See footnotes at end of table.STATISTICAL SUMMARY 
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Table 9.—U.S. imports for consumption of principal minerals and
products,
excluding 
mineral fuels 
 
Mineral 
 
 
METALS 
1984 
1985 
   Value   Value 
 ~~Uafl 1 ~ (thousands) ~~uan 1 ~ (thousands) 
 
 
Aluminum: 
 Metal metric ton& 881,956 $1,292,724 868,674 $1,017,453 
  Scrap do..~_  137,675  145,748  127,501  108,625 
  Plates,sheets,bars,etc do..~ 457,562 1,027,631 423,769 847,476 
  Aluminum oxide (alumina) 
                       thousand metric tons. — 4,466 976,364 3,979
809,664 
Antimony: 
  Ore and concentrate (antimony content) 
 short tons. — 4,299 6,798 6,638 12,381 
  Sulfide including needle orliquated do —- — 72 157
167 256

  Metal do~_ 3,898 8,037 5,129 10,983 
  Oxide do~ 17,884 26,348 10,620 20,765 
Arsenic: 
  White (As203 content) do_~_ 13,985 9,454 16,472 14,059 
  Metallic do_~ 304 2,127 407 2,150 
Bauxite, crude            thousand metric tens.. - rlO,228 NA 7,944 NA 
Beryllium ore short ton&_ 1,332 1,177 1,646 1,427 
Bismuth, metals and alloys (gross weight)_  — .pound& —
1,948,394
5,892 1,998,865 10,172 
Cadmium metal metric tons  1,889  5,133  1,988  4,122 
Calcium metal pounds  248,973  670  492,244  1,395 
Cesiumcompoundsandchloride do~_ 53,652 1,552 50,537 1,595 
Chromium: 
  Ore and concentrate (Cr203 content) 
                       thousand short tons~ 134 15,477 176 20,170 
  Ferrochromium (gross weight) do_ — —— 426
183,451 331
156,546 
  Ferrochromium-silicon do~_ 8 3,736 4 2,085 
  Metal do._ 5 24073 4 19615 
Cobalt: 
  Metal thousand pounds_ 23,316 202,954 16,613 181,379 
  Oxide(grossweight) do~_ 706 5,285 246 2,258 
  Salts alid compounds (gross weight) do~~ 2,284 5,371 1,413 4,431 
Columbiumore do_    3,265    6,030    2,899    4,673 
Copper (copper content): 
  Ore and concentrate metric tons. 11,056 9,863 2,869 1,739 
  Matte do...  2,094  2,586  3,997  6,997 
  Blister do...  38,949  52,950  12,979  15,529 
  Refined in ingots, etc do~~ 444,699 620,674 377,725 491,798 
  Scrap ~ 23,005 28,925 23,014 25,680 
Ferroalloys not elsewhere listed, including spiegeleisen 
 short tons~ 5,321 27,304 5,225 25,969 
Gallium kilograms... 9,669 4,050 7,961 3,447 
Germanium do~~ 116,719 7,539 14,841 8,829 
Gold: 
  Ore and base bullion troy ounces~ 1,837,052 653,307 1,865,022 587,002 
  Bullion,refined do~__ 6,031,550 2,293,606 6,360,977 2,109,475 
Hafnium short tons_ 1 115 1 185 
Indium                 thousand troy ounces_ 1,022 4,577 980 3,480 
Ironore                  thousand long tons~ 17,187 529,065 15,771 452,240

Iron and steel: 
  Pigiron short tons... 702,355 83,985 338,258 50,619 
Iron and steel products (major): 
     Steel mill products  do__  r26,169,048  rlo,201,(yT4  24,278,482  9,565,642

     Other products  do. — —- rl,146,133 rl,155 386 1,211,146
1,308,921 
  Scrap including tinplate — — — thousand 
short tons..
- 572 46,946 601 45,620 
Lead: 
  Ore, flue dust, matte (lead content)_ — — metric tens..
- 
29,888 11,923 2,649 979 
  Basebullion(leadcontent)  do__ 43 57 760 398 
  Pigs and bars (lead content)  do - - - 161,489 86,189 131,353 53,864 
  Reclaimed scrap, etc. (lead content)  do — - - 5,026 2,029 3,168
1,212 
  Sheets,pipes,shot  do...__ 1,667 4,044 1,981 2,517 
Magnesium: 
  Metal and scrap short tons~.  5,296 12,260 4,866 10,303 
  Alloys (magnesium content)  do_ — — - 3,596 10,791
3,651 12,774

  Sheets, tubing, ribbons, wire, other forms  (magnesium 
   content)  do....~_ 489 2,620 754 2,010 
Manganese: 
  Ore (35% or more contained manganese) - -  do.. - - - 338,094 16,024 386,859
22,561 
  Ferromanganese  do~~ 409,310 117,678 366,874 104,389 
  Ferrosiicon-manganese (manganese content) 
  do. — — - 91,339 44,746 109,719 51,423 
  Metal  do_~ 13,314 12,978 8,566 9,052 
Mercury: 
  Compounds   pounds_  T~49,083 r1111 329,889 1,625 
  Metal                    76-pound  flasks~ 25,327 7,274 18,890 5,337