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| TABLE 1 | ||||||||||
| SALIENT SELENIUM AND TELLURIUM STATISTICS1 | ||||||||||
| (Kilograms, contained metal, unless otherwise specified) | ||||||||||
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | ||||||
| Selenium: | ||||||||||
| United States: | ||||||||||
| Production, primary refined | W | W | W | W | W | |||||
| Exports | 1,350,000 | 952,000 | 648,000 | 521,000 | 468,000 | |||||
| Imports for consumption, total | 601,000 | 460,000 | 439,000 | 475,000 | r | 463,000 | ||||
| Dealers- price, average, commercial grade,2 dollars per pound | 66.35 | 54.47 | 36.17 | 26.78 | 22.09 | |||||
| World, refinery productione | 2,180,000 | r | 2,220,000 | r | 2,170,000 | r | 2,250,000 | r | 2,200,000 | |
| Tellurium, United States: | ||||||||||
| Production, primary refined | W | W | W | W | W | |||||
| Exports | 38,600 | 47,400 | 42,300 | 27,900 | 40,800 | |||||
| Imports for consumption | 70,800 | 36,100 | 65,300 | r | 109,000 | r | 76,000 | |||
| Price, commercial grade,3 dollars per kilogram | 349.35 | 149.66 | 111.95 | 119.47 | 77.00 | |||||
| eEstimated. rRevised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data.- | ||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits, except prices. | ||||||||||
| 2Source: Platts Metals Week.- | ||||||||||
| 3The price is the annual average price published by the Argus Media group Metal-Pages for duties unpaid in warehouse (IWH) Rotterdam, 99.99% tellurium. | ||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Mineral commodity prices
