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| TABLE 9 | ||||||||||
| ANTIMONY: WORLD MINE PRODUCTION, BY COUNTRY1, 2 | ||||||||||
| (Metric tons) | ||||||||||
| Country | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003e | |||||
| Australia3 | 1,679 | 1,511 | 1,380 | 1,200 | e | 1,300 | ||||
| Bolivia | 2,790 | 1,907 | 2,264 | 2,336 | r | 2,300 | ||||
| Canada4 | 357 | 433 | r | 234 | 143 | 143 | ||||
| Chinae | 89,600 | 110,000 | 140,000 | r | 100,000 | r | 70,000 | |||
| Kyrgyzstane | 100 | 150 | 150 | 150 | 40 | |||||
| Mexico5 | 126 | 39 | -- | -- | e | -- | ||||
| Moroccoe, 4 | 250 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||||
| Peru, refined | 255 | 461 | 274 | 356 | r | 356 | ||||
| Russia, recoverablee | 4,000 | 4,500 | 4,500 | NA | 6 | NA | ||||
| South Africa4 | 5,278 | 4,104 | 4,927 | r | 5,746 | r | 5,310 | |||
| Tajikistane | 1,800 | 2,000 | 2,500 | 3,000 | 1,800 | |||||
| Thailand, content of ore and concentrate | 59 | 84 | 40 | r | 10 | r | 40 | |||
| Turkeye | 180 | 360 | 370 | 370 | 350 | |||||
| United States | 450 | W | -- | -- | -- | |||||
| Total | 107,000 | 126,000 | r | 157,000 | r | 113,000 | r | 81,600 | ||
| eEstimated. rRevised. NA Not available. W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data; not included in "Total." -- Zero. | ||||||||||
| 1World totals, U.S. data, and estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown. | ||||||||||
| 2Antimony content of ore unless otherwise indicated. Table includes data available through May 27, 2004. | ||||||||||
| 3Antimony content of antimony ore and concentrate, lead concentrates, and lead-zinc concentrates. | ||||||||||
| 4Antimony content of concentrate. | ||||||||||
| 5Previously published data for Mexico included antimony mined in other countries and smelted in Mexico. That prior data were, in | ||||||||||
| metric tons, as follows: 1999--273; 2000--52; 2001--81 (estimated); 2002--155 (revised); 2003--160. | ||||||||||
| 6Reports indicate that Russian antimony production was sharply curtailed. | ||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program