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TABLE 9
WORLD AND U.S. PRODUCTION OF SELECTED NONFUEL MINERAL COMMODITIES1
(Thousand metric tons unless otherwise specified)
 
United States
Percentage
World total �� of
Mineral or product   2002   2003   2004   2005   2006   2006   world total
Metals:
Alumina     55,000   57,900   60,700   63,500   69,200   4,700   6.8
Aluminum2     26,100   28,000   29,900   31,900   33,700   2,280   6.8
Antimony metric tons   118 r 116 r 144 r 142 r 134   --   --
Arsenic trioxide3 do.   62,400 r 62,200 r 52,400 r 52,500   52,700   --   --
Bauxite3, 4, 5     144,000   153,000   161,000 r 172,000 r 178,000   NA   NA
Beryl3 metric tons   2,530 r 2,680 r 2,760 r 3,440   4,480   3,830   85.4
Bismuth, refinery do.   6,730   8,700 r 15,200 r 11,800 r 12,000   --   --
Cadmium, refinery do.   17,800 r 18,700 r 19,400 r 19,700 r 19,300   700   3.6
Chromite3     14,600   15,500 r 17,600 r 19,000 r 19,700   --   --
Cobalt, Co content:  
Mine metric tons   52,200 r 52,700 r 58,400 r 63,500 r 67,500   --   --
Refinery do.   40,800   43,800   49,100   54,900   55,000   --   --
Copper:  
Mine     13,600 r 13,800 r 14,700   15,000 r 15,100   1,200   7.9
Smelter     12,600   12,700 r 12,900   13,600   14,100   501   3.6
Refinery     15,600 r 15,300   16,000 r 16,600   17,400   1,250   7.2
Gold kilograms   2,530 r 2,560   2,440   2,470   2,460   252   10.2
Indium, refinery metric tons   406   376   396   496   531   --   --
Iron ore3     1,100,000   1,210,000 r 1,360,000   1,540,000 r 1,800,000   52,700 2.9
Iron and steel:  
Direct-reduced iron2     44,600 r 47,200 r 52,600 r 56,500 r 59,100   240   0.4
Pig iron2     608,000 r 667,000 r 711,000 r 794,000 r 866,000   37,900   4.4
Raw steel     907,000 r 974,000 r 1,060,000   1,140,000 r 1,230,000   98,200   8.0
Lead:  
Mine, Pb content metric tons   2,870 r 3,160 r 3,170 r 3,450 r 3,470   429   12.4
Refinery do.   6,800 r 6,980 r 7,070 r 7,700 r 8,030   1,310   16.4
Magnesium5 do.   432 r 509 r 595   622 r 689   W   NA
Manganese ore3     22,100 r 24,200 r 27,900 r 31,100 r 33,400   -- --
Mercury5 metric tons   1,980 r 2,120 r 1,640 r 1,430 r 1,480   NA 6 NA
Molybdenum, Mo content do.   122,000   131,000   159,000   186,000 r 185,000   59,800 7 32.3
Nickel, Ni content:  
Mine do.   1,350   1,370   1,420 r 1,500 r 1,580   --   --
Refinery do.   1,210 r 1,230 r 1,280 r 1,300   1,350   --   --
Niobium (columbium)-tantalum concentrates3 do.   82,600 r 81,600 r 67,900 r 67,700 r 67,700   --   --
Platinum-group metals kilograms   433,000 r 466,000 r 481,000 r 510,000 r 518,000   18,700   3.6
Rhenium do.   31,600   36,200   42,300   45,900   47,200   8,100   17.2
Selenium2, 5 do.   1,410 r 1,470 r 1,370 r 1,430 r 1,540   W   NA
Silver metric tons   18,800   18,800   19,900 r 20,600 r 20,200   1,140   5.6
Tellurium2, 5 kilograms   89   95   124   131 r 132   W   NA
Tin:    
Mine metric tons   235 r 259 r 301 r 299 r 304   --   --
Smelter8 do.   280,000 r 282,000 r 308,000 r 344,000 r 366,000   11,600   3.2
Tungsten, W content do.   66,200 r 68,300 r 102,000 r 88,200 r 90,800   --   --
Vanadium do.   51,000   47,900   51,900   56,400   56,300   --   --
Zinc:  
Mine, Zn content of concentrate and direct
shipping ore     8,880 r 9,520 r 9,590 r 9,930 r 10,000   727   7.3
Smelter     9,840 r 9,980 r 10,500 r 10,400 r 10,600   269   2.5
Industrial minerals:
Asbestos metric tons   2,320   2,440 r 2,310 r 2,320 r 2,300   --   --
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 9�Continued
WORLD AND U.S. PRODUCTION OF SELECTED NONFUEL MINERAL COMMODITIES1
(Thousand metric tons unless otherwise specified)
 
