U.S. Exports Of Principal Minerals And Products, Excluding Mineral Fuels

TABLE 7
U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS^{1, 2}

(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)

			2012				2013
Mineral or product			Quantity		Value		Quantity	Value
Metals:
Aluminum:
Crude and semicrude	metric tons		3,480,000		9,480,000		3,390,000	9,530,000
Manufactures	do.		140,000		594,000		114,000	494,000
Antimony:
Metal, alloys, waste and scrap	do.		847		4,310		1,550	5,540
Oxide, antimony content	do.		3,870		21,700		2,420	14,200
Arsenic metal, arsenic content	do.		439		NA		1,630	NA
Bauxite and alumina:
Alumina, calcined equivalent			1,720	^r	740,000	^r	2,300	870,000
Bauxite:
Calcined, refractory and other grade			18		3,750		10	1,410
Crude and dried			11		313		4	110
Specialty aluminum compounds, sulfate, chloride, fluoride-based	metric tons		37,900		34,900		NA	NA
Beryllium, unwrought, and waste and scrap, other including articles not-
elsewhere specified, beryllium content	kilograms		55,000		22,800		35,200	19,100
Bismuth, metal, alloys, waste and scrap, bismuth content	do.		764,000		8,110		816,000	9,040
Cadmium:
Metal	do.		378,000		1,180		266,000	629
Sulfide, gross weight	do.		9,340		5		5,710	3
Unwrought and powder	do.		253,000		406		131,000	327
Waste and scrap	do.		--		--		20,400	43
Chromium:
Ores and concentrate	metric tons		21,200		9,870		8,530	3,040
Metals and alloys:
Metal, unwrought powders, waste and scrap, other	do.		462		13,000		856	19,000
Ferroalloys, high-carbon, low-carbon, ferrochromium-silicon	do.		5,300		7,250		4,850	7,300
Chemicals:
Oxides, trioxide, other	do.		22,800		88,200		20,600	85,700
Sulfates	do.		40		254		128	701
Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids, zinc and lead chromate, sodium
-dichromate, potassium dichromate, other	do.		14,500		20,700		15,100	29,900
Pigments and preparations	do.		791		5,480		649	6,090
Cobalt:
Acetates	do.		205		3,350		236	2,050
Chlorides	do.		22		238		6	98
Oxides and hydroxides	do.		397		2,540		409	4,250
Metal, unwrought, powders, waste and scrap, mattes, other intermediate products		-
of metallurgy	do.		3,420		106,000		3,500	97,000
Copper:
Unmanufactured, does not include unalloyed scrap, copper content	do.		510,000		3,080,000		504,000	3,260,000
Semimanufactures	do.		245,000		2,140,000		256,000	2,090,000
Scrap, alloyed and unalloyed	do.		1,200,000		4,400,000		1,160,000	4,080,000
Ferroalloys not listed elsewhere:
Ferrophosphorous	do.		161		358		619	1,310
Other	do.		3,240		7,900		2,120	5,730
Gold:
Ores and concentrates	kilograms		9,560	^r	252,000		7,210	316,000
Dore and precipitates	do.		312,000	^r	13,700,000		195,000	8,390,000
Bullion, refined	do.		373,000	^r	19,400,000	^r	489,000	22,800,000
Waste and scrap	do.		266,000		2,310,000		128,000	951,000
Metal powder	do.		304		8,710		269	8,650
Compounds	do.		2,820,000		107,000		1,170,000	92,100
Iron and steel:
Steel mill products			12,500		NA		11,500	NA
Fabricated steel products			1,990		NA		1,880	NA
See footnotes at end of table.
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(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)

