BAUXITE AND ALUMINUM 663


crushed dried bauxite, $~3.79 for calcined bauxite, and $41.09 for activated
bauxite. The average value for all grades of domestic ores as shipped was
$5.94 per ton ($5.93 in 1940). The Metals Reserve Co. plans to purchase marginal
grades of bauxite in 1942 for the new Arkansas alumina plant ~n a sliding
price scale, providing a bonus for ore high in alumina and a penalty for
ore high in silica. Nominal quotations on domestic, chemical, crushed and
dried bauxite rose from $6.00—$8.00 in 1940 to $7.00—$8.50 in
1941.

FOREIGN TRADE

 Imports of bauxite in 1941 topped the peak set in 1940 by 77 percent, and
exports (dry equivalent) advanced 82 percent. Of the imports, 982,515 tons
came from Surinam, 84,683 from British Guiana, 36,082 from Netherlands Indies,
and 13,266 from Brazil. By customs districts, importations were as follows:
680,827 tons to Mobile, 263,519 to New Orleans, 40,098 to Philadelphia, 10,446
to Massachusetts, 121,648 to Virginia, and 8 to New York. Of the 1941 exports,
119,261 tons were classified as bauxite and other aluminum ores, 15,462 tons
as other bauxite concentrates, and 23 tons as alumina; all of these were
consigned to Canada, except for less than 1 ton of alumina sent to Brazil.

Bauxite imported into and exported from the United States, 1937—41
Year
Imports for consumption
Exports (inclu~ trates) $

—— -

value
Year
imports for ~ sumpt Ofl

— —— Value
Exports (Including trates) $


Value

Value




1937
193&
1939......
 507423 $3609063 455,693 3,521,325 520,179 3,765,140
 123191 $3456916 57,726 1,459,491 51,635 1,117,564
1940
1941..~
629552 $4298969
1,116,546 7,475,039
81913 $1542703
134,746 2,773,877
 ' Also "alumina" as follows: 1937, 182 long tons valued at $16,461; 1938,
64 tons, $5,464; 1939, 1 ton, $432; 1940, 11 tons, $1,743; 1941,60 tons,
$5,544.
 2 Chiefly dried ore. As shipped.


ALUMINUM

PRODUCTION

 Primary.—The production of 618,134,000 pounds of primary aluminum
in 1941, 50 percent more than in 1940, initiated an aluminum-expansion program
destined to reach an annual rate of approximately 2,100,000,000 pounds in
1943, a further advancement of 240 percent. By the end of 1941 the annual
production rate totaled approximately 760,000,000 pounds, and in 1942 actual
domestic output should total substantially more than 1,000,000,000 pounds.
The five aluminum-reduction plants of the Aluminum Co. of America supplied
the larger part of the 1941 output. The Reynolds Metals Co. became the first
new company to produce primary metal when it began operations at Listerhill,
Ala., in June 1941 and at Longview, Wash., in September 1941. Of the Aluminum
Co. output, 35 percent was made at Alcoa, Tenn.; 24 percent at Massena, N.
Y.; 22 percent at Vancouver, Wash.; 13 percent at Badin, N. C.; and 6 percent
at
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