TABLE 26
U.S. STOCKS, RECEIPTS, AND CONSUMPTION OF NEW AND OLD SCRAP AND TIN RECOVERED,
BY TYPE OF SCRAP
(Metric tons)


Gross weight of scrap                          Tin recovered''
Type of scrap                S        Receipts           Consumption    
        Stocks,        Tinrecovered
Jan. 1       p      New        Old       Total     Dec. 31     New      Old
    Total
1992
Copper-base scrap                      11,011     139,178  33,357    111,151
    144,508   5,681       1,547   3,927    5,474
Brass mills2                               -       19,912  19,912       
 -       19,912      -         500       -      500
Foundries and other plants             '2,548     '21,820  '9,482     '12,329
   '21,811  '2,557        439     '585   '1,024
Total tin from copper-base scrap       XX         XX       XX         XX
        XX       XX        2,486   '4,512  16,998
Lead-base scrape                       23,794   1,083,022  67,169   1,012,848
 1,080,017  26,799       1,763   4,304    6,067
Tin-base scrap3                             7         55       W        
 38         W        W         645       37     682
Grand totalr                           XX         XX       XX         XX
        XX       XX        4,894   8,853   13,747
1993
Copper-base scrap                       5,681     131,536  29,512    101,519
    131,031   6,186       1,463   3,426    4,889
Brass mills2                               -       26,263  26,263       
 W       26,263      -         613       -      613
Foundries and other plants              2,557      20,859   9,620     11,524
     21,144   2,272        401      470     871
Total tin from copper-base scrap       XX         XX       XX         XX
        XX       XX        2,477   3,896    6,373
Lead-bas scrap                         26,799   1,036,891  75,288    965,279
  1,040,567  23,123       1,976   3,280    5,256
Tin-basescrap'                             W          46       W        
 44         W        W          W        43      43
Grand total                            XX         XX       XX         XX
        XX       XX        4,453   7,219   11,672
'Estimated. 'Revised. W Withheld to avoid dislosing company proprietaty data.
XX Not applicable.


MTm recovered from new and old copper-base scrap, bas mills, and foundries.
'Brass-mMill  ks include home scrap, and purchased-scrap consumption is assumed
equal to receipts; therefore, line does not balance.
'Inchldes tinplate and other scrap recovered at detinning plants; U.S. Bureau
of Mines not at libeity to publish separately.


TABLE 27
STOCKS AND CONSUMPTION OF NEW AND OLD ZINC SCRAP IN
THE UNITED STATES IN 1993, BY TYPE OF SCRAP
(Metric tons, zinc content)


Stocks,                    Consumption             Stocks,
Type of scrap         Jan. 1'  Receipts   New       Old      Total      Dec.
31
scrap    scrap
Diecastings                   333      3,376        -     3,494      3,494
      215
Flue dust                      W       8,985      4,499   4,477      8,976
       W
Fragmentized diecastings       W          W         -        W         W
         W
Galvanizer's dross           1,305    64,853     63,631      -      63,631
     2,527
Old zinc'                      81      1,132        -     1,031      1,031
      182
Remelt die-cast slab           W      20,298        -    20,227     20,227
       W
Remeltzinc2                    W          W         W        -         W
         W
Skimmings and ashes'         4,741    38,860    37,583       -      37,583
     6,018
Steelmakingdust                W          W         W        W         W
         W
Othee                        5,046    71,423    28,090   43,409     71,499
     5,050
Total                    11,506   208,927    133,803  72,638    206,441 
   13,992


W Wlhibeld to avoid disclosing company proprietsy data; mcluded in 'Odher.'
'Inchldes engraver's plates and rod and die scrap.
'Includes new clippings.
ncludes sl skimmings and die-cast simmin.
'Includes chemical residues and solutions and electrogalvanizin anodes.


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