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This table provides comprehensive data on the quantities and values of principal minerals and mineral products exported from the United States, excluding mineral fuels. It covers a wide range of commodities including metals, industrial minerals, and various mineral compounds, reflecting their gross weights and monetary values for the years 2020 and 2021. This information is crucial for understanding the role of mineral exports in the U.S. economy, as these materials are fundamental to numerous industrial processes, manufacturing sectors, and technological applications. Tracking export trends helps policymakers, industry stakeholders, and analysts assess market demand, trade balances, and the competitiveness of U.S. mineral products in the global marketplace.
Analysis of the data reveals notable growth in the export value of principal minerals and products from 2020 to 2021, with the grand total rising from approximately $77.8 billion to $104 billion. Metals constitute the largest share, with total metal exports increasing from $60.1 billion to $80.8 billion. Significant increases are observed in aluminum scrap exports, where quantity rose from 2.82 million metric tons to 3.01 million metric tons, and value increased from $6.89 billion to $8.52 billion. Gold bullion exports surged from 243,000 kilograms valued at $13.9 billion to 329,000 kilograms valued at $18.9 billion, indicating strong demand. Industrial minerals also showed robust growth, with total export value climbing from $17.6 billion to $23.4 billion. For example, diamond exports increased from 3.36 million carats valued at $860 million to 3.96 million carats valued at $1.05 billion. Additionally, exports of rare earth compounds more than doubled in value, from $112,000 to $299,000, reflecting their strategic importance. These trends highlight the expanding global market for U.S. mineral products and underscore their economic significance.
| TABLE 7 | |||||||||||||
| U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS1, 2 | |||||||||||||
| (Thousand metric tons, gross weight, and thousand dollars unless otherwise specified) | |||||||||||||
| 2020 | 2021 | ||||||||||||
| Commodity | Quantity | Value | Quantity | Value | |||||||||
| Metals: | |||||||||||||
| Aluminum: | |||||||||||||
| Crude, semicrude, and scrap | metric tons | 2820000 | 6890000 | r | 3010000 | 8520000 | |||||||
| Manufactures | do. | 85200 | 387000 | 107000 | 530000 | ||||||||
| Antimony: | |||||||||||||
| Unwrought, powders and articles | do. | 393 | 2500 | 921 | 4280 | ||||||||
| Waste and scrap | do. | 11 | 45 | 136 | 676 | ||||||||
| Oxide, Sb content | do. | 1230 | 7380 | 1530 | 9050 | ||||||||
| Arsenic metal, As content3 | do. | 29 | NA | 31 | NA | ||||||||
| Bauxite and alumina: | |||||||||||||
| Bauxite: | |||||||||||||
| Crude and dried | 3 | NA | 2 | NA | |||||||||
| Calcined, refractory and other grade | 7 | 3340 | 6 | 3120 | |||||||||
| Alumina, calcined equivalent | 153 | 386000 | 180 | 406000 | |||||||||
| Beryllium, unwrought including articles not elsewhere specifieds, | kilograms | 24900 | 20100 | 30400 | 26800 | ||||||||
| other, waste and scrap, Be content | |||||||||||||