United States
Percentage
World total �� of
Mineral or product   2002 2003   2004   2005   2006   2006   world total
Industrial minerals--Continued:              
Barite do.   6,160 r 6,780 r 7,760 r 8,110 r 7,960   589 9 7.4
Boron minerals do.   4,580 r 4,720 r 5,070   5,090 r 4,260   W   NA
Bromine do.   503   488   543 r 556 r 545   243 9 44.7
Celesite metric tons   444 r 492 r 521 r 570 r 585   --   --
Cement, hydraulic     1,850,000 r 2,030,000   2,190,000   2,350,000 r 2,560,000   99,700 10 3.9
Clays:  
Bentonite     10,100 r 10,300 r 11,500   11,600 r 11,700   4,940   42.2
Fuller's earth metric tons   4,030 r 4,890 r 4,690 r 4,160 r 3,980   2,540   63.8
Kaolin     35,000 r 36,200 r 37,600 r 38,200 r 37,500   7,470   19.9
Diamond:                              
Natural thousand carats   141,000   158,000   163,000 r 178,000 r 171,000   --   --
Synthetic do.   529,000   543,000   559,000   563,000   566,000   258,000   45.6
Diatomite metric tons   1,970 r 1,970 r 1,940 r 2,010 r 2,160   799 9 37.0
Feldspar     14,100 r 14,300 r 14,800 r 15,100 r 15,400   760   5.0
Fluorspar metric tons   4,450 r 4,850 r 5,230 r 5,280 r 5,330   --   --
Graphite, natural do.   932   999   1,018   1,040 r 1,029   --   --
Gypsum     111,000 r 114,000 r 120,000 r 122,000 r 125,000   21,100   16.8
Iodine, crude metric tons   21,000   24,600 r 24,800   26,500 r 26,600   W   NA
Iron oxide pigments do.   635   646   604   610   610   W   NA
Kyanite and related minerals do.   391   386   456   450   452   130 11 28.7
Lime     221,000 r 236,000 r 249,000 r 259,000 r 271,000   21,000 9, 10 7.8
Lithium metric tons   33,200   12,100   13,700   37,500   30,000   W   NA
Magnesite, crude5     14,100 r 14,400 r 15,100 r 14,100 r 14,100   W   NA
Mica, including scrap and flake12 metric tons   278 r 279 r 322 r 288 r 342   110   32.1
Monazite do.   5,440   5,800   7,410   6,120   6,500   --   --
Nitrogen, N content of ammonia     109,000   110,000   117,000   122,000 r 124,000   8,520 13 6.9
Peat     26,300 r 24,000 r 26,100 r 25,700 r 25,800   551 14 2.1
Perlite metric tons   1,810   1,810   1,860   1,860 r 1,810   454 9 25.1
Phosphate rock3     136,000 r 139,000 r 143,000 r 151,000 r 142,000   30,100   21.2
Potash, K2O equivalent     27,100 r 28,600 r 31,100 r 32,500 r 29,100   1,100   3.8
Pumice     16,300 r 16,500 r 18,900 r 18,400 r 18,800   1,540 9 8.2
Rare earths metric tons   93,000   97,100   102,000   123,000   123,000   --   --
Salt       214,000 r 221,000 r 233,000 r 246,000 r 251,000   44,300 10 17.6
Sand and gravel, industrial, silica     113,000   115,000   119,000 r 116,000 r 117,000   31,700 9 27.2
Soda ash, natural and manufactured   37,200   38,400   40,600 r 42,000 r 42,400   11,000 15 25.9
Sulfur, all forms     62,000 r 63,500 r 65,500 r 65,600 r 65,700   9,060   13.8
Talc and pyrophyllite16 metric tons   8,030 r 8,550 r 8,760 r 8,840 r 8,920   895   10.0
Titanium concentrates:3  
Ilmenite and leucoxene do.   5,410 r 5,780 r 5,940 r 6,090 r 6,700   500 17 7.5
Rutile5 do.   446   361   353 r 373 r 511   (18)   NA
Vermiculite do.   497   491   513 r 521 r 518   100   19.3
Zirconium do.   973   1,030   1,080   1,090   1,180   W   NA
rRevised. NA Not available. W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data; not included in "World" total. -- Zero.
1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits.
2Primary.
3Gross weight.
4Individual country figures that are included in the world total represent dried bauxite equivalent of crude ore, but for some countries
available data are insufficient to permit this adjustment.
5"World total" for years listed does not include U.S. production.
6U.S. production of mercury is byproduct only.
TABLE 9�Continued
WORLD AND U.S. PRODUCTION OF SELECTED NONFUEL MINERAL COMMODITIES1
 
7Listed in Molybdenum chapter (table 1) as production.
8Includes tin content of alloys made directly from ore.
9Quantity sold or used by producers.
10Includes Puerto Rico. Masonary cement and Portland cement only.
11Includes synthetic mullite.
12Excludes, if any, U.S. production of low-quality sericite and sheet mica.
13Synthetic anhydrous ammonia; excludes coke oven byproduct ammonia.
14Horticultural use.
15U.S. production is natural only.
16Data for the United States exclude proprietary pyrophyllite production.
17Includes rutile to avoid disclosing company proprietary data. Rounded to one significant digit.
18Included with ilmenite to avoid disclosing company proprietary data; not included in "Total."

Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program

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