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TABLE 7 | |||||||||||
U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS1, 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- | |||||||||||
else | 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 produ | - | ||||||||||
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. | |||||||||||
TABLE 7-Continued | |||||||||||
U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS1, 2 | |||||||||||
(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 o | |||||||||||
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, othe | |||||||||||
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. | |||||||||||
TABLE 7-Continued | |||||||||||
U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS1, 2 | |||||||||||
(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, | |||||||||||
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, ferrotitani | |||||||||||
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. | |||||||||||
TABLE 7-Continued | |||||||||||
U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS1, 2 | |||||||||||
(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, lith | |||||||||||
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 | |||||
Dia | |||||||||||
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. | |||||||||||
TABLE 7-Continued | |||||||||||
U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS1, 2 | |||||||||||
(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, crudee | 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 | |||||||
Sod | 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 | |||||||
Wollastonitee | metric tons | 10,000 | 3,240 | 10,000 | 3,270 | ||||||
Zeolitese | 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. | |||||||||||
TABLE 7-Continued | |||||||||||
U.S. EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS, EXCLUDING MINERAL FUELS1, 2 | |||||||||||
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. |
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Mineral commodity prices