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| TABLE 4 | |||||||||||
| LITHIUM MINERALS AND BRINE: WORLD PRODUCTION, BY COUNTRY1, 2 | |||||||||||
| (Metric tons, gross weight) | |||||||||||
| ----------------------------------------- Country3 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015e | ||||||
| Argentina, subsurface brine: | |||||||||||
| Lithium carbonate- | 10,024 | 10,535 | 9,248 | 11,698 | 14,137 | 4 | |||||
| Lithium chloride | 4,605 | 4,297 | 5,156 | 7,370 | 5,848 | 4 | |||||
| Australia, spodumene | 421,391 | 456,921 | 415,000 | r | 463,000 | r | 490,000 | ||||
| Brazil, concentrates-- | 7,820 | 7,084 | 7,982 | 8,519 | 8,500 | ||||||
| Chile, subsurface brine: | |||||||||||
| Lithium carbonate | 59,933 | 62,002 | 52,358 | 55,074 | 50,418 | 4 | |||||
| Lithium chloride | 3,864 | 4,145 | 4,091 | 2,985 | 2,069 | 4 | |||||
| Lithium hydroxide | 5,800 | 5,447 | 4,197 | 4,194 | 3,888 | 4 | |||||
| China, lithium carbonate equivalente, 5 | 11,300 | 10,000 | 11,200 | 10,100 | 10,700 | ||||||
| Portugal, lepidolite-- | 37,534 | 20,698 | 19,940 | 17,459 | 17,120 | 4 | |||||
| United States, carbonate | W | W | 4,600 | 6 | W | W | |||||
| Zimbabwe, amblygonite, eucryptite, lepidolite, and petalitee | 48,000 | 4 | 53,000 | 4 | 50,000 | r | 50,000 | r | 50,000 | ||
| eEstimated. rRevised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data.- | |||||||||||
| 1Includes data available through March 23, 2017. | |||||||||||
| 2Estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits. | |||||||||||
| 3In addition to the countries listed, other nations may have produced small quantities of lithium minerals, but output was not reported,- | |||||||||||
| and no valid basis was available for estimating production levels. | |||||||||||
| 4Reported figure. | |||||||||||
| 5Produced from subsurface brine and concentrates. | |||||||||||
| 6Source: Rockwood Holdings, Inc., 2014, 2013 annual report: Rockwood Holdings, Inc., p. 16. | |||||||||||
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Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Mineral commodity prices
