do. NA 8,010 NA 23,000
Tinplate and terneplate do. 391,000 300,000 495,000 371,000
Tinplate scrap do. 16,800 3,160 10,300 2,530
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 8�Continued
U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION 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:  
Titanium:  
Concentrate:  
Ilmenite metric tons 154,000 20,400 187,000 20,100
Rutile, natural and synthetic do. 366,000 158,000 355,000 162,000 365893 158026
Metal:  
Waste and scrap do. 12,400 162,000 12,800 200,000
Unwrought do. 15,800 120,000 24,400 252,000
Ingots do. 2,450 38,700 3,140 58,800
Billets, bloom, sheet, bar, slab do. XX XX XX XX
Powder do. 126 4,060 152 5,170
Other do. 1,330 22,900 1,520 35,600
Wrought products and castings, includes bar, castings, foil, pipe, plate, profile,  
rod, sheet, strip, tube, wire, other do. 3,660 111,000 5,360 181,000
Ferrotitanium and ferrosilicon titanium do. 16,900 76,200 r 7,080 63,400
Pigment, dioxide and oxide do. 341,000 578,000 288,000 526,000
Titaniferous iron ore do. 61,100 3,560 49,800 3,240
Titaniferous slag do. 667,000 254,000 693,000 276,000
Tungsten, W content:  
�Ammonium paratungstate do. 1,920 29,900 2,900 78,200
�Ferrotungsten and ferrosilicon tungsten do. 385 5,390 265 7,990
�Miscellaneous tungsten-bearing materials, metal powders, carbide powder,   � � � � � �
unwrought, waste and scrap, wrought, oxides, calcium tungstate, other tungstates, � � � � � �
other compounds do. 6,760 164,000 6,540 232,000
�Ores and concentrates do. 2,080 31,400 2,290 49,500
Vanadium:  
Aluminum-vanadium master alloy, gross weight kilograms 1,010 15 102,000 312
Ferrovanadium, V content do. 11,900,000 131,000 2,140,000 90,500
Metal, including waste and scrap, gross weight do. 54,800 3,800 121,000 5,270
Miscellaneous chemicals, sulfates and vanadates, V content do. 85,100 2,800 115,000 3,330
Pentoxide, anhydride, V content do. 1,370,000 52,900 1,920,000 45,200
Vanadium-bearing ash, residues, slag from the manufacture of iron and steel,  
V2O5 content do. 3,020,000 12,400 1,780,000 8,450
Other oxides and hydroxides, V content do. 186,000 6,540 129,000 3,370
Zinc:  
Compounds, chloride, chromates of zinc or of lead, compounds n.s.p.f., lithopone,  
oxide, sulfate, sulfide, gross weight metric tons 151,000 r 156,000 r 179,000 289,000
Ores and concentrates, Zn content do. 156,000 117,000 383,000 183,000
Rolled do. 3,630 11,900 2,050 8,250
Slab, refined do. 668,000 875,000 851,000 2,050,000
Zirconium and hafnium:  
Hafnium, unwrought, including powders do. 4 931 4 701
Zirconium:  
Ferrozirconium do. 306 675 197 506
Ores and concentrates do. 38,200 25,700 36,200 28,600
Oxide, includes germanium oxides and zirconium oxides do. 3,160 33,300 2,820 39,100
Unwrought powder do. 269 6,000 213 4,990
Waste and scrap do. 755 64,900 535 45,700 755 64837
Total   XX   43,800,000 r XX   63,400,000
Industrial minerals:  
Abrasives, manufactured:  
Aluminum oxide, crude, ground and refined do. 244,000 109,000 209,000 99,800 2043729 108660
Metallic abrasives do. 16,500 12,500 19,600 14,400
Silicon carbide, crude, ground and refined do. 201,000 128,000 185,000 121,000 200701 128004
Asbestos:  
Chrysotile and other unspecified type do. 2,530 1,420 2,230 1,000
Products with basis of asbestos, cellulose, or other minerals   NA 580,000 NA 599,000
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 8�Continued
U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION 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:    
Barite:  
Chemicals; chloride, oxide, hydroxide, peroxide, nitrate,  
precipitated carbonate metric tons 14,100 16,600 12,500 16,300
Crude do. 2,570,000 137,000 2,530,000 145,000
Ground do. 84,000 8,250 815 137
Other sulfates do. 28,600 16,000 22,400 15,300
Boron minerals and compounds:  
Borax   1 319 2 701
Boric acid   52 22,500 85 34,900
Colemanite   31 8,900 25 7,260
Ulexite   103 31,000 131 39,200
Bromine:  
Compounds, contained bromine metric tons 57,400 r 53,400 r 43,400 79,800 57444 53449 43427 79819
Elemental do. 2,710 2,300 r 807 1,340
