TABLE 5
ZIRCONIUM MINERAL CONCENTRATES:
WORLD PRODUCTION, BY COUNTRY
(Metric tons)


1989        1990        1991        1992        1993'
511,000     437,000     292,000    '283,000     409,000
32,970      16,907      18,590     " *20,000    20,000
15,000      15,000     15,000       15,000      15,000
17,200     '17,500     18,200       18,000      20,000
2,500       2,500      2,500        2,500       2,500
18,704       4,279      5,579        2,608      '2,184
-           -          -         '3,000       2,500


-           -         1,119
150,000     3151,536    230,000
21,983       19,727     26,123
1,496         490       2,573


'1,329
230,000     230,000
'13,368     314,401
'1,723      1,500
'75,000     70,000


U.S.S.R." 6                   90,000        85,000       80,000
   
        -
United States                118,388       102,073       103,140       108,156
            W
Total                    979,241       '852,012      794,824       '773,684
      787,085
'Estimated. 'Tevised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary
data.
'Includes data available through July 15, 1994.
'Includes production of baddeleyite-caldasite.
sReported figure.
4fncludes production of baddeleyite.
'Includes production of zircon and baddeleyite.
6Dissolved in Dec. 1991.


ZIRCONIUM AND HAFNIUM-1993


Country


Australia
Brazil'
China'
India'
Indonesia
Malaysia
Russia4
Sierra Leone
South Africa,
Republic of ' I
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Ukraine


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