			2012				2013
Mineral or product			Quantity		Value		Quantity	Value
Metals-Continued:
Iron and steel-Continued:
Cast iron and steel products			253	^r	NA		283	NA
Iron and steel scrap:
Ferrous, includes tinplate and terneplate, excludes used rails for rerolling and other
uses and ships, boats, and other vessels for scrapping			21,400		9,430,000		18,500	7,570,000
Pig iron, all grades	metric tons		21,200		8,110		18,000	4,440
Direct-reduced iron, steelmaking grade	do.		533		56		265	29
Ships, boats, and other vessels for scrapping			5		913		7	1,030
Used rails for rerolling and other uses, includes mixed (used plus new) rails			36		37,600		37	35,100
Iron ore			11,200		1,440,000		11,000	1,480,000
Lead:
Base bullion, lead content-	metric tons		72		852		349	1,300
Ore and concentrates, lead content	do.		214,000		360,000		215,000	386,000
Unwrought and alloys, lead content	do.		47,000		57,800		41,600	62,700
Wrought and alloys, lead content	do.		6,300		10,400		6,610	10,800
Scrap, gross weight	do.		25,900		30,600		34,900	45,400
Magnesium:
Waste and scrap, magnesium content	do.		2,100		5,290		471	1,420
Metal, magnesium content	do.		7,020		21,400		5,790	17,600
Alloys, gross weight	do.		7,310		36,300		8,240	37,200
Powder, sheets, tubing, ribbons, wire, other forms, gross weight	do.		1,870		40,100		1,600	55,100
Manganese, gross weight:
Ores and concentrates with 20% or more manganese	do.		1,710		1,990		628	1,350
Ferromanganese, all grades	do.		5,350		6,540		1,970	3,300
Silicomanganese	do.		5,850		8,220		5,890	6,500
Metal, including alloys and waste and scrap	do.		2,580		7,510		1,680	5,770
Dioxide	do.		9,260		16,800		6,530	14,500
Mercury:
Metal	do.		103		243		(3)	10
Amalgams of precious metals whether or not chemically defined	do.		171		286,000		153	361,000
Molybdenum:
Ore and concentrates, including roasted and other, molybdenum content	do.		43,500		1,120,000		48,600	1,030,000
Chemicals:
Oxides and hydroxides, gross weight	do.		1,590		34,900		1,320	26,400
Molybdates, all, gross weight	do.		1,530		22,300		1,740	31,200
Ferromolybdenum, molybdenum content	do.		996		33,100		862	22,900
Other, includes powders, unwrought, bars and rods, waste and scrap, wire, other,
gross weight	do.		1,850		112,000		1,060	78,700
Nickel, nickel content:
Primary, unwrought and chemicals	do.		9,100		372,000		10,600	397,000
Secondary, stainless steel scrap and waste and scrap	do.		59,800		925,000		61,200	853,000
Wr	do.		820		25,100		728	25,000
Alloyed, unwrought ingot, bars, rods, profiles, wire, sheets, strip, foil, tubes
pipes, other alloyed articles, gross weight	do.		43,900		1,830,000		42,400	1,760,000
Niobium (columbium) and tantalum:
Niobium:
Ores and concentrates	kilograms		31,500		239		111,000	1,430
Ferroniobium	do.		512,000		5,630		588,000	7,280
Tantalum:
Ores and concentrates, includes synthetic	do.		XX		10,700		XX	4,730
Unwrought powders	do.		111,000	^r	45,900	^r	146,000	75,700
Unwrought, alloys and metal	do.		25,200		9,000		15,000	8,000
Waste and scrap	do.		235,000		31,000		521,000	67,800
Wrought	do.		81,200		59,000		54,200	36,400
See footnotes at end of table.

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(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)

