TABLE 2 | ||||||||||||||||
INDUSTRIAL SAND AND GRAVEL SOLD OR USED IN THE UNITED STATES, BY GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION1 | ||||||||||||||||
2014 | 2015 | |||||||||||||||
Quantity | Quantity | |||||||||||||||
(thousand | Percent | Value | Percent | (thousand | Percent | Value | Percent | |||||||||
Geographic region2 | metric tons) | of total | (thousands) | of total | metric tons) | of total | (thousands) | of total | ||||||||
Northeast: | ||||||||||||||||
New England | 163 | (3) | $9,000 | (3) | 184 | (3) | $6,090 | (3) | ||||||||
Middle Atlantic | 1,690 | r | 2 | 77,100 | r | 1 | 1,540 | 1 | 73,500 | 2 | ||||||
Midwest: | ||||||||||||||||
East North Central | 56,300 | 51 | ####### | 58 | 51,200 | 50 | ####### | 50 | ||||||||
West North Central | 14,700 | 13 | ####### | 14 | 14,600 | 14 | 952,000 | 20 | ||||||||
South: | ||||||||||||||||
South Atlantic | 5,410 | r | 5 | 154,000 | 2 | 7,070 | 7 | 186,000 | 4 | |||||||
East South Central | 3,140 | r | 3 | 106,000 | r | 1 | 3,100 | 3 | 85,500 | 2 | ||||||
West South Central | 25,100 | r | 23 | ####### | 22 | 21,500 | 21 | ####### | 21 | |||||||
West: | ||||||||||||||||
Mountain | 1,690 | 2 | 99,800 | 1 | 1,780 | 2 | 48,600 | 1 | ||||||||
Pacific | 1,890 | 2 | 66,800 | 1 | 2,130 | 2 | 79,200 | 2 | ||||||||
Total | 110,000 | 100 | ####### | r | 100 | 103,000 | 100 | ####### | 100 | |||||||
rRevised. | ||||||||||||||||
1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown. | ||||||||||||||||
2Sales region equivalent to U.S. Census Bureau Geographic Division as follows: New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT); Middle Atlantic- | ||||||||||||||||
(NJ, NY, PA); East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI); West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD); South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA,- | ||||||||||||||||
MD, NC, SC, VA, WV); East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN); West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX);- | ||||||||||||||||
Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY); Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA). | ||||||||||||||||
3Less than - unit. | ||||||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Mineral commodity prices