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| TABLE 1 | ||||||||||||||
| SALIENT VANADIUM STATISTICS1 | ||||||||||||||
| (Metric tons of contained vanadium, unless otherwise specified) | ||||||||||||||
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| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | ||||||||||
| United States: | ||||||||||||||
| Production, ore and concentrate: | ||||||||||||||
| R | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Vanadium oxide recovered from ore3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Consumption | 3,240 | 4,050 | 3,910 | 4,030 | 4,970 | |||||||||
| Exports: | ||||||||||||||
| Ferrovanadium | 397 | 285 | 505 | r | 389 | 154 | ||||||||
| Vanadium pentoxide (anhydride)� | 185 | 240 | 254 | r | 341 | 327 | ||||||||
| Other oxides and hydroxides of vanadium� | 284 | 584 | 899 | r | 832 | 626 | ||||||||
| Imports for consumption: | ||||||||||||||
| Ferrovanadium | 1,360 | 3,020 | 11,900 | 2,140 | 2,220 | |||||||||
| O | 3,060 | 2,350 | 1,690 | 997 | 921 | |||||||||
| Vanadium pentoxide (anhydride)� | 474 | 1,040 | 1,370 | 1,920 | 2,390 | |||||||||
| Other oxides and hydroxides of vanadium� | 74 | 120 | 186 | 129 | 42 | |||||||||
| Stocks: | ||||||||||||||
| Ferrovanadium | 213 | 320 | 343 | 275 | 253 | |||||||||
| Oxide | 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 22 | |||||||||
| Other4 | 33 | 10 | 26 | 49 | 48 | |||||||||
| World, production from ore, concentrate, slage | 47,900 | 51,900 | 56,400 | 56,300 | 59,200 | |||||||||
| eEstimated. �rRevised. �-- Zero. | ||||||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits. | ||||||||||||||
| 2Recoverable vanadium contained in uranium and vanadium ores and concentrates received at mill, plus vanadium recovered from� | ||||||||||||||
| ferrophosphorous slag derived from domestic phosphate rock. | ||||||||||||||
| 3Produced directly from all domestic ores and ferrophosphorous slag; includes metavanadates. | ||||||||||||||
| 4Consists principally of vanadium-aluminum alloy, small quantities of other vanadium alloys, vanadium metal, and ammonium metavanadate. | ||||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program