| Bismuth, metal, alloys, waste and scrap | do. | 699000 | 8810 | 1010000 | 16300 | ||||||||
| Cadmium: | |||||||||||||
| Metal: | |||||||||||||
| Unwrought metal and powders | do. | 4490 | 73.306 | 51300 | 144.649 | ||||||||
| Wrought and other articles | do. | 482000 | 477.956 | 217000 | 660.501 | ||||||||
| Waste and scrap | do. | 478 | 33.773 | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Pigments | do. | 2120000 | 30100 | 550000 | 36700 | ||||||||
| Chromium: | |||||||||||||
| Ore and concentrates | metric tons | 1780 | 1040 | 2110 | 1430 | ||||||||
| Metals and alloys: | |||||||||||||
| Metal, unwrought powders, waste and scrap, other | do. | 378.954 | 9970 | 455.868 | 9660 | ||||||||
| Ferroalloys (high-carbon and low-carbon), ferrochromium-silicon, | do. | 824.636 | r | 2280 | 1670 | 6510 | |||||||
| Cr content | |||||||||||||
| Chemicals: | |||||||||||||
| Sulfates | do. | 6.69 | 33.838 | 3.41 | 19.122 | ||||||||
| Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids, zinc and lead chromate, | do. | 412.669 | 2720 | 339.653 | 2190 | ||||||||
| sodium dichromate, potassium dichromate, other | |||||||||||||
| Pigments and preparations | do. | 377.045 | 2930 | 1040 | 4280 | ||||||||
| Cobalt: | |||||||||||||
| Metal, unwrought, powders, waste and scrap, mattes and other intermediate | do. | 3290 | r | 97600 | r | 4900 | 139000 | ||||||
| products of metallurgy | |||||||||||||
| Oxides and hydroxides | do. | 74 | 2630 | 43 | 1060 | ||||||||
| Acetates | do. | 372 | 3780 | 8 | 105 | ||||||||
| Chlorides | do. | 3 | 52 | 1 | 28 | ||||||||
| Copper, Cu content: | |||||||||||||
| Ore and concentrates | do. | 383000 | 2040000 | 347000 | 2650000 | ||||||||
| Unmanufactured, does not include unalloyed scrap | do. | 73000 | r | 344000 | r | 99500 | 562000 | ||||||
| Scrap, unalloyed | do. | 396000 | 1950000 | 539000 | 3560000 | ||||||||
| Semimanufactures, excludes sulfate, gross weight | do. | 188000 | 1410000 | 229000 | 2310000 | ||||||||
| Sulfate, gross weight | do. | 8160 | 56100 | 8680 | 64000 | ||||||||
| Ferroalloys not listed elsewhere: | |||||||||||||
| Ferrophosphorus | do. | 1070 | 2080 | 1800 | 3440 | ||||||||
| Other | do. | 7110 | r | 10500 | 9760 | 20700 | |||||||
| Germanium, metal and dioxide, Ge contente | Kilograms | 4800 | r | NA | 7500 | NA | |||||||
| Gold: | |||||||||||||
| Ores and concentrates, Au content | do. | 3900 | 207000 | 3860 | 213000 | ||||||||
| Dore and precipitates, Au content | do. | 50700 | 2800000 | 52600 | 3060000 | ||||||||
| Bullion, refined, Au content | do. | 243000 | 13900000 | 329000 | 18900000 | ||||||||
| Waste and scrap, gross weight | do. | 73000 | 2490000 | 71400 | 2900000 | ||||||||
| Metal powder, gross weight | do. | 921.288 | 19600 | 1430 | 84200 | ||||||||
| Compounds, gross weight: | do. | 38500 | 170000 | 1070 | 226000 | ||||||||
| Iron and steel: | |||||||||||||
| Steel mill products | 6090 | r | NA | 7500 | NA | ||||||||
| Fabricated steel products | 1310 | NA | 1390 | NA | |||||||||
| Cast iron and steel products | 112 | NA | 149 | NA | |||||||||
| Iron and steel scrap: | |||||||||||||
| Ferrous, includes tinplate and terneplate, excludes used rails for | 14900 | r | 4230000 | r | 15700 | 6710000 | |||||||
| rerolling and other uses and ships, boats, and other vessels for scrapping | |||||||||||||