			2012				2013
Mineral or product			Quantity		Value		Quantity	Value
Metals-Continued:
Platinum-group metals:
Palladium, palladium content	do.		32,200		467,000		25,900	452,000
Platinum, includes waste and scrap and metal, platinum content	do.		93,400		1,210,000		375,000	1,560,000
Iridium, osmium, ruthenium, gross weight	do.		1,640		17,100		1,320	21,200
Rhodium, rhodium content	do.		1,040		43,600		1,220	43,100
Rare earths, estimated rare-earth oxide content:
Compounds:
Cerium compounds	do.		996,000	^r	16,900		734,000	12,400
Other	do.		1,830,000		66,400		5,570,000	49,700
Metals:
Ferrocerium and other pyrophoric alloys	do.		960,000	^r	12,800	^r	1,420,000	14,600
Other, metals and alloys	do.		2,080,000		24,400		1,040,000	9,600
Selenium and tellurium:
Selenium, selenium content	do.		952,000		19,700		648,000	13,000
Tellurium, tellurium content	do.		47,400		5,900	^r	42,300	2,670
Silicon, gross weight:
Ferrosilicon	metric tons		20,600		34,400		17,300	31,800
Metal	do.		76,200		1,900,000		38,300	1,350,000
Silver:
Bullion, silver content	kilograms		837,000		795,000		347,000	258,000
Dore, silver content	do.		67,900		70,400		48,000	39,400
Metal powder, gross weight	do.		774,000		729,000		660,000	551,000
Nitrate, gross weight	do.		47,400		6,170		39,800	4,370
Ores and concentrates, silver content	do.		41,500		39,900		13,800	31,300
Semimanufactured forms containing 99.5% or more by weight of silver, gross
weight	do.		628,000		543,000		741,000	535,000
Waste and scrap, gross weight	do.		13,000,000		2,050,000		19,300,000	1,570,000
Unwrought, other, gross weight	do.		284,000		298,000		120,000	116,000
Thorium and thorium-bearing materials, compounds	metric tons		3		734		1	523
Tin:
Ingots and pigs	do.		5,560		36,200	^r	5,870	38,400
Tin scrap and other tin bearing material, except tinplate scrap, includes rods, profiles,
wire, powders, flakes, tubes, pipes	do.		15,100		66,000		10,700	59,000
Tinplate and terneplate	do.		160,000		132,000		135,000	109,000
Titanium:
Metal, waste and scrap, unwrought, wrought products and castings, ferrotitanium
and ferrosilicon titanium	do.		41,000		1,450,000		39,000	1,460,000
Ores and concentrates	do.		43,000		31,900		11,500	22,700
Pigment, dioxide and oxide	do.		624,000		2,040,000		670,000	1,800,000
Tungsten, tungsten content:
Ammonium paratungstate	do.		833		16,500		1,600	31,400
Carbide powder	do.		878		52,800		901	46,700
Metal powders	do.		637		50,800		455	38,600
Miscellaneous tungsten-bearing materials, ferrotungsten, ferrosilicon tungsten,
-unwrought, waste and scrap, wrought, compounds	do.		4,180		70,300		3,710	68,800
Ores and concentrates	do.		203		3,800		1,060	33,600
Vanadium:
Aluminum-vanadium master alloy, gross weight	kilograms		1,360,000		18,600		4,270,000	22,300
Ferrovanadium, vanadium content	do.		337,000		11,000		259,000	7,720
Metal, including waste and scrap, gross weight	do.		26,700	^r	862	^r	52,500	1,560
Pentoxide, anhydride, vanadium content	do.		61,800		1,160		76,500	1,110
Other oxides and hydroxides, vanadium content	do.		287,000		3,540		358,000	3,790
See footnotes at end of table.
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(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)

			2012				2013
Mineral or product			Quantity		Value		Quantity	Value
Metals-Continued:
Zinc:
Compounds, chloride, chromates of zinc or of lead, compounds n.s.p.f.⁴, lithopone,
oxide, sulfate, sulfide	metric tons		XX		67,800	^r	XX	54,700
Ores and concentrates, zinc content	do.		591,000	^r	811,000	^r	669,000	868,000
Refined	do.		14,200	^r	NA		11,500	NA
Zirconium:
Ferrozirconium	do.		2,560		6,420		1,980	5,000
Ores and concentrates	do.		20,000		34,900		29,200	43,300
Oxide, includes germanium oxides and zirconium dioxides	do.		6,230		NA		7,000	NA
Unwrought, including powders	do.		478	^r	25,300		432	19,100
Waste and scrap	do.		1,320		121,000		1,310	130,000
Total			XX		86,500,000	^r	XX	79,300,000
Industrial minerals:
Abrasives, manufactured:
Aluminum oxide, crude	do.		19,100		64,200		22,000	65,900
Metallic abrasives	do.		39,000		53,400		35,900	51,100
Silicon carbide, crude, ground and refined	do.		20,000		40,400		18,400	34,900
Asbestos, includes reexports:
Manufactured			NA		26,400		NA	33,400
Unmanufactured	metric tons		47		69		27	48
Barite, natural barium sulfate	do.		151,000		42,200		199,000	58,900
Boron minerals and compounds:
Boric acid, includes orthoboric and anhydrous			190		155,000		232	211,000
Sodium borates			457	^r	260,000	^r	514	287,000
Bromine:
Compounds, includes methyl bromine and ethylene dibromide, bromine
content	metric tons		2,700		15,000		2,440	13,100
Elemental, gross weight	do.		3,730		9,960		5,530	10,300
Cement, hydraulic and clinker⁵			1,750		229,000		1,670	230,000
Clays:
Ball			77	^r	4,580		52	6,610
Bentonite			1,030	^r	164,000	^r	890	157,000
Fire			289		47,200		268	41,100
Fuller-s earth			107	^r	36,300	^r	86	29,100
Kaolin			2,450		549,000		2,540	577,000
Other, n.e.c.⁶			315	^r	68,200	^r	304	81,200
Diamond:
Gemstones, natural, including reexports	thousand carats		14,400	^r	16,900,000		14,800	19,400,000
Industrial including reexports:
Unworked	do.		19,700	^r	36,400	^r	15,500	30,000
Powder, dust and grit, natural and synthetic	do.		175,000	^r	80,500	^r	150,000	72,600
Diatomite			96		50,700		92	48,700
Feldspar	metric tons		13,000		4,390		17,700	5,310
Fluorspar	do.		23,800		3,640		16,000	2,520
Garnet, industrial	do.		14,600		14,700	^r	14,400	16,000
Graphite, natural and artificial	do.		54,900		188,000		38,200	224,000
Gypsum and gypsum products:
Crude			408		28,800		142	25,100
Plasters			140		39,200	^r	121	44,100
Boards			856		154,000		834	150,000
Other			XX		57,000		XX	60,300
Helium, Grade-A	million cubic meters		85		NA		82	NA
Iodine:
Crude, resublimed	metric tons		1,040		27,800		1,150	33,200
Potassium iodide	do.		336		6,760		276	5,320
See footnotes at end of table.
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(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified)

