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| TABLE 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTION STATISTICS FOR IRON OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2014, BY STATE1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Thousand metric tons, net weight, unless otherwise specified) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Usable ores | Average | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | Number of | Worker hours | Iron | iron content4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| District and State | of operations | employees2 | (thousands) | Crude ore | Pellets | metallics | Other3 | Total | Shipments | (percent) | ||||||||||||
| Indiana | 2 | 60 | 115 | -- | (5) | 250 | 6 | -- | 250 | 250 | 62.2 | |||||||||||
| Louisiana | 1 | 25 | 12 | -- | -- | 1,460 | 6 | -- | 1,460 | 1,450 | 6 | -- | ||||||||||
| Michigan | 2 | 1,285 | 2,730 | 35,700 | 6 | 12,100 | 6 | -- | -- | 12,100 | 11,900 | 6 | 60.8 | |||||||||
| Minnesota | 11 | 4,514 | 9,050 | 145,000 | 41,400 | 241 | 6 | 1,560 | 43,200 | 42,100 | 63.4 | |||||||||||
| Utah | 1 | 389 | 166 | 3,330 | 6 | -- | -- | 998 | 6 | 998 | 998 | 6 | 65.1 | |||||||||
| Total or average | 16 | 6,273 | 12,100 | 184,000 | 53,500 | 1,950 | 2,560 | 58,000 | 56,700 | 63.2 | ||||||||||||
| -- Zero.- | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits, except number of employees; may not add to totals shown. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2Does not include professional or clerical workers at mines, pelletizing plants, and maintenance shops or research lab workers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3Includes other, unspecified products not included in other categories; may include concentrates, direct-shipping ore, flux, and pellet chips. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4Data for iron metallics (cold pig iron, direct-reduced iron, hot-briquetted iron, iron nuggets, and sponge iron) not included. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5Iron pellets were produced by Magnetation Inc. but not included in production totals as they were not mine production. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6Calulcated, estimated, or reported from publicly available data. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Mineral commodity prices