| Ships, boats, and other vessels for scrapping | (4) | 75 | (4) | 77 | |||||||||
| Used rails for rerolling and other uses, includes mixed (used plus new) rails | 9 | 10500 | 2 | 3880 | |||||||||
| Direct-reduced iron, steelmaking grade | 688.034 | 142000 | 542.365 | 113000 | |||||||||
| Pig iron, all grades | 3.127 | 1270 | 4.947 | 3290 | |||||||||
| Iron ore | 10400 | 849000 | r | 14300 | 1280000 | ||||||||
| Lead: | |||||||||||||
| Ore and concentrates, Pb content | metric tons | 265000 | 394000 | 262000 | 496000 | ||||||||
| Base bullion, gross weight | do. | 2460 | 5660 | 1940 | 4710 | ||||||||
| Refined lead and alloys, unwrought, gross weight | do. | 16600 | 37700 | 21500 | 46800 | ||||||||
| Wrought and other products, gross weight | do. | 5770 | 32500 | 11200 | 139000 | ||||||||
| Magnesium, gross weight: | |||||||||||||
| Metal | do. | 7250 | 24400 | 1690 | 13400 | ||||||||
| Alloys | do. | 2950 | 9410 | 2430 | 8600 | ||||||||
| Powder, sheets, tubing, ribbons, wire, other forms | do. | 2370 | 40900 | 1950 | 40800 | ||||||||
| Waste and scrap | do. | 2300 | 3280 | 1510 | 2870 | ||||||||
| Manganese | |||||||||||||
| Ore and concentrates with 20% or more manganese | do. | 957.417 | 1340 | 1110 | 812.88 | ||||||||
| Ferromanganese, all grades | do. | 4690 | r | 5710 | 9010 | 14300 | |||||||
| Silicomanganese | do. | 2100 | r | 2620 | 5200 | 8580 | |||||||
| Metal, including alloys and waste and scrap | do. | 6280 | 5160 | 5460 | 8490 | ||||||||
| Dioxide | do. | 6860 | 8510 | 9740 | 11500 | ||||||||
| Mercury, amalgams of precious metals whether or not chemically defined | kilograms | 313000 | 1330000 | 346000 | 1700000 | ||||||||
| Molybdenum: | |||||||||||||
| Chemicals: | |||||||||||||
| Oxides and hydroxides, gross weight | metric tons | 1110 | 17700 | 839 | 14700 | ||||||||
| Molybdates, all, Mo content | do. | 1180 | 14800 | 2330 | 36900 | ||||||||
| Ferromolybdenum, gross weight | do. | 531 | r | 9090 | 504 | 12400 | |||||||
| Other, includes powders, unwrought, bars and rods, waste and scrap, | do. | 794 | r | 40000 | r | 904 | 46700 | ||||||
| wire, other, gross weight | |||||||||||||
| Ore and concentrates, including roasted, Mo content | do. | 59400 | r | 919000 | r | 55900 | 1000000 | ||||||
| Nickel: | |||||||||||||
| Primary, unwrought and chemicals, Ni content | do. | 11300 | 540000 | 11600 | 523000 | ||||||||
| Secondary, stainless steel scrap and waste and scrap, Ni content | do. | 34100 | 355000 | 29600 | 407000 | ||||||||
| Wrought, not alloyed, bars, rods, profiles, wire, sheets, strip, | do. | 860.678 | 20700 | 622.452 | 17900 | ||||||||
| foil, tubes, pipes, Ni content | |||||||||||||
| Alloyed, unwrought ingot, bars, rods, profiles, wire, sheets, strip, | do. | 42300 | 1830000 | 38400 | 1730000 | ||||||||
| foil, tubes, pipes, other alloyed articles, gross weight | |||||||||||||
| Niobium (columbium) and tantalum | |||||||||||||
| Synthetic concentrates, niobium-tantalum | kilograms | 120000 | 2110 | 238000 | 2700 | ||||||||
| Niobium: | |||||||||||||
| Ores and concentrates | do. | 4380 | 126 | 5160 | 149 | ||||||||
| Ferroniobium | do. | 1200000 | r | 13100 | 1480000 | 15700 | |||||||
| Tantalum: | |||||||||||||
| Ores and concentrates | do. | 9690 | 525 | 180000 | 8160 | ||||||||
