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| TABLE 1 | ||||||||||||||
| SALIENT VERMICULITE STATISTICS1 | ||||||||||||||
| (Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | ||||||||||
| United States: | ||||||||||||||
| Production, concentratee, 2 | 110 | 100 | 3 | 100 | 100 | 4 | 100 | 4 | ||||||
| Exfoliated:e | ||||||||||||||
| Quantity | 95 | 90 | 85 | 90 | 85 | |||||||||
| Valuee | 34,800 | 35,400 | 35,100 | 36,500 | 36,500 | |||||||||
| Average valuee, 5, 6 | dollars per metric ton | 370 | 390 | 410 | 410 | 430 | ||||||||
| Exportse | 15 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||
| Imports for consumption7 | 37 | 69 | e | 91 | 65 | e | 51 | |||||||
| World, production8 | 491 | 513 | 521 | 512 | r | 508 | ||||||||
| eEstimated. rRevised.� | ||||||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits. | ||||||||||||||
| 2Sold or used by producers. | ||||||||||||||
| 3Dickson, Ted, 2006, Vermiculite, in Countries and Commodities Reports. (Accessed March 17, 2006, via http://www.mining- | ||||||||||||||
| journal.com.) | ||||||||||||||
| 4Rounded to one significant digit. | ||||||||||||||
| 5Based on rounded data. | ||||||||||||||
| 6Rounded to two significant digits.� | ||||||||||||||
| 7Source: Commonwealth Business Media, Inc., 2008. | ||||||||||||||
| 8Excludes production by countries for which data were not available. | ||||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program