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Table 9.—U.S. imports for consumption of principal minerals and products

 1966 1967 
Mineral 
 Quantity Value Quantity Value 
 (thousands) (thousands) 
Metals: 
Aluminum: 
     Metal shorttons.... ' 521,021 ' $217,013 449,716 $194,995 
     Scrap do...... 33,616 10,782 30,489 10 040 
     Plates, sheets, bars, etc do.. - - 124,023 76,852 58,341 40,243 
  Antimony: 
     Ore (antimony content) do........ 12,460 4,754 10,517 4,090 
     Needle or liquated do.. - - - 63 42 29 18 
     Metal do...... 2,767 2,031 2,654 1 849 
     Oxide do...... 5,383 3,998 5,098 3 762 
  Arsenic: White (AS2O3 content) do.. - - - 18,675 1,477 27,075 2,503 
  Bauxite: Crude thousand long tons.. - 11,529 147,335 11,673 151,418 
  Beryllium ore short tons.... 2,147 581 9,511 3,167 
  Bismuth (general imports) : pounds.. - 1,681,472 6,243 1,379,729 5,172

  Boron carbide do...... 183,321 513 214,620 469 
  Cadmium: 
     Metal thousard pounds.. - 3,358 6,813 1,587 3,817 
     Flue dust (cadmium content).. do.. - - - 1,181 989 1,166 1,093 
  Calcium: 
     Metal pounds.... 85,941 72 423,631 370 
     Chloride short tons.. - 2,499 r 81 4,385 158 
  Chromate: 
     Ore and concentrates (Cr203 content) 
                    thousand short tons.. - 841 30,379 568 21,854 
     Ferrochrome (chromium content) - - ..do.. - - - 66 22,076 39 13,758

     Metal do~.... 2 3,739 1 1 842 
  Cobalt: 
     Metal thousand pounds.... 17,871 27,734 7,946 14,420 
     Oxide (gross weight) do.. - - - 1,279 1,411 1,044 1,670 
     Salts and compounds (gross weight) 
                      thousand pounds.. - 150  81 167 200 
  Columbium ore do...._ 9,278 5,678 7,431 5,266 
  Copper: (copper content) 
     Ore and concentrates short tons.. - 6,843 4,118 35,673 28,820 
     Regulus, black, coarse do.. - - - 117 85 2 35 
     Unrefined, black, blister do.. - - - 337,955 272,996 272,728 218,430

     Refinediningots, etc do...... 77,783 63,654 332,065 311,164 
     Old and scrap do........ 23,908 24,662 16,655 14,731 
     Oldandclippings do....~ 5,056 5,846 2,549 2,479 
  Ferroalloys: Ferrosillcon (silicon content) 
  shorttons.... 13,133 4,610 15,337 4,456 
  Gold: 
     Ore andbasebullion troy ounces.... 333,119 11,698 219,382 7,671 
     Bullion do_.... 866,926 30,306 710,487 24,876 
  Iron ore thousand long tons.. - 46,259 462,354 44,627 444,079 
  Iron and steel: 
     Pigiron shorttons.... 1,186,739 45,914 605,234 27,599 
     Iron and steel products (major): 
        Iron products short tons.. - 86,452 7,776 34,452 9,107 
        Steel products do........ ' 11,006,993 1,273,730 11,411,753 1,333,221

     Scrap do...... 390,205 7,672 215,635 8,181 
      Tinplate do....... 16,450 535 13,527 381 
  Lead: 
     Ore, flue dust, matte (lead content) 
  short tons.... 63,850 13,871 144,156 29,111 
     Base bullion (lead content) do - - - 1,928 575 677 1,224 
     Pigsand bars (Lead content) do..~.. 285,788 75,312 363,596 88,697 
     Reclaimed, scrap, etc. (lead content) 
  short tons.... 3,956 886 9,368 1,951 
     Sheets, pipe, and shot do.. - - - 919 283 1,212 322 
     Babbitt metal and solder (lead content) 
  short tons.... 731 3,203 413 1,423 
     Manufactures do........ ' 1,373 ' 563 1,363 524 
  Magnesium: 
     Metallic and scrap do........ 3,265 1,613 9,213 4,909 
     Alloys (magnesium content) do........ 689 1,656 354 1,529 
     Sheets, tubing, ribbons, wire and other 
       forms (magnesium content).. short tons.. - 5 36 153 433 
  Manganese: 
     Ore (35 percent or more manganese) (man 
       ganese content) shorttons.... 1,261,490 77,047 977,163 55,813 
     Ferromanganese (manganese content) 
  shorttons_ 194,563 ' 29,455 167,548 26,108 
  Mercury: 
     Compounds pounds.... 16,340 94 14,011 14 
     Metal 76-pound flasks.... 31,364 12,322 24,348 10,735 
  Minor metals Selenium and salts pounds.... 286,775 1,834 300,638 1,545

 See footnotes at end of table.