| Unwrought, powders | do. | 68700 | 28500 | 84100 | 31100 | ||||||||
| Unwrought, other | do. | 7370 | 2070 | 58800 | 17500 | ||||||||
| Waste and scrap | do. | 138000 | 18100 | 190000 | 29500 | ||||||||
| Wrought | do. | 168000 | 106000 | 177000 | 114000 | ||||||||
| Platinum-group metals: | |||||||||||||
| Palladium, Pd content | do. | 48600 | 2900000 | 43900 | 3370000 | ||||||||
| Platinum, includes waste and scrap and metal, Pt content | do. | 62100 | 2330000 | 67000 | 4470000 | ||||||||
| Iridium, osmium, ruthenium, gross weight | do. | 1440 | 24900 | 2120 | 54400 | ||||||||
| Rhodium, Rh content | do. | 1470 | 426000 | 1340 | 803000 | ||||||||
| Rare earths, estimated rare-earth-oxide (REO) content: | |||||||||||||
| Compounds: | |||||||||||||
| Cerium compounds | do. | 337000 | 5670 | r | 698000 | 9860 | |||||||
| Scandium or yttrium oxides | do. | 1170 | 350.634 | 9230 | 139.878 | ||||||||
| Other oxides, chlorides, unspecified compounds | do. | 38000000 | 112000 | 74400000 | 299000 | ||||||||
| Metals: | |||||||||||||
| Ferrocerium and other pyrophoric alloys | do. | 626000 | r | 8150 | r | 825000 | 8660 | ||||||
| Metals and alloys | do. | 24700 | 2320 | 20400 | 1390 | ||||||||
| Selenium and tellurium: | |||||||||||||
| Selenium, metal, Se content | do. | 147000 | 1740 | 227000 | 3100 | ||||||||
| Tellurium, metal, Te content | do. | 197 | r | 109.549 | r | 2020 | 134.739 | ||||||
| Silicon, Si content: | |||||||||||||
| Ferrosilicon | metric tons | 4400 | 14200 | 7180 | 25100 | ||||||||
| Metal | do. | 31400 | 817000 | 52800 | 1140000 | ||||||||
| Silver: | |||||||||||||
| Ores and concentrates, Ag content | kilograms | 562 | 341 | 515 | 323 | ||||||||
| Bullion, Ag content | do. | 130000 | 84400 | 111000 | 99100 | ||||||||
| Dore, Ag content | do. | 10500 | 9490 | 25400 | 22800 | ||||||||
| Unwrought, other, gross weight | do. | 952000 | 707000 | 973000 | 864000 | ||||||||
| Metal powder, gross weight | do. | 612000 | 453000 | 586000 | 521000 | ||||||||
| Nitrate, gross weight | do. | 36500 | 11100 | 55100 | 22400 | ||||||||
| Semimanufactured forms containing 99.5% or more by weight of silver, | do. | 642000 | 424000 | 774000 | 657000 | ||||||||
| gross weight | |||||||||||||
| Waste and scrap, gross weight | do. | 18700000 | 3570000 | 17300000 | 4710000 | ||||||||
| Thorium and thorium-bearing materials: | |||||||||||||
| Thorium ore, monazite concentrate | metric tons | 958 | 1610 | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Compounds | do. | 60.318 | 816.574 | 45.598 | 2180 | ||||||||
| Tin: | |||||||||||||
| Unwrought: | |||||||||||||
| Refined | do. | 519 | 9820 | 1290 | 32100 | ||||||||
| Alloys | do. | 1130 | 17200 | 630 | 14500 | ||||||||
| Wrought: | |||||||||||||
| Bars, rods, profiles, wire | do. | 4640 | 41500 | 7230 | 54000 | ||||||||
| Foil | do. | 239 | 1630 | 78 | 591 | ||||||||
| Plates, sheet, strip | do. | 2270 | 3910 | 1630 | 5810 | ||||||||
| Tubes, pipes, tube and pipe fittings | do. | 158 | 2250 | 171 | 2440 | ||||||||
| Waste and scrap | do. | 1200 | 1840 | 2770 | 4460 | ||||||||
| Flakes and powders | do. | 232 | 4440 | 367 | 7210 | ||||||||
| Tinplate and terneplate | do. | 90500 | 64900 | r | 84500 | 82300 | |||||||
| Titanium: | |||||||||||||
| Metal: | |||||||||||||
