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Nonfuel Mineral Commodities--Production, Foreign Trade, and Price: 2006 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0869)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. Geological Survey,

U.S. Geological Survey,

Mineral Commodity Summaries, annual.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)
U.S. Geological Survey, http://minerals.er.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/

U.S. Geological Survey,

Mineral Commodity Summaries, annual.

For more information:

http://minerals.er.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

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The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
    corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
    gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
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The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
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Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. Calculated as a percent of apparent consumption.
  2. Dollars per pound.
  3. Refinery production.
  4. Dollars per metric ton.
  5. Net exporter.
  6. Granulated pentahydrate borax in bulk, free on board mine.
  7. Dollars per kilogram.
  8. Bulk, purified bromine.
  9. 1- to 5-short ton lots.
  10. Secondary production.
  11. Value of imports, dollars per carat.
  12. Dollars per troy ounce.
  13. Price of flake imports.
  14. Cost, insurance, and freight value, crude, per kilogram.
  15. Delivered, No. 1 Heavy Melting composite price.
  16. 46- to- 48 percent Mn metallurgical ore,
    per unit contained Mn, cost, insurance, and freight U.S. ports.
  17. Dollars per 76-pound flask.
  18. Exports include both primary and secondary materials.
  19. London Metal Exchange cash price.
  20. Free on board Gulf Coast.
  21. Dealer price of platinum.
  22. Price of K20, muriate.
  23. Vacuum and open pan, bulk, pellets and packaged,
    free on board mine and plant.
  24. Price for imported zircon, free on board U.S. East Coast.
  25. Value less than or equal to 50,000 metric tons. Includes silicon metal only.
  26. Ferrosilicon only.
  27. Ferrosilicon, 50 percent Si.
  28. Quoted year-end price, dense, bulk, free on board Green River, WY, dollars per short ton.
  29. Quoted price, bulk, free on board works, East, dollars per short ton.
  30. Elemental sulfur, free on board mine and/or plant.
  31. Rutile, list, year-end.
  32. Dollars per metric ton unit W03 (7.93 kilograms of contained tungsten per metric ton unit).
  33. London Metal Exchange cash price for Special High Grade zinc.

Headnotes

[2,300 represents 2,300,000. Preliminary estimates.
Preliminary estimates. Average price in dollars per metric tons, except as noted; see Appendix IV]

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table: [68, 12]

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Production Exports Net import reliance 1 (percent) Consumption apparent Average price (dollars) Employment (number)
Aluminum 1,000 metric tons 2300 2800 44 6100 2 1.2 59000
Antimony (contained) Metric tons 3 – 2900 88 27600 2 2.25 10
Asbestos 1,000 metric tons – 3 100 3 (NA) –
Barite 1,000 metric tons 540 78 83 3200 4 39 330
Bauxite and alumina (metal .equivalent) 1,000 metric tons (NA) 760 100 2500 4 28 (NA)
Beryllium (contained) Metric tons 100 160 (5) 90 (NA) (NA)
Bismuth (contained) Metric tons – 150 96 (NA) 2 4.4 (NA)
Boron (B2O3 content) 1,000 metric tons 612 200 (5) 400 4, 6 400-425 1300
12=. … snip …
Source: U.S. Geological Survey,
Mineral Commodity Summaries, annual.

Symbols

Notes (pg 2)

  • (Represents) or rounds to zero.
  • (D) Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data.
  • (NA) Not available.
  • (Z) Less than half the unit of measure.

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0869

Year

2008

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