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| TABLE 7- | |||||||||||
| VANADIUM: ESTIMATED WORLD PRODUCTION, BY COUNTRY1, 2 | |||||||||||
| (Metric tons of contained vanadium) | |||||||||||
| Country- | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | ||||||
| Production from ores, concentrates, slag:3 | |||||||||||
| Australia | 150 | 4 | 100 | 4 | -- | -- | -- | ||||
| China5 | 16,000 | 17,000 | 17,500 | 19,000 | 20,000 | ||||||
| Kazakhstan | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | ||||||
| Russia- | 10,900 | 15,100 | 15,100 | 14,500 | 14,500 | ||||||
| South Africa | 23,302 | 4 | 22,604 | r, 4 | 23,780 | 4 | 23,486 | r, 4 | 20,000 | ||
| Total | 51,400 | 55,800 | 57,400 | 58,000 | r | 55,500 | - | ||||
| -Japan, petroleum residues, ash spent catalysts6 | 560 | 560 | 560 | 560 | 560 | ||||||
| Grand total | 51,900 | 56,400 | 57,900 | 58,500 | r | 56,100 | - | ||||
| rRevised.- -- Zero.- | |||||||||||
| 1World totals and estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown. | |||||||||||
| 2In addition to the countries listed, vanadium is also recovered from petroleum residues in Germany and several other European countries, but | |||||||||||
| available information is insufficient to make reliable estimates. Table includes data available through May 30, 2009. | |||||||||||
| 3Production in this section is credited to the country that was the origin of the vanadiferous raw material. | |||||||||||
| 4Reported figure. | |||||||||||
| 5Estimated 40% of vanadium recovered from vanadiferous slag. | |||||||||||
| 6Production in this section is credited to the country where the vanadiferous product is extracted; available information is inadequate to permit-- | |||||||||||
| crediting this output back to the country of origin of the vanadiferous raw material. | |||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