| Scrap | do. | 14100 | 34100 | 10400 | 42700 | ||||||||
| Unwrought | do. | 5980 | 111000 | 4730 | 62800 | ||||||||
| Wrought, products and castings. | do. | 14800 | 1160000 | 9170 | 717000 | ||||||||
| Ferrotitamium and ferrosilicon titanium | do. | 1890 | 6160 | 1280 | 7120 | ||||||||
| Ores and concentrates | do. | 28800 | 36600 | 54100 | 21400 | ||||||||
| Pigment, unfinished dioxide | do. | 386000 | 1090000 | 494000 | 1510000 | ||||||||
| Tungsten, W content: | |||||||||||||
| Ores and concentrates | do. | 480 | 4250 | 441 | 2350 | ||||||||
| Ammonium paratungstate | do. | 36 | 333 | 116 | 915 | ||||||||
| Metal powders | do. | 205 | 13400 | 550 | 26900 | ||||||||
| Carbide powder | do. | 415 | 17300 | 422 | 17900 | ||||||||
| Miscellaneous tungsten-bearing materials, ferrotungsten and | do. | 1810 | r | 80600 | 1880 | 83200 | |||||||
| ferrosilicon tungsten, unwrought, waste and scrap, wrought, | |||||||||||||
| compounds | |||||||||||||
| Vanadium: | |||||||||||||
| Ferrovanadium, V content | kilograms | 210000 | r | 5440 | r | 173000 | 6490 | ||||||
| Pentoxide, anhydride, V content | do. | 49700 | 496.796 | 17200 | 237.686 | ||||||||
| Other oxides and hydroxides, V content | do. | 50600 | 440.344 | 235000 | 2170 | ||||||||
| Aluminum-vanadium master alloy, gross weight | do. | 24400 | 1060 | 129000 | 4310 | ||||||||
| Metal, including waste and scrap, V content | do. | 846 | 35.615 | 3660 | 154.446 | ||||||||
| Ore and concentrates, V content | do. | 164000 | 1160 | 145000 | 1890 | ||||||||
| Zinc: | |||||||||||||
| Ore and concentrates, Zn content | metric tons | 546000 | 804000 | 644000 | 1460000 | ||||||||
| Slag, ash and residues | do. | 32200 | 43100 | 39600 | 71200 | ||||||||
| Refined | do. | 2480 | NA | 13200 | NA | ||||||||
| Compounds, gross weight | XX | 72700 | XX | 132000 | |||||||||
| Metal products: | |||||||||||||
| Unwrought, unalloyed zinc | do. | 2480 | 6810 | 13200 | 34500 | ||||||||
| Unwrought zinc alloys | do. | 19900 | 54000 | 28300 | 91000 | ||||||||
| Waste and scrap | do. | 25000 | 29600 | 64100 | 67900 | ||||||||
| Dust, powders, flakes | do. | 13500 | 49100 | 11000 | 41000 | ||||||||
| Bars, rods, profiles, wire | do. | 9500 | 28900 | 8130 | 26500 | ||||||||
| Plates, sheets, strip, foil | do. | 5460 | 20300 | 7740 | 30300 | ||||||||
| Zirconium: | |||||||||||||
| Ores and concentrates | do. | 18700 | 31100 | 15400 | 25400 | ||||||||
| Ferrozirconium | do. | 63 | 126 | 107 | 179 | ||||||||
| Unwrought, including powders | do. | 473 | 22100 | 323 | 14000 | ||||||||
| Waste and scrap | do. | 191 | 3710 | 266 | 4980 | ||||||||
| Other | do. | 838 | 92700 | 966 | 106000 | ||||||||
| Oxide, includes germanium oxides and zirconium dioxides | do. | 4710 | NA | 4050 | NA | ||||||||
| Total, metals | XX | 60100000 | r | XX | 80800000 | ||||||||
| Industrial minerals: | |||||||||||||
| Abrasives, manufactured: | |||||||||||||
| Aluminum oxide, crude | metric tons | 11400 | 35000 | 13500 | 54600 | ||||||||
| Silicon carbide, crude, ground and refined | do. | 8310 | 20000 | 12000 | 25300 | ||||||||
| Metallic abrasives | do. | 18100 | 24400 | 20200 | 34500 | ||||||||
| Asbestos, includes reexports: | |||||||||||||
| Unmanufactured | do. | 1 | 3 | 461 | 94 | ||||||||
