Mine Production Statistics of Selected Non-Fuel Minerals 

1995-2000

						1995	1996	1997	1998	1999r/	2000e/
Bauxite and Alumina (1,000 Mt) 			W 	W 	W 	W 	W 	W
Barite (1,000 Mt sold or used) 			543 	662 	692 	476 	434 	600
Beryllium (mt of contained) 			202 	211 	231 	243 	200 	255
Boron (1,000 Mt production and marketable) 	728 	581 	604 	587 	618 	627
Bromine (1,000 Mt sold or used by producers)	218 	227 	247 	230 	239 	229
Clays (1,000 Mt) 				43,100 	43,100 	41,800 	41,600 	42,200 	40,700
Copper (1,000 Mt) 				1,850 	1,920 	1,940 	1,860 	1,600 	1,450
Feldspar (1,000 Mt marketable) 			880 	890 	900 	820 	875 	850
Garnet, industrial (1,000 Mt crude) 		46,300 	60,900 	64,900 	74,000 	60,700 	50,000
Gold (Mt of Gold Content) 			317 	326 	362 	366 	340 	330
Gypsum (Mil. Mt) 				17 	18 	19 	19 	22 	25
Iron Ore (Mil. Mt usable) 			62.5 	62.1 	63 	63 	57.8 	61
Lead (1,000 Mt Concentrates) 			394 	436 	459 	493 	520 	480
Lime (Mil. Mt sold or used by producers) 	18.5 	19.2 	19.7 	20.1 	19.6 	20.1
Molybdenum (1,000 Mt of Moly content) 		61,000 	54,900 	60,900 	53,300 	43,000 	32,100
Nickel (Mt of Nickel Content) 			1,560 	1,330 	NA 	NA 	NA 	NA
Phosphate rock (Mil. mt.) 1/ 			43.5 	45.4 	45.9 	44.2 	40.6 	39.7
Potash (1,000 Mt of K20 equivalent) 		1,480 	1,390 	1,400 	1,300 	1,200 	1,300
Salt (Mil. Mt) 					42.1 	42.2 	41.4 	41.2 	44.9 	45.3
Sand and Gravel, const. (Mil. Mt) 		907 	914 	952 	1,070 	1,110 	1,170
Sand and Gravel, ind. (Mil. Mt) 		28.2 	27.8 	28.5 	28.2 	28.9 	29.5
Silver (Mt of Silver content) 			1,560 	1,570 	2,180 	2,060 	1,950 	2,060
Soda ash ((Mil. mt.) 				10,100 	10,200 	10,700	10,100 	10,200	10,200
Stone, crushed (Mil. Mt.) 			1,260 	1,330 	1,410 	1,510 	1,540 	1,590
Stone, dimension (Mil. Mt) 			1,160 	1,150 	1,180 	1,140 	1,250 	1,250
Talc and Pyrophyllite (1,000 Mt) 		1,060 	994 	1,050 	971 	925 	961
Zinc (1,000 Mt. Of Recoverable Zinc Content) 	614 	628 	632 	755 	843 	860

r/ Revised. e/ Estimated.
NA - Data no longer available. W - Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data.
1/ Rounded to nearest 0.1 million tons to avoid disclosing company proprietary data.
SOURCES: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2001.
Updated: February 2001.
MINE PRODUCTION STATISTICS OF SELECTED NON-FUEL MINERALS
(1995-2000)