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MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
METALS 
 
 Aluminuxn.—Production and value of primary aluminum produced at the
Han~ nibal reduction plant of Ormet Corp. were greater than those of 1966.
Ormet Corp., jointly owned by Olin-Mathiieson Chemical Corp. and Revere Copper
& Brass, Inc., reduced alumina obtained by barge from a company-owned
plant at Burnside, La. Bauxite imported from Surinam was processed into alumina
at the Bu~nside plant. Olin-Matheson operated a casting and rolling mill
adjacent to the reduction p'ant. Annual capacity of the reduction plant remained
at 180,000 tons. 
 
 Beryllium.—Beryllium metal, alloys, and compounds were produced from
handsorted beryl by the Brush Beryllium Corp. at Elmore. Production was mostly
beryllium and beryl-copper master alloy. 
 
 Ferroalloys.—Shipments of ferroalloys were below those of 1966. Production
at nine plants consisted mainly of ferroalloy:. of boron, columbium, chromium,
manganese, silicon, silvery pig iron, silocomanganese, titanium, and vanadium.
Plants were located at Ashtabula, Beverly, Brilliant, Cambridge, Jackson,
Marietta, Philo. Powhatan Point, and Vancoram. Ohio continued as the foremost
producer among the .16 ferroalloy-producing States. 
 
 Iron and Steel.—According to the American Iron and Steel Institute,
steel production was 20.4 million tons, 11 percent below that of 1966. Of
the total, 10.8 million tons was produced in open-hearth furnaces, 7.5 million
tons by the basic oxygen process, and the remainder was electric steel. Compared
with that of 1966, open-hearth production declined sharply but basic oxygen
steel increased 30 percent. Pig iron production totaled 14.4 million tons;
shipments were 14.3 million tons valued at $866.8 million. Shipments declined
by 1.9 million tons and value decreased 10 percent. Nearly 12.1 million tons
of basic pig iron was produced, 1.4 million tons less than that of the previous
year. At the 18 plants, 36 of the 46 blast furnaces were active. 
 Steel plants received 4.2 million tons of domestic and 2.9 million tons
of imported iron ore. Receipts were 3.4 million tons 
less than those of 1966 but receipts of agglomerated material having a higher
iron content increased by 138,000 tons. Agglomerates received at plants totaled
13.1 million tons, of which 11.2 million tons was regular iron ore pellets.
Most of the foreign iron ore was imported from Labrador and other parts of
Canada and from Venezuela with lesser quantities coming from Africa, Chile,
and Brazil. Blast furnaces consumed 4.1 million tons of domestic and 1.1
million tons of foreign iron ore. In addition, nearly 2.1 million tons of
limestone and 951,000 tons of dolomite were consumed as fluxing material.
Tonnages of other materials consumed were pellets (regular) 10.3 million,
sinter (regular) 3.8 million, coke and coke breeze 9.5 million, home and
purchased scrap 
959,000, slag scrap 234,000, mill cinder and roll scale 702,000, open-hearth,
basic oxygen, and Bessemer slag, 782,000, and flue dust 118,000. 
 Over 4.8 million tons of slag and 169,000 tons of scrap were produced at
blast furnaces and 718,000 tons of flue dust was recovered. 
 
 Titanium.—Reactive Metals Inc., jointly owned by United States Steel
Corp. and National Distillers & Chemical Corp., produced titanium sponge
metal by sodium reduction of titanium tetrachloride at its Ashtabula plant.
The sponge was shipped to the company's Niles plant for melting and processing.
Republic Steel Corp. also melted titanium at its plants at Canton and Massillon.
Primary titanum metal shipped from Henderson, Nev., was rolled and fabricated
at Toronto by Titanium Metals Corporation of America (TMCA). Cabot Titanium
Corp. produced titanium pigments (titanium dioxide) used in manufacturing
paint at its Ashtabula plant. 
 
 Zirconium.—Zirconium chunklets were produced at the Ashtahula plant
of Reactive Metals, Inc. The company shipped the chunklets to Niles for production
of ingots. The Chas. Taylor Sons Co., Cincinnati, produced zircon- and zirconiabased
refractories. Zirconium oxide as well as zircon refractories were produced
at Solon by Zirconium Corporation of America (ZIRCOA).