| Manufactured | do. | 706 | r | 11700 | 659 | 12800 | |||||||
| Barite, natural barium sulfate | do. | 47800 | 14900 | 61600 | 21200 | ||||||||
| Boron minerals and compounds: | |||||||||||||
| Boric acid, includes orthoboric and anhydrous | do. | 257000 | 159000 | 280000 | 178000 | ||||||||
| Refined borax | do. | 594000 | 272000 | 607000 | 287000 | ||||||||
| Sodium borates | do. | 17400 | 36600 | 16200 | 37300 | ||||||||
| Bromine, Br equivalent: | |||||||||||||
| Elemental | do. | 5570 | r | 17100 | r | 4100 | 14400 | ||||||
| Compounds, inorganic and organic | do. | 31200 | 91200 | r | 23700 | 76600 | |||||||
| Cement, hydraulic and clinker5 | 884 | r | 127000 | 940 | 146000 | ||||||||
| Clay: | |||||||||||||
| Artificially activated clay and earth | metric tons | 127000 | 69100 | 140000 | 83500 | ||||||||
| Ball clay | do. | 67800 | 13000 | 139000 | 30800 | ||||||||
| Bentonite | do. | 728000 | 160000 | 862000 | 193000 | ||||||||
| Fire clay | do. | 190000 | 48100 | 210000 | 52900 | ||||||||
| Fuller's earth | do. | 77400 | 34000 | 82800 | 38300 | ||||||||
| Kaolin | do. | 1990000 | r | 495000 | r | 2340000 | 601000 | ||||||
| Other, n.e.c.6 | do. | 185000 | 41600 | r | 186000 | 48300 | |||||||
| Diamond: | 3360000 | 860000 | 3960000 | 1050000 | |||||||||
| Exclusive of industrial diamond, including reexports | thousand carats | 6190 | r | 10400000 | 12900 | 14800000 | |||||||
| Industrial including exports and reexports: | |||||||||||||
| Stones | do. | 483 | r | 6230 | r | 406 | 7950 | ||||||
| Powder, bort, dust and pwoder, grit, natural and synthetic | do. | 110000 | 56200 | 127000 | 63100 | ||||||||
| Diatomite | 66 | 38800 | 68 | 45200 | |||||||||
| Feldspar | metric tons | 3180 | 975.25 | 4470 | 1550 | ||||||||
| Fluorspar | do. | 9180 | 1320 | 14800 | 2070 | ||||||||
| Garnet, industrial | do. | 18200 | 10600 | 20300 | 15300 | ||||||||
| Graphite, natural and synthetic | do. | 32900 | 180000 | 41200 | 206000 | ||||||||
| Gypsum and gypsum products: | |||||||||||||
| Crude | 32 | 10500 | 42 | 13000 | |||||||||
| Plasters | 89 | 34900 | 99 | 42000 | |||||||||
| Boards | 524 | 95200 | 683 | 125000 | |||||||||
| Other | XX | 66400 | r | XX | 82100 | ||||||||
| Helium, Grade-A | million cubic meters | 35.2 | r | 426000 | 33.1 | 333000 | |||||||
| Iodine: | |||||||||||||
| Crude | metric tons | 1130 | 27800 | 1280 | 32100 | ||||||||
| Potassium iodide | do. | 390 | 6100 | 300 | 7040 | ||||||||
| Iron oxides and hydroxides: | |||||||||||||
| Pigment grade | do. | 9280 | r | 15600 | 10100 | 23000 | |||||||
| Other grade | do. | 25400 | r | 16500 | 33200 | 21900 | |||||||
| Kyanite, andalucite, sillimanite concentrates | do. | 37400 | 13800 | 48100 | 17700 | ||||||||
| Lime | 265.824909 | 39100 | 334.571167 | 53400 | |||||||||
| Lithium chemicals, Li content: | |||||||||||||
| Carbonate | metric tons | 188 | 8380 | 500.456 | 13900 | ||||||||
| Carbonate, U.S.P.7 | do. | 40 | 3190 | 28.764 | 1770 | ||||||||
| Hydroxide | do. | 971.685 | r | 65100 | 1340 | 95000 | |||||||
| Magnesium compounds: | |||||||||||||
| Magnesia and crude magnesite: | |||||||||||||
| Caustic-calcined magnesia | metric tons | 28700 | 25700 | 33900 | 30200 | ||||||||
| Dead-burned and fused magnesia | do. | 8420 | 9330 | 7880 | 7990 | ||||||||
