TABLE 7-Continued
U.S. EXPORTS OF RARE-EARTHS, BY COUNTRY


1991                      1992                      1993
Country                          Quantity      Value       Quantity     Value
        Quantit      Value
(kilograms)               (kilograms)                lograms)
Ferrocerium and other pyrophoric alloys-
Continued:                 (3606.90.0000)
Trinidad and Tobago                                  -            -     
    9,357     $22,774         29,153    $42,602
Turkey                                            5,055       $8,424    
      265       5,200           105       14,100
United Arab Emirates                             131,392      184,428   
  175,785     246,484        229,197    310,124
United Kingdom                                   166,491      195,298   
   32,127     218,456        255,488    923,008
Uruguay                                              -            -     
       -           -            634      14,560
Venezuela                                         13,531      27,656    
      834       9,850         16,856     36,455
Zimbabwe                                             -            -     
      104       5,082            -           -
Other                                              r304       '13,150   
      119      '6,108          1,381    113,234
Total |2,099,617                                         9,342,799     2,737,342
 15,841,965     4,806,785  20,382,309
Teiid.
'Revised to zer.
Source: Burea4 of die Census.


TABLE 8
MONAZITE CONCENTRATE: WORLD PRODUCTION, BY COUNTRY'
(etric tons, gross weight)


Country2               1989           1990         1991          1992   
      1993
Australia                      13,000        11,000        '7,000       
'7,000       10,000
Brazil                          2,503         1,656       '1,308        
'1,400        1,400
China                           1,782         2,382         1,185       
*1,800        1,800
India                           4,300         4,500       '4,000        
'4,000        4,600
Malaysia                        2,948         3,323         1,981       
  '777          320
South Africa, Republic of'      1,200        31,317         1,300       
 1,300        1,300
Sri Lanka                         200           200          200        
   200          200
Thailand                          631           377         '400        
   '89          100
United States                      W             W            W         
    W            W
Zaire                             175           124          *120       
  "*50           50
Total                       26,739        24,879       '17,494       '16,616
      19,770
Etimated. Revised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data;
excluded from 'Total.'
'Table inchudes data available through June 9, 1994.
2In addition to the countries listed, Indonesia, North Korea, Republic of
Korea, Nigeria, and the former U.S.S.R. may
produce monazite, but output, if any, is not reported quantitatively, and
available general information is inadequate for
formulati of reliable estimates of output levels.
'Repo ted figure.


RARE EARTHS-1993




878