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| TABLE 1 | ||||||||||||||
| SALIENT VANADIUM STATISTICS1 | ||||||||||||||
| (Metric tons of contained vanadium, unless otherwise specified) | ||||||||||||||
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| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | ||||||||||
| United States: | ||||||||||||||
| Production, ore and concentrate: | ||||||||||||||
| R | thousand dollars | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||||||||
| �� Vanadium oxide recovered from ore3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Consumption | 3,080 | 3,240 | 4,050 | 3,910 | 4,030 | |||||||||
| Exports: | ||||||||||||||
| Ferrovanadium | 142 | 397 | 285 | 500 | 389 | |||||||||
| Vanadium pentoxide (anhydride)� | 91 | 185 | 240 | 247 | 341 | |||||||||
| Other oxides and hydroxides of vanadium� | 203 | 284 | 584 | 821 | 832 | |||||||||
| Imports for consumption: | ||||||||||||||
| Ferrovanadium | 2,520 | 1,360 | 3,020 | 11,900 | 2,140 | |||||||||
| O | 1,870 | 3,060 | 2,350 | 1,690 | 997 | |||||||||
| Vanadium pentoxide (anhydride)� | 406 | 474 | 1,040 | 1,370 | 1,920 | |||||||||
| Other oxides and hydroxides of vanadium� | 66 | 74 | 120 | 186 | 129 | |||||||||
| Stocks: | ||||||||||||||
| Ferrovanadium | 212 | 213 | 320 | 343 | 275 | |||||||||
| Oxide | 7 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||
| Other4 | 14 | 33 | 10 | 26 | 49 | |||||||||
| World, production from ore, concentrate, slage | 51,000 | 47,900 | 51,900 | 56,400 | r | 56,300 | ||||||||
| 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