| Other magnesia | do. | 9800 | 11000 | 31600 | 35800 | ||||||||
| Crude | do. | 835 | 822.431 | 808 | 841.007 | ||||||||
| Compounds, chloride, hydroxide and peroxide, sulfates | XX | 29400 | XX | 33600 | |||||||||
| Mica: | |||||||||||||
| Scrap and flake: | |||||||||||||
| Powder | do. | 3980 | 6530 | 4840 | 9890 | ||||||||
| Waste | do. | 2 | r | 16 | r | 6 | 17 | ||||||
| Sheet: | |||||||||||||
| Unworked | do. | 2 | 16 | (4) | 6 | ||||||||
| Worked | do. | 526 | r | 11300 | 633 | 20600 | |||||||
| Nitrogen, N content: | |||||||||||||
| Ammonia, anhydrous | 369 | 85700 | r | 231 | 113000 | ||||||||
| Major compounds, other | 1010 | r | NA | 676 | NA | ||||||||
| Peat | 46 | NA | 37 | NA | |||||||||
| Perlite, crudee | 25.027 | 3840 | 27 | 4290 | |||||||||
| Phosphate rock: | |||||||||||||
| Diammonium phosphate | 901 | r | 264000 | r | 527 | 260000 | |||||||
| Monoammonium phosphate | 2330 | r | 823000 | r | 1770 | 1000000 | |||||||
| Phosphoric acid | 209 | 75500 | 188 | 112000 | |||||||||
| Elemental phosphorus | metric tons | 11100 | 42600 | 13100 | 52000 | ||||||||
| Potash, gross weight: | |||||||||||||
| Potassium chloride | metrics tons | 36900 | 16200 | 24800 | 17500 | ||||||||
| Potassium sulfates, all grades | do. | 469000 | 125000 | 372000 | 123000 | ||||||||
| Potassium nitrate | do. | 5650 | 4910 | 5830 | 5670 | ||||||||
| Pumice and pumicite | 8 | NA | 10.905 | NA | |||||||||
| Salt | 1250 | 196000 | 1010 | 186000 | |||||||||
| Sand and gravel: | |||||||||||||
| Construction: | |||||||||||||
| Sand | metric tons | 24700 | 7020 | 53300 | 11700 | ||||||||
| Gravel | do. | 9980 | 7450 | 12200 | 8320 | ||||||||
| Industrial | 4070 | 383000 | 5430 | 537000 | |||||||||
| Soda ash | 5590 | 1140000 | r | 6900 | 1390000 | ||||||||
| Stone: | |||||||||||||
| Crushed | 225.863326 | 48600 | 206.871009 | 57200 | |||||||||
| Dimension | XX | 46900 | r | XX | 46900 | ||||||||
| Strontium carbonate | kilograms | 53900 | 76.656 | 10200 | 9.338 | ||||||||
| Sulfur: | |||||||||||||
| Elemental | 1330 | r | 94600 | r | 1900 | 215000 | |||||||
| Sulfuric acid, 100% H2SO4 | metric tons | 195000 | 25000 | 394000 | 26700 | ||||||||
| Talc, does not include cut or sawed talc8 | do. | 186000 | r | 93200 | r | 232000 | 130000 | ||||||
| Vermiculitee | 8 | NA | 10 | NA | |||||||||
| Wollastonitee | metric tons | <10,000 | NA | <10,000 | NA | ||||||||
| Zeolitese | do. | <1,000 | NA | <1,000 | NA | ||||||||
| Total, industrial minerals | XX | 17600000 | r | XX | 23400000 | ||||||||
| Grand total | XX | 77800000 | r | XX | 104000000 | ||||||||
eEstimated. rRevised. do. Ditto. NA Not available. XX Not applicable. -- Zero.
1Includes data from the mineral commodity chapters published in the U.S. Geological Survey 2021 Minerals Yearbook as they were completed and released through January 2025.
2Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.
3Listed as metal only, but may include alloys, waste, and compounds.
4Less than ½ unit.
5Excludes Puerto Rico.
6Not elsewhere classified.
7U.S. pharmaceutical-grade lithium carbonate.
8May include shipments in transite through Canadian ports. May include materials that are only partially composted of talc.
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Statistical Summary statistics | Mineral commodity prices