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| TABLE 1 | |||||||||||
| SALIENT STRONTIUM STATISTICS1 | |||||||||||
| (Metric tons of contained strontium and dollars per metric ton unless otherwise noted)2 | |||||||||||
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |||||||
| United States: | |||||||||||
| Production, strontium minerals | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||||||
| Imports for consumption:3 | |||||||||||
| Strontium compounds | 25,400 | 23,300 | 14,500 | 11,700 | 8,860 | ||||||
| Strontium minerals | 1,150 | 1,020 | 2,760 | 799 | 671 | ||||||
| Exports, compounds3 | 340 | 693 | 552 | 255 | 716 | ||||||
| Shipments from Government stockpile excesses | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||||||
| Apparent consumption4 | 26,200 | 26,600 | 16,700 | 12,200 | 8,820 | ||||||
| Price, average value of mineral imports at port | |||||||||||
| of exportation | 60 | 57 | 53 | 56 | 64 | ||||||
| World, production of celestite, gross weight 5 | 444,000 | r | 492,000 | r | 521,000 | r | 570,000 | r | 585,000 | e | |
| eEstimated. rRevised. -- Zero. | |||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits. | |||||||||||
| 2The strontium content of celestite is 43.88%, which was used to convert units to celestite. | |||||||||||
| 3Source: U.S. Census Bureau. | |||||||||||
| 4Production plus imports minus exports. | |||||||||||
| 5Excludes Tajikistan, which was thought to produce significant quantities of celestite, but information was not available to make | |||||||||||
| reliable estimates. | |||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program