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| TABLE 1 | |||||||||||||
| SALIENT VERMICULITE STATISTICS1 | |||||||||||||
| (Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified) | |||||||||||||
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |||||||||
| United States: | |||||||||||||
| Production:2 | |||||||||||||
| Concentratee | 100 | 110 | 100 | 3 | 100 | 100 | 4 | ||||||
| Exfoliated:e | |||||||||||||
| Quantity | 115 | 95 | 90 | 85 | 90 | ||||||||
| Valuee | 44,900 | 34,800 | 35,400 | 35,100 | 36,500 | ||||||||
| Average valuee, 5 | dollars per metric ton | 390 | 370 | 390 | 410 | 406 | |||||||
| Exportse | 10 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| Imports for consumption6 | 56 | 37 | 69 | e | 91 | 65 | e | ||||||
| World, production7 | 498 | 491 | 513 | r | 521 | r | 520 | ||||||
| eEstimated.� rRevised.� | |||||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits. | |||||||||||||
| 2Sold or used by producers. | |||||||||||||
| 3Dickson, Ted, 2006, Vermiculite, Countries and Commodities Reports, accessed March 17, 2006, via URL� | |||||||||||||
| http://www.mining-journal.com. | |||||||||||||
| 4Rounded to one significant digit. | |||||||||||||
| 5Based on rounded data. | |||||||||||||
| 6Source: Commonwealth Business Media, Inc., 2006. | |||||||||||||
| 7Excludes production by countries for which data were not available. | |||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program