Cement, hydraulic and clinker   33,700 1,560,000 35,900 2,550,000
Clays:  
China clay or kaolin   262 40,200 303 55,600
Fire clay   (2) 156 (2) 168
Decolorizing earths and fuller's earth   2 286 3 223
Bentonite   10 3,550 13 3,100
Common blue clay and other ball clay   1 261 1 233
Other clay   8 4,660 5 3,650
Chamotte or dina's earth   (2) 9 (2) 18
Artifically activated clay and activated earth   17 r 10,300 21 16,200
Diamond, industrial:  
Diamond stones, natural and miners' thousand carats 2,120 29,500 2,140 27,400
Powder, dust and grit, natural and synthetic do. 284,000 77,300 371,000 80,500
Diatomite metric tons 4,480 1,280 4,480 1,300
Feldspar and nepheline syenite:  
Feldspar do. 26,200 1,700 5,180 549
Nepheline syenite do. 340,000 33,800 426,000 36,000
Fluorspar:  
Aluminum fluoride do. 4,250 4,170 7,950 8,090
Cryolite do. 3,110 3,260 3,960 3,870
Fluorspar do. 629,000 122,000 553,000 112,000
Hydrofluoric acid, HF do. 137,000 138,000 156,000 168,000
Garnet, industriale   42 5,910 51 8,340
Gemstones   XX 17,200,000 XX 18,300,000
Graphite:  
Natural metric tons 64,500 34,700 52,600 29,100
Electric furnace electrodes do. 81,200 157,000 98,200 208,000
Gypsum:  
Crude   11,200 114,000 r 11,400 130,000
Plasters   7 r 4,350 12 5,010
Boards   739 129,000 994 206,000
Other   XX 41,100 XX 60,400
Iodine:  
Crude metric tons 6,250 104,000 r 5,640 109,000
Potassium iodide do. 458 8,980 r 471 12,000
Iron oxide pigments:  
Natural do. 5,240 r 2,610 r 6,270 2,890
Synthetic do. 188,000 138,000 193,000 156,000
Kyanite, andalusite, sillimanite do. 6,300 2,410 4,350 1,580
Lime   310 33,100 r 298 36,300
Lithium chemicals:  
Carbonate metric tons 18,900 27,500 16,500 38,200
Hydroxide do. 124 452 r 997 6,040
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 8�Continued
U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION 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:    
Magnesium compounds:  
Compounds, chlorides, hydroxide, peroxide, sulfates metric tons 119,000 34,800 107,000 35,900 118904 34768
Magnesite, crude and processed:  
Caustic-calcined magnesia do. 152,000 23,900 163,000 23,900
Dead-burned and fused magnesia do. 478,000 124,000 433,000 108,000
Other magnesia do. 18,300 11,300 19,000 11,100
Crude do. 15,000 2,260 15,200 2,550
Mica:  
Scrap and flake:  
Powder do. 21,400 10,100 27,400 11,000
Waste do. 900 365 918 434
Sheet:  
Unworked, excludes unworked sheet mica valued at less than $1 per kilogram   do. 44 r 81 r 355 256
Worked do. 1,340 12,900 1,420 18,500
Nitrogen, major compounds, gross weight   18,000 4,670,000 16,200 4,550,000
Peat moss metric tons 891,000 195,000 924,000 223,000
Perlite, processed crude do. 196,000 7,970 245,000 10,500
Phosphate rock and phosphatic materials   2,730 203,000 2,620 229,000
Potash, chloride, sulfate, nitrate, sodium nitrate mixtures metric tons 8,110,000 1,170,000 7,380,000 1,150,000
Pumice:  
�Crude or unmanufactured   239 31,800 364 11,500
�Wholly or partially manufactured   1 5,750 1 3,380
Salt   12,100 180,000 9,490 163,000
Sand and gravel:  
�Construction   7,160 86,800 4,960 94,100
�Industrial   711 18,200 855 21,000
Silica, special stone products   NA 7,700 NA 8,100
Soda ash   8 2,460 7 2,290
Stone:  
�Crushed, chips, calcium carbonate fines, excludes precipitated carbonates   21,000 194,000 19,800 206,000
�Dimension   NA 2,180,000 NA 2,500,000
Strontium:  
Carbonate metric tons 17,900 6,930 13,200 6,440
Celestite do. 1,820 98 1,530 98
Metal do. 770 2,210 617 1,820
Nitrate do. 714 637 1,020 883
Oxide, hydroxide, peroxide do. 9 38 16 52
Sulfur:  
�Elemental   2,820 e 70,500 2,950 e 70,400
�Sulfuric acid, 100% H2SO4 metric tons 2,680,000 122,000 2,430,000 90,100
Talc   237 55,600 314 66,700
Vermiculitee   91 17,000 65 10,600
Wollastonitee metric tons 6,000 750 2,500 313
Zeolitese do. -- -- 250 50
Total   XX   30,600,000   XX   33,200,000
Grand total   XX   74,400,000 r XX   96,600,000
eEstimated. rRevised. NA Not available. XX Not applicable. -- Zero.
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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