			2012				2013
Mineral or product			Quantity		Value		Quantity	Value
Industrial minerals-Continued:
Iron oxide pigments and hydroxides:
Pigment grade	do.		8,950		13,500		8,170	13,400
Other grade	do.		51,400		41,900		58,500	34,900
Kyanite and related materials	do.		36,400	^r	11,700		42,400	13,100
Lime			212		36,700		270	48,200
Lithium chemicals:
Carbonate	metric tons		1,060		6,310		1,010	5,870
Hydroxide	do.		6,440		50,500		5,850	43,500
Magnesium compounds:
Compounds, chlorides, hydroxide and peroxide, sulfates	do.		45,500		31,800		41,400	28,300
Magnesite, crude and processed:
Caustic-calcined magnesia	do.		190	^r	139	^r	1,470	872
Dead-burned and fused magnesia	do.		15,900		10,200		18,900	13,200
Other magnesia	do.		14,700		17,200		14,000	15,300
Crude	do.		5,210		799		881	992
Mica:
Scrap and flake:
Powder	do.		5,820		7,980		6,110	8,360
Waste	do.		74		47		148	522
Sheet:
Unworked	do.		322		678		192	133
Worked	do.		1,340		21,000		1,080	19,700
Nitrogen, major compounds, nitrogen content			1,460	^r	NA		1,510	NA
Peat			75	^r	NA		41	NA
Perlite, crude^e	metric tons		38,000		NA		51,000	NA
Phosphate rock:
Diammonium phosphate			3,630		1,770,000		3,260	1,390,000
Elemental phosphorus			19		62,000		20	61,400
Monoammonium phosphate			2,410		1,280,000		1,900	915,000
Phosphoric acid			788		313,000	^r	825	263,000
Potash, gross weight:
Potassium chloride	metric tons		157,000		NA		289,000	NA
Potassium sulfates, all grades	do.		503,000		NA		409,000	NA
Potassium nitrate	do.		15,700		11,400		13,900	NA
Pumice and pumicite			12		NA		12	NA
Salt			809		90,300		525	88,800
Sand and gravel:
Construction:
Sand			197		19,600		49	9,610
Gravel			229		5,930		10	6,110
Industrial			4,360		327,000		2,960	352,000
Soda ash			6,110		1,240,000		6,470	1,210,000
Stone:
Crushed			1,140		44,600		404	55,100
Dimension			XX		64,900		XX	61,000
Strontium carbonate, precipitated	kilograms		120,000		130		62,600	84
Sulfur:
Elemental			1,850		366,000		1,750	234,000
Sulfuric acid, 100% H₂SO₄			161		33,000		165	30,100
Talc, excludes powders-talcum (in package), face, compact			270	^r	56,800	^r	189	52,800
Vermiculite			2		NA		2	NA
Wollastonite^e	metric tons		10,000		3,240		10,000	3,270
Zeolites^e	do.		750		183		200	49
Total			XX		25,300,000	^r	XX	27,000,000
Grand total			XX		112,000,000	^r	XX	106,000,000
See footnotes at end of table.
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^eEstimated. ^rRevised. do. Ditto. NA Not available. XX Not applicable. -- Zero.
¹Summary data from the chapters of the 2013 Minerals Yearbook as they were completed and released through December 8, 2015.
²Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.
³Less than - unit.
⁴Not specifically provided for.
⁵Does not include Puerto Rico.
⁶Not elsewhere classified.

Source: 2013 Minerals Yearbook and U.S. Census Bureau.